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Shocking filly ready for Group 1 challenge after Soliloquy

Jenna Mahoney believes Shocking's first black type performer High Class will relish the step up in trip for next month's Gr 1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas at Riccarton. The Ardmore trainer has bee......

Winx adds to the Street Cry legacy

Street Cry arrived at Darley's Northwood Park Stud in Victoria in 2005 with a better-than-average record as a racehorse behind him and an unknown future as a stallion ahead. By the time he died p......

Shocking 3YO Street Smart hits right Derby note for Ritchie

Shaune Ritchie tuned in to the debut of Street Smart from afar this afternoon and the result was music to his ears. The Cambridge trainer is on a brief break in Adelaide to take in a Fleetwo......

Guineas plan for Te Akau takes shape, with Xtravagant (Pentire) earning 2000 Guineas favouritism after dominant Trentham win

Trainers Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards will have at least two colts in the Gr.1 Sothys New Zealand 2000 Guineas, while they have trimmed their Gr.1 New Zealand Bloodstock 1000 Guineas represen......

Prince Of Penzance (Pentire) just run down in the Group II Moonee Valley Gold Cup

Prince Of Penzance was attempting to become just the second horse in almost 70 years to win the Moonee Valley Gold Cup twice, and for much of Saturday's race he seemed a big hope to do so.  ......

Too easy for Xtravagant (Pentire) at Trentham

Xtravagant brought back memories of his well-performed brother when he scored an effortless win at Trentham today that earned him equal 2000 Guineas favouritism. Matt Cameron was a regular ......

Double strike for exciting young stallion Shocking

Shocking's daughter Fanatic (pictured) didn't surprise her co-trainer Graeme Sanders with a successful return on her home track this afternoon. She made her first appearance as a three-year-ol......

Prince Of Penzance (Pentire) seeks second Moonee Valley Cup

Last year's Moonee Valley Gold Cup winner Prince Of Penzance is favourite to make it back-to-back victories in the 2500m staying race. Prince Of Penzance will attempt to become just the secon......

Bary backing Jimmy Choux

 John Bary will take a Jimmy Choux to the races on Saturday. The Hastings horseman trains Shezachoux, a filly from Jimmy Choux's first crop, who will make her race debut in the Listed Wellesley S......

Xtravagant (Pentire) heads to Trentham on way to Guineas

The talented and beautifully bred colt Xtravagant will line up at Trentham on Saturday as he builds towards next month's Gr. 1 New Zealand 2000 Guineas. The son of Pentire and Axiom, a full-b......

Kisses takes out the Gr.3 Rich Hill Stud Taranaki Breeders Stakes

Saturday at Hawera saw the running of the $80,000 Gr.3 Rich Hill Taranaki Breeders Stakes (WFA, 1400m) for fillies and mares.  The race finish was fought out by top class mares Kisses and Re......

High Class returns to the scene of her stunning debut win tomorrow

Ardmore trainer Jenna Mahoney will be looking for assurance on two counts when she takes Shocking filly High Class to Avondale tomorrow. High Class tackles the 1400-metre Rating 65 after fail......

VRC Oaks target for half sister to Jimmy Choux

Well related Kiwi three-year-old Miss Wilson made the perfect start to her Australian spring campaign with an effortless on-speed victory at Ballarat on Wednesday. A half-sister to the fiv......

Early success for Rich Hill's young sire Jimmy Choux

  With an appropriate sense of timing, What Choux Want has delivered her young Rich Hill Stud-based stallion Jimmy Choux his first success this afternoon.  It was four years ago to the day......

Top Australian trainer secures Shocking three-year-old

Shocking's strapping son Harvard has been sold to clients of successful Caulfield trainer Ciaron Maher. The unraced gelding finished runner-up in a two-year-old trial last season before he won a 1......

Shocking three-year-old Battlecamp emerges as Victoria Derby contender for Freedman

Laurence Eales enjoyed the ultimate high in racing when winning the 2009 Melbourne Cup with high class Street Cry stallion Shocking and it was one of his offspring that had him back in the winner'......

Berry Entirely happy with Epsom mount

  Tommy Berry believes punters aren't showing Melbourne's weight-for-age form enough respect and has declared Entirely Platinum (Pentire) a major player in Saturday's Gr.1 Epsom Handicap. Ha......

David Russo Epsom dreaming with Entirely Platinum (Pentire)

  Entirely ready: David Russo and great mate Michael Hawkes have high hopes for Entirely Platinum in the Gr.1 Epsom Handicap at Randwick. It is a mark of David Russo's passion that only the......

Shocking filly on target for 1000 Guineas

Jenna Mahoney is confident the best will be seen of High Class when the daughter of Shocking steps out over more ground. To that end, the Ardmore trainer has the thee-year-old on a path toward......

Australian double for Pentire

A pair of Pentire’s sons drew attention to their spring prospects yesterday when they credited their Rich Hill Stud-based stallion with a Victorian double. Action Packed was a second-u......
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