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Cummings changes tack in search of Trader turnaround
Brisbane :: Australia | 6 days ago
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Trader, which runs in the Top Cut Steaks Handicap at Rosehill today. ''I just don't know what went wrong at Ballarat last time out, I can't put my finger on it,'' Cummings said yesterday of Trader's flop as hot favourite at only his third start. Trader...
Tags: Anthony Cummings, Australia, Brisbane, Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne Cup, allnews
Khumalo keen to break new ground during his tour of Australia
Durban :: South Africa | 11 days ago
Credibility South Africa's leading indigenous rider will create history this week, writes Craig Young. S'Manga Khumalo was plucked out of a South African classroom and the tape measure was produced. Jockeys for thoroughbreds were required and the youngster made...
Tags: Manga Khumalo, Jenny Evans South Africa, Australia, melbourne cup, South Africa, Durban, Khumalo, Jockey, Horse racing
Ortensia blows away rivals in Winterbottom
Melbourne :: Australia | 12 days ago
Credibility Tony Noonan came up trumps when classy mare Ortensia stormed to victory in the group 2 Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot yesterday. Noonan backed the four-year-old up in the $500,000 weight-for-age feature after she failed to run the distance when sixth to...
Tags: Ortensia, Australia, Melbourne, Savabeel, Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year, QTC Cup, Takeover Target, Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate, allnews
'I know how Phar Lap died'
Melbourne :: Australia | 14 days ago
Credibility Green feed killed champion racehorse Phar Lap, says a South Waikato horse trainer. Tokoroa's John Mason says Phar Lap's strapper Tommy Woodcock told him the real reason for the sudden death in 1932, during a US and Mexico campaign, but asked him to keep...
Tags: Tommy Woodcock, Dick Mason, woodcock told, John Mason Neale, RJ Mason, Australia, Melbourne, Horse racing, films, Melbourne Cup, Phar Lap, Arsenic poisoning
O'Brien's treble helps break back of luckless run
Melbourne :: Australia | 15 days ago
Credibility Danny O'Brien finally had a change of luck with a winning treble at Betfair Park yesterday. ''Bad luck doesn't last forever,'' he said after Gangland ($9) won the Galleon Handicap (1600 metres) to break a run of 33 outs in Melbourne. The Flemington trainer...
Tags: Danny O'Brien, Caulfield Guineas, Australia, Melbourne, Flemington Racecourse, Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year, Melbourne Cup, Zabeel
Eyes well as Phar Lap unveiled
Timaru :: New Zealand | 16 days ago
Credibility Timaru's new statue of Phar Lap got the thumbs up yesterday when it was unveiled at the raceway that bears the horse's name. About 1000 people turned up to see sculptor Joanne Sullivan- Giessler's life-sized bronze of the Australasian champion thoroughbred,...
Tags: Phar Lap, New Zealand, Timaru, Horse racing in New Zealand, Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne Cup
Racing: C'est La Guerre returns to NZ
Cambridge :: New Zealand | 16 days ago
Credibility C'est La Guerre is returning to New Zealand to be prepared for the $1.25 million 2010 Auckland Cup. It will be a return to the scene of his greatest triumph, Ellerslie racecourse. C'est La Guerre won the 2008 Mercedes Derby at Ellerslie, after which he...
Tags: Lloyd Williams, est la, la guerre, New Zealand, Danny Williams, Cambridge, Ellerslie Racecourse, Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate, Australian Champion Racehorse of the Year, Makybe Diva, allnews, C'est La Guerre, Flemington Racecourse, Efficient
Phar Lap back at racecourse (Newstalk ZB)
Timaru :: New Zealand | 17 days ago
Credibility It is a special day for Timaru, with the unveiling of a bronze statue of New Zealand's famous racehorse Phar Lap. The chestnut gelding was foaled in 1926 in Seadown near Timaru and dominated his era, winning a Melbourne Cup and two Cox Plates before dying...
Tags: Phar Lap, Timaru, New Zealand, Cox Plate, Melbourne Museum, Hospitality Recreation, Horse racing in New Zealand, Horse racing, Melbourne Cup, Tommy Woodcock, Billy Elliot, Flemington Racecourse
Racing: German-bred mare seeks double
Rotorua :: New Zealand | 22 days ago
Credibility The classy Matamata-trained mare is likely to show she's up to proving they're well capable of doing it in the Iles Casey Accountants 1950m this afternoon at the Arawa Park course...Fairfield Flame is by an English sire, from an Irish mare and was ridden...
Tags: Fairfield Flame, bred mare, Ginga Dude, dhl counties, counties cup, New Zealand, Rotorua, Flemington Racecourse, Melbourne Cup
Man buys 1952 Melbourne Cup for $86,000
Sydney :: Australia | 25 days ago
Credibility The Canning Downs thoroughbred property owner in Queensland has bought the 1952 trophy at a Melbourne auction for $86,400. The three-handled 18-carat gold cup was won by Dalray, a four-year-old stallion. "When he finished his career, Dalray spent the...
Tags: Dalray, Australia, Sydney, Melbourne Cup, Phar Lap, Flemington Racecourse, Horse racing in New Zealand, Bill Williamson, allnews, Human Interest
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