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Williams extends title lead

Williams extends title lead

Craig Williams extended his lead in the Melbourne Jockeys premiership after riding three winners at Caulfield on Saturday.The 41-year-old jockey guided Alfarris ($3.60 favourite), Zoutori ($2.40 favourite) and Order of Command ($4) to victory as his main premiership...

Williams eyes eighth Melbourne title

Williams eyes eighth Melbourne title

Melbourne racegoers are in for a familiar late-season battle with reigning champion Craig Williams conceding he has set a potential eighth Melbourne Jockeys' Premiership as one of his priorities for the season.Williams, who has a full book of nine rides at Caulfield...

Music Bay wins Queen Of The South

Music Bay wins Queen Of The South

Music Bay registered her first victory at Stakes level on Saturday when claiming the Group 2 Hughes Limousines Queen Of The South Stakes at Morphettville.The daughter of Choisir was confidently supported in betting, firming from $6.50 on race morning to $3.50...

Iconoclasm QLD Bound

Iconoclasm QLD Bound

Loftier targets are in the sights of the connections of Iconoclasm after scoring a first-up win for his new trainer at Caulfield.Iconoclasm was having his first run for Danny O’Brien when successful in Saturday’s VOBIS Gold Sprint.O’Brien’s assistant trainer Ben...

Queensland Guineas option for Zoutori

Queensland Guineas option for Zoutori

Trainer Mat Ellerton is spring dreaming with improving three-year-old Zoutori but to make that happen, he has a tough decision to make. After Zoutori had taken out the Auckland Racing Club Handicap (1400m) at Flemington on Thursday, Ellerton said the rising...

Challiot shows classic potential

Challiot shows classic potential

Owners of slow horses around the country were given a great boost on Thursday with the impressive stakes victory of Testa Rossa filly Chaillot at Flemington. Trainer Archie Alexander has races such as the spring’s Thousand Guineas in mind for the filly now but he...

Plein Ciel claims Easter Cup

Plein Ciel claims Easter Cup

Anthony Freedman and Craig Williams combined to win the Group 3 Easter Cup (2000m) at Caulfield on Saturday with strongly supported favourite Plain Ciel.The former Darren Weir-trained import was afforded an ideal run on the back of the speed from barrier one and cut...

New Stakes Winner for Medaglia d’Oro

New Stakes Winner for Medaglia d’Oro

After racing with little luck in Melbourne last spring, nothing looked like changing for Multaja when she made her 2019 debut in the Group II Typhoon Tracy Stakes at Moonee Valley on February 22, but a switch to Godolphin's Sydney stables has seen a turnaround in...

Family combine to claim a Sandown double

Family combine to claim a Sandown double

Trainer Doug Harrison is hoping a city double at Sandown will be the advertisement to attract new clients to his stable.Harrison scored race-to-race wins on Wednesday with Judge O'Reilly and Search Squad, both ridden by his nephew Craig Williams.The Cranbourne-based...

Tianchi Monster aims to belie rating in BMW Hong Kong Derby

Tianchi Monster aims to belie rating in BMW Hong Kong Derby

Tianchi Monster squeezed into Sunday’s (17 March) BMW Hong Kong Derby with a Class 3 handicap win over the 2000m course and distance at the end of last month.But while trainer Chris So’s galloper is a late gate-crasher to the Four-Year-old Classic Series party, his...

Schabau showing Cup qualities

Schabau showing Cup qualities

German import Schabau completed the perfect opening racing campaign in Australia at Flemington on Saturday when he stretched his winning sequence to five while taking that first official step towards earning a run in this year's Melbourne Cup.Schabau was just a...

Pure Scot lands her first Flemington win

Pure Scot lands her first Flemington win

Pure Scot has capitalised on a box-seat run to land her first Flemington win at her fifth attempt.Having her eighth start of this preparation which had already netted wins at Ballarat and Sandown, the Lindsay Park-trained mare took her career earnings past $400,000...

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