Like any trainer, Mick Trotter is a dreamer, but not even he dared imagine he would end up with the hand he has in Saturday’s The Showdown at Sandown. Not because he …

So Si Bon’s VOBIS Gold Mile record is reason enough for Ben Hayes to be confident ahead of Saturday’s 2023 edition, but that is not where the Lindsay Park team’s optimism …

Peter Snowden has put a bridle on his share of top horses, but he can’t ever recall having a better wet track galloper than Mazu. While several trainers are keeping an …

Champion jockey Joao Moreira doesn’t need much in the way of riding instructions, but he will be given one clear mission when he jumps aboard Williamsburg in the Frank Packer Plate. The …

Veteran Sunshine Rising is making a fist of his second coming as a racehorse and while he isn’t going to climb the Group 1 heights of yesteryear, he continues to pack …

Trainer Brian Mcgrath is keeping an eye on the upcoming rich sprint races in Adelaide with his improving sprinter D’Jumbuck. But first there is a rich pay day at Sandown on Saturday for D’Jumbuck who runs in the …

Standing in the barriers at Bendigo while waiting for the other horses to be loaded put an end to the hopes of Elphinstone at her debut. But trainers Tony and Calvin McEvoy saw enough in the …

The only two-year-old to contest all three Group One races so far this season, Don Corleone will make it a quartet of big race appearances when he bids to turn the …

For the second year running, John Moloney is looking to land a rich mile race on Victorian Owners and Breeders Race Day. The $250,000 VOBIS Gold Mile (1600m) at Sandown on …

Gavin Bedggood knows he has not taken the conventional path to Saturday’s $1 million Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria Showdown with Mistavain. The unraced Sioux Nation colt has been scratched three times …