Ray Thomas

Sydney

Editor - News Limited at News.com.au

The latest horse racing news and tips.

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Aerodrome set for Queensland Winter Carnival campaign after Hawkesbury win

1 week ago | codesports.com.au | Ray Thomas

Trainer Michael Freedman has every reason to aim promising two-year-old Aerodrome at the Brisbane carnival after he maintained his perfect race record at Hawkesbury on Saturday. Aerodrome was burdened with 58.5kg topweight on the heavy track but showed his class taking out the $160,000 Clarendon Stakes (1400m).
Matthew Smith focused on Everest slot with improving sprinter Headwall

1 week ago | codesports.com.au | Ray Thomas

Trainer Matthew Smith is prepared to bypass the feature Brisbane sprints to give Headwall every chance to qualify for the $20m The TAB Everest later this year. Headwall has emerged as a genuine Everest contender despite a winless, albeit luckless, autumn campaign. He has taken on the best sprinters in training in four successive starts and could easily have won at least two Group 1 races.
Tuesday, April 29, 2025

2 weeks ago | racenet.com.au | Ray Thomas

Private Eye, notable by his absence during the Sydney autumn carnival, takes a significant step towards a return to racing with a barrier trial at Warwick Farm on Tuesday. Trainer Joe Pride's rising eight-year-old, already the winner of $11.9 million prizemoney, is contesting an 800m heat against seven rivals. Pride has deliberately held Private Eye back this autumn after the gelding raced deep into the spring and early summer last year.
Shane Dye rates Ka Ying Rising better than Black Caviar, Silent Witness

2 weeks ago | codesports.com.au | Ray Thomas

Hall of Fame jockey Shane Dye has declared Hong Kong superstar Ka Ying Rising a better sprinter than the legendary Black Caviar and Silent Witness. Dye made his brazen call after Ka Ying Rising scored his 12th consecutive win in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize at Sha Tin on Sunday. Ka Ying Rising is already into $2 favourite for the $20 million The Everest at Royal Randwick later this year and Dye said the champion sprinter has the world’s richest turf race at his mercy.
‘Horse of a lifetime’: Sudden death of Winx’s rival rocks racing world

2 weeks ago | news.com.au | Ben Talintyre |Ray Thomas

Happy Clapper, the racehorse known as the “people’s champion” who had an intense multi-year rivalry with Winx, has tragically passed died after suffering from colic. The multiple Group 1 winner’s former trainer, Pat Webster, learned of the passing of his former stable star on Thursday morning. Watch the biggest Aussie sports & the best from overseas LIVE on Kayo Sports | New to Kayo? Get your first month for just $1. Limited time offer. “It’s a sad day,’’ Webster said.
Champion trainer Chris Waller seeking season Group 1 record in Australasian Oaks

3 weeks ago | codesports.com.au | Ray Thomas

Champion trainer Chris Waller could set a new all-time record for most Group 1 wins in a season if Movin Out can claim the $1m Australasian Oaks (2000m) at Morphettville on Saturday. Movin Out vaulted to the top of TAB betting for the Oaks at $4 after looping around the field and racing away for an impressive win in last Saturday’s Mornington Guineas.
Yulong to keep good Time rolling in All Aged Stakes

4 weeks ago | codesports.com.au | Ray Thomas

Magic Time can continue Yulong’s stellar season of success by claiming the Group 1 $1.5 million All Aged Stakes (1400m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Owner Yuesheng Zhang’s Yulong colours of bottle green, white checked sleeves and white cap have already been worn by the winning riders in 13 Group 1 races this season. Champion mare Via Sistina has led the Yulong charge with seven majors, wonder filly Treasurethe Moment has won three and Deny Knowledge, Kimochi and Devil Night one.
Trainer Chris Waller on verge of record for most Group 1s in a season

4 weeks ago | codesports.com.au | Ray Thomas

Chris Waller can break his own Australian record for most Group 1 wins in a season at Royal Randwick on Saturday. The champion trainer has brilliant mare Joliestar ($6.50) and Osipenko ($101) in the $1.5 million All Aged Stakes (1400m) and Michelangelo ($16) in the $1 million Champagne Stakes (1600m). If Waller can win another Group 1 race on the final day of the Sydney autumn carnival, it will give him 19 Group 1 wins for the season – and he still has the Adelaide and Brisbane carnivals to come.
Nepotism set to prove Champagne and Caviar are a perfect match

4 weeks ago | codesports.com.au | Ray Thomas

Black Caviar’s close relation Nepotism can be the latest Group 1 winner to emerge from the great mare’s celebrated family when he contests the $1 million Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Nepotism, trained by Hall of Famer John Hawkes and his sons Michael and Wayne, goes to the feature two-year-old race at just his third start but has shown so much natural talent already he is the early favourite at $3.80 with TAB Fixed Odds.
Via Sistina seals Australian Horse Of Year title in Queen Elizabeth

4 weeks ago | codesports.com.au | Ray Thomas

Champion Via Sistina’s majestic Queen Elizabeth Stakes win is a continuation of the “female phenomenon” dominating Australian racing. Since 2000, mares have won 16 of the 25 Horse of the Year titles, and that record is about to be enhanced with Via Sistina certain to win the award this season. It all began when Sunline began the sequence with her Horse of the Year three-peat in 2000-01-02 before Makybe Diva went back-to-back in 2005 and 2006 then Miss Andretti won the title in 2007.