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1 week ago | breednet.com.au | Tara Madgwick

Jumps racing took centre stage at Sandown on Sunday with some familiar colours and faces winning both the $100,000 Australian Steeplechase (3900m) and the $100,000 Australian Hurdle (3900m). Joe’Neill’s Prime Thoroughbreds win a lot of flat races all over the country, but one of their most successful graduates has been Kiwi bred Reliable Man (GB) gelding The Cunning Fox.

1 week ago | breednet.com.au | Tara Madgwick

The $175,000 Listed MRC Sandown Cup (3200m) on Sunday featured some battle hardened  old stayers, but it was the young kind on the block that got the prize with four year-old Tavistock gelding Diwali scoring his first stakes win. Trained by Gavin Bedggood and ridden by Joe Bowditch, Diwali was way too strong and dashed away to win by nearly three lengths taking his overall record to four wins and three placigns from 15 starts with prizemoney just shy of $200,000.

1 week ago | breednet.com.au | Tara Madgwick

With Justify’s very best son City of Troy (USA) shuttling to Coolmore Australia this spring it’s worth remembering the power of the Justify x Fastnet Rock nick and we saw it to the fore at Sha Tin on Saturday when Australian bred four year-old Pray for Mir took out the Group III The Lion Rock Trophy (1600m). Trained by Cody Mo and ridden by Matthew Chadwick, Pray for Mir produced a tenacious effort to repel all challengers and win his first attempt at a stakes race by half a length.

1 week ago | breednet.com.au | Tara Madgwick

The Group III JRA Derby Trial (2000m) at Baden Baden in Germany overnight produced a new stakes-winner for Wootton Bassett (GB) with lightly raced colt Juwelier staking a claim for classic success. Having just his fourth race start, the Alessandro and Giuseppe Botti trained colt was strong all the way to the line scoring a head win for Adrie de Vries. Japan Racing Association Derby-Trial (GR3) over 2000m at Baden-Baden??

1 week ago | breednet.com.au | Tara Madgwick

The $200,000 Listed ATC Lord Mayor’s Cup (2000m ) at Rosehill on Saturday attracted a competitive field of 14 stayers, the bulk of them imports and when you strike an open race like that it’s often wise to follow this piece of advice – when in doubt back a Frankel! It’s been a while between drinks for the Peter Snowden trained Frankel gelding Touristic (GB), who had not won since saluting at Mornington last June, but he found conditions to suit with a great ride from Andrew Adkins.