Gerry Harvey has fancied runners in the Australia Derby and Doncaster,but has good reason for ditching Randwick and sticking to his lounge room on Saturday.
Reigning Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Mark Zahra will miss 36 race meetings after being suspended for a month for causing the Australian Guineas fall,which put Ethan Brown in hospital with internal injuries.
Bjorn Baker once struggled to find a jockey for the former French galloper in a benchmark race,now he’s a group 1 winner and “going to be hard to beat in the Sydney Cup”.
It took a masterful ride from jockey Ben Melham to pull off the feat with Cascadian,a week after the Godolphin warhorse finished second in the All-Star Mile.
After serious falls at metro meets on each of the past three Saturdays,stewards have urged Victorian jockeys to take extra caution when riding this weekend.
Roger James is coming on a lightning raid with special filly Prowess in the Vinery Stud Stakes.
Joseph O’Brien has targeted the Sydney Cup with Cleveland,but betting suggests he could be hard to beat in the Tancred Stakes.
Bruce McAvaney has seen plenty of Australian Cups,but admits it’s no longer the classic race it once was.
Apprentices Tyler Schiller,Dylan Gibbons and Zac Lloyd are not only racing’s Generation Next but great mates who are driving each other to a magic mark this season and racing’s Holy Grail of group 1 wins.
Melbourne Cup winner Vow And Declare will get the dry track he wants when he targets another group 1 at Rosehill on Saturday.
Team Hawkes will look for a black-type reward with More Secrets in the Emancipation Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.