Amelia Park graduate Toropa employed front-running tactics for only the second time in a 16-start career on Saturday and it paid off with a perfectly-rated victory in the LR Jungle Dawn Classic (1400m) at Ascot. Toropa (5m Toronado – Europa Point by Rock Of...

Unbeaten filly Hot And High showed she can go all the way for Cape Falls Thoroughbreds owner-breeder Brett Fogarty after accelerating to a four-length victory in the LR Sir Ernest Lee-Steere Classic (1400m) at Ascot on Saturday. Hot And High (Photo / Western Racepix)...

The Michael Lane-trained mare Santanova scored one of the more stunning victories at Ascot this season when overwhelming a wall of horses in the opening event on Winterbottom Stakes Day. She wasn’t in the call close to home and Darren McAullay just managed to cry out...

Yarradale Stud-bred graduate Gift Of The Heart increased his career earnings to $276,000 with a heartfelt victory in the TABtouch Hcp (1230m) in Albany on Thursday. The aptly-named grey gelding races for a large syndicate with trainer Roy Rogers and 50% of his...

Australia’s premier bloodstock daily ANZ News has headlined Geisel Park stallion Manhattan Rain with a front-page profile following another feature race double in Melbourne.  Geisel Park owner Eddie Rigg was interviewed by ANZ News lead journalist Trevor Marshallsea...

Yarradale Stud sire Gingerbread Man has taken an early lead for the WA 2YO Sires’ premiership with earnings over $181,000 after his unbeaten colt Beatty put several youngsters to the sword in the Crystal Slipper Stakes (1100m) on Saturday. Beatty had won on debut at...

Willie Pike is riding in career-best form and that was underlined when King Of Light and Watch Me Rock dominated Day 2 of The Pinnacles under ‘The Wiz’ at Ascot on Saturday. King Of Light maintained his unbeaten record in the G2 WA Guineas (1600m) after Pike...

Peters Investments has dominated the Group 1 Railway Stakes with multiple winners since the turn of the century but Bob and Sandra Peters had to be content with their 8yo bred geldings Western Empire (Iffraaj) and Sentimental Hero (Al Maher) running minor placings...

Former Geisel Park stallion Vert de Grece (Ire) kicked off a coast-to-coast treble for the Myalup stud on Saturday when Major Mario claimed a city first in the Drummond Golf Hcp (2100m) at Ascot. Within an hour, Geisel Park resident Manhattan Rain sired a landmark...

Winning Rupert transferred to Geisel Park last year and his Group 2 winner Iowna Merc has also made the trek west this week in an attempt to go one better in the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) at Ascot on Saturday. Iowna Merc is prepared by Warwick Farm trainer Bjorn...

Storyville is back where she belongs on centre stage for the Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) at Ascot this Saturday. It’s a seven-day turnaround for the Grant and Alana Williams-trained homebred mare following a Group 3 victory in the Bob Peters Stakes (1500m)....