Ah, the good old days...Ken Callander reports in the Sydney Daily Telegraph: 'Roy Horton, who rode and trained in the golden years of Sydney racing, showed me the AJC Derby racebook of 1924 at Canterbury on Saturday. There were 402 bookies listed to field at Randwick that day and yes there was a Waterhouse among them.'Is Takeover Target's racing career over? It could be after his inglorious 7.5lens 8th in the KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore. The scuttlebutt has already started saying that TT's leg
Ah, the good old days...Ken Callander reports in the Sydney Daily Telegraph: 'Roy Horton, who rode and trained in the golden years of Sydney racing, showed me the AJC Derby racebook of 1924 at Canterbury on Saturday. There were 402 bookies listed to field at Randwick that day and yes there was a Waterhouse among them.'
Is Takeover Target's racing career over? It could be after his inglorious 7.5lens 8th in the KrisFlyer Sprint in Singapore. The scuttlebutt has already started saying that TT's legs have finally given in.
Court Command has been penalised half a kilogram (0.5kgs) to boost his chance of gaining a start in next month's $1 million Stradbroke Handicap 1400m at Eagle Farm. He has leapt ahead of Ortensia and Court on the order of entry. They were not penalised for their wins against their own sex and age groups at Doomben on Saturday.
Special ballot conditions may get Ortensia and Court into the Stradbroke final field. The special conditions can be used at the discretion of handicapper Lester Grimmet. They allow the handicapper to allocate an allowance of up to 2kgs to fillies and mares be utilised for 'ballot purpose' and this could guarantee Court and Ortensia places in the Stradbroke field. The classy pair will clash in the QTC Cup at Eagle Farm on May 30. The winner earns exemption from the Straddie ballot.