Trainer Mark Newnham didn’t want to throw unbeaten three-year-old Academy into the deep end too quickly so is pleased he’s struck a race at Rosehill on Saturday where essentially the entire field is dipping its toes in deeper water. The race in question is the Group 3 $160,000 Ming Dynasty Quality (1400m), a race where no horse has had more than five starts and only one of the 11 acceptors is a maiden. Academy, with wins at Warwick Farm and Kembla Grange, is a horse Newnham h

Samadoubt – a Group 1 weight-for-age winner. This wasn’t a sentence I thought I’d ever need to write out but Samadoubt shocked some of the biggest names in Australian racing with an upset win in the $500,000 Winx Stakes (1400m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. But the more you analyse the result, it is apparent Samadoubt deserved his win. Samadoubt, the $31 outsider, went straight to the front, set a solid tempo and ran his rivals ragged. His rivals had every chance to run Sama

Six-year-old gelding, Samadoubt has earned himself a special kind of respect from trainer Bjorn Baker, and rightly so. In his last preparation, he pulled off the best race campaign of his career - 4 wins from 9 starts, including his first black-type title in the Canberra Cup. The gelding returned to training at the Warwick Farm stable in June following a well-deserved spell. Since then he has had one public barrier trial at Rosehill on the 6th August where he cruised in the l

Constant Flight was ultra-impressive scoring a three-length victory at Doomben on Wednesday. The five-year-old gelding is the model of consistency with the recent win taking his current strike rate to 50% - 5 wins from 10 career starts. Despite an exemplary race record, the Vandyke stable would be the first to admit that Constant Flight has not been the easiest horse to train, however, the patience of the stable and connections was well rewarded with a fourth metropolitan gra