There’s an extra 100,000 reasons for connections of Academy to hope talented three-year-old can find his best form at Kembla Grange on Wednesday. Trainer Mark Newnham concedes the gelding has been chasing fitness in his two runs back but will have no excuses on that score as he eyes the huge bonus money in the Kembla Grange $100,000 BOBS Platinum Handicap (1600m). It’s the first BOBS Platinum bonus offered in 2020 and Newnham said it was an irresistible target for a horse he’

Darby Racing are extremely proud to present 8 superb yearlings purchased from the recent Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale. Videos, photos and documentation will be available shortly. Call Mark Holland on 0405 226 266 for more information or email mark@darbyracing.com.au LOT 16 - NOT A SINGLE DOUBT x VELOCE FORTE colt Purchase price $286,000 GST incl. Trainer Ciaron Maher / David Eustace Super looking colt, 3/4 brother to Group 2 winner Gypsy Diamond, Stallion prosp

Like everyone in NSW, trainer Gary Portelli wants to see rain and hopes the forecast for the rest of the week is correct. If the predicted wet weather eventuates on Thursday and Friday, it will also be a bonus for the Portelli-trained Dio D’Oro at Rosehill on Saturday. “We need rain obviously to help with the fires so hopefully we get as much as they say we will,” Portelli said. “If it looks like we are going to be on a rain-affected track, Dio D’Oro will love that so he will

Microphone is not the only elite colt in Melbourne preparing for upcoming Flemington Group 1 sprints following the nomination of Time To Reign for Saturday’s $140,000 Listed Kensington Stakes (1000m). A Group 1 winner and undefeated from two Flemington starts, Microphone is to use the Listed race to get ready for the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes and possibly Newmarket Handicap at the course, while for Time To Reign, Saturday’s race presents as an important fact-finding missi

Bjorn Baker says group 1 winner Samadoubt is more than deserving of a spot in the $4.5 million All-Star Mile as he eyes a return to the track next month. The six-year-old gelding won the 1400-metre Winx Stakes in the spring and backed up that shock victory to beat Avilius in the 1600m group 2 Chelmsford. Baker said that form would make the son of Not A Single Doubt more than competitive after nominations for the race closed on Thursday. "It's definitely on the radar," Baker s

With the Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sale in full swing, these are heady days for Tyreel Stud’s Linda Monds whose anxiety must be rising with three runners out the farm’s star broodmare Couredge set down to contest races worth over a combined $3,100,000 on Saturday. Linda and her husband Laurence run the former Jim Fleming showpiece at Agnes Banks and one of the first mares on the property was Couredge who they purchased off Davali Thoroughbreds for $190,000 at the 201