It's been a great week for the Darby Racing European imports with 2 winners this week. Hand selected by one of the world's best judges, Hubie Deburgh from Deburgh Equine, more wins look in store for the handful of promising stayers. French galloper Canasta, gets his chance to win a Saturday 2000m race for Bjorn Baker and Glen Boss. The imports are on a roll this week with a super staying performance from True Marvel at Hawkesbury Race Club Limited yesterday. The French geldin

Consistent mare Irithea has been rewarded for her tidy form during the Autumn with a well-deserved win in the Group 3 $160,000 Emirates Park Dark Jewel Classic (1400m) at Rosehill today The Dark Jewel Classic is one of the features of the annual two-day Scone Carnival which was run at two venues this year with the second day being transferred to Rosehill. Winning trained Bjorn Baker had put the Dark Jewel Classsic on his wish list of wins and that came to fruition with a firs

The speedy Blazing Miss has made up for a somewhat disappointing recent performance at Canterbury to score a comprehensive win at Randwick. Her trainer Mark Newnham will now look to step her up to the next level after her 1-3/4 length win over Longbottom at Randwick on Saturday over 1100 metres. As a youngster, Blazing Miss had form around some future stars including a third to subsequent Group One winner Exceedance. "It was really good to see her do that. She has run up to h

There’s not much Mark Newnham has to worry about when Greysful Glamour goes to the gates on race day. She only gets beat if something else is better than her on the day and she always gives herself every hope when the gates fly. She comes into Saturday’s $200,000 Listed Gosford Cup off a second placing in the Group 3 JRA Plate (2000m) and before that was third in the Group 3 Epona Stakes (1900m). She’s been saved for this after being scratched when favourite for the Wagga Wag

Stakes-placed filly Celestial Falls is set for a return to racing on a day when her elder half-sister Greysful Glamour chases victory in the Listed Gosford Gold Cup on the same Randwick program. Trained by Mark Newnham who also prepares Greysful Glamour, three-year-old Celestial Falls has not raced since last spring but is on target to resume in Saturday’s Westpac Rescue Helicopter Service 3&4YO Benchmark 78 Handicap (1400m). Like Greysful Glamour a year earlier, Celestial Fa

After bypassing the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup with Greysful Glamour, trainer Mark Newnham has turned his attention to the Gosford Gold Cup. Greysful Glamour had been the early favourite for last Friday’s Listed 2000m race at Wagga Wagga but Newnham withdrew her because the track was heavy. “It was too wet for her,” Newnham said. “Her best form is on top of the ground. “I wouldn’t have thought she would have been competitive on that sort of ground.” Newnham was happy to wait for Sa