Group 2 winner Overpass (Vancouver) has become the latest edition to be added to The Everest puzzle after it was announced on Wednesday the 4-year-old had been snapped up by James Kennedy for this year’s $15 million race. The Bjorn Baker-trained and Darby Racing-owned son of Vancouver must have had slotholders circling following his most recent effort when he finished second behind current The Everest favourite Nature Strip (Nicconi) in G2 The Shorts H. at Randwick, and in th

Woodside Park Stud’s Vancouver will be represented in this year’s $15million Everest with confirmation the Bjorn Baker trained stallion Overpass has been selected to run for James Kennedy. A brilliant winner of the Group II ATC Expressway Stakes (1200m) during the autumn and competitive in Group I sprints, Overpass looked good in his recent barrier trials and acquitted himself well when finishing second to Nature Strip in the $1million Group II ATC The Shorts (1100m). On tha

Imported galloper King Frankel ($4.40) kicked off his life down under in emphatic fashion with a big off-Broadway win at Saturday's Newcastle meeting. The Mark Newnham-trained galloper only won one of his 10 starts in the UK but it was a pretty notable one - claiming victory by a lazy 32 lengths over 2016m at Pontefract. Admittedly he faced just two rivals that day and the runner-up - the Charlie Appleby -trained King Of Tomorrow - pulled up lame, but the facts and figures on