In 1996, it was Shayne’s Champ who emerged successful in the National Sprint Championship (520) in Queensland. Almost three decades on, it’s a different Shayne’s champ who could again clinch the title for WA.
Hayden King
The niece of recently crowned 2024/25 Horse of the Year Jokers Grin has put her own name out as a coming winner after Monday’s Lark Hill trials.
Despite riding a robust speed upfront, Phanta refused to fizzle as the veteran sprinter recorded his second Listed win in two weeks, taking the $125,000 Idyllic Prince Stakes (1300m) at Belmont.
She’s back. Champion mare Via Sistina sent an ominous warning to her spring rivals in the Group 1 $1 million Winx Stakes (1400m), going back to back in the event at her racetrack return.
Perhaps WA’s most promising apprentice, Chanel Cooper will have her best chance to break her Saturday metropolitan maiden when she steers quality types Yorga Pride and Castle Road at Belmont.
Evergreen eight-year-old Phanta turned back the clock in last fortnight’s Belmont Newmarket and will have a chance to rewrite history in Saturday’s Listed $125,000 Idyllic Prince Stakes (1300m) at Belmont.
The ever-effervescent Phanta is a narrow favourite to supply Chris Gangemi with a second Listed $125,000 Idyllic Prince Stakes (1300m) at Belmont, following in the footsteps of stable hero Rock Magic.
Find out which Brownlow Medal-winning AFL player owns a horse named after him racing this Saturday.
Three-start maiden Star Supreme cut a lone, grey furrow up the Belmont home straight on Monday morning, scoring her trial by three and three-quarter lengths in the fastest time of the morning.
Entering the Broome Cup as the least experienced runner, King Mahuta had the odds stacked against him, but showed heart beyond his years to claim a dynamite win against the north west’s best stayers.
Cream rose to the top in Caulfield’s Group 2 P B Lawrence Stakes (1400m) with veteran campaigner Private Eye dismissing his rivals to chalk up another feature success that looked inevitable halfway through.
History has an uncanny knack of repeating and there’s an eerie sense of symmetry about this year’s $100,000 Great Northern Broome Cup (2200m) for Peter Bamford.
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