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The Week Ahead Sep 30

The Week Ahead Sep 30

A couple of cracking runs to open his spring campaign, have prompted trainer Joe Pride to raise the sights for emerging sprinter KING’S SECRET. PRIVATE EYE’s younger half sibling resumed with a strong finishing 4th in...

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A Battle of the Sexes!

A Battle of the Sexes!

The long-held perception that fillies bred on the HIGH CHAPARRAL sireline are inferior to their male counterparts is being blown up by TORONADO. Assessing TORONADO’s last four crops of racing age (2020-2023), he’s...

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Sectionals Review Sep 29

Sectionals Review Sep 29

CHAMPAGNE LANE ticked an important box in a week that saw Proven post a couple of winners and a Group 2 placing. One of the biggest traps punters fall into is backing a horse first-up at a new trip. Second to that is...

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CHAMPAGNE clinks!

CHAMPAGNE clinks!

A steep drop in class and a clever ride by apprentice Fiona Sandkuhl, orchestrated an overdue victory for the Matt Hoysted-trained CHAMPAGNE LANE. It’s not often you see a horse revert from a Listed event to a...

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Nic Ashman’s best bet for Saturday

Nic Ashman’s best bet for Saturday

Our form analyst Nic Ashman has found one on Golden Rose day that can give an odds-on favourite a shake in the fifth event. Rosehill R5 N3 CROSS TASMAN "Second-up and off 35 days. Resumed in the Goulburn Cup finishing...

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An interesting case study

An interesting case study

In the words of ANZ Bloodstock journalist Trevor Marshallsea, she had “bugger all” on the dam side of her pedigree, so how did this daughter of SHAMUS AWARD become the first stakes winner in the family since 1992?!...

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ALABAMA wins SHOWDOWN!

ALABAMA wins SHOWDOWN!

The virtue of patient owners and the dexterity of trainer Joe Pride was again displayed at Goulburn Thursday when ALABAMA SHOWDOWN showed his rivals who was boss in the 1100m Maiden. The 4yo son of ALABAMA EXPRESS was...

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Pride Open House Sunday Sep 27

Pride Open House Sunday Sep 27

It’s Open House Morning at Joe Pride’s Warwick Farm Stables this Sunday September 27 for Proven Thoroughbreds’ owners and indeed anyone interested in becoming an owner. From 9.30am to 11:30am this Sunday the barn doors...

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The Week Ahead Sep 23

The Week Ahead Sep 23

PRIVATE EYE spearheads an eight-strong team of Proven runners this week as the spring carnival heats up. Trainer Joe Pride elected to withdraw PRIVATE EYE from last Saturday's Bill Ritchie Handicap (1400m) at Randwick...

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Sectionals Review Sep 22

Sectionals Review Sep 22

Where to for KINGS SECRET? “For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them,” the great Aristotle once said. He is saying that some kinds of knowledge simply cannot be acquired through...

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Nic Ashman’s best bet for Saturday

Nic Ashman’s best bet for Saturday

Our form analyst Nic Ashman has identified a progressive 4yo gelding in the Midway at Randwick as his best bet this Saturday. Randwick R2 N2 BARRENGARRY "Could be well above these in terms of class,” Ashman said....

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The Week Ahead Sep 16

The Week Ahead Sep 16

This Saturday at Randwick will we see the remarkable veteran PRIVATE EYE, “pass the baton” to his younger half sibling KING’S SECRET? The figurative definition of that well used sporting metaphor, to hand over...

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