The Boss Lady virtually assured herself a start in The Quokka, winning the Group 3 $300,000 PKF Roma Cup (1100m) following a tense protest hearing, initially dead-heating across the line with Jokers Grin.
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Champion mare Via Sistina continued her groundbreaking preparation, equalling the feat of Winx by claiming her seventh Group 1 this season and ninth overall in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Randwick.
Perth will be abuzz at Ascot Racecourse’s PKF Italian Raceday on Saturday, celebrating the city getting recognised as the 2025 Capital of Italian Culture in the World.
The Group 3 $200,000 PKF Roma Cup (1100m) is shaping to be the most important race of the year so far at Ascot, with a distinct likelihood four runners will line up in next fortnight’s Quokka.
Ladbrokes’ Quokka representative Jokers Grin will be out to show why he’s one of the highest-rated sprinters in WA in his final tune-up before the big dance in Saturday’s Group 3 $200,000 PKF Roma Cup (1100m).
In a spectacular 24-hour backflip, Sportsbet have replaced I Am Me with hardy gelding Front Page as their $5 million Kia Quokka (1200m) slot representative after the mare weakened in Saturday’s T J Smith Stakes
Ascot’s $5 million Kia Quokka (1200m) was given a serious boost on Monday, with second and third favourites Headwall and Western Empire both locking away slots in the April 26 extravaganza.
Machine Gun Gracie asserted her dominance over the fillies’ staying ranks and sent shivers through Derby candidates with an annihilation of the $300,000 Group 3 Drummond Golf WA Oaks (2400m) field at Ascot.
In WA over the past two years, we’ve come to know Bjorn Baker for his boisterous post-race celebrations, but when Stefi Magnetica won the Group 1 Doncaster Mile at Randwick, he was overcome by emotion.
Boutique trainer Justine Erkelens landed a watershed win in the 2024 WA Oaks as Own The Queen ripped home from last to score a dazzling win as the odds-on favourite.
Machine Gun Gracie asserted her dominance over the fillies a fortnight ago and enters the Group 3 $300,000 Drummond Gold WA Oaks (2400m) as a raging $1.70 TABtouch favourite with her rivals up against it.
Globetrotting gelding Dubai Honour made it a perfect hat-trick of Australian Group 1s, taking his third from as many appearances in Rosehill’s $1.5 million Kia Tancred Stakes (2400m).
Following Saturday’s devastating Rock Magic Stakes win, Jokers Grin has quickly been snapped up by Ladbrokes for the $5 million The Kia Quokka (1200m) at Ascot on April 26.
Luana Miss upstaged raging favourite Yes Queen to win the Listed $125,000 Supremacy Stakes (1000m), replacing her at the head of the betting for the Karrakatta Plate on April 26.
Light Infantry Man continued his ascension through the grades, taking another dominant Group 1 win in the $2.5 million Australian Cup (2000m) at Flemington.
One of WA’s most promising speedsters will stake his claim for a Quokka slot on April 26 when Jokers Grin launches his autumn campaign in the $100,000 Rock Magic Stakes (1000m) at Ascot.
Tough-as-nails pacer Minstrel is the fifth horse entered for the Group 1 $1.25 million TABtouch Nullarbor (2536m) at Gloucester Park on April 25 after being selected by Ladbrokes.
Comeback pacer Magnificent Storm is the fourth horse to guarantee himself a position in the $1.25 million Nullarbor (2536m) at Gloucester Park on April 25 after impressing in his racetrack return.
Machine Gun Gracie sent such a statement to her three-year-old counterparts in Saturday’s Listed $125,000 Natasha Stakes (2200m) at Ascot that it left most wondering if she can be beaten in the WA Oaks.
Six weeks ago, she hadn’t started in a race and one week ago, no one could be sure she was in it, yet Michael Freedman’s Marhoona upstaged Sydney’s biggest stables to win Saturday’s Golden Slipper.
The Grant and Alana Williams stable will be healthily represented in a string of Listed races across the weekend, including Sunday’s $150,000 TABtouch Pinjarra Cup (2300m) favourite Captain Pluto.
Bookmakers are facing a jumbo payout if race favourite Wodeton wins this Saturday’s Group 1 $5 million Golden Slipper (1200m) at Rosehill.
Trainer-reinsman Chris Voak couldn’t hide his delight on Monday, proudly brandishing his whip as rejuvenated veteran Sangue Reale became WA’s fastest ever pacer in Pinjarra’s Group 3 Mount Eden Sprint (1684m).
Trial onlookers were left rubbing their eyes at Belmont as untapped two-year-old Yes Queen slayed her rivals in a dominant success, sending her to Karrakatta Plate favouritism.
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