Avebury Dominates Canberra Guineas
The commanding victory of Avebury in the Listed Canberra Guineas stamped herself as a talented three-year-old on the rise. After breaking through two starts back, the filly careered away with the guineas, thanks to another genius ride from Kerrin McEvoy, allowing the daughter of Savabeel to showcase her full potential. The stakes success adds valuable black type […]
Three Year Old’s Emerge
A successful Queensland raid for Speak Up on Saturday at Eagle Farm made it back-to-back wins for the daughter of Sebring. A big result thanks to the QTIS bonus, made it a total of $85,000 prizemoney, partnered by a patient ride by Angela Jones the lightly raced three-year-old weaved a passage through the field to score […]
Jal Lei Takes Out Wenona Girl
In dramatic circumstance Jal Lei brought up a very deserving Gr3 victory in the Wenona Girl Stakes on Saturday. Aided by a smart ride from stable apprentice Reece Jones, the four-year-old let down the Randwick straight before encountering interference at the fifty-meter mark. After going to the steward’s room, the daughter of Sebring was rightly awarded victory, the […]
Autumn Approaches as Racing Heats Up
A trio of horses who look destined to have bigger autumn targets all put the right foot forward on Saturday. Zou Tiger again showed his class with a gritty second in the Hobartville Stakes. Only going down by the barest of margins he again put his hand up for the Randwick Guineas in a fortnights […]
New & Old on Display as Autumn Gears Up
Debutant Café Millennium announced himself on Saturday when launching down the Randwick straight to put himself in contention for a host of 2yo feature races over the Autumn carnival. A mountainous son of champion sire Not A Single Doubt, he used his expansive stride to run over the top of his highly fancied rivals. A homebred for Ron […]
NZ Stud Tour 2022
After a 3 year enforced break, the tour was back on! The team was excited. The Karaka Yearling sales were looming large. The preparation had begun. The pace of this 4-day excursion was so sharp, it was difficult to keep a head count of the participants… perhaps something between The Magnificent Seven and The Dirty […]
Diamil Unboxes Second Stakes Win
Diamil (IRE) brought up his second stakes win in as many preparations in Australia when taking out the G3 Summer Cup at Randwick on Boxing Day. For a short while it was another stable quinella in a feature race, until Berdibek (FR) was relegated to third on protest. It was a well deserved feature win for Diamil after an unlucky […]
John O’Shea Racing Golf Day – NSW Golf Club
The capacity field of 24 nervously awaited the starter’s gun. Months of preparation had come to this. The conditions at the magnificent NSW Golf Club were perfect – weather fine, track good. The local knowledge of the NSW members held them in good stead, whilst it is fair to say that, as the day progressed, […]
Pack The Surfboard – We’re Off To The Coast
Hell I Am and Shalailed booked their tickets to the Gold Coast on Wednesday as the stable quinellaed the 3&4yo Magic Millions Classic at Wyong and notched back to back feature top-two’s for the stable. Both purchased from the 2021 Gold Coast Yearling Sale, a bevy of owners are expected to return to the Glitter Strip in a […]
Kirwan Is King as Saltaire Emerges
The Randwick Mile has been the home to many of the stable’s finest moments and that was no different on Saturday as Kirwan’s Lane and Lion’s Roar gave the John O’Shea team an historic quinella in the time-honoured $2m Group 2 The Ingham (formerly the Villiers Stakes). The eleventh win of stable favourite Kirwan’s Lane followed 2 hours […]
