The Group 1 $750,000 Australian Guineas is a set weight race for three-year-olds over 1600 metres held in autumn each year. It is run at Flemington racecourse and will be held on Saturday 6 March. At this stage there are 97 nominations and it looks like being one of the best races of the 2010 [...]

The Group 1 $400,000 Sportingbet Orr Stakes is a weight-for-age race over 1400 metres at Caulfield racecourse and is the main event on a nine race program that includes the Group 3 Blue Diamond Preludes (1100m) for two-year-olds as well as the Group 3 Hyderabad R C Stakes (1200m). There will be 10 runners and [...]

The Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes is Victoria’s premier two-year-old race and this year the race has prizemoney of $1 million plus trophies. It is run at Caulfield racecourse and will be held on Saturday 20 February. Although it is over 2 weeks until the final field is set there is a lot of interest [...]

The Autumn Carnival kicks off at Flemington this Sat with the feature being the $500,000 Group 1 Coolmore Lightning Stakes over 1000 metres. This race also makes up the first leg of the Global Sprint Challenge.
The Lightning Stakes is a weight-for age sprint down the straight course featuring 13 runners this year – eight of [...]

The Melbourne Festival of Racing will take place from 30 January to 14 March 2010 with 3 race days at Flemington, 3 at Caulfield and 4 at Moonee Valley including 3 Friday night meetings. The Festival also includes country meetings like the Kilmore Cup and the Mornington Cup. There are also social events such as [...]

There were ten nominations for the Group 2 $200,000 Essendon Mazda Australia Stakes over 1200 metres at Moonee Valley on Friday night. However at final acceptances only 6 were paid up with quality horses like Denham and Lucky Secret deciding not to take part. The weight-for-age race has prizemoney down to 8th place ($4000) and [...]

The International Federation of Horseracing Authorities has published the 2009 World Thoroughbred Ratings for three-year-olds and up who raced between 1 January and 31 December 2009.
To make the WTR list, horses must have a rating of 115 or better and of the 333 horses listed there were 50 Australian horses. Retired Irish horse Sea The [...]

The main races at Flemington are the $150,000 Chester Manifold Stakes over 1410 metres and the $125,000 Kensington Stakes over 1000 metres both with a feild of 14 runners.
Chester Manifold Stakes – (1410m / $150,000)
The early markets for Chester Manifold Stakes has Time Matters the early favourite at $4.50 ahead of Ship In The Night [...]