Commander off to Moonee Valley in bid to break drought
Canberra mare Capital Commander has not won for more than a year but trainer
Nick Olive says he has found the right race for her at Saturday's Moonee Valley
meeting. |
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Best On Breeding
With a $1 million pot of gold for the winner of Saturday's
Group 1 AAMI Stradbroke Handicap, both Fastnet Rock and Commands are well-placed
to leapfrog Exceed and Excel in the race for champion sire. |
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One to Watch - Gosford Former Group I winning top class sprinter Our Egyptian Raine has struggled to make an impression at stud, but that might be about to change after her two year-old daughter scored a dominant debut win at Gosford on Thursday. |
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Three Year Olds Strike Again With Epaulette
Will the Commands colt Epaulette become the latest
3-year-old to be retired to stud this spring?
Already a Group 1 winner of the ATC Golden Rose, the
striking bay earned his second win at the highest level in Saturday's $650,000 Carlton
Mid Doomben 10,000 (1350m). |
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2013 Doomben 10000 result – Epaulette shines in Queensland The Peter Snowden-trained Epaulette claimed his second Group
I win when continuing the three-year-old dominance of weight-for-age races this season in
the Group I Doomben 10000 (1350m) at Doomben on Saturday. |
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Century for Commands
Darley
based Commands posted his century of Australian winners when two year-old filly
Moderate made a winning debut at Warwick Farm on Sunday. |
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Best On Breeding
Between them, Buffering and Rain Affair have won ten Group
races and over $3,6 million however a Group 1 victory has so far been elusive. |
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Commands Gelding Opens Stakes Account
He is such a regular in stakes races it's hard to believe that
before Saturday's Listed Workers Blacktown Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) the Peter
Snowden-trained Limes had won just one of his 14 starts, a maiden at Gosford in
August last year. |
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Commands Gelding Rarefied Captures Hall Mark Stakes
Commands gelding Rarefied completed a great day for Darley
stallions and finished off a successful Sydney Autumn Racing Carnival for trainer
Peter Snowden when downing his stablemate Skytrain in Saturday's $100,000
Listed Cellarbrations Hall Mark Stakes (1200m) at Randwick. |
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Commands Colt Headed for Better An impressive debut win for blue-blooded Commands colt Paximadia will have his trainer Peter Snowden considering a crack at the Brisbane Winter Carnival. |
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