Echoes of Redoute€™s for Price

IT WAS hardly a revelation for trainer Mick Price that the only two-year-old to debut and win seven days before winning the Blue Diamond Stakes was Redoute€™s Choice in 1999. €˜€˜You know what they say about lightning,€™€™ he offered.

Hayes regroups and looks for a group 1 double on final day

THE upside of having a poor day at the races is that there is always another meeting to look forward to and that is how leading trainer David Hayes is approaching tomorrow's dual group 1 program after another day to forget at Flemington yesterday.

Racing Shorts

Evans stood down

Godfather gives Hall a leg up

THE TOP 12 Australasian candidates for next month's Caulfield Cup will today race for bragging rights for the spring's upcoming majors, but it won't just be horses that are striving to impress.

Cummings foreman moves to uphold family tradition

MASTER trainer Bart Cummings's Sydney lieutenant John Thompson finishes up with the "Cups King" on Saturday after eight years as foreman.

Gai banks on Dream team

The numbers are against Gai Waterhouse in the run to the line in the Sydney trainers' premiership but she has quality on her side this weekend, reports Craig Young.

Drover's son sees a vision splendid of city winners far extended

THE drover's son is heading back to town. The one-time wharfie has two runners from his Forster-Tuncurry stable in at Rosehill today. Terry Evans saddles Aqua Blessing in the De Bortoli Wines Handicap and Verrekeen in the Navigate Financial Group Handicap.

Everyone's breathing easy now

The connections of Queensland Derby favourite Shocking are looking to top and tail the racing season with classic winners. Andrew Eddy reports.

Irish master odds-on for classic

THE Derby at Epsom is perhaps the most famous horse race in the world, but the shortest-priced English runner in this weekend's classic is Godolphin's Kite Wood, at about 20-1.

Toorak Handicap the long-term goal for 'Hercules'

THE 2007 spring carnival's most controversial horse, Pillar Of Hercules, returns to racing at Flemington tomorrow as part of a long-range plan to win the group 1 Toorak Handicap in October.