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IT’S TIME TO DRIVE AT SYDNEY CITY LEXUS
SYDNEY CITY LEXUS | 824 Bourke Street Waterloo NSW 2017 | PH 02 8303 1900 | MD053160 Delivering unsurpassed customer care is one of the foundations of the Lexus brand. While engineers were busy testing prototype vehicles around racetracks and autobahns, the blueprints...
SNOWDEN’S ACQUIRE HUETOR (FR)
Snowden Racing is excited to introduce HUETOR, a lightly raced four-year-old gelding who has won twice at France's premier racecourse, Longchamp. We identified Huetor early in the French season and are pleased to have purchased him to join our Randwick stable in...
WILD RULER PLEASING AT HOME
$1,000,000 G2 Arrowfield Sprint winner, WILD RULER with his strapper Holly Williams. Stakes-winning sprinter Wild Ruler (Snitzel) is making good progress towards his spring campaign.The rising 4-year-old won the G2 Arrowfield 3YO Sprint during his last preparation and...
GETTING TO KNOW SHIREE KNOWLES
Q: WHERE ARE YOU ORIGINALLY FROM AND WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND? I’m orginally from Hamilton in NZ. I was Born & Bred into racing, I always had ponies when I was kid, went to pony club & shows etc. HOW DID YOU FIRST GET INTERESTED IN HORSES? My Grandfather...
NAJMATY ON TRACK
Team Snowden are delighted by the condition of stakes-winning filly Najmaty (I Am Invincible) ahead of the upcoming spring racing carnival. Paul told RSN927 on Wednesday that the Emirates Park-owned 2-year-old will kickstart her campaign in Melbourne next month....
Snowdens Pick Rose As Captivant’s Spring Shaper
Champagne Stakes winner Captivant returns to the Snowden stable next week to begin a spring preparation that will be shaped by his performance in the Group 1 $1m Golden Rose. But while it’s smooth sailing with the Group 1 winning colt, co-trainer Peter Snowden...
Jen Rules to give her owner emotional farewell
As a prominent owner in racing, Max Whitby knows that sentiment and emotion should normally play second fiddle to business savvy in the sport of kings. But that’s not the case with the mare Jen Rules who will have her final career start in Brisbane on Saturday before...
Feel-good factor among the juvenile results at Kensington
Sydney’s midweek meeting was on Randwick’s Kensington track on Wednesday, and the feel-good factor of the day occurred in the second race, with 2-year-old filly Forzanini (Pride Of Dubai) winning in the Cornish family’s Torryburn Stud colours for part-owner Nini...
Exo Booms in Hawkesbury Guineas
Triple Crown’s exciting three-year-old EXOBOOM enhanced his burgeoning reputation on Saturday with a stunning victory in the Group 3 Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m). The powerful son of Exosphere came with a storming run down the outside to land the $200,000 contest by a...
Smooth as Satin at Randwick’s Tuesday Trials
The Sydney red-letter 2-year-old features of the season might be behind us, but at Randwick on Tuesday, the 10th trial of the morning captured attentions. Unraced juvenile filly Satin Ribbons, by sire of the moment Capitalist, blew the doors off her opposition by 5.8l...
Captivant plucked from paddock to snare Champagne Stakes
An eleventh-hour decision to pull Captivant out of the spelling paddock has proved to be a masterstroke after the colt delivered a first G1 win for his sire Capitalist in the Champagne Stakes. While the 1600m feature was initially on Capitvant’s schedule, trainers...
Snitzel’s Wild Ruler Brave in the Arrowfield Sprint
With the looks befitting a half million dollar yearling, Wild Ruler has also been blessed with plenty of ticker, which he needed to call on to turn back the challenge of a hard-charging Isotope in the $1million Group II Arrowfield 3yo Sprint (1200m) at Randwick on...
Najmaty up to the task to claim valuable black-type win
Najmaty has stepped from a maiden win in Sydney to claim the Listed Redoute’s Choice Stakes at Caulfield. The wet weather that delayed the Sydney Autumn Carnival has worked in favour of Najmaty who ventured south to claims a stakes victory at Caulfield. The Peter And...
I Am Superman Books His Ticket for the Doncaster Mile
Credit: Breednet After failing in the race last year on a heavy track, the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained I Am Superman showed his appreciation of a firm surface in Saturday’s $200,000 Group II Hyland Race Colours Ajax Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill. Off to the Doncaster...
Fancy A Flying Filly?
“Equine welfare and tailoring every aspect of thehorses’ care, nutrition and training to bring outit's best is paramount.” Peter & Paul Snowden PURE ELATION (I Am Invincible x Members Joy) We often hear the question from prospective owners trying to understand...
Snowdens’ plan to rule The Galaxy
By Mitch Cohen | Racenet Co-trainer Peter Snowden is hoping his stable has got the timing right for impressive colt Wild Ruler to hit his peak and fulfil Group 1 destiny in Saturday’s $700,000 The Galaxy at Rosehill. Snowden and his son Paul have had The Galaxy at the...
Emirates Park Winning Run Continues with Najmaty
Credit: Breednet Najmaty (white cap) | Image courtesy of Ashlea Brennan Emirates Park bred horses have been racing up a storm in the past week with stakes-winners Lightsaber, Marboosha and Liwa all carrying the Emirates Park brand as does impressive two year-old filly...
Dual Group 1-winning 2YO King’s Legacy retires to Coolmore Stud
Following what was an excellent effort in the Group 1 Randwick Guineas on Saturday, the decision has been made to retire dual Group 1-winning 2YO King’s Legacy to Coolmore Stud. Of the announcement, his yearling purchaser James Harron stated “It was a great effort by...
Marboosha Ambushes Them in the Incognitus Stakes
The three-year-old Dream Ahead (USA) filly Marboosha showed she will be competitive at the highest level this autumn following a barnstorming win in Saturday’s Listed Incognitus Stakes (1100m) at Flemington. Making her first start since finishing second in the Group...
Inglis Classic Sale 2021 Wrap Up!
Peter Snowden, Paul Snowden & Colum McCullaghPhoto: Ashlea Brennan PhotographyIt was a very succesful 2021 Inglis Classic Sale for Snowden Racing picking up 7 cracking yearlings to add to our assault for next season! In what was a very tough market we feel as if...
OUR FIRST CRACK AT KARAKA!
We were delighted to secure lot 224, a Tavistock colt out of the Zabeel mare Zeranti. Identified as a Classic type, he represented excellent value at NZ$200,000. He is an impeccable physical specimen and a full brother to class three-year-old The Irishman who was...
MAGIC MILLIONS CLASS OF 2021
2021 Magic Millions $2m 3YO Guineas winner, AIM (Star Witness x Vintage Strike)A $200,000 purchase by China Horse Club/Newgate Bloodstock.Trained by Peter & Paul Snowden.It was a fruitful 2021 Magic Millions for...
Snowdens Split Their Millions Chances
The training partnership of Peter Snowden and son Paul has decided to split two of its Magic Millions hopefuls with quality colt Astrologer making the trip to Brisbane for the Bruce McLachlan Stakes at Eagle Farm on Saturday.Team Snowden had nominated Astrologer and...
Getting To Know Trackwork Rider, Raphael Desanti
Q: WHERE ARE YOU ORIGINALLY FROM AND WHAT IS YOUR BACKGROUND?I am originally from France, more precisely from a little island called ‘Ré island’. Located on thewest coast. HOW DID YOU FIRST GET INTERESTED IN HORSES?I first got introduced into horses when my mom threw...
Snowdens Confident Barbaric’s In For A Magic Summer
Co-trainer Peter Snowden is keen to make up for lost time after missing the spring with Black Opal winner Barbaric who is set to resume at Wyong on Wednesday.The colt is scheduled to make his return in the $100,000 Magic Millions Wyong Stakes (1200m) though Snowden...
Team Snowden 3YO short odds in Wyong Magic Millions Stakes
A Team Snowden trained three year old is favourite with Tab.com.au to take out the Wyong 3&4YO Magic Millions (1200m) this Wednesday.Barbaric hasn’t raced since winning the Black Opal in the Autumn but a recent trial win and J Mac to steer sees the colt as an even...
Snowden Banks On Class Edge With Smart Image
There’s no doubt as far as co-trainer Peter Snowden is concerned that Smart Image will appear in some good quality races in 2021 but he’s stopped short of declaring a first-up win at Rosehill on Saturday.Snowden said he’s rapt with how Smart Image has returned, he’s...
Snowdens Set Lofty Goals For Dame Giselle, Wild Ruler
The Snowdens are setting lofty goals for two of the stable’s star three-year-olds.Filly Dame Giselle took all before her last preparation with a trio of wins in the Darley Princess Series, including Group 2s the Silver Shadow, Furious and Tea Rose Stakes, before...
Trial Watch – Gosford
A couple of super interesting trials at Gosford on Wednesday morning featuring an Inglis Easter sale-topper on the comeback trial and a well bred colt by Golden Slipper winner Capitalist.The 2019 Inglis Easter sale-topper when fetching $2.8million, Snitzel colt Mount...
Triple Crown trio light up Randwick trials
There is plenty for the Triple Crown team to look forward to in the coming weeks if Tuesday morning’s Randwick trials are anything to go by!The Red silks were attracting plenty of attention at this morning’s hit-outs, with exciting colt SMART IMAGE the first to turn...