News - RELIABLE MAN (GB)
Victorian hoop Luke Currie is looking forward to partnering Aegon in the Gr.1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday after riding him in track work on Tuesday morning.
Big, bold and talented like his namesake, this Kris Lees trained up and comer was an obvious pick to highlight on Monday.
Bob Peters is looking forward to racing at Caulfield on Saturday where his Group One winner Inspirational Girl will make her Melbourne debut in the Gr.1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield.
Trainers Mick Price and Micheal Kent Jnr have elected to take a cautious approach with talented Reliable Man (GB) mare Annavisto with her first-up run at Caulfield on Saturday.
Westbury Stud have announced their 2021 service fees for their six stallions with an exciting move for breeders where all six stallions will stand on a No Foal/No Fee policy.
Cambridge trainers Shaune Ritchie and Colm Murray have a staying filly of the future on their hands with Samina Bibi, a daughter of in-vogue stallion Reliable Man, an impressive debut winner at Te Rapa.
The five-year-old Reliable Man (GB) mare Inspirational Girl provided owners Bob and Sandra Peters, trainers Grant and Alana Williams and jockey William Pike with a third consecutive winner of the $1 million Group 1 Kirin-Railway Stakes (1600m) at Ascot on Saturday.
Cambridge visitor Hypnos showed a good turn of foot to put his rivals to the sword when winning the Gr.2 Coupland’s Bakeries Mile (1600m) at Riccarton on Wednesday for Roger James and Robert Wellwood putting the spotlight on his half-brother to be offered at the NZB Ready to Run Sale next week..
All roads lead to the $8 million Lexus Melbourne Cup for Reliable Man’s Miami Bound following a commanding performance in Saturday’s Group II McCafe Moonee Valley Gold Cup (2500m).
Cambridge visitor Hypnos gained his second victory at stakes level the hard way when he held out the late charge of race favourite Rock On Wood to win the Group III Red Badge Spring Sprint (1400m) at Hastings.
The Caulfield trainers will line-up Kiwi-breds Bak Da Man and Dalgarno in the Victoria Derby Trial (1800m) at Flemington on Wednesday.
This impressive debut winner is bred to win an Oaks, but her immediate goal will be the Group I MRC Thousand Guineas.
Group One winner Sentimental Miss will head across the Tasman this spring to try and add to her burgeoning CV.
Group One winner Sentimental Miss will head across the Tasman this spring to try and add to her burgeoning CV.
Westbury Stud stallion Reliable Man bolstered his CV on the weekend when his son Kinane took out the Gr.3 Frank Packer Plate (2000m) at Randwick on Saturday.
Fresh off a win in a 1600 maiden at Wyong, the Chris Waller-trained Kinane put a top-class field to the sword in Saturday’s Group III Cactus Imaging Frank Packer Plate (2000m) at Randwick.
Group One-winning filly Miami Bound will begin her autumn campaign at Caulfield on Saturday when she lines-up in the Gr.2 Autumn Classic (1800m).
Last season’s Gr.1 New Zealand Oaks (2400m) winner Sentimental Miss returned to her best with a quality staying performance to take out the Listed Steelform Roofing Group Wanganui Cup (2040m).
The impressive Group I VRC Oaks (2500m) victory of three-year-old filly Miami Bound, who became the second Group One winner for sire Reliable Man, has been the highlight of a stunning ten-day period for the Westbury Stud-based stallion.
Promising two-year-old De La Terre will look to improve on the family record in the Karaka Million 2YO (1200m) after she looked to have cemented her place in the million dollar feature with a comfortable victory over 1000m at Te Rapa on Saturday.