Champion jockey Hugh Bowman will end a five-year drought when he teams up with Victorian galloper Ayrton in Saturday's Group 2 Hollindale Stakes (1800m) at the Gold Coast.
Punters on right side of Snowden Guineas raid Marboosha will now got for a spell after winning the Gold Coast Guineas. Picture: Grant Peters/Trackside Photography 06:26am • 08 May 2021
Paul Snowden returned to the scene of his Gold Coast Magic Millions Guineas triumph with Aim in January to score another Guineas in a successful one-hit winter carnival raid with filly Marboosha on Saturday.
Punters weren’t cheering when Snowden and his father Peter claimed the Magic Millions Guineas with $31 chance Aim earlier in the year but they loved it when the same team won Saturday’s Group 3 Gold Coast Guineas (1200m) with Marboosha.
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Lance O’Sullivan admits his confidence in Rocket Spade’s prospects for Australia’s richest staying classic hasn’t been bolstered by the subsequent Australian performances of the pair that trailed him home in the Gr.1 New Zealand Derby (2400m).
Rocket Spade is on the third line of betting for the A$2 million Gr.1 Australian Derby (2400m) at Randwick on Saturday after beating Milford by a short neck in the New Zealand Derby, with Frontman a further short head back in third.
But in their respective races since the New Zealand Derby, both Milford and Frontman – who races as The Frontman in Australia – disappointed when finishing well held eighth-placings in their Australian debuts, Milford in the Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m) and The Frontman in the Gr.2 Tulloch Stakes (2000m).