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The Ramsden winner gains a free ticket into the Melbourne Cup and prior to his last start flop, Persan would have appeared the obvious of the 10 Ramsden runners to sweep through Saturday and be competitive in the first week of November. Persan had a marathon 11-run campaign last year finishing either first or second leading up to his Melbourne Cup fifth, after a first-up third over 1400m in Wangaratta last April. Maher said Persan was among about eight horses currently in Australia that Maher/Eustace would be targeting for the Melbourne Cup, including his three Ramsden runners Persan, Grand Promenade and ....
RSN927 BAFFERT’S PREAKNESS WAITING GAME May 12, 2021 8:51 am By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor Medina Spirit is far from out of the woods on the eve of the Preakness Stakes as sentiment turns on his trainer Bob Baffert, who has now found a second potential cause of the colt’s failed Kentucky Derby drug test. Baltimore and will be allowed to run “after following rigorous conditions” of entry according to race officials. But pre-race swab samples for the Preakness will not be available until Friday and an official said she was confident there may still be traces of steroid betamethasone in Medina Spirit’s system. ....
CLIFF BROWN – FROM “TERRIBLE” TO LION OF SINGAPORE May 12, 2021 3:33 pm By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor Big Singapore to a land of giants. He’s under no illusions about where he will fit in or how difficult the task of matching motors with the new giants of the game. Speaking on Racing Pulse in Mornington this morning, Brown reminded listeners of his humorously downbeat personality, as he prepared to reignite his local career after 12 years in Singapore. Brown said he was “a little bit apprehensive, a bit nervous” as he contemplated a training landscape he barely recognised. When Hayes and Freedman camps ruled the roost with stables of about 100. ....