Oaklands Stud set to assert dominance on track, at sales Oaklands Stud principal Neville Stewart: “Oaklands also has a strong record in the Championship race. We may just provide the double on Saturday.”
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The Stewart family’s Oaklands Stud, Toowoomba, looks set to assert its dominance at both Saturday’s Rockhampton feature Capricornia Yearling Sales select races and at the sales on Sunday.
Oaklands will provide four runners in both the $143K CYS 2YO Classic (1200m) and the $93K CYS 3 & 4YO Championship (1300m).
Visiting Sunshine Coast trainer Tom Button, another prominent role player in both features and huge supporter of Oaklands, will saddle up six of their graduates from previous CYS.
Juvenile starlet works well in lead-up to $500K race Trainer Kevin Hansen and Sweet Dolly after her Callaghan Park gallop on Monday morning. Photo: Tony McMahon.
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Queensland’s juvenile starlet Sweet Dolly passed her final gallop in preparation for Saturday’s $500K 2YO Jewel (1200m) at the Gold Coast in scintillating fashion early on Monday morning.
With race jockey Justin Stanley up, Rockhampton trainer Kevin Hansen chose to work the unbeaten filly on the grass course proper at Callaghan Park.
“I sent her out with stablemate, the open horse Casino Thoughts, with the idea for her to pick him up during the gallop but he pulled too hard so she never went with him,” Hansen said.
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Long-serving jockey makes race riding return at Rocky John Stephens makes his return to race riding at Callaghan Park on Saturday after an absence of eight months.
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Rockhampton racing’s longest-serving current resident jockey John Stephens makes his return to race riding at Callaghan Park on Saturday after an absence of eight months.
Stephens, who has been associated and enjoyed major success with some highly talented horses during his career including Eye Liner Stakes winner Leroy’s Magic, has been off the scene since last June.
Ironically, in Saturday’s Open Handicap (1050m) at the Rockhampton Jockey Club’s Callaghan Park TAB races, he combines with one of the district’s most talented young sprinters in Lepreezy.
Some of regionâs best-known horses headed for Rocky The Tom Button-trained Miss Lot Won will run in the $32.5K QTIS Jewel 3YO Plate Qualifier at Callaghan Park on Saturday. Photo: Caught in the Act Photography CQ
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There will be interest aplenty at the Rockhampton Jockey Clubâs Callaghan Park races on Saturday with the likely appearance of some of the regionâs best-known horses.
Sunshine Coast trainer, the former Rockhampton leading mentor Tom Button has entered six horses including well-performed Miss Lot Won, Rollinwiththeflow and The Silver Lad.
That trio has been entered for the $32.5K QTIS Jewel 3YO Plate Qualifier (1100m), which has 13 entries including Iolite (Natalie McCall) and Sip It Slow (Stuart Kendrick).