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WHY ARE OUR TOP SPRINTERS RUNNING AWAY FROM THE NEWMARKET?
February 15, 2021 1:28 pm
By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor
Over the course of well over a century, the
Newmarket Handicap had established itself as Australia’s most famous and sought-after sprint race. It always enticed big fields, ranging from proven stars with big weights to hopeful lightweights, and carried a big purse that was the holy grail shimmering at the top of that famous straight.
Like so many historic and famous races, Saturday week’s Newmarket is under siege from the far richer pop-ups. Most of the marketing money is being spent on the
Elite Perth sprinter set for Black Caviar Lightning Stakes Posted by: Mediality Racing+ at 1:43pm on 12/2/2021
Trainer Danny Morton has declared he will be doing cartwheels if star Perth sprinter Elite Street can win the Group One Black Caviar Lightning.
But Morton won’t be doing them at Flemington, or even back at his home track of Ascot.
He will instead be performing them in a Melbourne street as due to Racing Victoria’s COVID-19 restrictions, he is not allowed to be trackside at Flemington.
Morton has been in Melbourne since last Sunday but is not permitted to visit a racing stable or track until this Sunday, so he has had to liaise with Caulfield trainer Nick Ryan over the training of Elite Street.
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The Mounting Yard returns this week after a three-month hiatus and I couldn’t pick a better program with which to kick off 2020: the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes Day at Flemington.
The track should be between a Good 4 and Soft 5 with the weather predicted, and Flemington generally plays fairly, so tempo should dictate whether they can run or not.
Let’s get into it!
Benchmark 78, handicap, fillies and mares, 1600 metres
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Description
A well related young mare in foal to an exciting first season stallion, Caminetto is a great addition to any broodmare band.
Placed at her two-year-old debut and going on to win over a mile at Kilmore, Caminetto is a daughter of the legendary Danehill s outstanding son Fastnet Rock - the Gr.1 Oakleigh Plate and Lightning Stakes hero who has earned the crown of Australian Champion Sire on two occasions.
The sire of 166 stakes winners including 40 individual Gr.1 winners, Fastnet Rock boasts progeny earnings in excess of $209 million and has been represented by stakes winners 16 different countries.
And now he is doing the job as a broodmare sire, his daughters already producing 39 stakes winners including the big race winners Santa Ana Lane, Gytrash and Tivaci.