On Thursday night at Pakenham Simon wheeled out his latest prized import from the UK, Maktoob, who kicked off his Australian campaign with a bang. A maiden winner over 1900m in the UK, the horse was identified and snapped up by astute bloodstock agent Cameron Cooke late last year. With Blaike McDougall engaged to ride,...
On Tuesday at Bendigo speedy Toronado filly She’sallshenigans returned in outstanding order with a dominant sprinting display to take out the National Hotel Maiden Plate. After showing an abundance of speed in all of her trials and on debut in the stakes race at Caulfield, after a great spell at Merricks Station, She’sallshenanigans was well...
On Sunday at Geelong promising three year old Dirty Grin put his name up in lights for some stronger races, beating some nice horses in the 1400m maiden. The smart Zacinto gelding was a little unlucky the previous start at Sandown, running on strongly for fourth place not beaten far. On this occasion he was...
An excited group of owners gathered at Caulfield on Saturday to see Little Stevie take out the 1100m F&M BM84 on Saturday. After putting together an outstanding campaign thus far, the writing was on the wall after posting some slick sections at Flemington last start. The 7 day backup proved a masterstroke from Simon as...
The First Light Racing owned Zac De Boss keeps going from strength to strength as he posted his second Flemington straight win in a row on Saturday. The four year old Zac into gelding takes his impressive record to five wins from just thirteen starts and banked over $254,000 in prizemoney for his connections. Jumping...
On Thursday at Wangaratta we witnessed something as rare as a Tassie Tiger with brother and sister Alpinova and Eaglesaurus (Tassie Siblings) both scoring maiden wins in their respective races. By Alpine Eagle out of the Testa Rossa mare Novasaurus, the siblings brought up memorable a double for Tasmanian breeder and loyal stable client David...
The duck was broken at Flemington on Saturday as consistent Zac De Boss posted SZR’s first Flemington winner, as a standalone stable. This is truly a memorable moment for our stable annd one we intend to build on, in the future. Zac pinged the gates quickly from barrier 1 as apprentice jockey Matthew Cartwright angled...
Exciting times at Simon Zahra racing with some real momentum building off the back of Tavisteel’s win in the VIEW Melbourne Maiden Plate at Terang on Sunday. After drawing the perfect barrier, apprentice Alana Kelly was able to put her on a nice position midfield on the rail. She travelled beautifully thoughout the race and...
There were emotional scenes yesterday at Kilmore after Zacinto gelding Italian Poet finally put to bed his maiden after 10 ten starts. The First Light owned three year old was able to break through after showing a lot of promise early in his career but always seemed to find one better on the day. After...
The SZR team roared him another winner on Saturday afternoon at Geelong where stable favourite stormed home to take out the feature race on the card, the St Patrick’s Cup. Despite a couple of really promising jumpouts at Flemington, and showing plenty in his trackwork, Jack was sent out a despised outsider by bookmakers in...
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