Author Archives: Emma Cully

SKYWRITER supported the sentiment “a mare in form” yesterday with another win at Doomben compliments of a great Ryan Maloney ride. The daughter of Written Tycoon began well and eased back to get a similar run to last start also over 1,350 metres. She travelled midfield on the fence with Ryan settling her behind one of the main dangers. SKYWRITER tracked up nicely approaching the […]

HARTMAN was a narrow second when pipped on the post at his last outing so it was especially exciting to see him in the Winner’s Circle yesterday when winning the $100,000 Super Maiden mile race at Gosford. The 3 year old son of recently retired former Champion Sire Exceed And Excel jumped effectively from barrier two and was […]

After an acknowledged unlucky 2nd in the Triscay Stakes when resuming from a spell in mid February, talented 4 year old mare OLENTIA next appeared in the Group 3 Birthday Card at Rosehill Gardens on Golden Slipper day. Her moderate performance in that race to run 4th left us asking questions and it was her trainer […]

Moving up north to Doomben yesterday and the perennial “bridesmaid” SKYWRITER finally did what we had thought she could do well before now…win her maiden in an impressive manner. The 1,350 metres maiden victory with Ryan Maloney aboard was an easy watch in the end as the mare improved from back of the field on the rail […]

A winner on debut and then again first up this preparation 2 weeks ago, progressive 3 year old gelding MCHALE won at Wyong yesterday at the midweek metropolitan meeting and in doing so became a “one to watch” in coming months. Two wins from both starts this time in training have elevated the gelding to most likely […]

A return to Hawkesbury for her fifth career start enabled 3 year old filly CONCELLO to win at the same track for a second time with Tommy Berry aboard yesterday. The step up to 1,500 metres suited the daughter of current leading second season sire Trapeze Artist ideally and after settling on the rail initially worse than midfield, the […]

ZAKIYYA and Ryan Maloney were impressive when winning at Ipswich over 1,350 metres last time out and they backed it up with another win yesterday over the same distance but this time at Doomben. The 4 year old daughter of Siyouni (FR) jumped quickly and Ryan let the speed go ahead, choosing to settle the mare three pairs back, one […]

MCHALE won impressively on debut as a late season 2 year old last year and now as a gelding, he won in similar fashion at Warwick Farm yesterday first up with Tyler Schiller aboard. The son of Shooting To Win was an Inglis Classic selection by Star and Randwick Bloodstock Agency and races in the […]

After “just missing” at Warwick Farm last time, CADETSHIP won again with a near perfect ride at Rosehill Gardens yesterday from James McDonald. The 4 year old gelding by Merchant Navy has been thereabouts for most of this preparation, so the ride and perfect race placement produced the desired result. The benchmark 72 run over […]

Well related 4 year old Siyouni (FR) mare ZAKIYAA has very much been the proverbial “work in progress” because she displayed talent early in her career but has taken some time to learn the race craft required to produce success under race conditions. Not able to settle and travel comfortably in some of her earlier […]