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News.com.au
14-06-2025
- Sport
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Port Macquarie preview, best bets, inside mail for Sunday, June 15, 2025
Colt Prosser stands his best chance of winning a Wauchope Cup and could add the co-feature sprint when he heads to Port Macquarie for the annual festival that celebrates his own home town. Prosser is more or less Lord of the Manor at Wauchope; after all, he is one of only two trainers in residence. The other is his father, Grant. Prosser saddles-up the sturdy and reliable customer Cenotes who has been dealt a wide draw in this weekend's Wauchope Cup (1512m) as was the case when he resumed in the Beef Week Cup at Casino on May 30. 'I was happy with him (at Casino),' Prosser said. Cenotes makes it three wins in a row 3ï¸�⃣ He wins easily at Kempsey and gives Ben Looker a double! @ColtProsser â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) September 19, 2024 The Form: Complete NSW Racing thoroughbred form, including video replays and all you need to know about every horse, jockey and trainer. Find a winner here! 'First-up, he just got stuck wide and made a really long run and just peaked out with a hundred to go. 'Ben (Looker) never knocked him around on that real Heavy track because we've got bigger fish to fry in the near future. 'The doesn't make it ideal because he is a horse that can jump and put himself there and that was the plan. Second-up, I think he can run a nice race. I think he still needs to get over a mile to be at his best. 'It's a bit of a shame to draw like he has in my home Cup. This time it is just going to be up to Ben to see how it unfolds.' Prosser's Wauchope Sprint (1008m) pair, Dis Is Heaven and Bjorn Ironside, clash for a second time in quick succession after they both went within inches of winning the Casino Flying which was as close to a triple dead-heat as they come. 'They were probably a little bit the victims of circumstance,' Prosser explained. 'The winner got a little bit better run in transit and didn't have to go wide around the field but my boys lost no admirers, they were great, and I'm looking forward to seeing them in the Wauchope Sprint. Dis Is Heaven gets up in a photo from Canny Prospect. ðŸ'¸ â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) March 17, 2023 'There's not much between them. I thought Dis Is Heaven would have lengths on Bjorn Ironside in the Heavy but Bjorn was absolutely fantastic there at Casino to run that sort of race on going that he is not real comfortable on.' There may not be a better looking or more striking horse in action at Port Macquarie than Prosser's first starter, Impending Fortune, who will have his share of admirers in the Chris Hudson Electrical Country Boosted Maiden Plate (1108m). Originally sold for $130,000 Magic Millions Yearling, the grandson of Lonhro was bought the second time around for a mere $6,500 at the Inglis October Online Sale in 2024. Impending Fortune is among only one per cent of the almost 13,000 foals born in 2020 officially registered as 'black' in colour. 'He's a very nice horse,' Prosser said. 'He could possibly do a bit wrong and be a bit green first start just with the one trial and he did miss a lot of education work on the way through just with all that rain and floods we've had. 'But he is a lovely big horse. he has been in work a while and we finally got him to the trials and Luke (Rolls) was really happy with him.' SHAYNE O'CASS' TOP SELECTIONS BEST BET Runner-up in seven of her 12 starts. Costly, but this could be the day. NEXT BEST Peter Graham-trained galloper and he'll ride him too. Getting ever so close. VALUE BET Race 4 No. 4: ROYAL TEENS Back to where she last won. Been running in some hard races of late. QUADDIE Race 6: 1, 2 Race 7: 1, 4, 8, 12 Race 8: 3, 10 Race 9: 5, 6, 11, 12 JOCKEY TO FOLLOW Country Championships winning jockey BEN LOOKER has some choice rides. CRAZY MIKKI (8) has been costly to follow. In fact, she's been rolled twice at $1.60 and once at even money. That said, she has finished runner-up seven times in her 12 start career. On top of that, she has finished second in her only two runs here. Now or never, ever again. ANGELS CLOUD (6) has placed at six of her 13 starts. Record here at home is very good. Has to go in. IMPENDING FORTUNE (2) trialled rather well. STAR PREDICTION (1) has raced six times, finishing second on three occasions and a third once. That third was at Canterbury behind Waller duo Mia Ballerina and Hidden Achievement. On-pace type who will find this 'easier' than most of her previous missions. PICCADERO (2) has been gelded and changed stables since he last ran. He too has placed at Canterbury. Go well. NAMARA (3) has respectable provincial form. NOT MY PROBLEM (1) is a Kris Lees-trained filly placed three of five, placed at both visits here, both times by pretty narrow margins and in rather strong Maidens too. ULTIMATE REIGN (11) remains winless after 33 starts and has just five placings on her resume but she does run well here at home. Not sure she can win but she could certainly get into the medals without surprising. ROYAL TEENS (4) beat Starry Jack here over this same trip (tick). Her next three runs were in the Northern Wild card won by Know Thyself followed by two Highways, the Gosford one was a ripper run. VIA VEGAS (3) is '321' in three starts for Jonathan Smith. Take note that the '2' and the '1' were both here at home with Ben Looker on. CALAMITY FOX (2) Is very consistent in this grade of race. Trialled well. ROCK ARE STEINER (10) is trained by dual licence holder Peter Graham which means that he'll be legging himself aboard this son of Casino Prince for the 16th time as it happens. His record on the gelding is one win and three placings. Has won here and is working his way towards another. WHAT A RUSH (11) has Shaggy form and a win here to boot. May pay to overlook the Casino run. AGED CARE (1) is from a family that Kris and Max Lees have had some member of for probably the best part of 40 years. This son of Brutal has a tidy little resume of six starts for a win, two seconds and a third. His best run was his honourable fourth at Scone in the rich Inglis 2YO Challenge. The lone win so far of PUNCH ONE OUT (2) was at this same track and distance with Ben Looker on. Will go well, he nearly always does. SUPREME COMMAND (4) has run first or second at six of 16 starts. Two are wins, four are seconds including recently at Muswellbrook where he split Red Rags To Bull and Shutter who won easily this week at Scone. ALL TOO ROSEY (8) has finished first or seconds at nine of her 33 starts, two are wins, thus seven are seconds. One of them was on June 5 at Taree in between Golden Honour and Rock Are Steiner. INFERENCIA (3) is known for her Highway win on the Golden Slipper undercard. The Rebecca Dunn-trained mare resumed in the 1280m Aberdeen Cup at Muswellbrook on June 1 and finished a half-length third with some handy horses behind her. As for Port Macquarie, she broke her maiden there. A POUND OF SALT (10) was a well-deserved Highway winner himself last start. CENOTES (5) is well up to this. DIS IS HEAVEN (5) was beaten a lip in the Flying at Casino on May 30, immediately after a third at Warwick Farm which was itself preceded by an 82 win at Tuncurry (beating Debussy). Clearly reliable; his numbers here make compelling reading. is the new kid on the block. Already won two of five, he ran a huge race in a 66 at Taree splitting weekend rivals Telegraph and Buck Pharoah. goes in, so too ZOOM OUTCOME (11).
Daily Telegraph
29-05-2025
- Climate
- Daily Telegraph
Casino, Goulburn previews: Colt Prosser eyeing a feature double
Don't miss out on the headlines from Horse Racing. Followed categories will be added to My News. Wauchope trainer Colt Prosser has spent the best part of last week cleaning up after the devastating floods on the Mid-North Coast. Now, he will be hoping for a clean sweep of Casino's two big annual features. Wauchope is an hour's drive from Taree and while that essentially makes the two towns neighbours, Taree was more or less ground zero for the big weather event. 'It was not too bad, just a lot of flooded stables,' Prosser said. 'Safety-wise we were all good. The town coped a lot and went under and everyone was isolated. 'It was a big weekend on the tools and the wheelbarrow and shovels but we'll be okay, a lot of people did it a lot worse than us.' Prosser's Beef Week Cup participant, Cenotes, will tackle the $45,000 1400m feature first-up having last been seen on October 11 when down the order in the Port Macquarie Cup. This will be only his second 'Cup' but certainly not the last, according to Prosser. 'Cenotes is going to be in for a nice campaign,' the trainer said. 'He is going to be in all the Country Cups around the corner. 'He is first-up and he's just been ineffective at anything under a mile so if he can run good race, I'll be happy. 'I expect him just to improve with a run under his belt.' Cenotes will be ridden by Country Championship Final winning jockey Ben Looker who boasts a favourable record on the son of Rebel Dane of three wins and a second from six rides. Looker was also Prosser's choice for Bjorn Ironside who will square off with stablemate, Dis Is Heaven, in the Casino Flying over 1000m. Bjorn Ironside's current personal best was his close and closing third in this season's MNC Championship Qualifier over 1200m but his one and only 1000m test was hard to forget, even for Prosser. 'He's only had one go at 1000m and he smashed them,' the trainer said. 'This is up in grade and he hasn't had a run since he went to Brisbane but I brought him home and he's freshened-up good.' Dis is Heaven, meanwhile, will be taking a step back in class when he steps out in the Casino co-feature. That's because his last run was at the midweeks where he finished third in the 1000m Benchmark 72, $60,000 affair. 'He's going great and he doesn't mind a soft track,' said Prosser. 'I just would have liked to draw a little bit better at Casino with him but he can be a run-on horse so if they happened to be put a bit on pressure on, he can relax and finish off. 'I was really disappointed I couldn't go back to Sydney with last week when we were flooded in, I couldn't get there. 'He hasn't had too many dramas. He's nice and fit and he's going well.' ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ Former jockey, now Hawkesbury-based trainer Blake Ryan is hoping the well-bred two-year-old Nothing But Net can pull of a slam dunk on debut at Goulburn Nothing But Net was one of 138 foals to emerge from the first crop of ATC Sires' Produce and Champagne Stakes winner, King's Legacy. His grandam is Georgette Silk whose single win came on debut in the 2020 ATC Widden Stakes. 'He has always shown me a little bit,' Ryan said. 'He was in our Ready 2 Run draft and he breezed up the quickest of the lot but was passed in. 'He went online and when the client sold him, Matthew (Sandblom) bought him and gave him back to me to train. 'He seems to be a horse that a 1000m isn't going to be his go. He is bred to be a 1400m horse so he is going to improve.' Nothing But Net won't be alone on the trip to Goulburn. He'll be accompanied by another blue blood, namely Asuriito, who lines-up in the Pat Murphy Racing Class 2 Handicap (1000m). A son of Brazen Beau, Asuriito, went to the Sapphire Coast on May 4 armed with an impressive record of two wins and a third from five starts. And while costly in defeat for his many supporters, he left Bega with excuses. 'That track was very, very heavy and gluey,' Ryan said. 'On paper its says it was a Soft 7 but the grass was very long and it was very boggy. That, coupled with the weight, made it hard for him. 'He is an honest little campaigner. He had a tough run at Canberra before that but he keeps bouncing out of it, I'll give him that much. 'I would have liked to have a little bit better but only that dog-leg corner there at Goulburn from the 1000m, it shouldn't be too much of a hassle for him.' Granted, Ryan's immediate focus is on Goulburn but once he's done there, he will be in countdown mode to Saturday's Midway Handicap at Rosehill where he is represented by the always reliable Lady Extreme. 'I'm really happy with her. 'I think she is going as well as she has ever gone,' Ryan said. 'And a heavy track wouldn't bother me. She's a duck.'
News.com.au
29-05-2025
- Climate
- News.com.au
Casino, Goulburn previews: Trainer Colt Prosser overcomes Mid-North Coast floods and sets his sights on prestigious double
Wauchope trainer Colt Prosser has spent the best part of last week cleaning up after the devastating floods on the Mid-North Coast. Now, he will be hoping for a clean sweep of Casino's two big annual features. Wauchope is an hour's drive from Taree and while that essentially makes the two towns neighbours, Taree was more or less ground zero for the big weather event. 'It was not too bad, just a lot of flooded stables,' Prosser said. 'Safety-wise we were all good. The town coped a lot and went under and everyone was isolated. 'It was a big weekend on the tools and the wheelbarrow and shovels but we'll be okay, a lot of people did it a lot worse than us.' Cenotes makes it three wins in a row 3ï¸�⃣ He wins easily at Kempsey and gives Ben Looker a double! @ColtProsser â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) September 19, 2024 Prosser's Beef Week Cup participant, Cenotes, will tackle the $45,000 1400m feature first-up having last been seen on October 11 when down the order in the Port Macquarie Cup. This will be only his second 'Cup' but certainly not the last, according to Prosser. 'Cenotes is going to be in for a nice campaign,' the trainer said. 'He is going to be in all the Country Cups around the corner. 'He is first-up and he's just been ineffective at anything under a mile so if he can run good race, I'll be happy. 'I expect him just to improve with a run under his belt.' Cenotes will be ridden by Country Championship Final winning jockey Ben Looker who boasts a favourable record on the son of Rebel Dane of three wins and a second from six rides. Looker was also Prosser's choice for Bjorn Ironside who will square off with stablemate, Dis Is Heaven, in the Casino Flying over 1000m. Bjorn Ironside's current personal best was his close and closing third in this season's MNC Championship Qualifier over 1200m but his one and only 1000m test was hard to forget, even for Prosser. Bjorn Ironside and @ashmorgan6 sail down the centre of the course to take out Race 7 at @_TJC â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) June 21, 2024 'He's only had one go at 1000m and he smashed them,' the trainer said. 'This is up in grade and he hasn't had a run since he went to Brisbane but I brought him home and he's freshened-up good.' Dis is Heaven, meanwhile, will be taking a step back in class when he steps out in the Casino co-feature. That's because his last run was at the midweeks where he finished third in the 1000m Benchmark 72, $60,000 affair. 'He's going great and he doesn't mind a soft track,' said Prosser. 'I just would have liked to draw a little bit better at Casino with him but he can be a run-on horse so if they happened to be put a bit on pressure on, he can relax and finish off. 'I was really disappointed I couldn't go back to Sydney with last week when we were flooded in, I couldn't get there. 'He hasn't had too many dramas. He's nice and fit and he's going well.' â– â– â– â– â– Former jockey, now Hawkesbury-based trainer Blake Ryan is hoping the well-bred two-year-old Nothing But Net can pull of a slam dunk on debut at Goulburn Nothing But Net was one of 138 foals to emerge from the first crop of ATC Sires' Produce and Champagne Stakes winner, King's Legacy. His grandam is Georgette Silk whose single win came on debut in the 2020 ATC Widden Stakes. 'He has always shown me a little bit,' Ryan said. 'He was in our Ready 2 Run draft and he breezed up the quickest of the lot but was passed in. 'He went online and when the client sold him, Matthew (Sandblom) bought him and gave him back to me to train. 'He seems to be a horse that a 1000m isn't going to be his go. He is bred to be a 1400m horse so he is going to improve.' Asuriito was always in control under James Innes Jnr and he brings up his second win in as many starts for the @blakeryan86 stable ðŸ'� @moruyaraces â€' SKY Racing (@SkyRacingAU) September 17, 2024 Nothing But Net won't be alone on the trip to Goulburn. He'll be accompanied by another blue blood, namely Asuriito, who lines-up in the Pat Murphy Racing Class 2 Handicap (1000m). A son of Brazen Beau, Asuriito, went to the Sapphire Coast on May 4 armed with an impressive record of two wins and a third from five starts. And while costly in defeat for his many supporters, he left Bega with excuses. 'That track was very, very heavy and gluey,' Ryan said. 'On paper its says it was a Soft 7 but the grass was very long and it was very boggy. That, coupled with the weight, made it hard for him. 'He is an honest little campaigner. He had a tough run at Canberra before that but he keeps bouncing out of it, I'll give him that much. 'I would have liked to have a little bit better but only that dog-leg corner there at Goulburn from the 1000m, it shouldn't be too much of a hassle for him.' Granted, Ryan's immediate focus is on Goulburn but once he's done there, he will be in countdown mode to Saturday's Midway Handicap at Rosehill where he is represented by the always reliable Lady Extreme. 'I'm really happy with her. 'I think she is going as well as she has ever gone,' Ryan said. 'And a heavy track wouldn't bother me. She's a duck.'
