The exciting Joe Pride-trained four-year-old gelding Ceolwulf stamped his potential as a horse to watch this spring with a charging win for the punters in Saturday’s Epsom Handicap 2024.

The Group 1 $1 million Turnbull Stakes result again went the way of master trainer Chris Waller who solidified his giant status in the event securing his sixth win in ten years with a thrilling one-two finish at Flemington on Saturday.

The Metropolitan 2024 was won in a photo thriller and saw the Chris Waller-trained Land Legend hold onto his Group 1 success after surviving a protest launched by the Zac Lloyd-ridden runner-up Zardozi at Randwick on Saturday. It was a tightly contested battle with the two horses going stride-for-stride over the closing stages in this year’s Group 1 $750,000 The Metropolitan (2400m) on Epsom Handicap Day. Lloyd, chasing a winning hat-trick and Group 1 double after his Flight Stakes and Premiere Stakes victories earlier in the day, nearly got there on the James Cummings-trained VRC Oaks winner Zardozi. He had…

The promising Chris Waller-trained filly, Lady Shenandoah, soared to victory over the Randwick mile on Epsom Day with a powerhouse three-length win in the 2024 Flight Stakes.

The Melbourne Spring Racing action kicks off in earnest on Saturday with Flemington host to a highly anticipated edition of the Group 1 $750,000 Turnbull Stakes (2000m).

A top edition of Sydney’s Group 1 $750,000 The Metropolitan (2400m) is pending on Epsom Handicap Day this Saturday at Royal Randwick.