Ascot News

Trainer Justine Erkelens says that she plans on racing Machine Gun Gracie in Perth Group 1 races next season. She has identified the Northerly Stakes along with the Group 2 Perth Cup at Ascot Racecourse.

Kiwi galloper Crocetti has arrived in Perth from his base in Byerley Park to settle ahead of the upcoming $5 million The Quokka at Ascot Racecourse on April 26. The gelding is currently a big outsider, but many have picked him as one to watch.

Steve Wolfe is already looking past the Roma Cup on Saturday. The trainer says that he expects his gelding Rope Them In to do well in the Roma Cup and that he could contend in The Quokka on April 26th at Ascot.

Racing action comes to you from Flemington, Morphettville and Ascot, and we have you sorted with a horse racing multi for Saturday's action.

Ciaron Maher’s Light Infantry Man is now a Group 1 winner. The six-year-old gelding and jockey Ethan Brown won the Group 1 Northerly Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Huge outsider Admiration Express upset the betting odds, finishing second despite being priced at $101 pre-race.

Attrition is the Group 1 Northerly Stakes betting favourite ahead of Saturday’s $1,500,000 race. Mitchell Freedman, his trainer, thinks Attrition has everything it takes to live up to the odds and to win big at Ascot this weekend.

Following Port Lockroy’s win in the Group 1 Railway Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, Annabel Neasham and Rob Archibald feel good about their chances of winning the Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes with Lady Laguna this weekend.

After consecutive wins at Ascot in the WA Guineas and the WA Champion Fillies Stakes, Grant and Alana Williams’ Storyville is now one of the top two betting favourites for the Group 1 Northerly Stakes at Ascot in December.

A top trainer in Ciaron Maher’s esteemed team thinks that Light Infantry Man has a good chance of winning the Group 1 Railway Stakes at Ascot Racecourse this Saturday. The gelding is the current betting favourite with $5 odds to win.

Plenty of the biggest and best names in Western Australian racing are in action at Ascot this Saturday.