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Music Magnate wins Group 1 Doomben 10,000
May 30, 2016A controversy over riding tactics could not overshadow the training performance of Bjorn Baker to land his first Group One win in his own right with Music Magnate in the Doomben 10,000. The race was run at a hectic speed, resulting in the third fastest metric Doomben 10,000 ...
Group Two Melb target for Music Magnate
Oct 11, 2015Lightly raced sprinter Music Magnate's winning form has earned him a trip to the big stage in Melbourne. The four-year-old was a strong winner of the October Handicap (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday with trainer Bjorn Baker flagging a start in the Group Two tab.com.au ...
Music Magnate hits right note at Rosehill
Oct 08, 2015Every day you get a winner in Sydney is a good day. That was the verdict of trainer Bjorn Baker after watching Music Magnate snare the benchmark 85 race over 1400m at Rosehill on Saturday. Running on strongly alongside Chris Waller's Good Project, the four-year-old ...
Dream win for honest mare at Kembla
Oct 01, 2015Surely no-one could have begrudged Hawkesbury mare Dream Lane a Kembla Grange breakthrough on Wednesday. Having her seventh start, Dream Lane turned what loomed as another potential minor placing in the straight into a narrow victory in the Maiden Plate (1400m). In doing so, ...
Music Magnate is a Gun
Apr 21, 2015Woodside Park Stud resident stallion Written Tycoon looks to have produced another gun galloper in the Bjorn Baker trained Music Magnate. The 3yo gelding was a strong winner on Saturday of the Hyland Race Colours Handicap over 1200 metres at Canterbury Park. Music Magnate ...
Music Magnate breaks through!
Dec 11, 2014Promising 3yo galloper Music Magnate continued Written Tycoon’s brilliant recent run with a strong victory in the Bloodstock.com.au Plate today at Warwick Farm over 1000 metres. Trained by the in-form Bjorn Baker, Music Magnate came into today’s race after a solid ...
Melbourne Cup "Guide" 2014
Nov 03, 2014Tips: 11 - 1 - 22 - 3 - 4 - 24 - 21 ADMIRE RAKTI – Is carrying more weight than the jolly, bearded friend in a blokey comedy movie (ala Seth Rogen, Zack Galligfhwblurg, old Chris Pratt), but won the Caulfield Cup super-impressively. Japan horses have been ...
ABOUTOGOBANG does just that...
Jun 11, 2014The aptly-named Aboutogobang from the Brian Gentle stable broke his maiden in style at Canterbury on Wednesday. Aboutogobang was faced with seven rivals in the Testa Rossa @ Vinery Plate (1250m) for his fifth career start after a pair of midfield finishes around the same ...
Hanwritten defeats Ball of Muscle
Nov 23, 2013The Bjorn Baker trained Hanwritten lived up to the big wraps in easily winning the Thorzt Electrolyte Maiden at Newcastle over 900 metres today. The 3yo gelded son of Written Tycoon is raced by Iskander Racing and a partnership managed by Cobbitty Lodge. The horse has shown ...
Dothraki survives protest for Listed win
Nov 09, 2013Gerald Ryan has always had a big opinion of Dothraki and the colt finally delivered a stakes win at Flemington after surviving a protest. Dothraki ($12) stepped up to 1400m for the first time in Saturday's Listed Hilton Hotels & Resorts Stakes and got home by a long ...
Guy Walter takes bush route to chase Oaks glory in town
Nov 07, 2013A detour to Ballarat is not the normal path taken to the VRC Oaks but Warwick Farm trainer Guy Walter believes that win, lose or draw, it has been the right move for lightly raced filly Zanbagh. Zanbagh's past two runs have been at Ballarat, where she comfortably beat a ...
Melbourne Cup 2013 Preview
Nov 04, 20131) Dunaden – This horse has more stamps on his passport than…. uh, someone who travels a lot. Won this race in 2011 but not going well enough at present. 2) Green Moon – Last year I said ...
Ryan relying on Snitzel factor at Rosehill
Oct 29, 2013Shamus Award's Cox Plate win has added another dimension to his sire Snitzel, a Group One-winning sprinter. Trainer Gerald Ryan prepared Snitzel for his Oakleigh Plate win and has developed an affinity with his progeny. He will send two juveniles by Snitzel to ...
Studs circling for star colt
Oct 15, 2013A stud deal of eight figures is expected to be done in the coming weeks or Australia’s hottest racing stallion prospect. Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller said the owners of Golden Rose winner Zoustar are close to finalising a deal with one of ...
Ryan clan keen for weekend of success
Oct 11, 2013His father may be busy preparing for Group One glory on Saturday but it is the $6000 Verandah Town Cup at Lockhart that is the number-one priority for amateur jockey Blake Ryan. Sydney-based Ryan will make the five-and-a-half-hour journey to Lockhart tomorrow for three ...
Ryan stablemates set for big campaigns
Sep 24, 2013A barrier trial win at Rosehill on Tuesday has primed Snitzerland for her first-up assignment in the Group One Moir Stakes. Trainer Gerald Ryan has no doubts the mare can realise her Group One destiny this spring in either the Moir or the Manikato Stakes. Her smooth ...
WINDJAMMER - remember the name because a star was born at Rosehill Gardens yesterday.
Aug 03, 2013Trainer Bjorn Baker and jockey Hugh Bowman both have very high opinions of Windjammer's potential - and rightly so after he thrashed a quality field of three-year-olds in the National Jockeys Trust Handicap (1100m). "This is a quality horse, a smashing colt," ...
Bjorn Baker forging solid reputation in Sydney training ranks as John Singleton joins admirers
Jul 18, 2013THERE are times in everyone's life when opportunity comes knocking. For Bjorn Baker, that moment came about three months ago when he received an unexpected phone call from John Singleton's racing manager, Duncan Grimley. The purpose of the call was to sound out ...
Snitzerland out to break Group One duck
Jul 14, 2013Snitzerland returns to Gerald Ryan's stable on Monday to be prepared for a campaign aimed at an elusive Group One victory and an invitation to Royal Ascot. The filly has been runner-up twice at Group One level in the 2012 Golden Slipper and the Galaxy earlier this ...
Gerald Ryan admits Mrs Onassis could be making farewell appearance
Jul 11, 2013TRAINER Gerald Ryan has confirmed Mrs Onassis could race for the last time in tomorrow's Listed Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield before going to stud. Ryan said owner Gerry Harvey was weighing up whether to retire his Group 1 winner in time for the breeding ...
Gerald Ryan promises Dances On Stars has potential to twinkle
Jul 05, 2013TRAINER Gerald Ryan hasn't ruled out underrated three-year-old Dances On Stars producing a stunning form reversal in the Listed $100,000 Civic Stakes (1350m) at Rosehill today. Dances On Stars is the youngest sprinter in the field and comes into the feature race after a ...
Destiny Rising is Winter Carnival Bound
Jun 01, 2013Brian Gentle has travelled far and wide to pursue his love of horses. But it wasn't until he all but gave up on a training career that it finally started to become viable. Gentle, who has worked for many of Sydney's biggest-name trainers, will saddle up the ...
Destiny Rising Dominates at Canterbury
May 08, 2013Three-year-old winter carnival-bound after Canterbury win Progressive three-year-old Destiny Rising has given Brian Gentle his first Sydney winner at Canterbury on Wednesday and the trainer will plot a path for the galloper to the Brisbane winter carnival. Gentle was the ...
Big Day At Bathurst
Apr 24, 2013ANZAC days sees the Gentle stable heading to Bathurst with a nice team of horses. Brian has found in the past that travelling his horses to the country tracks to be a major tool in maturing and developing them into better horses. In race two the Bathurst Real Estate Maiden ...