Western Empire is at Winx-like odds of $1.35 to claim another Group 1 in the $1 million Kingston Town Classic (1800m) at Ascot on Saturday.
They have shares in 150 pacers in Australia, New Zealand and USA. Spirit Of St Louis won his heat at Bathurst earlier this week and has already clinched a start in the $500,000 Inter Dominion Grand Final at Menangle on December 11.ĭurnberger-Smith is co-owner of Summit Bloodstock which has been represented by 388 winners in the harness code after just two years of operation. I Love Lucy is coming off an impressive first-up win at Queanbeyan when she ran fast time also over 900m.īut Cherie will be saving her biggest cheer for the third round of Inter Dominion heats at Newcastle trots on Sunday night for talented pacer Spirit Of St Louis, who is part-owned by her brother Jamie Durnberger-Smith. Trainers Lee and Cherie Curtis have the speedy I Love Lucy ready to win again in a 900m scamper at Newcastle on Saturday. Husband and wife trainer Lee Curtis and Cherie Curtis. In this era of 10-race Sydney Saturday race programs, I’m tipping Barry would have found a way to tip the card again. Parkes was also a renowned form student and managed what few tipsters have been able to achieve when he selected all six winners on a Randwick program in the mid-1960s. He demanded excellence and accuracy in stories and in the form guides. Meticulous by nature, Parkes was an old-fashioned journalist who took great pride in his work and had an eye for detail. Parkes started his cadetship in newspapers when he was 15 and apart from a short period at the Sydney Morning Herald, he worked for News Limited publications his entire career until retirement in 1996. His sons, Mitchell and Damian, and daughter Melissa are by their father’s bedside. Parkes, 87, has been battling cancer for many years and is now in palliative care.
I was saddened to learn that Barry Parkes, the former editor of Sportsman and form guide editor of The Daily Telegraph, is gravely ill in a Canberra Hospital. Trainer John O’Shea advised Racing NSW stewards on Friday that Berdibek has a soft tissue injury to his off-hind leg and would not be contesting the Villiers. Berdibek has a leg injury and has been withdrawn from the Villiers Stakes next week.
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