![]() Her Excellency produced an eye-catching trial win at Rosehill last week and Snowden said the Deep Field filly will improve with time on whatever she does first-up. “It’s the right way to go with her, trying to get a win with her and it looks like a nice race.” “She jumps and races on the speed, I don’t think she is A grade but she does things right and handles the wet ground so that should help her a lot,’’ he said. While Snowden isn’t talking Golden Gifts or Golden Slippers with her just yet he feels she’s the horse to beat on Wednesday. “I thought her run was terrific, she’s very genuine and she tries very hard.”ĭivine Glory, $2.15 with TAB on Tuesday, settled around fifth in the run between horses in the Gimcrack and after being a touch flat footed early in the straight she was strong on the line to run into third behind Platinum Jubilee. She tracked really true the other day and having that knowledge behind her helps. “The good ones will win if they are really good but if you do everything right that’s a big plus,’’ he said. Snowden said the fact Divine Glory has been to the races already is a big advantage. When the AJC decided not to fund maintenance of the line, it closed in August 1990.The Peter and Paul Snowden stable has hit the ground running this season with its two-year-olds, winning the Breeders’ Plate with Empire Of Japan and the Debutant Stakes in Melbourne with King’s Gambit over the past two weekends.Īnd the father and son partnership looms large over the Fujitsu General Plate (1000m) with Divine Glory, off a placing in the Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes, and the unraced Her Excellency. This 1.63 kilometre branch line was owned by the Australian Jockey Club and operated by CityRail and its predecessors. Race day special trains from North Sydney and the city were able to bring racegoers to the racecourse entrance. The racecourse was formerly served by a direct rail link off the Main South line north of Warwick Farm station. A free bus service between the racecourse and the station is available on race days. It is within close walking distance of Warwick Farm railway station. The camp was known as Camp Warwick and also HMS Golden Hind. During World War II, the racecourse was utilised as a camp by Australian, American and British armed forces. Another son, Percy, was Secretary of the Warwick Farm Racing Club from 1906 until 1914. His son, Cecil, was the Manager of the property for a number of years, until 1924. Early in the twentieth century the racecourse was owned by Edwin Oatley who died in 1920. Forrester died almost destitute not long after his last winner The Watch Dog, won the Ellesmere Stakes at Randwick Racecourse in 1901. Forrester owned two Melbourne Cup winners, Gaulus in 1897 and The Grafter in 1898. He became one of the most successful trainers of his time and in 1889 he and Edwin Oatley were the principals in the formation of the Warwick Farm Racing Club. He sold the Warwick Park estate in 1882 to William Forrester, who changed the name to Warwick Farm to match his initials. His most successful horse Grand Flaneur won the Melbourne Cup in 1880. Long lived at Chipping Norton until 1901 when the banks foreclosed on him. By 1884 he had also developed his property across the river, Chipping Norton, building stables and tracks. Stroud's Warwick Park grant north of Liverpool. In the early 1880s William Alexander Long bought J.H. Racegoers at Warwick Farm racecourse from the Tom Lennon collection, courtesy of the Powerhouse Museum
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