Craig Williams

By Kit Gow/TTR AusNZ Arrowfield Stud's Snitzel (Aus) continued his stellar weekend on Sunday with the exploits of four-year-old Cap Ferrat (Aus) in the HK$26-million BMW Hong Kong Derby at Sha Tin. Trained by last season's Hong Kong champion trainer Francis Liu, the gelding was breaking his maiden in the event, after several near misses in stakes company in Australia. Jockey Craig Williams, fresh from winning the G3 Don Casboult Classic with Clean Energy (Aus) (Zoustar {Aus}) on Saturday, flew out for the meet and guided Cap Ferrat to victory...

Brian Ellison's Northumberland Plate winner Onesmoothoperator (Dialed In) put himself in contention for a tilt at the G1 Lexus Melbourne Cup with an emphatic victory in the G3 Geelong Cup on Wednesday. Four horses have completed the Geelong Cup-Melbourne Cup double, with the first being Dunaden (Fr) for Mikel Delzangles in 2011. Onesmoothoperator needed to pick up a penalty at Geelong to be guaranteed a run at Flemington on Tuesday, November 4, but Ellison can now look forward to saddling another runner in 'the race that stops a nation' after...