Experience accounts for youth

5 December 2013

Veteran Telecom Top Star upstaged his younger rivals at Happy Valley last night for the fourth win of his career. The WS graduate has now won three times in Hong Kong after breaking his maiden as a three-year-old in New Zealand where he raced as Tele Combo.

The son of O’Reilly was an $80,000 yearling at Karaka and is out of the Centaine mare Corsica. She is a half-sister to the stakes winner River Chant (Danasinga) and a three-quarter sister to the dam of the dual Australian black type winner Marquardt.

Corsica was unraced but she has been a good producer and Telecom Top Star’s younger sister Hera promises to continue to add to the family record. In a brief career for trainer Roger James she was won three races, including the Listed Great Northern Foal Stakes, and finished runner-up in the Listed Trevor Eagle Memorial.

The Corner with Garry Chittick

If you enjoy racing, you will have enjoyed the past week. I am not a racing journalist, far too hard a task for me, but the odd observation to keep the two of you informed and alert deserves a little of my time. The Cup once again illustrated the theatre of racing beyond a mile.

4 November 2025

From paddock to podium, No Limits rewards Osment

At the Cambridge A&P Show, No Limits and his custodian Hazel Osment stole the spotlight, as the full brother to I Wish I Win showcased his class in a dazzling off-the-track debut.