EMSLEY Lodge can aim Sertorius with some certainty at next year’s Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. The Mike Palmer-owned six-year-old passed the first ballot clause for both cups when he won the Bendigo Cup (2400m) on October 30, while his victory in the Group Two...

SERTORIUS has the prestigious autumn races and next year’s Caulfield and Melbourne Cup in his sights after winning the Group Two Zipping Classic at Caulfield. The six-year-old breezed through his first test at weight-for-age in the 2400-metre Zipping with the...

Sertorius puts distance doubts behind him to win Bendigo feature Sertorius showed he had no concerns with his first try at 2400 metres scoring a strong win in today’s $240,000 Listed Jayco Bendigo Cup (2400m). Originally set for the Toorak Handicap, the Spring...

The flexibility to be able to train out of a spelling paddock at Emsley Lodge has proved a winning formula for lightly raced five-year-old Torsion. The son of Carnegie underlined the importance of the farm environment when he regained winning form, powering home to...

In-form filly provides apprentice hoop with his first Melbourne winner Apprentice Josh Cartwright scored his first Victorian city winner today partnering the Robbie Griffiths-trained Romancingthestone to win the $80,000 Claire Andrews Handicap (1000m) at Caulfield. It...

Marcello’s Sonata is another success story for the facilities at Emsley Lodge after defying vets and winning his maiden as a five-year-old. Locally bred by Wayne Jennings, the son of Galileo was not expected to race after he badly bowed a tendon as young horse,...

Promising mare Dashahoy became the first homebred winner trained at Emsley Lodge when she defied her dodgy legs to win at Casterton. Ridden by Josh Cartwright, the four-year-old was having her seventh race start and took up the running early in the 1000-metres maiden,...

She was small, fat and slow, but Lerichi is now going places. The four-year-old mare, who once looked destined for obscurity, posted her first win when she scored at Geelong on September 6 and suddenly looks to have a bright staying future. “When she first...

Co-trainer Jamie Edwards can find no reason why he shouldn’t back-up his quality stayer Sertorius in Saturday’s Group 2 $350,000 Zipping Classic at Caulfield. Beaten a ‘whisker’ by Precedence in last Saturday’s Group 3 $250,000 Queen...

Emsley Lodge apprentice Josh Cartwright has added the Meggs Elkington Order Of Merit to his premier country apprentice title. Bruce Elkington presented Josh with the Order Of Merit award at the Geelong Thoroughbred's Club's Geelong Racehorse of the Year...

EXCITING galloper Sertorius has been crowned the 2013 Emsley Lodge Geelong Racehorse of the Year at the club's annual Gala Dinner. Owned Mike Palmer and trained by Jamie Edwards and Bruce Elkington, the son of Galileo won in a landslide result with 72.73 per cent...

Toorak Handicap plans for Geelong Racehorse Of The Year Sertorius have been abandoned and the gelding will now target the Cranbourne Cup (2025m) a day later on October 13. Co-trainers Jamie Edwards and Bruce Elkington made the decision with owner Mike Palmer after the...