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Hawkesbury trainer Steve O’Halloran’s smart sprinter Mal Coupe has come to the end of his current successful campaign. Mal Coupe ($12) wasn’t beaten far when sixth to Mazu in yesterday’s Group 3 Hall Mark Stakes (1200m) at Royal Randwick, and will go for a well-deserved spell. “He has five hard runs (winning his first two) this campaign getting up in stronger class, and even though he still ran well yesterday, showed that he has enough for the time being,” O’Halloran said tod

HAWKESBURY trainer Steve O’Halloran isn’t getting his “knickers in a knot”! He is debuting a King’s Legacy filly named Camilla’s Knickers (Tyler Schiller) at home tomorrow in the Hahn Super Dry Provincial Maiden Plate (1100m), and clearly has a sense of humour. “I haven’t heard from King Charles III; I’m still waiting for the email to come through,” O’Halloran said this morning. O’Halloran paid $55,000 for Camilla’s Knickers at the 2024 Inglis Classic yearling sale, and syndi

Tyler Schiller rode four winners at Newcastle on Thursday, one of them giving Steve O’Halloran a good result by landing the Provincial Benchmark 64 Handicap (1400m) on Benamera, who led home a Hawkesbury quinella, defeating Brad Widdup’s Bondi Blossom ($11). A four-year-old by Cosmic Force, Benamera won his second race and his trainer wasn’t surprised at all in spite of his generous odds. “He had no luck in running first-up at Canberra over 1200m last month, and getting to 14

STEVE O’Halloran describes him as very unassuming! Much like his Hawkesbury trainer, there might be nothing pretentious about Mal Coupe, but he has become Sydney’s emerging young sprinter with five wins on the bounce (six from his last seven starts), and earned the chance to now show his wares in black type company. Image Courtesy of Jeremy Ng / Getty Images The talented four-year-old made easy work of extending his picket fence when he graduated from a Midway Benchmark 72 Ha