Stable Updates

Shea made it very clear that he put a line through Ocular's last run at Flemington as he didn't handle the straight and felt the firm track. His view was sensationally vindicated yesterday when he bounced back at Bendigo in the strong BM70 1100. Jumping fairly from...

Shea and the stable's winning double on Wednesday concluded the first two months of the new season with an impressive winning strike rate of 26.1% and finding Shea at 7th in the Victorian trainers premiership from only 46 runners with 12 winners and 25...

We headed to Ballarat on Wednesday with two runners and came home with an impressive double. HOUSAY (pictured) backed up his super first start win with another top performance in the Class1 1200 beating a couple of handy horses. Carrying 62kg on a soft 7 / heavy...

Shea unearthed another very smart horse today when Housay thrashed his rivals at his first race start at Wodonga in the 1100 Maiden winning by 7 lengths. Ridden perfectly to instructions by Ben Allen the 4 year old gelding by Zebedee out of Taransay ran 2 seconds...

Following an excellent start to the new season Shea is predicting an exciting Spring where he is looking to horses such as Ocular, Bless Her (pictured) after a short freshen up to tackle Group and Listed races, young horse Tadashi Hamada (a first acceptor for the...

It was great to see Ocular return to the track in emphatic fashion when he trounced a handy Benchmark 70 1100 field at Bendigo yesterday. Beginning from the inside barrier Jye McNeil allowed the four year gelding to cruise up behind the leaders before getting a...

We were extremely proud of Bless Her on Saturday in the Group 3 Cockram Stakes where she was attempting 6 in a row only to be run down in the shadows of the post by the quality WA mare Perfect Jewel. She categorically substantiated that she is up to this grade in...

Alsvin's outstanding win today was a well executed plan in tackling open company for the first time and bringing up the most wins of any horse for the stable in Shea's training career being 7 wins. Today's win surpassed the 6 wins of Ocean Embers, Flyingconi and...

A great few days continued yesterday when Akamon returned to his very best in winning at Cranbouren in emphatic fashion to give the stable winners on 3 consecutive days. With conditions to suit and a superb ride by Damien Thornton the now 8 year old gelding powered...