Snowden Racing | Snowden Racing News 61767 Snowden Eyes Record Eighth Hawkesbury Crown

Champion trainer Peter Snowden is chasing a record eighth win in the Group 3 $250,000 Hawkesbury Crown (1300m) with talented mares Coco Jamboo (pictured above), Flying Thinker and Tashi at the stand-alone meeting on Saturday.

Coco Jamboo is returning as the defending champ and is attempting to join former stablemate Aerobatics (2013-14) as the only dual winner of the big Hawkesbury fillies and mares race.

Snowden has also won the Crown with Nancy (2016), Kanzan (2011), Serenissima (2010) and Sung (2008).

In fact, the Hawkesbury stand-alone meeting has been a happy hunting ground for Snowden ever since he started his training career with Darley in 2008.

Snowden has also trained the winners of a record five Group 3 $250,000 Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) with Exoboom (2021), Military Zone (2019), Limes (2013) and Free Wheeling (2012). He will have Media World and Fearless in the three-year-old classic on Saturday.

In fact, Media World (below) is no stranger to Hawkesbury stand-alone success himself having won the $160,000 Clarendon Stakes (1400m) for two-year-olds last year – giving Snowden another training record with his fifth win in the race after Creator (2019), Meursault (2014), Kanzan (2009) and Fravashi (2008).

Media World, a superbly bred colt by Written Tycoon out of Meryl, resumed with a fighting win at Warwick Farm against older horses earlier this month.

"I thought Media World did a super job in a very fast run race at Warwick Farm,'' Snowden said.

"He came off the bridle a fair way out but stuck to his task really well.

"He will back up in the Hawkesbury Guineas and if he runs well on Saturday then we will look at the Fred Best Classic in Brisbane.''

Fearless, a Group 1 placegetter, has been improved by two runs from a spell and Snowden is expecting a competitive effort in the Hawkesbury Guineas.

Snowden said Fire Star, winner of four city races in succession when last in work, has trained on well since his first-up fifth to Pisanello at Canterbury and could take his place in the Listed $200,000 Hawkesbury Rush (1100m).

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