Champion trainer Sir Henry Cecil has lost his long battle with cancer. His death at the age of 70 was announced on his website on Tuesday. Responsible for 25 British Classic winners and crowned champion trainer 10 times, Cecil was also the leading handler at Royal Ascot by a long [...]
Frankie Dettori has been booked to ride United States raider Havelock in the Group One Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot but his agent admits it has been hard to find mounts in the big races. Dettori, who has only just returned from a six-month drugs ban, will link for [...]
Champion jumps rider Steve Pateman made a clean sweep of the three races over obstacles at Warrnambool on Tuesday. He was made to work hard on jumps debutant Fieldmaster who was well back early and made a mess of the third last jump in the Maiden Hurdle (3232m). Pateman balanced [...]
Stakes winning mare Arinosa will have two crucial gallops this week to determine whether Chris Waller has a triple threat in the final Group One race of the season. Waller already has Red Tracer and She’s Clean heading to the Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) on Saturday week as he attempts to [...]
For the first time in four years, trainer Gerald Ryan heads to the feature Ipswich meeting without stable stalwart Adnocon. The seven-year-old is in the spelling paddock and misses Saturday’s Listed Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) with Ryan relying on three-year-old Dances On Stars to step up to the plate. Adnocon [...]
An abbreviated winter campaign will be the foundation for what trainer Rick Worthington hopes is a lucrative spring for speedster Golden Sunshine. The filly is set to run over 1100 metres in a benchmark 85 at Rosehill on Saturday, her first start since her fourth behind Ichihara in the Listed [...]
Regardless of how far the imported Police Gazette goes this preparation, jockey Brad Rawiller believes his second Australian campaign will be even better. Rawiller has partnered the Darren Weir-trained former French horse in his three Australian starts and will be aboard again when the four-year-old shoots for his first city [...]
David Vandyke moves to a new phase of his regenerated training career on Wednesday when he saddles up blue blood Ike’s Legacy at Warwick Farm. Vandyke, who originally trained under his family name David Hayes, gave it away 20 years ago but was drawn back and reapplied for his licence [...]
Leading New Zealand racehorse syndicator David Ellis in an induced coma in a Gold Coast hospital after contracting severe pneumonia, but his wife says he is expected to recover. Ellis, who runs Te Akau Racing, was in Queensland for last week’s Magic Millions mixed horse sale. A statement from Ellis’ [...]
Watering has resumed at Ascot ahead of next week’s Royal meeting with little rain forecast over the next few days. Australian Group One winner Shamexpress will run in the King’s Stand on the first day of the five-day meeting. Clerk of the course Chris Stickels turned on the taps on [...]
