Injured jockey Amy Herrmann is still suffering Post Traumatic Amnesia but has improved enough to be transferred to a rehabilitation centre in Adelaide. Herrmann suffered head and spinal injuries when she fell from her horse after completing a jumps trial on June 19 at Morphettville. A statement on behalf of… Read More »
Darren Weir has fallen agonisingly short of 300 winners for season 2014-15. Australia’s leading trainer for the season, Weir has finished on 298 after a winless final meeting of the season at Pakenham. Weir saddled seven runners at the meeting with Shakespeare and Say Something both filling runner-up positions. Last… Read More »
Katelyn Mallyon is putting all her energy into outriding her metropolitan claim before the end of her apprenticeship. Last week at Caulfield Mallyon secured a career highlight with a treble which brought her to within two wins of her goal. Mallyon was due to finish her apprenticeship this week but… Read More »
Group One-winning jockey Chad Schofield is excited about the challenge ahead in Hong Kong but first will be out to start the new racing season in Australia on a winning note at Moonee Valley. Schofield’s book of rides on Saturday – the first day of the 2015/16 Australian racing season… Read More »
Trainer Bryan Guy is expecting an early morning call from outback Australia before Regular runs at Doomben. Regular, who runs in Saturday’s Racezone Hcp (1350m), is a favourite of Guy’s former apprentice Janette Johnson, the winner of four races on the gelding. Johnson rode more than 100 winners until she… Read More »
A weight turnaround on Winter Stakes winner Rugged Cross can help Wouldnt It Be Nice reverse his fortunes in Sydney’s first feature of the new season at Rosehill. Wouldnt It Be Nice loomed up to Two Blue in the Winter Stakes two weeks ago and looked as if he was… Read More »
Some of trainer Tony McEvoy’s spring carnival hopefuls including Alpine Eagle will ramp up preparations with raceday gallops in Adelaide. Australian Guineas runner-up Alpine Eagle will gallop with stablemate Big Memory between races at Morphettville on Saturday while new acquisition Bull Point will gallop with Sysmo. “They have been going… Read More »
Record breaking trainer Tony Gollan will start his quest for a third straight Brisbane premiership with quality rather than quantity at Doomben. Gollan returned from an overseas holiday on Wednesday to find he had beaten the late Bruce McLachlan’s record for the most wins in a Brisbane metropolitan season. He… Read More »
Trainers are always looking for the X-factor with horses and Ciaron Maher thinks impressive debut winner Petits Filous has it. The three-year-old daughter of Street Boss returns to Moonee Valley, the scene of her debut win, on Saturday to contest the United Refrigeration Handicap over 1000m. Petits Filous was clearly… Read More »
Stablehand Daniel Schmitt has been ordered to write letters of apology to AFL players Adam Goodes and Bachar Houli after an inquiry into racial comments he posted about the pair on social media. The former jockey fronted Victoria’s Racing Appeals and Disciplinary board on Friday to answer charges of conduct… Read More »
A solid barrier trial by Anna Lizzie has her trainer Danny Bougoure confident the mare can earn herself another season of racing. Anna Lizzie will be having her first start since February when she runs in Saturday’s Cargo Transport Systems Open (1200m) against a field of handy off-season sprinters at… Read More »
Trainer Darren Weir goes to Pakenham needing a double to reach 300 winners for the season. Weir has seven runners engaged in six races at the Pakenham meeting on Friday, the final meeting for 2014/15. The Weir stable has been successful in 298 races throughout Australia this season, a personal… Read More »
In a week when jockeys’ premierships across the country have been decided, Greg Ryan will bid for a milestone of his own at Tamworth. The bush jockey is on 3319 career winners, three short of the late Jack Thompson’s mark. Robert Thompson, no relation to Jack Thompson, is the only… Read More »
Champion British jockey Richard Hughes will bring the curtain down on his riding career aboard Fox Trotter in the Qatar Stakes at Goodwood. Hughes, who rode his first winner in 1988, is hanging up his saddle in preparation after Saturday for a training career and will be hoping Brian Meehan’s… Read More »
Big Orange has teed himself up for a crack at the Melbourne Cup as he continued his improvement with a gutsy win in a three-way finish to the Goodwood Cup. The Michael Bell-trained four-year-old had won a Group Two over a mile-and-a-half (2400m) at Newmarket last time out, a performance… Read More »
Star jockey Zac Purton will get the chance to win back-to-back Caulfield Cups with his booking for Japanese horse Fame Game. The Caulfield and Melbourne Cups have been confirmed as targets for Fame Game who finished second in the Grade One Tenno Sho (3200m) at his most recent start. Fame… Read More »
The five Victorian-based trainers facing cobalt charges will learn whether they can continue training into the spring carnival on Monday. Peter Moody, Danny O’Brien, Mark Kavanagh and the partnership of Lee and Shannon Hope appeared before Racing Victoria stewards on Wednesday to show cause why they should be allowed to… Read More »
There were no celebrations for trainer Bryce Stanaway after the running of the second last race at Sale on Thursday. Stanaway saddled up seven horses, more than half the field, in the Benchmark 70 Handicap (2200m). But his seven runners filled the last seven positions in the race. Sugar Bush,… Read More »
His Majesty, a full brother to multiple Group One placegetter Puissance De Lune, has kicked off his campaign with an emphatic win at the final provincial meeting of the season. The Kim Waugh-trained horse settled midfield for Blake Shinn and unleashed a powerful finishing sprint to burst through the pack… Read More »
Peter and Paul Snowden will head to Rosehill on Saturday looking to build on a season that has exceeded their expectations. And they hope to do it with a horse who is proof loyalty in racing isn’t dead. In their first full term as a partnership, the Snowdens finished sixth… Read More »
