Peter Moody has recorded the second winner in his comeback to training with Matamata scoring at Moe. The trainer of unbeaten champion Black Caviar recommenced his training career earlier this month in on-course stables at Pakenham after spending four years on the sidelines. Moody’s first runner back, Shepard, scored at… Read More »
Jockey Ben Melham will plead not guilty to betting charges levelled against him and his partner Karlie Dales following a directions hearing at the Victorian Racing Tribunal allowing him to continue riding until the end of June. Melham was last month issued seven charges by Racing Victoria stewards into alleged… Read More »
Three-time Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Glen Boss says it will be an honour if he can ride Jazette to victory in the Vale Caryl Williamson Handicap at Randwick. The Australian Turf Club is honouring Australian Associated Press turf editor Caryl Williamson, who died last week, by naming a race after her… Read More »
Trainers are scrambling to engage jockeys for the Group One Stradbroke Handicap because of coronavirus restrictions on travel. Weights for the Stradbroke Handicap were released on Monday with only five horses allotted more than 54 kgs, the usual minimum in Queensland. But the minimum for the Stradbroke is 49.5kgs, meaning… Read More »
Jockey Michael Rodd might be lacking much-needed match fitness for his racing return at Flemington but he is eager to get back in the saddle. The 2007 Melbourne Cup-winning jockey exited quarantine on Sunday following two weeks in isolation after returning from Singapore. Rodd spent five years riding in Singapore… Read More »
Port Macquarie trainer Jenny Graham is looking ahead with a positive attitude after her stakes performer Victorem passed a barrier trial test. Stewards ordered Victorem to trial because he bucked shortly after the start in the Group Three BRC Sprint at Doomben on May 9. Victorem on Tuesday went around… Read More »
A Group Two at Eagle Farm is the preference over a Randwick juvenile race for Wild Ruler who could press his claims for the Group One JJ Atkins. The Snowden Racing stable has two-year-old Wild Ruler nominated for the Champagne Classic (1200m) at Eagle Farm in Brisbane on Saturday as… Read More »
Santa Ana Lane has been made topweight for his bid to win the Stradbroke Handicap for a second time. The Anthony Freedman-trained sprinter has been handicapped on 58.5kg, up 3kg on his win in 2018. Santa Ana Lane has since added two more elite-level victories to his record but the… Read More »
Mike Moroney’s already impressive spring team is likely to be bolstered with the addition of a promising young galloper from the trainer’s New Zealand stable. Moroney, whose Melbourne yard is taking all before it this season, has identified Harlech as a potential Australian carnival horse. A rising four-year-old, Harlech is… Read More »
Australian jockey Damian Lane is preparing to extend his latest stint in Japan, starting from the Japanese Oaks meeting. Lane has been riding out of Tokyo on a four-week contract but the Melbourne-based jockey is confident his overseas licence will be renewed for a further two months. Since arriving in… Read More »
German import Django Freeman is on track to make his Australian debut at Flemington, more than seven months later than trainer Robert Hickmott had hoped. Last year’s German Derby runner-up arrived in Australia in August land was being set for a spring carnival campaign but that plan was aborted when… Read More »
Goodwood winner Trekking has been the big market mover after being heavily backed to land another Group One race in the Stradbroke Handicap. Trekking will be aiming to be the first horse since Black Piranha in 2009-10 and the eighth overall to win back-to-back Stradbrokes. He will also be aiming… Read More »
New Zealand jockey Opie Bosson has turned his back on a permanent move to Australia, committing to the Te Akau Racing operation as its retained stable rider for another season. Bosson spent the majority of the autumn based in Sydney and was the leading Group One rider over the carnival…. Read More »
Jockey Jenny Duggan has suffered multiple fractures after she was one of two riders involved in a serious race fall that marred the Scone Cup meeting. Latest scans have confirmed Duggan has wrist and shoulder fractures. The popular jockey had already been diagnosed with a small fracture to the base… Read More »
International jockey Robbie Fradd has given his stamp of approval on new Group One JJ Atkins favourite Wisdom Of Water. Bookmakers shortened Wisdom Of Water from $8 to $4 after he won the Ken Russell Memorial Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Wisdom of Water was the major… Read More »
Co-trainers John Symons and Sheila Laxon are keeping a close eye on the ballot order as they plot the Group One JJ Atkins course for their smart two-year-old Thunder Mania. Thunder Mania showed he was up to top company when he dispatched several other JJ Atkins hopefuls at the Sunshine… Read More »
Vega Magic, rated among the upper echelon of Australia’s best sprinters in his prime, has emerged from racing’s wilderness to win for the first time in almost two years. A rising eight-year-old and back under the watchful eye of his first trainer Sean Casey, Vega Magic rallied to recapture some… Read More »
Jockey Jenny Duggan has suffered multiple fractures after she was one of two riders involved in a serious race fall that marred the Scone Cup meeting. Latest scans have confirmed Duggan has wrist and shoulder fractures. The popular jockey had already been diagnosed with a small fracture to the base… Read More »
Opportunities to parlay autumn carnival success into the Brisbane winter will be limited for Tulloch Lodge this year but they still plan to have a presence, led by dual Guineas winner Dawn Passage. Training partners Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott enjoyed a Sydney carnival to remember, the highlight their Golden… Read More »
Sprint races will be the likely targets for impressive colt Hanseatic as a spring three-year-old. The Anthony Freedman-trained, Godolphin-owned two-year-old made a big impressive during his juvenile season when winning the Merson Cooper Stakes, Blue Diamond Preview and Blue Diamond Prelude in his first three starts. But a Group One… Read More »
