After two below-par performances during the spring carnival, Saracino is set to make his return to racing as a gelding in the Listed Kensington Stakes. Saracino began his career with the Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman stable in New Zealand, winning three of his 13 starts including in the Group… Read More »
The Sunshine Coast will host its biggest race day during the winter carnival with seven black-type races including its first Group two event. Racing Queensland has been holding talks with trainers, race club officials and owners about changes to the carnival with the central issue where the Group One Queensland… Read More »
The prospect of upcoming oppressive conditions has prompted trainer Gerald Ryan to take Fournette to Warwick Farm rather than try for a bigger prize at Randwick. The filly will run in a 1600m-benchmark 79 on Wednesday with Tim Clark to ride as she tries to improve on her last-start fourth… Read More »
On a day when three-year-old colt Persian Empire can press his claims for a trip to New Zealand for the Derby, stablemate Ceylon will be out to snare her first city win. Co-trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young have Persian Empire and four-year-old Ceylon entered for separate races on Wednesday’s… Read More »
A NSW trainer has been disqualified for 18 months after one of the stable’s horses returned a cobalt reading more than 40 times above the threshold. A pre-race sample taken from the Gordon Yorke trained Follow Through at Grafton in July last year showed a level of 4413 mcg/L with… Read More »
Predicted hot weather in Victoria has prompted race officials to make scheduling changes. The Ararat meeting on Friday when the forecast temperature is 38 degrees has been transferred to Sunday while race times for Thursday’s two meetings have been changed. The meeting at Kilmore will be brought forward two hours… Read More »
Now the Magic Millions is over, trainer Gary Portelli will turn his attention to trying to win back-to-back Golden Slippers. The Portelli-trained Secret Lady ran fifth in Saturday’s Magic Millions 2YO Classic with the winner Sunlight now the equal favourite for the Golden Slipper in March. “Secret Lady earned $150,000… Read More »
Exciting sprinter Nature Strip headlines nominations for the $250,000 Inglis Dash. Along with the $120,000 Listed Kensington Stakes (1000m), the lucrative Inglis Dash for three-year-olds eligible for the Inglis Race Series will be one of the feature races on Saturday’s nine-race program at Flemington Nature Strip has won three of… Read More »
Trainer David Brideoake will weigh up whether to run Miss Wonderland in the Listed Kensington Stakes or a lesser grade sprint at Flemington. Miss Wonderland won a 1000m-benchmark 84 race at Sandown first-up from a spell on a wet track last month in her first start for the Brideoake stable…. Read More »
Destiny’s Kiss and Red Excitement head the weights for the Gosford Gold Cup as each bids for a second win in the provincial feature. The winner in 2016, Destiny’s Kiss is topweight with 61kg while last year’s winner Red Excitement has half a kilogram less. Montauk and Mighty Lucky both… Read More »
Leading Brisbane apprentice Alannah Fancourt is set to resume riding after a long lay-off with injury. Fancourt has been among Brisbane’s top apprentices for the past two years but broke her arm in a fall at Murwillumbah in August. She had a plate inserted in her arm but it became… Read More »
A crack at the New Zealand Derby is in the plans for Persian Empire who will be out to press his claims when he resumes from a freshen-up at Caulfield. Persian Empire is trained by New Zealanders Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young who have been based at Cranbourne in Victoria… Read More »
Leading Australian jockey Hugh Bowman will ride Al Hasa in the Karaka Million in New Zealand, one of five runners Te Akau Racing will have in the race. Stable jockey Opie Bosson has chosen unbeaten filly Avantage as his mount in the $1 million race over 1200m for two-year-olds at… Read More »
Midweek racing in Melbourne has been moved to the twilight zone with Racing Victoria trialling one race-free day a week. There will be no racing on Mondays for the next 2-1/2 months with RV introducing a double header on Wednesdays. The country meeting from Monday will be in the early… Read More »
Dual Group One winner She Will Reign has run a pleasing second in an 800m-barrier trial at Warwick Farm. Ben Melham settled the Golden Slipper winner on the back of speedster Super Too and tracked the mare into the straight to cut the margin to a length under a hold…. Read More »
Husson Eagle can pass $1 million in career earnings and add to an enviable first-up record in the Listed Kensington Stakes at Flemington. The Patrick Payne-trained sprinter is scheduled to make his return in Saturday’s 1000m straight-track sprint, armed with a record of three wins and a second from five… Read More »
Naturally disappointed he didn’t win the Magic Millions Classic, premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan can take heart from the fact he is still clearly king of the Queensland summer. Gollan has targeted summer carnivals and has won 15 feature races in recent years. He had another wonderful summer with the… Read More »
Pat Webster has mapped out the formative stages for Happy Clapper’s autumn campaign, with the gelding to have an abbreviated approach to the Doncaster Mile. Webster said the seven-year-old would tackle the iconic $3 million Group One race at Randwick on April 7 with just one lead-up run. The Randwick… Read More »
The premium catalogue at the Magic Millions yearling sale has realised record prices and the highest-ever gross for the Gold Coast auction. After four days of the Book One sale, there were nine individual lots fetching $1 million or more, the last a Snitzel filly out of Group Three winner… Read More »
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission will not appeal a decision to have sacked harness racing chief steward David Farquharson reinstated. It has opened the door for Farquharson to return to work this week. The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission’s deputy president Adrian Bloomfield last week ordered Farquharson be reinstated as of… Read More »
