Missy Cummings, the favourite to win the Inglis 3YO Guineas, has been sold a couple of days out from the $500,000 race. Trainer Anthony Cummings, who paid $80,000 for the Magnus filly as a yearling and kept 100 per cent ownership of the now unbeaten three-year-old, revealed that for an [...]
Kentucky Derby winner Orb has drawn the inside barrier for the Preakness Stakes, the second leg of the triple crown. Orb was immediately installed as the even money favourite but trainer Shug McGaughey said he would have preferred not to be on the rail. When asked what his choice would [...]
Jockey Frankie Dettori has admitted the drug which led to his six month ban was cocaine. In an exclusive interview with Channel 4 News just days before his return to riding, Dettori says he is “very ashamed and embarrassed” by the events. The star rider was suspended for six months [...]
Apprentice Tom Sadler has been grilled over his handling of Supreme Warrior at Sandown on Wednesday, with a senior steward asking him if he had stopped the horse. Sadler’s ride prompted steward Robert Montgomery to ask him directly: “Was the horse trying?” To which Sadler replied: “Are you serious?” Montgomery [...]
If Anthony Cummings was relying on the barrier draws to help him decide where to run Fontelina on Saturday he would have been disappointed. The smart sprinter came up with gate 14 in both the Group Three BRC Sprint (1350m) at Doomben and the Listed Luskin Star Stakes (1300m) at [...]
Gai Waterhouse swept aside the dramas of the More Joyous inquiry and got back to doing what she does best at Canterbury on Wednesday – training winners. Waterhouse unveiled a promising youngster in Cosmic Endeavour who showed her rivals a clean pair of heels to score a dashing all-the-way victory [...]
Stewards have confirmed jockey Brenton Avdulla will appear before the Racing NSW licencing committee on Monday. Avdulla will be quizzed after it was revealed on Wednesday that police and racing officials had been investigating a possible association between the jockey and a member of the Comanchero outlaw motorcycle club. The [...]
A wide barrier and uncharted territory isn’t enough to deter trainer Matt Laurie from wanting to run South Australian Derby winner Escado in Saturday’s Andrew Ramsden Stakes at Flemington. Laurie became the newest member in the Group One-winning trainers’ club when Escado took out the SA Derby last Saturday week. [...]
Group One-placed as a spring three-year-old, Ashokan has been a work in progress since joining the Gai Waterhouse stable. But both his trainer and jockey Nash Rawiller are confident the colt is ready to put it all together when he chases his biggest payday in Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Guineas (1400m) [...]
Colin Scott has put his faith in a gear experiment on Speediness in the Scone Cup to help launch the horse on a path to the first proper spring campaign of his career. Scott has resorted to making two gear changes on the horse he has always believed to be [...]
