John Singleton and the Waterhouse family have arrived at Racing NSW’s headquarters in Sydney for the inquiry into the performance of racehorse More Joyous. The inquiry is shaping up to be a media circus, with over 50 reporters and photographers staking out the Druitt St lobby on Monday morning. Horse [...]
A stewards’ inquiry into the poor performance of racehorse More Joyous which sparked a public spat between John Singleton and Gai Waterhouse will resume on Monday. The horse’s high profile owner Singleton, its trainer Waterhouse and her bookmaker son Tom are all due to front the inquiry in Sydney after [...]
The racetrack career of All Too Hard is over with the half brother to Black Caviar officially retired on Sunday. Vinery Stud has shelved plans to race the colt at Royal Ascot and he goes out a last-start winner of the Group One All Aged Stakes at Randwick. The latest [...]
What began as a routine stewards’ inquiry into the poor performance of racehorse More Joyous will continue amid unprecedented publicity on Monday. High profile owner John Singleton, even higher profile trainer Gai Waterhouse and her bookmaker son Tom Waterhouse are the lead characters due to appear at the inquiry sparked [...]
Galah heads to the Group One Goodwood in Adelaide on Saturday as the Darley team continues to chase a feature win with the well-bred four-year-old. The Peter Snowden-trained son of Redoute’s Choice out of Australasian Oaks winner Rinky Dink will be first-up in the feature sprint at Morphettville where he [...]
Trainer Gerald Ryan is prepared to forgive and forget Hot Snitzel’s Prime Minister’s Cup performance and will press on with the four-year-old’s winter carnival campaign. Multiple stakes winner Hot Snitzel was second favourite in Saturday’s Listed race won by Famous Seamus but weakened in the straight to finish 13th of [...]
No positive results to peptides have been detected in Victorian racehorses since testing began before last year’s spring carnival. Racing Victoria (RV) chief executive Bernard Saundry issued a statement on Sunday saying the state’s governing body was vigilant in its pursuit of illegal drugs. Saundry was responding to a report [...]
Ortensia is poised to start a campaign which could be her last on a stage a long way removed from her international Group One triumphs. Trainer Paul Messara will use a race named in the mare’s honour during the Scone Cup carnival as a foundation sprint for a possible Brisbane [...]
Shug McGaughey has waited all his life to win the Kentucky Derby and once it happened, he was lost for words. The 62-year-old Hall Of Fame trainer had won every major race on the American calendar bar one until Orb won Saturday’s Run To The Roses. “It’s just something I [...]
Who will blink first? The take-no-prisoners racing patterns of Rain Affair and Buffering promises to make Saturday’s Group One BTC Cup (1200m) at Eagle Farm a supreme test of sustained speed. Rain Affair’s trainer Joe Pride says the five-year-old’s uncompromising racing style is unlikely to change despite the presence of [...]
