Trainer David Payne will consider next month’s Group One TJ Smith in Brisbane for Honorius after the two-year-old broke through for his maiden win at Canterbury. The colt, ridden by Glyn Schofield, started the $2.70 favourite and chased down Fiveandahalfstar to win Wednesday’s Australian Turf Club Handicap (1550m) by a [...]
Star apprentice Timothy Bell has been sacked as Patinack Farm’s Queensland stable rider on the eve of the Brisbane winter carnival. Bell, 19, received a week’s notice from millionaire owner Nathan Tinkler after riding trackwork at the stable’s Queensland headquarters at Wadham Park near Canungra in the Gold Coast hinterland [...]
The British Horseracing Authority’s review of the 2012 Grand National has found no-one is to blame for the circumstances which led to the deaths of Synchronised and According To Pete. The report confirmed Synchronised, who unseated Tony McCoy on the way to the start, was given a full veterinary examination [...]
Jumps jockey Paul Hamblin will appeal against a careless riding suspension after stewards found him guilty of being responsible for the fall of his mount Phaze Action in the Brierly Steeplechase at Warrnambool. Racing Victoria stewards, chaired by Terry Bailey, found that Hamblin rode Phaze Action in the approach to [...]
Joe Pride has been patient with three-year-old Green Beret and is looking forward to getting the debut winner back to the races at Canterbury on Wednesday. Green Beret made a winning start to his career at Canterbury in December and returns to the same track for the Flinders Lane Perfect [...]
Model To Nite will get another chance at Flemington to convince trainer Nigel Blackiston she is up to stakes class and worthy of trip to Adelaide. Blackiston scrapped plans to run the mare in last Saturday’s Group Two Queen of the South Stakes (1600m) at Morphettville after her last-start failure [...]
Hunter Valley thoroughbred breeders hope their presence at a major Sydney rally against expanding mining projects on prime farming land sends a strong message to the NSW Government. Up to 8000 people marched on NSW Parliament on Tuesday calling for the government to protect high-value land and water resources in [...]
Robert Smerdon made a clean sweep of the three jumps events on the first day of the Warrnambool racing carnival when Fareer won the Brierly Steeplechase. Smerdon combined on Tuesday with Irish jumps jockey Tom Ryan who has ridden in two English Grand Nationals at Aintree. “He’s got a pretty [...]
Gosford trainer Adam Duggan has decided not to step Fox up in distance in Saturday’s Hawkesbury Guineas and will instead tackle a support race with the stakes-placed filly. Three-year-old Fox is nominated for the Listed Hawkesbury Guineas (1400m) and Listed Darley Crown (1300m) but Duggan said the filly would start [...]
Kevin Dixon will be chairman of a revamped Racing Queensland Limited board which appointed three new directors on Tuesday. Former chairman Bob Bentley resigned along with fellow directors Tony Hanmer and Bill Ludwig in the wake of the election in March of a new state government which committed to an [...]