This weekend’s racing around the country will feature an unprecedented amount of Superstar’s including debatably the best horse in the world Black Caviar. At Randwick the Sydney Cup will be the feature with Evergreen galloper Efficient the topweight, The field also includes Lexus winner Niwot, quality imported stayer Drunken Sailor [...]
Village Kid, a genuine modern-day hero of Australian harness racing, has died. He was 31. Trained by Bill Horn, a butcher by trade, Village Kid won the 1986 Brisbane Inter-Dominion Final as well as two Miracle Miles among 93 lifetime victories. He retired from racing with $2.1 million in earnings, [...]
Unbeaten filly Atlantic Jewel will be tested at weight-for age in Saturday’s All Aged Stakes at Randwick. The three-year-old was entered for three races on the program with trainer Mark Kavanagh announcing on Tuesday she would take on the Group One feature. The winner of the Thousand Guineas last spring, [...]
The career of barrier rogue Here De Angels is over. Racing Victoria (RV) stewards on Tuesday announced that they had used their discretion under rule 50 of the Australia Rules of Racing to ban the gelding. Here De Angels was stood down indefinitely by stewards at Caulfield on February 11 [...]
Former jockey Glen Darrington, who became a plumber before enlisting as a barrier attendant, will be used as insurance for Black Caviar when she travels to Adelaide for the Sportingbet Classic on Saturday. Darrington, 41, will be the man behind the scenes, or behind the barriers to be precise, to [...]
Sydney jockey Josh Parr can relate to the impact champion mare Black Caviar has on all rungs of the Australian racing economy. Black Caviar is tipped to pull a crowd of more than 30,000 through the gates in Adelaide on Saturday as she tries for a record-breaking 20th win. Her [...]
Tempo concerns are outweighing worries about the strength of the opposition for Grahame Begg as the Randwick trainer tries to plot a Queen Elizabeth Stakes upset with Secret Admirer. Secret Admirer will follow Doncaster Mile heroine More Joyous into the weight-for-age feature on a seven-day turnaround, a racing pattern which [...]
In seven starts for trainer Chris Waller, former French stayer Permit has gone from being a restricted class galloper to Sydney Cup favourite. After he won at his second start for Waller in December, the trainer flagged the Sydney Cup as an ambitious target. Permit has kept his part of [...]
Nigel Blackiston is aiming to be the first trainer in more than 30 years to win the VRC St Leger Stakes in consecutive years. Duel Lover, a bargain buy who cost just $NZ2000 at a New Zealand Breeze Up sale, flies the flag for Blackiston in Wednesday’s time-honoured 2800-metre Classic [...]
Group One-winning sprinter Foxwedge has been cleared to return to training but he has almost certainly run his last race in Australia. Trainer John O’Shea said Foxwedge had recovered from a throat infection although plans to run the Royal Ascot-bound colt in the BTC Cup in Brisbane next month had [...]