The Anthony and Sam Freedman stable is expecting Midwest to bounce back from a minor setback when he runs at Cranbourne. Midwest will contest the Apache Cat Classic (1000m) on Saturday, a race he finished third in last year behind Jigsaw. This time around, Midwest has a 7kg swing in the weights… Read More »
The much-anticipated return to racing on turf at the Gold Coast will take place on December 9, with the refurbished track ushering in a new era for the Gold Coast Turf Club as the Club continues to move forward with its bold masterplan aimed at elevating standards and rubber-stamping the… Read More »
Former leading horse trainer Darren Weir is set to appear before the Victorian Racing Tribunal in March 2024. He faces allegations from 2018 of using a jigger, an illegal device, on racehorses. Weir, along with his former stable staff Jarrod McLean and Tyson Kermond, were scheduled for a preliminary hearing… Read More »
A perfect picket fence preparation so far has trainer Gerald Ryan pleased with Eagle Nest’s lead-up to the mare’s target race at Doomben on Saturday. With now three wins in as many runs this campaign, Eagle Nest will line up in the Listed Tattersall’s Classic (1200m) and crosses the New South… Read More »
It might be a relatively recent addition to the calendar, but The Gong is a race close to the hearts of local horsemen Robert and Luke Price. Count De Rupee gave the Kembla Grange trainers their biggest win when he took out the 2021 renewal, atoning for a narrow defeat at… Read More »
Michael Poy is the son of former champion jockey, Michael Clarke and is going all out to complete a rare family treble in Perth’s famous mile race. A four-time winner of Melbourne’s Jockey Premiership, Clarke was a household name in racing and considered one of the best riders of his generation…. Read More »
Sydney’s champion trainer understands what’s required to win Perth’s famous mile race, having prepared Good Project to take out Railway Stakes honours in 2015. Good Project came close to another Railway Stakes the following year when second to Scales Of Justice, giving Chris Waller three placings overall after Moriarty and Tom… Read More »
The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable have been rewarded for their patient approach with Sisterhood after the mare registered a hard-fought first-up win at Sandown. Lining-up for her first start since March, Sisterhood took out the Ladbrokes Yard Comments Handicap (1200m) on Wednesday. Sent out the $2.20 bookmakers favourite under Ben… Read More »
Northumbria has become the latest Godolphin cast-off to thrive under the tutelage of Richard Litt, taking his record to two wins from as many starts for his new trainer. Litt has a record of success with horses who haven’t quite met Godolphin’s lofty standards, purchasing the likes of Sedition, Munitions and… Read More »
A bruised heel has put an end to the Cranbourne Cup hopes of King Magnus. The Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock-trained galloper was a notable absentee from acceptances for Saturday’s Listed 1600m race when they closed on Wednesday. King Magnus won the first staging of the revamped Cranbourne Cup on… Read More »
The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman stable are banking on the longer the preparation goes the better it will turn out for Pounding. The five-year-old will line up for the sixth run of the campaign when he contests the Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m) on Saturday. Pounding’s current campaign kicked off in the P… Read More »
Time and patience are proving a successful combination for connections of Hard To Say as he attempts to extend his winning sequence to five in the $300,000 The Warra at Kembla Grange. The sprinter has been a revelation this campaign, book ending back-to-back victories in Brisbane with a first-up triumph at… Read More »
After a dominant carnival in Melbourne, James McDonald will bid to add the $1 million The Gong to his spring portfolio before jetting off to Hong Kong for a short-term stint. Sydney’s reigning champion jockey will link with the Chris Waller-trained Osipenko in Saturday’s Kembla Grange feature, ahead of fulfilling a… Read More »
Lindsey Smith has no complaints with the barrier Tuvalu drew for this Saturday’s Group 1 Railway Stakes at Ascot, but it is a different story with the weather in his old home town of Perth. Western Australia is in the early stages of a heat wave that will not abate until early… Read More »
Ayrton, joined by nine other top racehorses like Zaaki and Tuvalu, has landed in Perth, Western Australia, amid a heatwave, with temperatures expected to remain above 36 degrees. This arrival precedes their participation in The Pinnacles and follows Ayrton’s challenging run in the Group 1 Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. Trainers… Read More »
A new Railway Stakes champion will be crowned at Ascot on Saturday and jockey, Michael Poy hopes he can reach the same heights as his father. Poy is the son of former champion jockey, Michael Clarke and is going all out to complete a rare family treble in Perth’s famous mile… Read More »
Trainer Gavin Bedggood will wait as long as possible before making a decision on where he starts Just Folk on Saturday. Bedggood has Just Folk entered in the $1 million The Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange on Saturday along with the $500,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup over the same trip. Kembla Grange had been the… Read More »
Jigsaw will line up for his third run at the Cranbourne Cup meeting when he looks to go back-to-back in the Apache Cat Classic. The Cindy Alderson-trained sprinter finished last on a very wet Cranbourne track on as a three-year-old in 2021 before taking out the Apache Cat Classic (1000m) last year…. Read More »
Short course specialist and one of the favourites for The Warra (1000m) on Saturday, Malkovich should take his place in the $300,000 Kembla Grange sprint provided the track isn’t too wet. Luke Hilton from the Bjorn Baker stable was confident the Kembla Grange track will hold up, with anywhere from 0-6mm of… Read More »
Jockey Daniel Moor has answered the call to head to Perth to ride Forgot You in the opening Group 1 race of The Pinnacles. Moor partnered the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Forgot You to his three wins as a three-year-old before Blake Shinn registered a win on the now five-year-old at Flemington last… Read More »
