Trainer Joe Pride believes Sydney sprinter Neeson has the X-factor to win the Group One BTC Cup at Doomben on Saturday. Pride, who has won seven Group Ones, declared Neeson his favourite horse since he began training 10 years ago. “Sacred Choice won two Group Ones for me in the [...]
The chances of smart New Zealand three-year-old Malandrino running at Doomben on Saturday hinge on the outcome of sales negotiations. Trainer Murray Baker brought Malandrino across the Tasman for next month’s Group One Queensland Derby (2400m) at Eagle Farm and planned to launch his winter campaign in Saturday’s Group Three [...]
A 170-room hotel with a view down the finishing straight will be built at Sydney’s oldest racetrack. NSW Racing Minister George Souris and the Australian Turf Club (ATC) on Thursday unveiled plans for the four-star complex which will be built trackside at Royal Randwick Racecourse. Mr Souris said the project [...]
Neil Godbolt would like a stable full of horses like tough as nails filly Never Doubt Me. And the Port Macquarie-based trainer wishes he hadn’t relented when it came to the ownership of the nine-time winner who has earned more than $177,000. Godbolt paid $8000 for the daughter of Not [...]
Apprentice Ben Vassallo returned to city racing with a winner at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, four months after breaking his ankle at the same track. Vassallo went into the meeting confident of victory aboard the Guy Walter-trained Millenium Ruler in the Rotary Club of Liverpool Handicap (1100m). But the race [...]
The training partnership between Lee Freedman and Graeme Rogerson has been officially approved with last start winner Mossamine set to be their first runner at Rosehill on Saturday. Racing NSW received notification from the Australian Turf Club on Wednesday that the partnership had suitable stabling arrangements with the club, which [...]
A four-star hotel will be built at Randwick racecourse as it continues its transformation into a premier racing and entertainment venue. The NSW government and the Australian Turf Club (ATC) will on Thursday unveil plans for the trackside complex and name the hotel operator who will manage it. The apartment [...]
Trainer Mark Minervini is looking forward to the formidable challenge of taking on the world’s highest-rated sprinter Black Caviar with promising three-year-old Go The Knuckle. The gelding is the most inexperienced of the nine acceptors for the Group One Goodwood (1200m) at Morphettville on Saturday which will be his first [...]
Husband and wife training team Brian Johnston and Fran Houlahan celebrated a rare city double and honoured a promise they made to Katelyn Mallyon 18 months ago in the process. Mallyon booted home Blue Nile for the stable in Wednesday’s Skylift Crane Services Handicap (1600m) at Sandown and was later [...]
Larry’s Never Late will run at Caulfield on Saturday before he heads north to continue a campaign ultimately aimed at the Brisbane Cup. Trainer Jim Conlan decided to run Larry’s Never Late under topweight of 61kg in the Gayle Shacklock Handicap (1800m) with Mark Zahra in the saddle. He had [...]