Oxbow won the 138th Preakness Stakes on Saturday as heavily favoured Kentucky Derby winner Orb finished fourth, his bid for US racing’s coveted Triple Crown ruined. “I get paid to spoil dreams,” said Oxbow’s trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who claimed a sixth Preakness victory and his 13th win in one [...]
Comeback jockey Gary Stevens has won the Preakness Stakes aboard Oxbow for veteran trainer D. Wayne Lukas with Kentucky Derby winner Orb fourth. Stevens, who came out of retirement in January after seven years away from the sport, took Oxbow to the front from the outset and the colt was [...]
Internationally renowned jockey Johnny Murtagh has been granted a training licence by the Irish Turf Club. Murtagh owns the Curragh stables where Tommy Carmody is based and has been working alongside the trainer while undergoing his preparation to take out a licence. The team started out last year and sent [...]
Sheikh Mohammed’s Godolphin team received its first significant piece of good news in some time when Farhh emerged a convincing winner of the Lockinge Stakes at Newbury. Still dogged by the scandal which resulted in an eight-year ban for trainer Mahmood Al Zarooni for administering anabolic steroids to horses in [...]
Chris Symons has done his chances of getting more rides for Chris Waller no harm, maintaining a perfect record for the trainer with victory on Fulgur at Flemington. On a day when Waller prepared the quinella of Beaten Up and Foreteller in the Group One Doomben Cup in Brisbane, import [...]
Victorian jockey Brent Evans will miss the bulk of the Group One meetings at the Brisbane winter carnival following a hefty careless riding suspension at Doomben. Evans will miss 12 meetings after pleading guilty to careless riding for his ride aboard the Greg Eurell-trained Zombie Dancer in The Roses. Chief [...]
Jockey Chris Munce claimed his most important win since his return from cancer treatment when he steered Belltone to win the Group Three BRC Sprint at Doomben on Saturday. Munce spent three months out of the saddle after undergoing chemotherapy for throat cancer in February. He has been back riding [...]
Trainer Greg Hickman was an exception as Taxmeifyoucan returned to one of the rowdiest receptions imaginable after winning the $500,000 Inglis 3YO Guineas at Scone on Saturday. Amid chaotic scenes as Taxmeifyoucan’s large syndicate of owners converged on the mounting yard, Hickman backed away from a television interview because he [...]
Pre-race confidence was matched by post-race emotion when Mister Milton rediscovered the form that seemed to have permanently deserted him at Flemington on Saturday. Carrying the colours made famous 30 years ago by the champion sprinter Rancher and trained, strapped and adored by the man who used to wear them, [...]
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller maintained his dominance of Group One weight-for-age races with a one-two finish to the Doomben Cup with imported stayers Beaten Up and Foreteller. Shoot Out was Waller’s sole spring Group One winner in the George Main Stakes and started the ball rolling for Waller in [...]
