The name Saintly Place will live on in with an area opposite the Flemington winning post dedicated to the Hall of Fame trainer Bart Cummings’s Melbourne stables. Saintly Place stabled an array of Cummings champions at the back of Flemington racecourse, but it is now home to apartments. Cummings won… Read More »
One box Dwayne Dunn would like to tick sooner rather than later is beside Chautauqua’s name as the winning jockey in a Group One race. Dunn has three Group One seconds on Chautauqua, all over the straight course at Flemington where the pair return on Saturday for the Lightning Stakes…. Read More »
Group 1 winner Pornichet has been officially retired today due to succumbing to a tendon injury. Good reason for Pornichet not trialling this morning. Horse has suffered a tendon injury and is retired from racing. pic.twitter.com/VopF64V5dJ — Andrew Bensley (@AndrewBensley) February 19, 2016
The Peter Moody-trained Kinglike has been scratched from the Black Caviar Lightning, leaving just six sprinters to contest the weight-for-age sprint. Kinglike was withdrawn on Friday with Racing Victoria reporting that mucus had been found in the promising colt. Winner of the Danehill Stakes during the spring, Kinglike was rated… Read More »
A runner in Saturday’s G1 Lightning Stakes has been scratched. Kinglike was a $34 shot before coming out of the race. View the current Lightning Stakes odds Scratching: 20-02-2016 Flemington R7 – Kinglike – mucus detected — RVStewards (@RVStewards) February 19, 2016
International campaigner Criterion will bow out of racing to stand his first season at stud later this year. A rising six-year-old who has raced at the highest level over four seasons, Criterion will be retired to Newgate Farm in the NSW Hunter Valley. But before Criterion joins an emerging stallion… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse’s Golden Slipper team has been reduced by one with injury ruling Global Glamour out of the rest of the autumn. Bloodstock agent James Bester, representing the All About The Girls Syndicate, said the filly had pulled up a little shin sore from her debut win at Kembla Grange… Read More »
Press Statement has won a Caulfield Guineas but when it comes to looks, the colt has been an ugly duckling. Jockey Hugh Bowman and trainer Chris Waller both say the three-year-old, favourite to return a winner in the Hobartville Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday, wasn’t the finished product last spring…. Read More »
Four time Group 1 winner Criterion will be officially retired to stand at stud in the Spring. Criterion is set to have three runs during the Autumn. More to come… BREAKING: Four time Group 1 winner Criterion to retire & stand @NewgateFarm this Spring! #Criterion https://t.co/ybD8KBHvT6 — Sky Racing (@SkyRacingAU)… Read More »
When Anthony Cummings has a horse he believes can compete against the best, the test often comes sooner rather than later. And if Montaigne is as good as the trainer thinks he is, the colt should be mixing it with his more experienced rivals at the business end of the… Read More »
John O’Shea is taking a cautious approach to the return of Astern in the Silver Slipper at Rosehill. Yet his choice of jockey might just give him up. With Godolphin’s No.1 rider James McDonald missing the Sydney meeting to ride Exosphere in Melbourne, Hugh Bowman will warm the saddle on… Read More »
John Bateman is keeping expectations in check during the lead-up to Lofty’s Menu’s tilt at the $100,000 SERA Country Championships Qualifier at Goulburn. Despite the lure of a first or second placing getting Lofty’s Menu into the $400,000 Country Championship Final at Randwick on April 2, Bateman is taking things… Read More »
A lack of 1200m races for Brisbane two-year-olds has prompted trainer Kelly Schweida to test Itz Alrite twice in a week at Doomben. Itz Alrite has been unlucky at both his starts this campaign, finishing second and then fifth last Saturday in juvenile races over 1050m. Schweida had been hoping… Read More »
The promising Desert General begins a belated summer campaign at Doomben, having recovered from injuries received in an unusual accident. Desert General got away from a strapper and careered around Nudgee Road, which connects Brisbane’s two racetracks, before falling over when he returned to the stables. “He took a lot… Read More »
Perth filly Perfect Reflection will be out to keep her unbeaten record intact when she makes her Melbourne debut in The Vanity at Flemington. Perfect Reflection won her first five starts in Perth for Grant Williams before being transferred to the Ballarat stables of Darren Weir. A daughter of More… Read More »
Leading New Zealand jockey Opie Bosson will ride in Hong Kong at the end of the Sydney autumn carnival. Bosson and Canadian-based Eurico Rosa da Silva are the latest to be called up as Hong Kong racing suffers from a shortage of jockeys. After riding at Ellerslie at the weekend,… Read More »
Trainer Peter Moody’s camp has lied and made up a nonsense story about a hoof powder causing a racehorse’s illegal cobalt level, a tribunal has heard. But Moody’s defence maintains the Caulfield trainer is not a cheat and rejects a stewards’ “conspiracy theory”, arguing Racing Victoria’s own expert now admits… Read More »
Imports Arab Dawn and Libran face an unlikely rematch in the Parramatta Cup at Rosehill, eight months after they competed at one of England’s most famous racetracks. The pair contested the same race at Ascot in June last year when Arab Dawn proved superior, beating Libran into fourth place. That… Read More »
Trainer John Sadler is in for his busiest meeting in months when he heads to Flemington. Sadler said his team was ready to step out after taking advantage of the course proper at Caulfield on Tuesday morning, giving five of his six runners an 800m jump-out. “We wouldn’t usually give… Read More »
Racetrack rivalry is set to spill over into the Rosehill jockeys’ room with two of Sydney’s leading hoops involved in the most-anticipated clashes on Silver Slipper day. Hugh Bowman and Blake Shinn will turn arch rivals when they go head to head aboard exciting two-year-olds Astern and Defcon in the… Read More »
