The return to Sydney of last season’s champion apprentice Chad Schofield on Saturday is set to co-incide with a milestone for the highly-rated rider. Schofield needs one winner at Randwick to outride his claim and is well-placed to achieve the feat with a full book of rides including favourite Motivado [...]
A wide gate has shaken his optimism but trainer Tony McEvoy is maintaining faith in his horse and rider ahead of Saturday’s BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Doomben. McEvoy concedes talented South Australian youngster The Voice will face a tough task to win after drawing barrier 15 in the 16-strong [...]
A Queensland Derby start for Hawkspur hinges on his performance in Saturday’s Grand Prix Stakes at Doomben. Hawkspur achieved Waller’s first goal for the gelding when he won the Rough Habit Plate at Eagle Farm on May 11 and lines up in the Grand Prix as the favourite. Waller doesn’t [...]
The European influence on Australian racing will be extended to the jockeys’ room when Frenchman Thomas Huet rides at Randwick for the first time on Saturday. In an era when Australian punters warm more easily to northern hemisphere horses than jockeys from that part of the world, early statistics say [...]
The horse who has earned most of his $3 million in prize money in the wet will be relying on the same conditions to help save his career in the WJ McKell Cup at Randwick. Veteran stayer Fiumicino has been put on notice by the trainer who has guided him [...]
Jockey Damian Browne will be given a free rein by trainer Robert Heathcote to devise a strategy to overcome Buffering’s wide barrier in the Doomben 10,000. Buffering has drifted from $4.80 to $5.50 in betting on the 10,000 after drawing barrier 12 in the 15-horse field. Only five horses have [...]
Royal Ascot-winning jockey Craig Newitt was left in no doubt Shamexpress had improved from his Newmarket Handicap victory after riding the England-bound colt in a jump-out on Friday. Shamexpress sat off the speed before moving up to win the jump-out on the steeplegrass at Flemington, and he will trial again [...]
Golden Slipper placegetter More Strawberries is likely to be retired after suffering a leg injury. Trainer Kelso Wood said the five-year-old mare injured her leg, which required stitches, in a float mishap on Thursday and won’t run in Saturday’s Glenlogan Park Stakes. “It’s very disappointing because we put a lot [...]
Jim Bolger is convinced Dawn Approach will go to the English Derby an even better horse than he was when winning the 2000 Guineas. The Coolcullen trainer has been delighted with the unbeaten colt since the Newmarket Classic and he knows what it takes to win the premier Classic having [...]
Eddie Ahern will have the full support of the Professional Jockeys’ Association as he launches his appeal against the 10-year ban handed out to him by the British Horseracing Authority. Ahern’s career was effectively ended after he was found guilty of conspiring to commit a corrupt or fraudulent practice along [...]
