Trainer Kelly Schweida believes Better Than Ready is adaptable enough to take advantage of a rails draw in Saturday’s Group One Doomben 10,000. Better Than Ready settled at the rear of the field in the BTC Cup at Eagle Farm on May 11 before making up ground to finish third [...]
Star hurdler Black And Bent raced into history at Sandown on Wednesday in a triumphant return to jumps racing. The seven-year-old claimed an Australian record 10th successive victory with a dominant performance in the $100,000 Jack Dow Memorial Hurdle (3300m) – his first over jumps in more than a year. [...]
Sydney colt Your Song will have to overcome a wide draw if he is to add another Group One win to his record in the Doomben 10,000 on Saturday. Your Song, a brilliant first-up winner of the Group One BTC Cup on a rain-affected track, has drawn the deepest barrier [...]
Top American runner Unbridled Command could make his British debut at Royal Ascot. The four-year-old won the Grade One Hollywood Derby for trainer Thomas Bush last November and also claimed third in the Gulfstream Park Turf Handicap at the Florida track in February. Subsequently transferred to the care of Ed [...]
French racing authority France Galop says it is awaiting further contact from Frankie Dettori concerning a “medical” matter if the rider’s application for a renewed licence is to be approved. France Galop banned the Italian for six months after he tested positive for cocaine at Longchamp last September. Dettori was [...]
Connections of Farhh will take their time in deciding which race he will tackle at Royal Ascot. Having chased home Frankel twice last term and finished second in four Group Ones, Saeed Bin Suroor’s charge finally landed his first success at the highest level in last Saturday’s Lockinge Stakes at [...]
Last year’s dual Derby hero Camelot tops five Aidan O’Brien-trained possibles for Sunday’s Tattersalls Gold Cup at the Curragh. The four-year-old, who also won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket last season, was struck down by colic after his run in the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe but reappeared this season [...]
The Group One Spring Champion Stakes has been moved from the biggest race meeting of the Sydney spring carnival. A race for three-year-olds, the Spring Champion Stakes has been put back a week and will be run as a stand-alone feature at Randwick on October 12. The switch means it [...]
Apprentice Tom Sadler has been cleared of any breach of the rules of racing over his ride on Supreme Warrior at Sandown last week after stewards accepted evidence his vision had been impaired by mud during the race. But deputy chief steward Robert Cram told Sadler his performance on the [...]
Devised has been narrowly denied in the past two Wagga Wagga Gold Cups on his home track but now trainer Tim Donnelly has shifted his sights to winning another NSW country feature race. Donnelly is looking at taking Devised to the $150,000 Grafton Cup in July and has decided the [...]
