Inglis Millennium winner Xtravagant Star will undergo the sternest test yet of her Golden Slipper credentials when she takes on benchmark juvenile Coolangatta at Randwick. The two undefeated fillies are set for a mouth-watering clash in Saturday’s Sweet Embrace Stakes (1200m), which has also attracted the highly-rated Lady Laguna and… Read More »
Trainer Mark Newnham’s experience with bonny mare Greysful Glamour has given him reason to believe Harmony Rose can return to her best after a disappointing spring. The four-year-old will launch her preparation in the Guy Walter Stakes (1400m) at Randwick on Saturday, 12 months after capping her rise through the… Read More »
Montefilia is already a three-time Group 1 winner but trainer David Payne believes the best is yet to come. The four-year-old kicks off her latest campaign in the Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday after putting the finishing touches to her preparation with an exhibition gallop between races… Read More »
An exhibition pony race will open the card on a big day of racing at Murray Bridge on March 5, which features the richest juvenile race in South Australia, the Magic Millions SA 2YO Classic. Thoroughbred Industry Careers (TIC), together with Racing SA, Pony Club Australia, and the Murray Bridge… Read More »
Mark Zahra is riding for the right stable when it comes to Blue Diamond success and is hoping for a change of luck in this year’s race. The jockey made the wrong call last year getting off the Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Artorius in the Blue Diamond Stakes to instead ride the favourite Enthaar for… Read More »
Four-time Singapore champion jockey is set to make his return to the saddle with a low-key start at Pakenham. The Caulfield Cup winning jockey before departing for Singapore where he plied his trade for 10 of the past 14 years, Vlad Duric is home for good after a health issue forced… Read More »
Today’s Brisbane Racing Club race-meeting, which had earlier been rescheduled to take place at the Sunshine Coast, has now been transferred one more time, this time from the Sunshine Coast turf track to the Sunshine Coast Poly Track. This decision was forced on authorities after a massive amount of rainfall… Read More »
Michelle Payne, who made a rare visit to Queensland last Saturday to check in with Nikita Beriman, (her Queensland stable foreman), has hinted of a return to race riding … albeit while at the same time admitting … “I’m not far from hanging up the boots, but I am going… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Happy Valley this Wednesday night, with good depth across the meeting. Race One: 4 Champion Pal Race Two: 3 Meaningful Star Race Three: 7 Eeevee Race Four: 4 Bingo Bingo Race Five: 2 Circuit Seven Race Six: 6 Lightning Storm Race Seven:… Read More »
Her run was too bad to be true in the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes ten days ago, and Randwick trainer John Sargent believes there were genuine excuses for the poor performance of his dual-Group 2 winner Four Moves Ahead. After firing up from a wide barrier and racing keenly in… Read More »
It’s the end of a 40-year era. Team McEvoy will relocate all the horses to a Ballarat stable ending 40 years at Angaston in South Australia. In that time Tony McEvoy, then later alongside his son Calvin, rose to be the doyen of SA racing. He and his wife Jo… Read More »
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained Jacquinot is a firming favourite for the Blue Diamond Stakes following Tuesday’s barrier draw. Jacquinot drew barrier 10 in the 16-horse field for Saturday’s Group 1 race over 1200m at Caulfield which delighted his co-trainer Kent Jnr. After winning on debut at Caulfield on… Read More »
The Tony and Calvin Mcevoy stable is leaving nothing to chance as they chase Group 1 glory in the Blue Diamond Stakes with English Riviera. The two-year-old made the trip from Ballarat to Caulfield on Tuesday morning to get another look at the track ahead of Melbourne’s premier juvenile race on… Read More »
Hot on the heels of the news that apprentice Jaden Lloyd would be transferring his indentures to the Steven O’Dea / Matt Hoysted training partnership, Zac Lloyd will be following his brother to Eagle Farm where he will be attached to the Lauren Abbott stable. The two Lloyd brothers are… Read More »
The name of former trainer Ben Currie triggers a different response in different people. In the Queensland setting, there have been few players … certainly none in recent years … who have sparked such volatile and intense debate. Fair to say, the Currie saga, which dealt with a range of… Read More »
If Mark Zahra can guide Tofane to victory in the Group 1 Futurity Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday, he will be allowed more time to saviour the win. When Tofane scored first-up in the Group 1 C F Orr Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on February 12, Zahra was on a tight schedule to get to… Read More »
In a steward’s ruling on Monday, the 2021 Kentucky Derby winner Medina Spirit has been disqualified from the race and Hall Of Fame trainer Bob Baffert has been suspended for ninety days and fined $7 500. It was also ordered that the prize-money be redistributed and that the placings be… Read More »
It seems a long time ago now when two top class racehorses from Queensland seemed set to carry on their good work and make their mark on feature races around the country. It was 2020 that promised so much for Alligator Blood and Rothfire. Alligator Blood, then trained by David… Read More »
Goulburn trainer Danny Williams will take three horses down the Highway to Royal Randwick this Saturday. If you watched last Saturday’s Highway handicap at Rosehill you would’ve thought the Danny Williams-trained Shelby Sixtysix got the victory. However, in a deceptive head-bobbing go he narrowly missed out to the Stirling Osland-prepared Golden… Read More »
For a horse with just the 10 starts, brilliant sprinter Clairvoyance has been through more than most. For trainer Darren Mcauliffe and her group of owners, she has taken them on an emotional journey. It’s been a roller-coaster of joy, heart break, anguish, and triumph again after her Pinjarra Classic demolition… Read More »
