Zakynthos Imprintz is one of the outsiders for Saturday’s Lord Mayor’s Cup but apprentice Lauri Wray is excited by the prospect of riding the gelding in the Rosehill feature. Wray has ridden two midweek city winners this season and is delighted connections of the Gary Nickson-trained Zakynthos Imprintz have stuck [...]
Brian McKnight will be on course to see talented but headstrong galloper Le Remas race for only the second time in his career when he runs at Caulfield on Saturday. McKnight, who has a team of 15 horses in work at Maldon in central Victoria, said a knee replacement operation [...]
Jockey Noel Callow wasted no time to returning to the winners’ circle at Geelong after recovering from a leg injury which sidelined him for more than three weeks. Callow, who had seven rides at Friday’s meeting, hadn’t ridden since suffering severe bruising when his right leg was crushed in the [...]
Buffering was showing signs on Friday afternoon he was on the mend from a hoof injury boosting trainer Rob Heathcote’s hopes he could take his place in the BTC Cup. The star Queenslander, who is favourite for Saturday’s Group One sprint, has been undergoing treatment for a stone bruise discovered [...]
Hugh Bowman is in the box seat for a second Sydney premiership and has set himself the target of reaching triple figures for the first time in his career. Bowman has had his premiership lead cut to six by an in-form Nash Rawiller over the Sydney autumn carnival but the [...]
Racing is rich in the bloodlines of visiting New Zealand trainer Adrian Bull who is back on mission number two for the Brisbane winter carnival. Bull made his first trip to Brisbane last winter with So Devine who failed to make it to the Group One Queensland Oaks at Eagle [...]
Tasmanian two-year-old Anniversary Belle, who was desperately unlucky on debut, will be on trial at Caulfield for a Brisbane winter campaign. The Danehill Dancer filly is only tiny but has impressed trainer Gary White with her natural ability and he is keen to give her another chance in Saturday’s Routley’s [...]
Richard Fahey is relishing the prospect of saddling his first Derby runner after Mickdaam booked his ticket to Epsom in a thrilling renewal of the Chester Vase. The trainer is one of the most upwardly mobile trainers in the game but has yet to have a horse worthy of a [...]
Star Queensland sprinter Buffering has a minor hoof injury and is in doubt for the Group One BTC Cup at Doomben on Saturday. Trainer Rob Heathcote alerted Racing Queensland stewards on Friday that Buffering had a minor hoof problem which was discovered after the sprinter worked at Eagle Farm. “I [...]
Fran Houlahan and her co-trainer husband Brian Johnston are hoping to top off a successful week when Blue Nile backs up at Caulfield on Saturday. The pair have had four winners so far this week including a double at Sandown on Wednesday with Blue Nile and Shabangabang. Blue Nile, a [...]