Irish jumps jockey Tom Ryan upstaged local champion Steve Pateman when he completed The Australian Steeplechase-The Australian Hurdle double aboard the Robert Smerdon-trained Kirribilli Gold. Earlier he guided the Bill and Symon Wilde-trained Megapixel to an all-the-way win in the Steeple. Kirribilli Gold had been ridden by Pateman to win [...]
Race 3 – 1:05PM The Australian Steeplechase (3900 METRES) Of $100,000.1st $62,563, 2nd $19,250, 3rd $8,662, 4th $3,850, 5th $1,925, 6th $750, 7th $750, 8th $750, 9th $750, 10th $750, Starter Subsidy $750 Handicap, Minimum Weight 64.5kg, Weight Raised 0.5kg, Eligible riders cannot claim.Track Condition: Slow 7 Time: 4:38.72 Last 600m: 0:39.07 INTERIM RESULTS Finish [...]
Darren Weir believes Via Savoia and Gotta Take Care both need to pull out something extra if they are to win Saturday’s feature jumps events – The Australian Steeplechase and The Australian Hurdle respectively – at Sandown. Via Savoia has run third to Fareer in the Brierly Steeple (3450m) and [...]
Gavin Bedggood is confident Al Karam can give him his fourth win in The Australian Steeplechase from the last six runnings of the $100,000 event at Sandown on Saturday. Bedggood is entitled to like the prospects of his mount who raced away from Fareer to beat him easily in taking [...]
Champion jumps jockey Steven Pateman will be after a hat-trick of Australian Hurdle victories when he rides the impressive Palmero in the $100,000 race at Sandown on Saturday. Palmero is unbeaten in three jumps starts, including two for trainer Ciaron Maher who spotted the gelding in New Zealand. The Hawk [...]
Champion jumper Black And Bent has a tendon injury and will not race again this year. Managing part-owner Mike Symons revealed the news via Twitter on Monday saying the Robert Smerdon-trained gelding had hurt the same leg that caused him to miss almost 12 months’ racing in 2010-11. “B&B (Black [...]
The Tabcorp Warrnambool May Racing Carnival is regarded as the biggest and best country racing carnival in Australia and the 2012 edition certainly backed up that statement with three outstanding days of racing. It is the pinnacle of jumps racing in the Southern Hemisphere. It all kicked off on Tuesday [...]
Jarrod McLean will dodge Black And Bent with Cats Fun who will have his first start over the big fences at Warrnambool in the Brierly Steeplechase on May 1 and might back up in the Grand Annual two days later. The 2008 Group Two Perth Cup winner was a five-length [...]
Cross country jockey Aaron Lynch was suspended for five jumps races for easing Our Aristocrat down over the final stages of the hurdle, costing him second place at Sandown on Wednesday. Our Aristocrat finished third to Black And Bent with stewards ruling that Lynch not riding the gelding out over [...]
The Sandown meeting provided an excellent prelude to the Warrnambool May racing carnival for champion hurdler Black And Bent and promising steeplechaser Phaze Action who won their respective disciplines impressively. Phaze Action overcame difficulties to win Wednesday’s Like Sportingbet Park On Facebook Steeplechase (3300m) while Black And Bent cruised to [...]