Dear Demi sustained a long run to win The Roses at Doomben but it was runner-up Gondokoro who produced the outstanding Queensland Oaks trial. Ridden by Luke Nolen, Dear Demi ($4) managed to cling on from the fast-finishing Gondokoro ($13) to win by a short head with Vaquera ($26) a [...]
Glen Boss is a lot closer to the end of his career than the beginning – and as close as he’s ever been to winning a jockeys’ championship. Boss goes into Saturday’s Flemington meeting with 99 wins for the racing year and seems destined to ride at least one winner [...]
Ben Melham lines up for his third Group One win in three weeks at Morphettville on Saturday confident he and the horse he’s riding are in the same sparkling form. Melham rides Platelet in South Australia’s premier sprint, the Goodwood (1200m), having partnered the mare to victory in the Group [...]
Daniel Stackhouse is keen to make the most of some plum rides at Flemington on Saturday in the absence of Peter Moody’s stable jockey Luke Nolen. Nolen will ride at the Gold Coast meeting, paving the way for Stackhouse to partner Moody’s top chances in Melbourne highlighted by early favourites [...]
It all went fairly cheerfully until Luke Nolen slipped his saddle off the big mare and took a step back and looked at her. Peter Moody sensed it and put his arm around the jockey’s shoulders as the first tears came into Nolen’s eyes. “All over, mate,” Moody said. “Yep,” [...]
The gates will be thrown open for Saturday’s Caulfield meeting when retired champion Black Caviar will parade in front of racegoers. Black Caviar’s connections announced on Wednesday that the winner of 25 from 25 had run her final race. So fans can farewell Black Caviar, the mare will parade at [...]
Black Caviar stole the show at the re-opening of Randwick on Saturday but one of the lasting images was of Snowy the pony limping alongside her. Snowy was being ridden by Network 7′s Hamish McLachlan as he interviewed jockey Luke Nolen at the end of the race. The Australian Turf [...]
An hour after Black Caviar made it 25 straight wins, she was still posing for photographs outside her stall at Randwick and her trainer was still pressing flesh with her fans. In the gathering darkness, the crowd clamoured for the world champion mare and for her trainer. It was difficult [...]
The incomparable Black Caviar has slaughtered the best field ever assembled against her to remain unconquered and supreme. In a race billed as her greatest test and one in which her rivals unashamedly served notice they were out to make her work harder than she ever had, the world champion [...]
Black Caviar has extended her unbeaten sequence to 25 wins, setting an Australian record for Group One victories in the $1 million TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick. Making only the second Sydney appearance of her illustrious career, Black Caviar posted her 15th Group One win to take her past Kingston [...]
