Porcellanus has put herself in the mix to take on Dear Demi and Gondokoro in the Queensland Oaks with victory at Warwick Farm on Sunday. The Gai Waterhouse-trained filly beat older mares Mossmoney and Rain Alert over 1600 metres to take her record to two wins from two starts. The [...]
Outstand mare Ortensia, who has Group One wins in three countries, has been retired after finishing unplaced in the race named in her honour at Scone on Saturday. Trainer Paul Messara told stewards the mare had raced for the last time after she laboured into ninth place, four lengths from [...]
Group One-placed as a spring three-year-old, Ashokan has been a work in progress since joining the Gai Waterhouse stable. But both his trainer and jockey Nash Rawiller are confident the colt is ready to put it all together when he chases his biggest payday in Saturday’s $500,000 Inglis Guineas (1400m) [...]
Veteran Group One winner Sniper’s Bullet is primed for his comeback but it will have to wait another week after he received 61.5kg at Rosehill on Saturday. Trainer Tracey Bartley said the nine-year-old would bypass the benchmark 95 in favour of the $140,000 Luskin Star Quality (1300m) on the second [...]
Rugby league great Andrew Johns was terrified he would be fired by the Nine Network after he “embellished” what he’d been told by bookie Tom Waterhouse about the racehorse More Joyous. Businessman and horse owner John Singleton told Racing NSW’s inquiry into the matter that Johns had been drinking the [...]
John Singleton and the Waterhouse family have arrived at Racing NSW’s headquarters in Sydney for the inquiry into the performance of racehorse More Joyous. The inquiry is shaping up to be a media circus, with over 50 reporters and photographers staking out the Druitt St lobby on Monday morning. Horse [...]
John Singleton and the Waterhouse family have arrived at Racing NSW’s headquarters in Sydney for the inquiry into the performance of racehorse More Joyous. The inquiry is shaping up to be a media circus, with over 50 reporters and photographers staking out the Druitt St lobby on Monday morning. Horse [...]
Ortensia is poised to start a campaign which could be her last on a stage a long way removed from her international Group One triumphs. Trainer Paul Messara will use a race named in the mare’s honour during the Scone Cup carnival as a foundation sprint for a possible Brisbane [...]
Star colt Pierro has been retired with stud negotiations to begin in earnest over the next few weeks. His retirement following his second to Sacred Falls in Saturday’s Doncaster Mile comes just days after that of champion Black Caviar with whom Pierro’s name has been mentioned as a possible mate [...]
Golden Slipper winning jockey Tommy Berry will forego the chance to win this year’s Sydney premiership in favour of a three-month stint in Hong Kong. Overreach gave the 22-year-old his fourth Group One win in Saturday’s $3.5 million Slipper. He holds a half win lead over Hugh Bowman in the [...]
