Ciaron Maher wants another chance to qualify Mr O’Ceirin for the Caulfield Cup after the stayer narrowly missed a run in last year’s race. Mr O’Ceirin proved a class above his off-season rivals in Saturday’s Printhouse Graphics Handicap (2040m) at Moonee Valley with premiership-leading jockey Glen Boss in the saddle. [...]
Tony Vasil had already declared Prince Harada potentially one of the best horses he has trained. But a stunning last-to-first win in the colt’s city debut at Moonee Valley on Saturday only helped to justify that opinion. Prince Harada, a son of Vasil’s former star galloper Haradasun, was sent out [...]
Tony Vasil expects a “pretty special” horse to step out at Moonee Valley on Saturday when two-year-old Prince Harada makes his city debut. Vasil has Caulfield Guineas aspirations for the colt he believes is potentially one of the best he’s trained. Prince Harada made a good impression winning by 2-3/4 [...]
Most of the excuses trainer Tony Vasil had made on behalf of the enigmatic galloper Under The Eiffel were justified by the gelding’s breakthrough stakes win in the George Adams Stakes at Launceston last month. Vasil is hoping the rest of them can be put to rest at Caulfield on [...]
Nathan McPherson is the latest trainer to be fined after being found guilty of administering a raceday treatment to a horse. McPherson was hit with an $8000 fine after stewards ruled he had treated Testaguy with an unknown substance by way of injection on the day he was due to [...]
Tony Vasil is the latest Victorian trainer to be fined $10,000 for administering a raceday treatment. Vasil appeared before Racing Victoria stewards in Melbourne on Monday at an inquiry stemming from the late scratching of Classic Elle at the Moonee Valley night meeting on January 25. Classic Elle was scratched [...]
Stewards have discovered syringes in a trainer’s pocket and blood on the neck of a horse due to race at Mornington on Monday. Members of Racing Victoria’s compliance assurance team swooped on the Mornington stables of trainer Nathan McPherson as part of a campaign targeting the treatment of horses within [...]
Tony Vasil is the latest trainer to come under scrutiny from Victorian stewards who ordered the withdrawal of one of his runners at Moonee Valley on Friday night. Classic Elle was scratched 20 minutes before she was due to start after stewards received a report from the Compliance Assurance team [...]
A recent Flemington double with British General and Tuscan Fire has fuelled Dan O’Sullivan’s ambitions of a repeat at the same track on Saturday. The pair won at the New Year’s Day meeting and premiership leader Glen Boss has committed to both horses again but the trainer has some reservations [...]
Few trainers in Melbourne know their horses better than Tony Vasil. For that reason the trainer was mystified by the betting drift that preceded the Caulfield win of Veewap. “I couldn’t believe it, I was wondering what I must have missed,” Vasil said. He missed nothing. Aided by a patient [...]