Just weeks after bushfires swept through east Gippsland, the track at Canni Creek is ready to host the 133rd Buchan Cup. Locals have worked feverishly to get the track fit for racing with double the usual crowd expected at the meeting on Saturday. The annual picnic meeting was given the… Read More »
Queensland racing authorities have emphasised an outbreak of canine coronavirus in the state’s greyhound industry is in no way related to the current ‘novel coronavirus’ outbreak causing respiratory illness in people. Veterinarians from the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission have tested several greyhounds suffering from gastroenteritis this week. In a media… Read More »
Co-trainer Calvin McEvoy is hopeful Pretty Brazen can carry her spring form over to the autumn when she returns at Flemington. After two less than flattering runs in Sydney to start her spring campaign, Pretty Brazen returned to Melbourne to win three of her next four starts, culminating in the… Read More »
The Triscay Stakes has been a happy hunting ground for jockey Tim Clark who will bid for a hat-trick of wins aboard emerging mare Reelem In Ruby. Clark first won the Group Three sprint 11 years ago aboard the brilliant Hot Danish and has added the past two editions on… Read More »
Trainer Desleigh Forster has made key gear changes to two of her runners at Eagle Farm as she looks to build on her great start to the new year. Forster has won six races in the past three weeks from a team of a dozen horses. She has a genuine… Read More »
Peter Moody says he has learned a lot during his absence from training and will be taking a different approach in his comeback. The former leading Victorian trainer has reapplied for his licence and also made an application for a stable complex at Pakenham. Moody says he does not want… Read More »
Having learned to harness her brilliance, talented filly Akari is being given a shot at Sydney’s benchmark fillies, starting in the Group Three Light Fingers Stakes at Randwick. Trained by Brad Widdup, Akari faces a first-up stoush with star filly Libertini, along with Group One winners Kiamichi, Lyre and Flit…. Read More »
Trainers Peter and Paul Snowden are revving up the Golden Slipper campaigns of three of their top contenders with Dame Giselle the first to step out at Randwick. Boasting a victory over reigning Golden Slipper favourite Cellsabeel, Dame Giselle resumes in Saturday’s Listed Lonhro Plate (1000m), a race that will… Read More »
Alligator Blood’s growing popularity is evidenced by his lead in the voting for the All-Star Mile and his trainer David Vandyke says it is a privilege to have the budding star in his care. The winner of eight of his nine starts, Alligator Blood is back in Melbourne for a… Read More »
Expensive colt Xerri has a bit to live up to when he makes his debut at Eagle Farm. Co-trainers Toby and Trent Edmonds have backed their good opinion of Xerri by accepting with him in the $125,000 QTIS Two-Year-Old Handicap (1000m) at Eagle Farm. There is a restriction on the… Read More »
Favourite Alizee is in doubt for the Group Two Apollo Stakes at Randwick with Godolphin reconsidering whether to run her on a heavy track. Alizee has performed on slow ground but she was well beaten at her only try in more testing going as a two-year-old. With Randwick rated in… Read More »
After saddling Alabama Express to an upset win in the first Group One race of the year, trainer Mike Moroney runs Tofane in the Lightning Stakes. Three-year-old Alabama Express beat the older horses in last Saturday’s C F Orr Stakes and the lightly raced Tofane takes on some of the… Read More »
Fresh from claiming one of the autumn’s richest juvenile races, co-trainers Richard and Michael Freedman will turn their attention to qualifying Ticket To Ride for the Golden Slipper. Prime Star came up trumps in Wednesday’s reprogrammed $2 million Inglis Millennium at Warwick Farm, a timely boost for the training partnership… Read More »
The Brisbane Racing Club is confident Eagle Farm will at the worst have a soft surface despite being hammered by 325mm of rain in the past 10 days. The Doomben meeting on Thursday was abandoned after 66mm of rain fell overnight flooding the already saturated course proper. But Eagle Farm,… Read More »
Promising three-year-old Eric The Eel will begin his road to the Sydney autumn carnival at Eagle Farm despite drawing wide in a restricted race. The gelding has the outside barrier in Saturday’s Class Three Plate (1200m) but trainer Stuart Kendrick does not think it will be a disadvantage. Eric The… Read More »
Brisbane’s wet weather has forced promising stayer Slow Hands into an unscheduled rematch with his last-start conqueror The Kingdom. Trainer Kelly Schweida had planned to run Slow Hands at Doomben on Thursday but the meeting was called off after heavy overnight rain. Doomben has been soaked by more than 320mm… Read More »
Racing at Doomben has been called off because the track is saturated but the upcoming meeting at nearby Eagle Farm will go ahead. Stewards inspected Doomben on Thursday morning and said more than 60mm overnight had made the track unraceable. Doomben has received around 320mm in the past week. The… Read More »
A good day at the office could have been even bigger with a slice of luck for former New Zealand trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young. A Sandown double on Wednesday was small consolation for a bigger prize in Sydney that slipped through their grasp. Larimer Street was beaten a… Read More »
Cloudbreaker may not be in the top echelon of two-year-olds within the Lindsay Park stable but she does possess an attribute trainers love – a will to win that was on display at Sandown. Lindsay Park raised the bar to city class on Wednesday in the Ladbrokes Plate (1300m) after… Read More »
Three of Sydney’s leading jockeys will miss key carnival mounts after being suspended at Warwick Farm. Unless he is successful in an intended appeal, Tommy Berry has been ruled out of the ride on Golden Slipper favourite Cellsabeel if she runs in the Silver Slipper on Saturday week and Libertini… Read More »
