Annabel Neasham has confirmed she will split with the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable to take out her training licence in the new season. Neasham has steered the Sydney arm of the Maher and Eustace operation for the past two years with outstanding success but says the time is… Read More »
An inquiry into the Alligator Blood positive swab from the Magic Millions 3YO Guineas has been set down for July 23. Sunshine Coast trainer David Vandyke will face Racing Queensland stewards after the sample was confirmed to contain the prohibited substance altrenogest. Altrenogest, more commonly known as Regu-mate, is banned… Read More »
Sam Kavanagh is readying himself to walk onto a Sydney racetrack for the first time in five years, battered and bruised, but a wiser and better man. The trainer’s star was on the rise when he was banned for cobalt offences in 2015 and rubbed out of the sport for… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Danny O’Brien expects a late-season race for three-year-olds at Caulfield will provide a good test for Grand De Flora when the blue-blood filly bids to continue a rise through the grades in Victoria. By champion New Zealand sire Savabeel out of three-time Group One winner Daffodil whose… Read More »
The NSW Trainers’ Association has announced the appointment of Richard Callander as its chief executive. NSWTA chairman Richard Pegum confirmed the news on Thursday and said Callander would be responsible for driving the organisation’s vision to deliver better conditions for trainers state-wide Callander has held various roles in the racing… Read More »
Matthew Dunn will have a final chance to snare another Highway Handicap in Sydney before relinquishing his eligibility to have runners in the weekly races. The Murwillumbah-based trainer has maintained a small team in Sydney during the coronavirus pandemic after biosecurity processes implemented in Queensland prevented him travelling his team… Read More »
Viridine could be caught in limbo as spring looms with the decision to send the Godolphin galloper to Melbourne for a stakes race at Caulfield. The James Cummings-trained sprinter was dispatched from Sydney on Wednesday night to run in the Sir John Monash Stakes. Viridine and his former Godolphin stablemate… Read More »
Jockey Fred Kersley has been suspended for the second time in as many city meetings for breaching whip rules. Kersley was suspended for six meetings and fined $300 for using the whip on 10 occasions before the 100m aboard third-placed Stretto in last Saturday’s Silver Bowl Final at Flemington, five… Read More »
Co-trainer Bryan Guy believes lightly raced Vendidit can make a mockery of his odds and cement his new venture with Orbis Bloodstock by winning the Group Three Winx Guineas. The Sunshine Coast Guineas has been renamed the Winx Guineas after the champion mare started her record 33 consecutive wins by… Read More »
A return to top form in stakes races will see mare Krone withdrawn from the Magic Millions National Broodmare Sale to race for another season. Formerly trained by Mick Price in Melbourne, Krone was sent to Eagle Farm trainer Tony Gollan with the idea of getting more black-type before the… Read More »
Trainer Clive Cox believes Golden Horde will be lining up in “a proper Group One” for the Darley July Cup at Newmarket. The three-year-old will clash with older horses for the first time in Saturday’s six-furlong feature, after making a victorious return to action in the Commonwealth Cup at Royal… Read More »
The Anthony Freedman stable has spring hopes for Toyetic after the gelding broke through for his maiden win at Sandown. But Sam Freedman, assistant trainer to his father, admitted to some nervous moments before Toyetic closed out with an easy win in the Ladbrokes Odds Boost Handicap (1200m) on Wednesday…. Read More »
Prominent Sydney trainers Peter and Paul Snowden have added another Ramornie Handicap at Grafton, with Signore Fox bursting through between runners to win the Listed sprint. The father-and-son training partnership also won the Ramornie (1200m) with Calanda in 2017 while Peter Snowden prepared Pinwheel and Jerezana to successive wins in… Read More »
Goulburn trainer Kurt Goldman will not worry about getting his horse Intuition back across the Victoria and NSW border until after the sprinter races at Caulfield. Racing NSW on Wednesday slapped a ban on horses travelling from Victoria to NSW amid the latest COVID-19 lockdown in Melbourne. With no ban… Read More »
Trainer Kim Waugh cannot fault Trumbull as she prepares the last-start Civic Stakes winner to chase another feature race victory at Rosehill this winter. Trumbull snapped a frustrating run when he began well under jockey Tommy Berry and then raced away in the straight to win the Listed Civic Stakes… Read More »
Promising two-year-old Acrobatic was the best bred horse at Doomben and he won like it. Acrobatic ($1.45) jumped to the lead and cruised home beating Boom Ranga ($8.50) by three lengths in the Colts and Geldings 2Y0 (1200m) on Wednesday. Bred at Queensland’s boutique Highgrove Stud, Acrobatic is by champion… Read More »
An upcoming race meeting scheduled for Ballarat has been moved to a Melbourne course because of concerns over sections of the turf track. Racing Victoria, in consultation with the Ballarat Turf Club, have moved this Sunday’s meeting to The Valley after stewards inspected the Ballarat turf track and decided certain… Read More »
Multiple Group One winner The Bostonian is set to cross the Tasman once again this spring to try and add to his elite-level tally. The Tony Pike-trained gelding had another lucrative autumn in Australia this year, bagging his third Group One victory in the Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick in… Read More »
Despite returning to stage three lockdowns in Melbourne, racing in Victoria will continue as it has done throughout the coronavirus pandemic. However racehorse owners will be banned from attending meetings at 11 racecourses located within Melbourne and the Mitchell Shire that have been placed in a six-week lockdown announced by… Read More »
Last start McKell Cup winner Frankely Awesome has been scratched from the Grafton Cup but trainer Kris Lees is still poised to have a strong hand in the Listed race. Lees had three acceptors for Thursday’s 2350m Grafton Cup but Frankely Awesome, who had drawn the outside barrier, was scratched… Read More »
