Trainer Michael Nolan believes only a big weight can stop top Queensland filly Kisukano from making a winning return to racing on the Sunshine Coast. Kisukano has been allocated 60.5kg in the Bruce McLachlan Classic 2YO (1000m) on Saturday. It will be her first run since beating star gelding Rothfire… Read More »
Champion trainer Chris Waller has recorded 47 stakes winners this season, but a victory by Starla in the Group Three Winx Guineas (1600m) would be his sentimental favourite. The Sunshine Coast Guineas was this year renamed for champion mare Winx, who scored the first of her record 33 consecutive wins… Read More »
The directors of the Victorian Jockeys’ Association have agreed to a template for a range of penalties over indiscretions of the whip. Debate has raged in Victoria in recent weeks over a string of penalties handed out to jockeys on overuse of the whip. Racing Victoria chief steward Robert Cram… Read More »
Ready To Prophet was well beaten in two Queensland starts but co-trainer Adrian Bott says the mare has returned to Sydney in good shape to continue her winter campaign in a stakes race at Rosehill. Four-year-old mare Ready To Prophet is scheduled to be one of two runners for the… Read More »
Trainer Mick Bell is hoping luck will be on the side of his sprinter Jungle Edge in the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield. Bell watched Jungle Edge get run down in the final stages by Oak Door in the 1100m sprint last year and says the gelding is going… Read More »
Southern Lad has been knocking on the door of a win this campaign and trainer John O’Shea is hopeful the potential for a drier surface will enhance the sprinter’s winning chances in the Listed Ramornie Handicap at Grafton. O’Shea said Wednesday’s $200,000 Ramornie (1200m) had been a target for Southern… Read More »
Mystic Journey’s racing return has been delayed with the PB Lawrence Stakes on August 15 now pencilled in for the Group One-winning mare. Trainer Adam Trinder had planned to run the rising five-year-old in the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield on July 25, but opted against it. “We’ve… Read More »
Star New Zealand galloper Te Akau Shark remains in an equine hospital in Sydney after undergoing eye surgery. Te Akau Shark had implant surgery last month and while recovering well from the operation picked up a lung infection that is causing concern. Trainer Jamie Richards said last year’s Cox Plate… Read More »
Daniel Stackhouse is set to jump back aboard Ashlor in the Group Three Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield, with Victoria’s premiership-leading jockey a chance to snare a winter feature for the second week in a row. Stackhouse steered Sircconi to a dominant victory in last Saturday’s Listed Winter Championship… Read More »
British raider Mishriff provided John Gosden with his first victory in the Prix du Jockey Club. And it came at the expense of a three-year-old destined to join Australian trainer David Hayes’s Hong Kong stable. An impressive winner of the Listed Newmarket Stakes on his latest appearance, Mishriff was a… Read More »
The winner of this year’s Italian Oaks has an Australian link with prominent syndicator OTI Racing recently securing a 50 per cent interest in Auyantepui. The Oaks was run in Milan on Sunday (Monday morning AEST) with Auyantepui remaining unbeaten from three starts in her first run since OTI were… Read More »
NSW’s premiership-leading trainer Kris Lees is poised to have a strong hand in one of the state’s biggest country Cups. Lees is leading Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller in the NSW premiership with less than a month of the season to go and both trainers have three acceptors in Thursday’s… Read More »
Northern Rivers trainer Matt Dunn has a prime opportunity to win one of the most significant races in his region when Snitz tackles the Ramornie Handicap at Grafton. Dunn is the district’s leading trainer but is yet to win either of the main features at the annual Grafton July carnival,… Read More »
Group One-winning jockey Michael Dee is set for a stint on the sidelines after breaking a collarbone in a fall at Pakenham which requires surgery. Dee won the fifth race on Sunday’s program on the synthetic track but was injured when the horse he was riding, Heroic Fighter, fell on… Read More »
Zac Purton is all but assured of his fourth Hong Kong jockeys’ premiership after Joao Moreira incurred another suspension. Purton rode three winners to Moreira’s two on Sunday’s program at Sha Tin and the Australian rider holds a six-win lead over the Brazilian with only three meetings of the season… Read More »
Donnacha O’Brien’s Fancy Blue has led home an Irish one-two-three in the Prix de Diane at Chantilly. The former dual champion jockey only took out his training licence earlier this year, following in the footsteps of his father Aidan O’Brien – who completed the Derby and Oaks double at Epsom… Read More »
Godolphin star Ghaiyyath wrested away Enable’s Eclipse Stakes crown with a relentless front-running victory at Sandown. Charlie Appleby’s remorseless galloper led after the first furlong and was never headed as he added his second successive Group One following last month’s success in the Coronation Cup at Newmarket. Three-time G1 winner!… Read More »
The first Group One race of the 2020-21 Australian racing season is in trainer John Thompson’s sights with stable stalwart Dreamforce. Dreamforce broke through for a deserved Group One win during the Sydney autumn carnival in the George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill in March before failing in his final… Read More »
Smart sprinter Boomsara will be on trial for a Sydney spring campaign when returns to racing in the $200,000 Listed Ramornie Handicap (1200m) on Wednesday. Boomsara was expected to be a major player in the Brisbane winter carnival but after it was originally scrapped he was a late starter missing… Read More »
The race is on to find a jockey for smart mare Boomtown Lass in the Ramornie Handicap after connections decided to bypass a stakes race Brisbane. The $200,000 Listed Ramornie will be run at Grafton on Wednesday and will have a capacity field but Boomtown Lass is assured of a… Read More »
