Trainer Kelso Wood was left in a quandary about his galloper Seeking More and apprentice Kirk Matheson after they combined to win on Saturday. Starting favourite, Seeking More ($3.10) made it five wins and a second from eight starts at Doomben when he beat Excellantes ($3.20) by a length in… Read More »
Weight of numbers has worked for trainer Gerald Ryan with Peggy Jean winning the $1 million Sires’ Produce Stakes at Randwick. Ryan saddled up four runners in the Group One race for two-year-olds on Saturday and it was left to Peggy Jean ($3.80) to provide the result the trainer had… Read More »
A change in training and riding tactics have proven the catalyst for Victorian filly Politeness to score a barnstorming Group Three win at Randwick. Trainer Robert Smerdon said the three-year-old had long shown talent but failed to live up to expectations, prompting him to tinker with his approach. “The less… Read More »
Winning city races can only further endear jockey Daniel Moor to leading trainer Mick Price. Moor has enjoyed Price’s support since his days as an apprentice, but has had to wait his turn behind star jockeys Damien Oliver, Glen Boss and Craig Newitt. Moor knows not riding work regularly for… Read More »
Gypsy Diamond missed a start in the Doncaster Mile as the second emergency, but a Group Three win at Randwick has ensured she will soon get her chance at a Group One race. Trainer John O’Shea said, all going well, the filly would take her place against the fillies and… Read More »
Former NSW country galloper Brave Ali fooled those watching the pre-race parade when he sweated profusely before winning at Doomben on Saturday. Brave Ali was formerly trained by Chris Martin at Tamworth but after winning at Doomben two weeks ago was transferred to trainer Tony Gollan in Brisbane. The gelding… Read More »
Legendary trainer Bart Cummings and his grandson James captured the inaugural race of The Championships with lightly raced colt Hallowed Crown in an event marred by a fatal injury to a rival runner. Canberra-trained I Am Snippety was travelling well in the lead before her off-foreleg gave way shortly after… Read More »
The horse Peter Snowden rates as his best chance of a farewell Derby win for Darley will figure in a switch of riding tactics. Tupac Amaru, one of two Darley runners in the $2 million ATC Australian Derby at Randwick on Saturday, will be ridden much closer to the front…. Read More »
Jockeys will ride for the Nathan Berry Medal in the 10 races of The Championships and a fund has been established in his name to help research the rare illness which killed the 23-year-old. Berry died last week from complications associated with NORSE syndrome which is related to severe epilepsy…. Read More »
Apprentice Ruby Ride has won an appeal over a conviction for verbally abusing a steward about the state of the Eagle Farm track. Ride was fined $500 for allegedly swearing at steward Martin Knibbs at the Eagle Farm meeting on March 14. She denied she had used such language. Ride… Read More »
A lucrative sales bonus was the catalyst for NSW trainer Allan Denham to send Furbish to Queensland for his debut and the two-year-old obliged with victory at Eagle Farm. Furbish ($2.40) was midfield and wide coming around the home turn but charged home to beat Lucky Tom ($3.50) score an… Read More »
Nash Rawiller turned his focus to a session of boxing in a bid to land a knockout blow on Royal Descent in the $3 million Doncaster Mile at Randwick on Saturday. Regarded as a heavyweight jockey, Rawiller will ride at his lightest since the Melbourne spring carnival when he partners… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan will wait until race morning to make a final call but says Spirit Of Boom will be scratched from the TJ Smith Stakes if the track is heavy. The last-start William Reid Stakes winner is at his best on dry ground and Gollan does not want to… Read More »
Glen Boss knows better than most what it takes to win the $3 million Doncaster Mile. The champion jockey has won Sydney’s showpiece handicap a record five times and is convinced he has secured the ride on a horse with the right profile to add to that haul at Randwick… Read More »
While the push is always on to get two-year-olds into the Golden Slipper, trainer Gerald Ryan has had one race in mind all season – the Sires’ Produce Stakes. Ryan has trained nine individual winners of 13 juvenile races so far and only one was given the tick to go… Read More »
Trainer Murray Johnson has twice been close to winning the Kentucky Derby but it is a more modest Classic race in Adelaide next month that is now driving his ambitions. Johnson is chasing his first stakes winner in Australia when Family Pride runs in Saturday’s Listed Galilee Series Final at… Read More »
Twice Anthony Cummings has had to wait for the judge to tell him Fontelina has been beaten in Group One races too close to call. If it happens again in the TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday the only other thing the trainer wants to see in the frame is the… Read More »
Peter Moody will take legal advice before deciding his next move in his fight against stewards’ access to his Caulfield stable. The leading trainer has again voiced his anger at a Racing Victoria integrity department demand for keys to all stables at Caulfield and Flemington racecourses. Stewards ordered trainers to… Read More »
Stud-bound mare Miss Imagica could have her career extended for one more start if she runs well in her bid for a hat-trick of Weetwood Handicap wins. Miss Imagica is one of six horses to twice win the Weetwood which is Toowoomba and Queensland provincial racing’s premier sprint. Last year… Read More »
Queensland’s hopes of winning a Group-class three-year-old race during the winter carnival will be clearer after Shiraz Attack takes on promising males Rudy and Olympic Anthem on Saturday. The trio are taking different paths to carnival Group races but will have their first acid test of their campaigns in the… Read More »
