Toorak Handicap winner Solzhenitsyn is building steadily towards his autumn/winter campaign which will kick off in Sydney. Trainer Robert Heathcote said Solzhenitsyn would have three starts in Sydney before returning home to Queensland for the winter carnival. “He’ll kick off in the Canterbury Stakes over 1300 metres at Rosehill then… Read More »
Apprentice Blake Spriggs was lucky to escape injury when his mount Circle Of Power collapsed and died in the final race at Rosehill on Saturday. Spriggs sensed something was wrong with the Rod Craig-trained gelding at the top of the straight and tried to ease him out of the race…. Read More »
Toowoomba trainer John Dann believes Tukiyo is up to winter carnival standard after she kept her unbeaten record intact at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Dann said Tukiyo ($11) would have a short break from racing before she targets black-type company next preparation. “There are some good three-year-old fillies races during… Read More »
Talented but wayward newcomer Marseille Roulette has survived a protest to win the lucrative Inglis Classic at Rosehill on Saturday. The colt’s outward shift inside the 100m mark gave James McDonald on runner-up Fuerza cause to lodge an objection against Tommy Berry but stewards said the two-length rule came into… Read More »
Anthony Freedman celebrated his return to Flemington with a win at his new home track that might have been better than he thought. Freedman relocated this week from the Markdel training complex he and his brothers set up at Rye, south of Melbourne, to the track where they began training… Read More »
The progeny of Snitzel and trainer Gerald Ryan are a formidable combination with Centrepet the latest to claim a metropolitan victory. The filly, a $5 chance, ran out a decisive winner of the 1100m Benchmark 75 for three-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday, beating Darley colt Chiaramonte by 1-1/4 lengths. Ryan,… Read More »
He stretched his trainer’s budget as a yearling and he’s stretched his patience ever since, but the talented gelding Red Inca has begun to make it all worthwhile. Trainer Ray Besanko will set Red Inca for the Group One Australian Guineas (1600m) following his win in Saturday’s Seascay Handicap (1410m)… Read More »
A last-to-first win at Rosehill by Campania has reinforced trainer Garry Frazer’s belief he has a genuine Oaks filly on his hands. A betting drifter from $8 to $15 in Saturday’s Inglis 3YO Bonus (1500m) despite her last-start win, Campania dropped out to the tail of the field early but… Read More »
Dalton gave the Hawkes Racing team some consolation for missing a Magic Millions start when he scored a comfortable win in the Bollinger Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The colt was beaten by subsequent Magic Millions winner Real Surreal at his previous start at Eagle Farm and didn’t earn… Read More »
A lack of suitable Sydney races for Saturday’s Rosehill winner She’s Clean means she is likely to be aimed at the Brisbane winter carnival. Trainer Chris Waller said the mare was still learning her craft and the next step up from Saturday’s 1300m Benchmark 80 was a bridge too far… Read More »
A mare who has had three different trainers and won for all of them, scored for her latest handler at Flemington on Saturday, staking a claim for a permanent address. Goldslick was having her fourth start for trainer Mick Kent in the Dover Handicap (1610m) and showed both adaptability and… Read More »
The progeny of Snitzel and trainer Gerald Ryan are a formidable combination with Centrepet the latest to claim a metropolitan victory. The filly, a $5 chance, ran out a decisive winner of the 1100m Benchmark 75 for three-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday, beating Darley colt Chiaramonte by 1-1/4 lengths. Ryan,… Read More »
The Darley stable provided yet another demonstration of its undeniable power and added yet a new name to the Blue Diamond Stakes mix when Metastasio scored a comfortable win in the Nursery Handicap at Flemington on Saturday. Metastasio’s win put her in the running for a start in Melbourne’s richest… Read More »
Racing is facing a second successive whiteout after widespread snow led to a blank afternoon of racing in Britain on Friday. While Chepstow’s jumps card was an early casualty on Friday morning, even the all-weather meetings at Wolverhampton and Lingfield were unable to cope. All three of Saturday’s jumping fixtures… Read More »
Former Australian-based jockey Andrew Heffernan and eight unlicensed individuals will have to wait until next Friday to know their fate following a British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel hearing over breaches of the rules of racing. Ten days had been set aside for the hearing which began on Monday at the… Read More »
Excessive heat forced officials to call off a NSW provincial thoroughbred race meeting on Friday. As the temperature reached 43.5C at Gosford racecourse at 2pm, stewards decided it was too dangerous to start the twilight meeting. The meeting, held to attract central coast holidaymakers, was due to start at 2.53pm… Read More »
Three of the biggest names from the Gai Waterhouse stable dominate the top of the first Doncaster Mile market but it is a stablemate making a comeback who has attracted immediate support. Triple crown winner Pierro shares the top line of betting with his Caulfield Guineas conqueror All Too Hard… Read More »
As a three-year-old Red Colossus was a Derby horse and at four he was running in some of the best races in the country. By the end of his five-year-old season the sights had been dropped to the Darwin Cup and then, at his most recent start, to the Koroit… Read More »
One of the central figures in the Damien Oliver betting scandal has escaped being charged. Mark Hunter, the professional punter and former AFL player who Oliver phoned to place a $10,000 bet on Miss Octopussy in a race at Moonee Valley in October 2010, was investigated racing Victoria stewards over… Read More »
Tactics used with success on Direct Charge in the most prestigious two-year-old race of the Melbourne spring carnival will be the key to the colt’s chances in the $250,000 Inglis Classic on Saturday. Direct Charge blotted an otherwise promising start to his racing career when he finished unplaced at his… Read More »
