Veteran New Zealand trainer Murray Baker is looking ahead to the new season with several potential stars ready to trial at Te Rapa. Baker and his training partner Andrew Forsman have secured their third straight NZ premiership with their tally including a record 25 stakes wins. The duo sits on… Read More »
Champion jockey Craig Williams has the record for the number of Melbourne jockeys’ premierships in his sights after securing his eighth title. Williams rode one winner at Caulfield on Saturday, the final Melbourne city meeting of the season, to finish 2018/19 with 83 metropolitan winners in Victoria. He was 18… Read More »
Oaks winning filly Princess Jenni has thrived during her winter spell in the sun in Queensland and has began shedding the kilograms in the prelude to her spring campaign. Trainer David Brideoake said the Group One-winning filly returned to his stable at Mornington last week in magnificent order. Princess Jenni… Read More »
After a strong finish to the season, Teo Nugent has designs on the Melbourne metropolitan apprentices’ premiership next season. Nugent, who is indentured to Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, rode a winning double at Melbourne’s final metropolitan meeting of the season at Caulfield on Saturday after notching a winner at… Read More »
Brisbane stakes performer Garibaldi will dodge the better Sydney three-year-olds and head to Melbourne for the spring carnival. Garibaldi is one of eight horses trainer Tony Gollan has nominated for the 2019 Golden Rose at Rosehill on September 28 but he is unlikely to run any of them. “We entered… Read More »
Sydney Cup placegetter Sir Charles Road is in Sydney to be prepared for a spring campaign aimed at the Melbourne Cup. Trained by Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott, the New Zealand stayer will bypass the Hastings spring carnival to concentrate on Australia starting with a 1400m-race at Randwick on August… Read More »
As a former jockey, then a trainer, Matthew Hyland is acutely aware of the hours associated with working in the racing industry. In his role as chief executive of the Victorian Jockeys’ Association, Hyland has taken up the fight for jockeys and high on the agenda is assisting them to… Read More »
Trainer Robert Hickmott has pinpointed the Turnbull Stakes to launch the Australian career of German horse Django Freeman, with the Group One race at Flemington to shape the import’s spring program. Django Freeman, who is among the horses on the second line of Caulfield Cup betting, is due to arrive… Read More »
The Gold Coast Turf Club could soon have a definite guideline as to when lights will be introduced at the track. Racing Queensland and the state government have made a commitment to have night racing at the Gold Coast by next year. There has been a delay and opposition racing… Read More »
Roaring Lion has undergone surgery for colic in New Zealand where he was due to stand at Cambridge Stud this season. Henry Plumptre, chief executive of Cambridge Stud, said the horse had been admitted to Cambridge Equine Veterinary Hospital early on Saturday morning, just 15 minutes after leaving quarantine where… Read More »
Queensland stewards are facing a juggling act to finish the inquiry into the fall in the Queensland Derby in which dual Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Corey Brown suffered serious injuries. Brown was riding Lord Arthur who fell at the 300m mark in the Derby at Eagle Farm on June 8. He… Read More »
Enable has had to call on all her reserves to fight off Crystal Ocean and become only the third dual winner of the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Sent off the 8-15 favourite for the Ascot showpiece, the John Gosden-trained mare found herself trapped wider than ideal through… Read More »
Decorated jockey Robert Thompson has produced a ride for the ages to win the $150,000 Townsville Cup for the second time. Two decades after scoring on Once Upon A Crime, Thompson threaded his way through the field to land The Harrovian ($6) a narrow winner. Thompson is a Hall of… Read More »
Tasmanian galloper Tshahitsi has provided emerging apprentice Teo Nugent with a late-season double at Caulfield with an all-the-way victory. After winning aboard Tavirun in the Mypunter.com Handicap, Nugent added Saturday’s Catanach’s Jewellers Handicap to his record. Not planning on leading throughout, Nugent rated Tshahitsi ($4.40) to perfection running out a… Read More »
Trainer Lindsey Smith admits he got a bit emotional watching his stable star Scales Of Justice return to racing in emphatic fashion in the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield. Having his first start since November, the 2016 Group One Railway Stakes winner Scales Of Justice strode clear over the… Read More »
Godolphin’s James Cummings has trained more stakes winners than Chris Waller this season but Sydney’s premier trainer has come out on top in the final black-type race for the year. The Waller-trained Seaway has given the stable its fifth win from seven runnings of the Listed Winter Challenge (1500m) at… Read More »
Benitoite has continued her rise through the grades defying an inside draw to win at Caulfield. The three-year-old extended her tally to four wins from six starts taking out Saturday’s Jenna Ross VOBIS Gold Reef. Commencing her career with a Moe win in April, Benitoite is now a dual city… Read More »
Manaya remains for sale despite an impressive win in the Workforce Success Handicap at Eagle Farm. Manaya appreciated a drop back from stakes races to score a half-length win over Morendi ($41) with three-quarters of a length to After All That ($3.90). The mare is a half-sister to Group One… Read More »
The impressive winter form of three-year-old Tavirun has continued at Caulfield, with the gelding taking a distance rise in his stride to claim his third-straight win at the track. After victories over 2000m at his previous two starts, Tavirun stepped up to 2400m for the first time in Saturday’s Mypunter.com… Read More »
Foxy Housewife may have staved off a career in the broodmare barn with her win at Rosehill for new trainer Joe Pride. Owned by BK Thoroughbreds, Foxy Housewife remained in Sydney after her recent unplaced effort in the Winter Stakes for Sunshine Coast trainer David Vandyke. An $8.50 chance in… Read More »
