Star filly Mystic Journey will take another step towards her race return when she runs in a barrier trial at Devonport in Tasmania. The Adam Trinder-trained filly is entered for an 800m-trial on the synthetic track on Tuesday as a stepping stone towards her scheduled return in the Group Three… Read More »
Ex-pat Australian John Moore is open to continuing his career in Sydney if he is forced to retire from training in Hong Kong. Moore, the winner of seven Hong Kong championships, has another 12 months in Hong Kong under the rules of compulsory retirement at 70. The rule was changed… Read More »
The Civic Stakes did not work out as trainer Gary Portelli would have liked but Nicci’s Gold and Testashadow get another chance in the Winter Stakes at Rosehill. After having no luck in running, Nicci’s Gold finished fourth in the Listed Civic Stakes (1350m) last Saturday week while Testashadow was… Read More »
Another trip from South Australia to Victoria is on the cards for Group-winning sprinter Hard Empire. Trained by Richard Jolly and his daughter Chantelle, Hard Empire is among 23 nominations for Saturday’s Group Three Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield, with the plan for the gelding to travel from… Read More »
Australian jockey Zac Purton needs seven winners from the final 20 races to break Joao Moreira’s season record in Hong Kong after moving to within striking distance with a six-win haul at Sha Tin. Purton’s six winners on Sunday’s 11-race program took his season tally to 164, six short of… Read More »
The chance to get black-type has co-trainer Bryan Guy leaning towards running talented staying mare Protest in the Listed Grafton Cup instead of Doomben. Protest, who Guy trains in partnership with his son Daniel, is in the $160,000 Grafton Cup (2350m) on Thursday and a restricted class race over 2220m… Read More »
The headquarters of Racing Queensland in the seaside Brisbane suburb of Deagon is to undergo a major redevelopment as an education and training centre. Deagon is one of the oldest racetracks in Queensland but has been mainly a training centre since it stopped regular race meetings in the early 1940s…. Read More »
Dual Oaks winner Sea Of Class has run her last race and is fighting a serious bout of colic. The Irish and Yorkshire Oaks winner was struck down on Wednesday and has been receiving round the clock attention. Her condition is so grave, her trainer William Haggas was unequivocal that… Read More »
After rising to prominence with four-straight city wins during her most recent preparation, Fidelia is being set for a spring campaign aimed at Group One glory. The Robbie Griffiths-trained Fidelia was given a four-week spell after capping her late autumn preparation in Melbourne with victory in an open handicap for… Read More »
A winner at Flemington has got Ben Melham off the mark in his comeback from a three-month injury lay-off as the star jockey builds towards what he hopes can be a successful spring carnival. Melham suffered fractures to a wrist in a fall at The Valley in March, meaning the… Read More »
Veteran jockey Jeff Lloyd can cap his imminent retirement bringing up yet another impressive statistic this week. One more metropolitan win at Doomben on Wednesday or Saturday will be his 400th since returning to riding after suffering a stroke. Lloyd, 58, missed nearly a year of riding when he was… Read More »
Encouraged by Future Score’s fast-finishing win in the Banjo Paterson Series Final at Flemington, Ballarat trainer Matt Cumani hopes the imported stayer can keep stepping up. The four-year-old gelding was held up for clear running in the first half of the home straight in Saturday’s 2600m-race before Craig Williams was… Read More »
Trainer Chris Munce is set for a dual attack on the Listed Ramornie Handicap at Grafton a bid to give his long-time supporter Max Whitby another big Grafton win. Munce won the Grafton Cup with First Crush last year for a syndicate headed by Whitby. He decided not to press… Read More »
The Group One Caulfield Guineas figures among the plans for lightly raced Dalasan so long as the he can keep stepping up during his spring campaign. Prepared by Hall of Fame trainer Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas in Adelaide, Dalasan won his first two starts at home in February which… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan will resist the temptation to chase a bonus with Rockhampton Cup winner Silvera and bring the gelding back to Brisbane for a stakes race. Gollan had a disastrous first day of the Rockhampton carnival on Friday, failing to get a placegetter with six runners but he stormed… Read More »
Horse racing personality John McCririck who has died aged 79, suffered from lung cancer, his widow has revealed. McCririck – known as Big Mac to many in the racing world – was for many years the face of British horse racing. The 79-year-old was a regular on British television –… Read More »
Many great warriors over both codes have graced the turf at Sandown, but it is fair to say few will have come back to quite the unbridled delight that greeted the John Gosden-trained five-year-old Enable after the Eclipse Stakes. The roof-raising cheers as Enable hit the front under Frankie Dettori… Read More »
West Australian trainer Lindsey Smith has claimed the first feature race success from his new Warrnambool base, with Reykjavik a convincing winner of the Winter Championship Series Final at Flemington. Smith recently opened the stable while maintaining his West Australian base and produced the first winners from the Warrnambool operation… Read More »
A pair of half-siblings raced by prominent owners Geoff and Mary Grimish are proving handy money-spinners for trainer Mark Newnham. Invictus Salute, the older half-sister to Newnham’s two-time city-winning youngster Splintex, has landed her first Saturday city win in the Randwick Community Day Handicap (1000m). Stakes placed at Scone as… Read More »
West Australian trainer Neville Parnham and his jockey son Chris have combined to win the Listed All Victorian Sprint Series Final at Flemington with consistent gelding Malibu Style. The seven-year-old has done the majority of his recent racing in Victoria and Neville Parnham was confident he was ready to fire… Read More »
