A horse trained by Peter Gelagotis has returned a positive sample to a prohibited substance on race day, with Racing Victoria stewards continuing their investigations. RV stewards have told Gelagotis a pre-race blood sample taken from Strong Influence before the gelding ran at Sandown on June 26 was shown to… Read More »
Trainer Patrick Payne believes promising filly Rubisaki will get better with time but the two-year-old will try to cap her first racing campaign with a stakes race win at Flemington. Rubisaki has two wins and a narrow second from three starts and goes to Saturday’s Listed Taj Rossi Series Final… Read More »
After passing his first test over jumps, New Zealander Gobstopper will be given his chance in Australia. A talented stayer on the flat, Gobstopper won a maiden hurdle last month with trainer Andrew Campbell now eyeing off the Brendan Drechsler Hurdle (3500m) at Pakenham on July 21 and the Grand… Read More »
A winning double at Ballarat has got prominent West Australian trainer Lindsey Smith off the mark from his new Warrnambool base. In the past couple of months Smith has opened a satellite stable at Warrnambool, in the stables formerly occupied by the now-disqualified trainer Darren Weir, while also keeping his… Read More »
Mark Newnham has had a successful season by anyone’s standards with two Group One wins and a position in the top 10 Sydney trainers. He is already beginning preparations for the spring but also has some off-season ammunition to keep his momentum going. Larson won the last race at Gosford… Read More »
After closing strongly for second behind the promising Excused on debut, two-year-old filly Indiscretion will head back to Sandown chasing a late-season city win ahead of a potential spring campaign. Indiscretion got back in the field on a heavy track two weeks ago on the Hillside course over 1000m but… Read More »
A new bet type, Odds and Evens, has been introduced by the TAB and Racing NSW to attract young punters and help fund the $7.5 million Golden Eagle. Odds and Evens is available from Tuesday across all three codes- thoroughbred, harness and greyhounds. This new bet type will fund the… Read More »
Andrew Mallyon has had one meeting shaved off a careless riding ban on appeal, meaning he is ruled out of two city meetings instead of three. Mallyon was suspended for 10 meetings, three metropolitan and seven provincial, after pleading guilty to careless riding aboard runner-up Sweet Jazz in the fourth… Read More »
Eight major country Cups across NSW will be worth $200,000 under further prize money increases announced for the upcoming season. Racing NSW on Tuesday revealed significant boosts to country racing with prize money to increase to $81 million annually. The Cups worth $200,000 are: Port Macquarie, Goulburn, Albury, Wellington, Tamworth,… Read More »
Enable will make her eagerly-awaited return to action in the Coral Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. Trainer John Gosden has not rushed the dual Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe winner into action this term, with all her major targets in the second half of the season. A third win in the… Read More »
The Rivette Series Final shapes as the most likely option for filly Shamal Lass at Flemington but trainer Symon Wilde is keeping his options open. Wilde has also nominated the last-start Geelong winner for Saturday’s Silver Bowl Series Final (1600m) which is for three-year-olds while the Rivette (1600m) is restricted… Read More »
Winners of four of the nine heats feature among the nominations for the Winter Championship Series Final, including the Grahame Begg-trained Romancer who has earned his shot at the Listed race with his last-start win at Flemington. The $160,000 VRC-CRV Winter Championship Final (1600m) is one of the features on… Read More »
New Zealand trainer Katrina Alexander is to return to racing after several years away caring for her sick son Jackson. Alexander’s biggest win was with Honor Babe in the 2003 Sydney Cup in which the mare beat grand stayer County Tyrone. She has applied to renew her licence from the… Read More »
As he prepares to farewell the best stayer in his stable, David Payne is looking to one he hopes will make the grade with Costello to begin his campaign at Randwick. Dual Group One winner Ace High has been in light work at Rosehill but has now found a new… Read More »
After a last-stride win in the Group Three Strickland Stakes in Perth, high-profile West Australian mare Galaxy Star is set to head to the breeding barn. Galaxy Star’s victory on Saturday at Belmont took her record to 13 wins from 19 starts and the six-year-old was never out of the… Read More »
Andrew Mallyon will attempt to get a reduction in a 10-meeting suspension for careless riding, having lodged an appeal against the severity of the penalty. Racing Victoria stewards issued the 10-meeting ban to Mallyon for shifting out at the 300m mark on eventual runner-up Sweet Jazz in the fourth race… Read More »
Dual Group One winner Kenedna’s build-up towards the spring is already underway after a highly successful campaign in Sydney and Brisbane. Kenedna won the Group One Coolmore Legacy Stakes at Randwick during the Sydney autumn carnival in April before heading north to Queensland where she added the Group One Doomben… Read More »
Melbourne Cup runner-up Marmelo has finished fifth in the Group One Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud won by the John Gosden-trained Coronet ridden by Frankie Dettori. Coronet was beaten a nose in the race 12 months ago by Waldgeist and had continued to perform to a high standard without getting her… Read More »
The Melbourne Cup-winning team of trainer Joseph O’Brien and owner Lloyd Williams has been back in the winner’s circle in a Group Three race at the Curragh. Buckhurst put in a stylish performance under Wayne Lordan to win the International Stakes on Saturday (Sunday AEST). Leviathan Australian owner Williams and… Read More »
Alysha Collett has ridden her first winner since being sidelined with serious injuries suffered in a fall in Singapore. She is a member of the famous New Zealand racing family which includes her brother Jason, Australia’s latest Group One winner on Invincibella in the Tatt’s Tiara. Alysha Collet sustained a… Read More »
