Stradbroke Handicap favourite The Bostonian was the subject of solid backing minutes after the barrier draw for the big race on Wednesday morning. The Bostonian drew barrier 10 for Saturday’s Group One Stradbroke Handicap but will start from the six gate if the emergencies don’t get a run. The Bostonian… Read More »
The Moonee Valley Racing Club has unveiled an international bonus attached to the Cox Plate, with the winners of selected top-level overseas races eligible for an even bigger pay-day should they win Australasia’s weight-for-age showpiece. The MVRC outlined some of the details on Tuesday of the Cox Plate International Bonus… Read More »
Matt Cumani believes Victorian visitor Declares War has thrived since arriving in Brisbane, boosting the trainer’s hopes of a good showing from the gelding in the Queensland Derby. A last-start winner over 2000m at Flemington, Declares War pleased his trainer in a course proper gallop at Eagle Farm on Tuesday… Read More »
Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith is spreading his stable’s runners over three states this weekend headed by Grey Lion in the Group Two Brisbane Cup. Smith will also have runners at Randwick on Saturday but favours sending sprinter Tonsor to Melbourne rather than running him in the Listed June Stakes…. Read More »
Mike Moroney is hopeful Radipole will show the benefits of a good spell when the import begins his Winter Championship campaign in a heat of the series at Flemington. Radipole is scheduled to be joined by stablemate Strike Force in Saturday’s 1400m handicap, with both horses in line for next… Read More »
New Zealand jockey Alysha Collett has been relicensed in Singapore and expects to back riding there soon after eight months on the sidelines because of injury. The 25-year-old damaged her L1 vertebra and fractured her right heel in a fall in Singapore in October. After undergoing surgery in Singapore to… Read More »
Trainer Phillip Stokes will wait to see the track rating before committing debut winner Too Good Too Hard to a start at Sandown. The filly won a 1205m maiden by two lengths on debut at Sale in mid-May and is the early $4.20 favourite for Wednesday’s Blue Star Print Handicap… Read More »
Group One winner Manuel will miss the Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm after a flat gallop at trackwork. It will leave trainer Tony McEvoy with two runners, Despatch and Dollar For Dollar, as he chases his seventh Group One win of the season at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Manuel won… Read More »
Senior Lindsay Park trainer David Hayes is hoping a step up in distance might be the spark Caulfield Cup winner Boom Time needs to stave off retirement. Boom Time has been entered for the latest round of the Banjo Patterson Series (2500m) at Flemington on Saturday. A rising eight-year-old, Boom… Read More »
Newcastle and Kembla Grange are to get $1 million races in the spring in conjunction with stand-alone Saturday race meetings. Racing NSW has announced the $1 million The Hunter (1300m) at Newcastle on November 16 and the $1 million The Gong (1600m) a week later following the Everest carnival in… Read More »
In-form jockey John Allen has put Mr Quickie through his paces in a last piece of serious work ahead of the Queensland Derby. Allen went to Pakenham on Monday to work Mr Quickie over 1600m before the gelding flies to Brisbane on Tuesday. Mr Quickie will be attempting to give… Read More »
In a challenge to Melbourne spring racing, Sydney will host an expanded Everest carnival over six weeks with a race worth at least $1 million every week. The $14 million Everest (1200m) on October 19 is the centrepiece with new races in the weeks either side of the world’s richest… Read More »
The new Anderson-Heathcote training partnership is looking forward to its first Group One runner with growing confidence. Chris Anderson and Robert Heathcote will have Ballistic Boy in Saturday’s Group One J J Atkins (1600m) at Eagle Farm. Ballistic Boy turned in a good Atkins trial when he came from a… Read More »
Leading Perth owner Bob Peters has put prize money ahead of prestige in selecting the Sydney spring carnival for Arcadia Queen. Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller will take over the preparation of the rising four-year-old who could be racing for the lion’s share of $20 million in two races in… Read More »
Casterton will host a meeting scheduled for Warrnambool which has been found to have surface water on the track. Racing Victoria stewards inspected Warrnambool on Monday and determined it would not be suitable for racing a day later. The track was in the heaviest range on Sunday and received an… Read More »
Sottsass has upset the favourite Persian King to win the Prix du Jockey Club, the French Derby, in record time at Chantilly. Cristian Demuro brought the Jean-Claude Rouget-trained colt to challenge the overwhelming favourite in the final furlong (200m). Persian King had every chance to following his victory in the… Read More »
The conspicuous fluorescent yellow colours of owner Gary Lechte will be carried for different trainers in two of the feature races at Eagle Farm. Manuel contests Saturday’s Group One Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) for trainer Tony McEvoy with Sin To Win running for Lindsay Park in the Group Two Brisbane Cup… Read More »
Chris Waller’s Stradbroke Handicap hopes could rest with fan favourite Tom Melbourne. The champion trainer still has Ringerdingding and Star Of The Seas in the mix for Saturday’s Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm but the two are on the borderline to get starts. Although Tom Melbourne has developed… Read More »
Trainer John Sadler has seen a number of good apprentices over the years rise quickly through the ranks only to get lost in the tough world of racing. Sadler has watched Teo Nugent, indentured to fellow Caulfield trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, make a name for himself on the… Read More »
Sydney trainer Mark Newnham had a super Saturday but he is growing in confidence he can do even better this week in a Group One race. Newnham is well known in Queensland from his days as Gai Waterhouse’s foreman but he is rapidly making his own name in his two-year… Read More »
