Trainer Greg Eurell has been buoyed by the lead-up performances of three-year-old Star Missile and believes the gelding is ready to make his mark in the Group One South Australian Derby. Star Missile heads into Saturday’s SA Derby (2500m) at Morphettville at the fifth run of his campaign which began… Read More »
Champion trainer Chris Waller respects his jockey Hugh Bowman’s decision to take a break for the rest of the season but believes it will have little impact on his operation. Waller was on the Gold Coast on Saturday where he continued his domination of winter carnival feature races winning the… Read More »
Magna Grecia has won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket, giving champion trainer Aidan O’Brien his 10th victory in the race.. It is 21 years since the Irishman first won the colts’ Classic with King Of Kings and he is also the first to train three successive winners with Churchill and… Read More »
Maximum Security has led all the way in the Kentucky Derby only to become the first winner disqualified for interference in the race’s 145-year history. After a long wait, long shot Country House was declared the winner Country House, a 65-1 chance, finished second in the sloppy conditions on Saturday… Read More »
Country House has been declared the winner of the Kentucky Derby after the disqualification of Maximum Security who was first across the line.
Apprentice Lachlan King has been cleared of any fractures after a race fall at Flemington. King was riding the Liam Howley-trained Belgravia in Saturday’s Brew Handicap (2600m) at Flemington and came off when the horse suffered a serious injury near the 500m and was later euthanised. King was taken to… Read More »
Earning a free ticket into the Melbourne Cup is next on the agenda for imported stayer Steel Prince who has continued his unbeaten preparation with a hard-fought victory at Flemington. Steel Prince, ridden by apprentice Michael Poy, made it four wins from as many starts since joining trainer Anthony Freedman… Read More »
The Queensland Derby is back in the sights of Nobu who has shown he has his campaign on track with a dominant victory over 1800 metres at Randwick. Trainer Chris Waller sent Nobu across the Tasman for the New Zealand Derby in early March but the gelding was disappointing, beating… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has claimed a Group One double in Adelaide with Sydney mare Spright winning the Sangster Stakes to add to Princess Jenni’s Australasian Oaks. Saturday’s double at Morphettville took Oliver’s Group One tally to 117. While the jockey had to negotiate traffic in the Oaks (2000m), he… Read More »
Jockey Jason Collett completed a memorable day of riding at the Gold Coast when Demerara maintained her outstanding first-up record in the Silk Stocking. Forty minutes earlier, Collett won the day’s highlight, the Group Two Hollindale Stakes aboard Life Less Ordinary before riding Demerara, the $5.50 favourite, to a half… Read More »
Lawyers for Ben Currie have asked stewards to indicate on which precedents they will base their sentence of the trainer on two charges of bringing racing into disrepute. Meanwhile on Friday afternoon, Currie’s lawyers filed an application for a Supreme Court judicial review of a decision by Racing Queensland to… Read More »
Apprentice Lachlan King has been taken to hospital after falling in a race at Flemington. King was riding Belgravia in Saturday’s Brew Handicap (2600m) when he was dislodged early in the home straight. The Victorian Jockeys Association issued an update saying King is conscious and “complaining of elbow and knee… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has had to call on all his skills to get Princess Jenni home in the Group One Australasian Oaks at Morphettville in Adelaide. Trained at Mornington in Victoria by David Brideoake, the filly found herself in traffic more than once but Oiiver was patient and steered… Read More »
Hollindale Stakes winner Life Less Ordinary isn’t the best horse in Chris Waller’s stables but the champion trainer believes the gelding is exactly what Australian racing needs. Life Less Ordinary ($5.50) gave Waller his third win in the Group Two Hollindale wen he beat his stablemate Mister Sea Wolf ($5.50)… Read More »
Trainer Anthony Freedman looks set to have two strong chances in the South Australian Derby after Ridgewood Drive pressed his claims for the Group One race with a dominant win at Flemington. Ridgewood Drive is a half-brother to 2014 Queensland Derby winner Sonntag and Freedman’s son and assistant trainer, Sam… Read More »
Pennino continued the family tradition of springing major upsets in black-type races when she won the Group Three Gold Coast Guineas. Trained by Darryl Hansen, Pennino ($11) won the Guineas in a slogging finish by a length from Defence Missile ($10) with rank outsider Million ($71) a short neck away… Read More »
Mature-age apprentice Chris Williams has celebrated his first Saturday metropolitan winner aboard Zonk at Randwick for his boss Les Bridge. Sporting the red and green colours of the veteran trainer’s beloved South Sydney Rabbitohs, Zonk was having her first start on Saturday since a bleeding attack in December. “I’m always… Read More »
Lawyers for Ben Currie have asked stewards to indicate on which precedents they will base their sentence of the trainer on two charges of bringing racing into disrepute. Meanwhile on Friday afternoon, Currie’s lawyers filed an application for a Supreme Court judicial review of a decision by Racing Queensland to… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan had at least one bright spot on a day when his plans with star three-year-old and ruling Stradbroke Handicap favourite Zoustyle’s winter were thrown into chaos by a heavy track. Gollan had Ef Troop and Zoustyle in the Gold Coast Guineas and Outback Barbie in the Silk… Read More »
Champion trainer David Hayes says he has had to be patient with import Fastnet Tempest who has raced to his first victory in more than a year. And even after Fastnet Tempest crossed the line first in Saturday’s Might And Power Handicap (1410m) at Flemington, Hayes had to wait a… Read More »
