Trainer Phillip Stokes is looking for talented filly Music Bay to go on with the job at Caulfield after a confidence-boosting last-start victory. Music Bay beat her rivals by four lengths in a 1300m midweek race at Sandown a week ago, her first victory since winning on debut in March… Read More »
Trainer Shane Nichols is convinced Streets Of Avalon has one more run left in him before a well-earned break. Streets Of Avalon runs for the ninth time this campaign in Saturday’s Group Three Victoria Handicap at Caulfield. A two-time winner this campaign, Streets Of Avalon has failed to fill a… Read More »
In a week when he has farewelled one of his stable stalwarts, Bjorn Baker is looking to another to rise to the occasion and land an overdue Group One win. Despite the retirement of multiple stakes winner Egyptian Symbol, Baker will head to the final day of Sydney autumn carnival… Read More »
Godolphin’s chances of making a clean sweep of this season’s Group One races for juveniles in Australia is over after the decision the bypass the Champagne Stakes with Flit. Flit was the only Godolphin-owned two-year-old nominated for Saturday’s Champagne Stakes (1600m) at Randwick but her trainer James Cummings and Godolphin… Read More »
Favourite Osborne Bulls has drawn the inside barrier in a full field of 14 for the Group One All Aged Stakes at Randwick. Osborne Bulls is one of three Godolphin-owned runners in Saturday’s 1400m weight-for-age race along with his James Cummings-trained stablemate Home Of The Brave who has barrier three… Read More »
Champion trainer Chris Waller has flexed his early winter carnival muscles, providing seven of the 11 runners in the Listed Tails Stakes at Doomben. The Tails Stakes (1600m) is traditionally the launching pad for horses aimed at the longer winter carnival races. There were 15 nominations for the Tails and… Read More »
A boost in prize money and some outstanding winners over the past decade are the basis for a major push to regain Group One status for the BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes. The Brisbane Racing Club launched its winter carnival this week with elevation of the BRC Sires Produce Stakes back… Read More »
Trainer Ben Currie is expected to give evidence by phone at an inquiry into two historical charges brought against him. Currie is in Bali where he is best man at a wedding and has missed the first two days of the stewards inquiry, on Monday and Tuesday, which has dealt… Read More »
Hugh Bowman has picked up the ride on star sprinter Santa Ana Lane for his international debut in Hong Kong. Bowman replaces the suspended Mark Zahra on the five-time Group One winner in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize at Sha Tin on April 28, a race Australian Chautauqua won in 2016…. Read More »
Having come agonisingly close to winning a Group One race with Pierata this autumn, trainer Greg Hickman and his fellow owners have picked themselves up to try again in the All Aged Stakes. The four-year-old flashed home in The Galaxy (1100m) last month with many believing he had won until… Read More »
A sister to three-time Group One winner Shoals has opened her account with a maiden victory at Bendigo. Tides won Tuesday’s No Fuss Event Hire Maiden over 1300m at her second race start having finished midfield at Geelong on debut last September. Like Shoals, Tides is raced by John Messara’s… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy is hoping to end the clean sweep by Godolphin two-year-olds when he runs Vinco in a Group One race at Randwick. Godolphin has won three of the five Group One two-year-old races run in Australia, starting with the Blue Diamond Stakes with Lyre, progressing to the Golden… Read More »
Trainer Aaron Purcell is in two minds whether to run Zebulon in a stakes race at Caulfield. Purcell says he will accept with the gelding in Saturday’s Group Three Victoria Handicap (1400m) and assess the field before committing to a start. Zebulon is enjoying life at Warrnambool under Purcell’s care… Read More »
The owners of champion New Zealand mare Melody Belle have knocked back a multi-million offer from Australia for her as a broodmare. “The offer amount was NZ$3.25 million,” Fortuna Syndications director John Galvin said. Galvin put the offer to the syndicate members but it was unanimously declined. “Clearly this was… Read More »
Champion jockey Glen Boss has indicated he wants to see out his riding days back where it all started in Queensland. Singapore-based Boss and retired jockey Brian York were the special guests at the Queensland winter carnival launch at Eagle Farm racecourse on Tuesday. The winner of three Melbourne Cups… Read More »
Racing Queensland will look to invoke a modernised rule of racing which will allow it to refuse trainer Ben Currie’s nominations for races until charges against him are resolved. Currie faces a total of 42 allegations but has been allowed to train on two stays in Queensland where he leads… Read More »
Apprentice Jackson Murphy will return to race riding at Ipswich after a frustrating three months on the sidelines. Murphy has not ridden since a fall at Doomben on December 29 when he injured a wrist. The injury was originally thought to be relatively minor but has taken longer than expected… Read More »
Two twilight meetings at Flemington have been included among the race dates for the next racing season in Victoria. RV on Monday released its race dates for the 2019/20 season, which begins on August 1, with 558 meetings to be conducted across the state during the 12 months. There will… Read More »
The crisis over integrity matters in Queensland racing has deepened with the president and vice president of the state’s trainers’ association standing down. The resignations come on the eve of the Queensland Winter Racing Carnival launch at a function in Brisbane on Tuesday morning. In a media release on Monday,… Read More »
Lindsay Park is hoping a rise in distance will suit the stable’s two runners in the Easter Cup at Caulfield. Furrion and the imported Alfarris are stepping up from 1600m to the 2000m of Saturday’s Group Three Easter Cup. A former member of now disqualified trainer Darren Weir,’s team, Furrion… Read More »
