A toddler is fighting for life after she and her family were hit by a metal starting gate at a harness race track north of Brisbane. The family, believed to be a harness racing family from the Lockyer Valley, were spectators at the Redcliffe Paceway when the gate on a… Read More »
New Zealand trainer Stephen Marsh will rely on Ardrossan for the rest of the Sydney autumn carnival with the stable’s two three-year-olds to head home. Marsh has pulled the pin in the Australian Derby for NZ Derby winner Crown Prosecutor and Vernanme after both failed to shine in Saturday’s Group… Read More »
Group One winner Nakeeta Jane is set to spearhead trainer Mark Newnham’s assault on the Vinery Stud Stakes at Rosehill. Newnham plans to have three runners in Saturday’s 2000m Group One Vinery Stud Stakes for fillies, with Nakeeta Jane joined in the entries by last-start Kembla Grange Classic third placegetter… Read More »
Newly crowned Group One winner Avilius has been nominated for another top level race at Rosehill, heading the entries for the Tancred Stakes. The Godolphin stayer won Saturday’s Ranvet Stakes and heads 19 entries for Saturday’s Tancred Stakes (2400m) at Rosehill. Dual Group One winner Ace High, who finished nine… Read More »
Trainer Archie Alexander has a second-straight Bendigo Guineas in his sights with Saccharo who is on target for the Listed race for three-year-olds. Alexander won last year’s edition of the 1400m-race with filly So Far Sokool, who scored by four lengths, and the trainer is optimistic about the prospects of… Read More »
Former racing administrator Martin Talty has been appointed the new chief executive of the Australian Jockeys Association replacing Paul Innes who is retiring. Talty began his career as a racing journalist in Sydney and later held positions as Dubai Racing Club International racing manager and Victoria Racing Club executive general… Read More »
Apprentice Maddy Wishart has shown she is good under pressure and she will get another chance to prove it in the fourth round of the National Apprentices’ Challenge. Wishart, who is indentured to Group One-winning trainer Paul Butterworth at Eagle Farm, has ridden 46 winners, 27 this season. She is… Read More »
Noble Boy has been the ruling favourite to win the Country Championship final since before the series began but it has taken him until the last moment to get into the field. Trained by Todd Blowes at Queanbeyan, Noble Boy won his first four starts but faltered when fourth in… Read More »
As the clock winds down on the brilliant career of Winx, time may also be against her stablemate The Autumn Sun. Both won Group One races at Rosehill on Saturday with Winx claiming her fourth successive George Ryder Stakes win and The Autumn Sun his third Guineas. While trainer Chris… Read More »
David Brideoake has high expectations for Princess Jenni who is Sydney-bound for the autumn carnival. The lightly raced filly scored at stakes level at The Valley on Friday night under Damien Oliver, circling the field to win the Alexandra Stakes. Brideoake said the filly would now travel to Sydney for… Read More »
First Crush is set to go into the $150,000 Toowoomba Cup with a month between runs after trainer Chris Munce elected not to start him at Doomben. First Crush won the Grafton Cup and was second in the Ipswich Cup and Caloundra Cup last winter. He showed he was back… Read More »
Trainer Robbie Laing and jockey Hugh Bowman will attempt to win another feature staying three-year-old race when they team with Stars Of Carrum in the Australian Derby. They combined to win the 2013 Victoria Derby with Polanski while their only other Derby pairing was in the 2016 Victoria Derby when… Read More »
The Golden Slipper win of Godolphin filly Kiamichi will prove a great boost to the Queensland breeding industry. KIamichi is by Sidestep out of Ouachita and is a dream result for the Queensland based Telemon Thoroughbreds operation. Sidestep, by Exceed and Excel, stood last season for $7700 at Telemon Thoroughbreds… Read More »
Joe Bowditch is adamant Viddora is going as well as ever as she prepares for her first international assignment. Viddora arrived in Dubai last week ahead of the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan on Saturday night with jockey Bowditch and trainer Lloyd Kennewell due in on Monday. Bowditch, who moved… Read More »
Top Brisbane mare Tumbler is set to be retired after sustaining another leg injury. Tumbler’s career has been littered with injury and hard luck stories but she still won eight of her 18 starts and nearly $300,000 prize money. She ran second in the Group Three W J Healy Stakes… Read More »
Veteran racing photographer Noel Pascoe has joined an elite group by being made a life member of the Brisbane Racing Club. Pascoe is a member of one of Australia’s best known racing families with his father Al and brother Barry also noted photographers. In a ceremony at Eagle Farm on… Read More »
The Gold Coast’s premier jockey Ryan Plumb scored his biggest win on the track with a pick-up ride on tough gelding Tyzone. The winner of 14 previous races, Tyzone ($8.50) charged down the outside to beat Malvern Estate ($7) and Freddie Fox Trot ($12) in the Listed Goldmarket Stakes (1200m)…. Read More »
James Cummings was destined to become a racehorse trainer. Whether he expected to be heading Sheikh Mohammed’s Australian Godolphin operation and holding a Golden Slipper at the age of 31 is another thing altogether. His father Anthony is a multiple Group One-winning trainer, his grandfather Bart won more Melbourne Cups… Read More »
Mr Quickie has extended his winning sequence to six, overcoming a difficult run to claim the Mornington Guineas. The $1.80 favourite under John Allen raced away to a two-length win on Saturday to continue his march towards the South Australian Derby. A former member of disqualified trainer Darren Weir’s stable,… Read More »
Read what the jockeys had to say about their horses in the 2019 Golden Slipper which was won by Godolphin filly Kiamichi. WHAT THE JOCKEYS SAID AFTER THE GOLDEN SLIPPER: KIAMICHI: Damian Lane (1st) “I knew she had a great chance. But I guess my confidence didn’t really build until… Read More »
