Stewards have announced the dates Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie will face a swag of charges levelled against him. In a media release, the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission said stewards would reconvene a hearing on March 11 into 28 alleged race day breaches involving a raid on Currie’s stables in April… Read More »
Already a Group One winner at Randwick, the Mick Price-trained Seabrook is aiming to add another when she runs in the Surround Stakes. The Melbourne-trained filly kicks off her autumn campaign in Sydney on Saturday in the 1400m Surround Stakes for fillies. It starts a run of a minimum three… Read More »
As a last-start runner-up in the Group Three C S Hayes Stakes at Flemington, it would have been easy to assume Age Of Chivalry would progress to the Group One Australian Guineas as a genuine contender. But that is not the case, with the lightly raced three-year-old gelding instead set… Read More »
Adam Trinder is confident he has the right horse for the occasion as he prepares to saddle up his first Group One runner in the Australian Guineas at Flemington. Impressive filly Mystic Journey will break new ground for the Tasmanian trainer in Saturday’s $1 million race, having already given the… Read More »
Mark Newnham is using his knowledge of a close relation to two-year-old Super Oasis in an attempt to qualify the filly for a start in the Golden Slipper. Super Oasis is by Exceed And Excel out of Puzzle, a half-sister to two-time Group One winner English who was trained by… Read More »
Trainer Stuart Kendrick believes the day three-year-old Rabbit Hunter finally gets everything right on race day he will win in good company. Kendrick has shown his faith in Rabbit Hunter by scratching him from a restricted race on Wednesday to run in the $125,000 Jewel Three-Year-Old Prelude at Doomben on… Read More »
Group One winning sprinter Viddora will fly the flag for Australia in the Al Quoz Sprint on World Cup night in Dubai. Trainer Lloyd Kennewell said the mare was set to travel provided she continues to please but he would have no qualms about abandoning the trip if the mare… Read More »
A mildly elevated temperature has forced the scratching of Verry Elleegant from the Australian Guineas at Flemington. Trainer Chris Waller said the stable was not prepared to take any risks with the filly who was a $10 chance in Saturday’s Group One Australian Guineas. “Whilst it is only very minor,… Read More »
Trainer Richie Stephenson is confident pocket dynamo Emphasis can handle his big weight of 59kg in the Listed Tattersall’s Members Cup at Doomben. Emphasis carried 59kg to win at Toowoomba and Gatton as a younger horse but has carried no more than 57kg in his seven wins since. Stephenson said… Read More »
Western Australia’s premier jockey William Pike has made a flying visit to Melbourne to partner Newmarket Handicap contender Graff in a jump-out over the Flemington straight course.. Pike will ride the Kris Lees-trained Graff in Saturday week’s Group One Newmarket (1200m) and was impressed with the colt’s work on Friday… Read More »
Godolphin’s Ispolini will not come to Sydney for The Championships after racing his way into the Dubai Gold Cup with a Group Three victory at Meydan. The Charlie Appleby-trained stayer is among entries for the Sydney Cup (3200m) but will instead run in the Gold Cup over the same distance… Read More »
What seems like a formality is the culmination of hours of dedicated care and attention to detail. Winx will run in Saturday’s Chipping Norton Stakes and barring misfortune, seems assured of a world record 23rd Group One win and her 31st consecutive victory. Her jockey Hugh Bowman put her through… Read More »
Eventing first brought Richard Litt to Australia but training racehorses is the reason he has stayed. And at the moment, the 29-year-old is glad he did. Growing up on a dairy farm in New Zealand, Litt was always around horses and his skills in eventing led to him travelling to… Read More »
Mr Quickie begins a campaign at Flemington that his new trainer hopes can lead to a win in his former home town Derby. The former Darren Weir-trained three-year-old lines up for Phillip Stokes for the first time in Saturday’s Seppelt Wines Plate . A newcomer to Victorian training ranks, Stokes… Read More »
Speedy gelding Mr Marbellouz takes a key step in a year-long plan when he runs over 1200 metres at Doomben. Trainer Kevin Kemp has been planning an assault on the Listed Westwood Handicap since Mr Marbellouz failed to make Toowoomba’s elite sprint last year because his rating was too low…. Read More »
Mike Moroney has elected to keep Victoria Derby placegetter Chapada at home in Melbourne for a crack at the Australian Guineas but the trainer is lamenting the gelding’s wide draw in the Group One race. Moroney also had the option to wait another week for the Randwick Guineas (1600m) for… Read More »
While the Australian Oaks remains the main goal for Nakeeta Jane this autumn, the path she takes to get there will be determined by her performance in the Group One Surround Stakes. Trainer Mark Newnham is keeping the door ajar on several options, including taking on the older mares in… Read More »
Fresh from Booker’s Oakleigh Plate triumph, co-trainers Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra are set to unleash the stable’s other Group One winner Aristia who begins her autumn campaign in the Frances Tressady Stakes at Flemington. Aristia made her mark during a busy seven-start spring preparation highlighted by wins in the… Read More »
Dixie Blossoms will bid to become the first mare to win the Guy Walter Stakes three times when she resumes for her final racing campaign at Randwick. The six-year-old joined Hot Danish (2008-09) and Steps In Time (2012-13) as a dual winner of the race last year and trainer Ron… Read More »
One trainer happy with an earlier start time to the Flemington meeting is John Sadler who will run Sircconi and Shoko. Sadler was not looking forward to running Sircconi first-up in Saturday’s Shaftesbury Avenue Handicap on firm ground. A forecast temperature of 36 degrees had Sadler worried about the track… Read More »
