Top Brisbane jockey Jim Byrne will have a better idea of how long he will be sidelined with a shoulder injury next week. Byrne underwent an operation on a shoulder last Wednesday and has been at home recuperating since. He injured his shoulder in a track work fall last month… Read More »
A field of 11 has been declared for the Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington. Group One-winning mare In Her Time has drawn the inside barrier for Saturday’s 1000m straight-track sprint while trainer Grahame Begg has accepted for Group One-winning colt Written By who will begin from barrier 11. Coolmore… Read More »
A Brazen Beau colt has fetched an Inglis Classic Sale record $550,000 on the final day of Book One in Sydney. The colt, out of Pouter, was offered on Monday by Murrulla Stud which also sold his sire at the 2013 Classic sale. “For a little farm like Murrulla, to… Read More »
Racing could have been postponed for at least another week had stringent new vaccination requirements not been imposed, the British Horseracing Authority has said. It was a condition of racing’s return on Wednesday (Thursday AEDT) following the enforced six-day shutdown because of equine flu that in order for a horse… Read More »
British Horseracing Authority chief executive Nick Rust has defended the six-day shutdown and says it was necessary to get a “clear picture” of the equine flu outbreak. The BHA announced late on Monday that racing would resume on Wednesday after cancelling all events in the wake of positive tests at… Read More »
The Autumn Sun has hit the lead in the public vote for berths in the $5 million All Star Mile. Five days remain until voting closes for the inaugural running of the rich race at Flemington on March 16 with 10 of the places in the 14-horse field decided by… Read More »
The second-most popular horse in the Chris Waller stable will take on his superstar stablemate in the Apollo Stakes. Tom Melbourne broke a run of outs stretching back more than 1000 days when he claimed the Carrington Stakes (1400m) at Randwick last Saturday week. Owners OTI Racing have confirmed Tom… Read More »
Apprentice Chris Caserta is well advanced in his bid to get down to the featherweight of 44kg to ride two-year-old Jedastar in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington. It will be the lightest weight a jockey has ridden at in Victoria since Stephen Baster partnered Clever Zoe in the 1993 Lightning… Read More »
A rise to stakes grade is on the line for Terbium if he can continue his winning streak at Sandown. The Phillip Stokes-trained gelding runs in Wednesday’s Le Pine Funerals Handicap (1300m) in which he will carry 59.5kg after the 2kg claim of apprentice Kayla Crowther. Stokes said if Terbium… Read More »
The Craig Widdison-trained Cash Crisis has returned an elevated TCO2 reading in a pre-race blood swab taken at Sandown. Cash Crisis was tested before finishing sixth in a 1300m-race on February 6. Racing Analytical Services Limited reported the blood sample contained a total carbon dioxide in excess of 36 millimoles… Read More »
Dual Group One winner Prized Icon will join the stallion roster at Kooringal Stud in the NSW Riverina. The winner of the 2016 Champagne Stakes at two, Prized Icon returned to claim an historic Victoria Derby for James Cummings who became the fourth generation of his family to lead in… Read More »
Racing Queensland is confident it will be in a position to announce widespread sponsorship deals with Tabcorp in coming months. Tabcorp has confirmed a major sponsorship deal with the Brisbane Racing Club and RQ chief executive Brendan Parnell expects it will be the first of several in the state’s racing… Read More »
Racing in Britain will resume as scheduled after a six-day shut-down despite four new positive tests to equine influenza in horses at Newmarket. The sport has been on hold since last Thursday, after three cases of the highly contagious virus were identified at the yard of Grand National-winning trainer Donald… Read More »
The ban on British-trained horses running in Ireland during an outbreak of equine influenza has been lifted with immediate effect, the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board has confirmed. The sport was rocked last Wednesday after it emerged three horses – which subsequently rose to six – were found to have the… Read More »
The British Horseracing Authority will make a decision late on Monday night on whether racing can resume on Wednesday following the recent outbreak of equine influenza. The sport was rocked last Wednesday after it emerged three horses – which subsequently rose to six – were found to have the highly-infectious… Read More »
Paul Innes is to retire as chief executive of the Australian Jockeys’ Association but will remain chairman of the National Jockeys Trust. Innes, who will retire from the AJA at the end of March, played a key role in the establishment of the organisation in 2001 and also the creation… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team is desperate to win the C S Hayes Stakes at Flemington and hopes to have two chances in this year’s edition of the Group Three race. The race is named in honour of the late Hall of Fame trainer Colin Hayes, father of trainer David Hayes… Read More »
Happy Clapper’s trainer Pat Webster is used to seeing his stable star chase Winx home and expects the same in the Apollo Stakes. For Webster, the priority is that the gelding returns safe and sound after his first start since his spring campaign was halted when he bled during the… Read More »
The Anthony Freedman stable has confirmed its jockeys for the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes with Ben Melham sticking with unbeaten colt I Am Immortal while Luke Currie has secured the ride on filly Lyre. I Am Immortal and Lyre won the respective Blue Diamond Preludes over 1100m at Caulfield… Read More »
Toowoomba speedster Mr Marbellouz is set to return to open company after being scratched from a Class Six Plate at Doomben. Mr Marbellouz returned to racing against a classy field of short course horses in the Open Handicap (1000m) at the Sunshine Coast two weeks ago. He finished fourth behind… Read More »
