Cranbourne trainer Richard Laming has been suspended by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board over a race day administration charge. Laming was charged by Racing Victoria stewards following a race day stable inspection when the horse Patient, engaged to race, and subsequently scratched, at Sandown on February 7, was administered… Read More »
Promising three-year-old Racecourse Road returns to racing at Caloundra and trainer Chris Munce hopes it will signal big campaigns for several of his young guns. Many of his younger horses are back in his Eagle Farm stable and Munce will be bringing them back to racing in the next few… Read More »
A new model for race day officiating will be introduced in 2019 as the British Horseracing Authority seeks to “mitigate and manage the risks posed by contemporary integrity threats’. Racing’s rulers say the new system of stewarding is “a new approach to improve standards of officiating, increase consistency, transparency and… Read More »
Trainer Desleigh Forster will have a strong hand in the main race at Caloundra but around the same time part of her mind will be 1600 km to the west. Forster has Malvern Estate in the Bloomhill Cancer Care Open Hcp (1200m) on Saturday. She also has a great interest… Read More »
Veteran Fasta Than Light is a throwback to a nearly forgotten era of racing but could sneak back into the limelight at Caloundra. Fasta Than Light will be having his 75th start and is chasing his 14th win in Saturday’s Clinic One Handicap (1400m) at Caloundra. As a younger horse,… Read More »
Godolphin’s Kate Grimwade has taken her first trip to Sandown and driven home a winner following a fighting victory from Isaurian. Grimwade was last week appointed assistant-trainer to James Cummings to run the Carbine Lodge stable in Melbourne. After a frustrating beginning at Moonee Valley on Saturday, Isaurian’s win in… Read More »
One of the more ambitious spring campaigns has been unveiled after a former English hurdler made a winning Australian debut at Canterbury. As absurd as it would sound to most racegoers in this part of the world, High Bridge emerged as a horse to follow from Wednesday’s meeting at an… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg is leaving nothing to chance with impressive Sandown winner Our Libretto. Begg said after the mare won Wednesday’s Ladbrokes Multiverse Handicap that he had entered her for the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cups. “It’s a bit pie-in-the-sky sort of stuff,” Begg said. “But she’s in there and… Read More »
Kris Lees can’t match the mega stables for numbers but no one is better placed going into Sydney’s first meeting of spring than the Newcastle trainer. Lees enjoyed his best season of training in 2017-18 and the momentum has continued with sparingly raced three-year-old Graff keeping an unbeaten record in… Read More »
Jockey Les Tilley hoped the Osmosis’ Ipswich win was a pointer for his trip to the Birdsville Cup carnival after the mare earned him petrol money for the 1600km trip. Tilley travels all over the state for rides and knows well how the drought has crippled rural areas. He will… Read More »
Less than an hour before his older half-brother Happy Clapper chases another Group One win, Not A Single Cent will be out to showcase his Caulfield Guineas credentials in the McNeil Stakes. Not A Single Cent won the Group Two VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes during a four-start juvenile season and… Read More »
The smallest horse in Joe Pride’s stable is also the one that carries the biggest weights with Destiny’s Kiss lumbered with 61kg for his defence of the Wyong Gold Cup. The 10-year-old is also the oldest horse in training at Pride’s Warwick Farm base but shows all the signs he… Read More »
Dollar For Dollar is the outsider in the Memsie Stakes but trainer Tony McEvoy is convinced the gelding is worthy of his shot at the Group One race. The six-year-old made a winning return in the weight-for-age Group Three Spring Stakes in Adelaide on August 18 which prompted McEvoy to… Read More »
Prince Of Caviar has been beaten for a second time in as many starts but he hasn’t let those down that know him best. The second foal of the unbeaten champion Black Caviar, Prince Of Caviar, under Luke Nolen, was defeated a neck by Extra Brut in the Vale Martin… Read More »
In-form jockey Larry Cassidy will have plenty of knowledge of his main rivals when he rides spring carnival-bound Order Again at the Sunshine Coast. Only seven horses accepted for the Bob Jane T Mart Maroochydore Handicao (1600m) but it is a field packed with well-performed or promising horses. Order Again’s… Read More »
A major digital campaign and a chance to bid for a share in a Cup runner will boost interest in the Birdsville Cup meeting and help drought victims this week. Racing Queensland has launched the #BetOnBirdsville campaign encouraging Australians to get behind farmers doing it tough by placing a wager… Read More »
Defending champion Vega Magic headlines a field of 11 for the $1 million Group One Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. Vega Magic has drawn barrier six for Saturday’s weight-for-age race over 1400m with Caulfield Cup favourite Kings Will Dream in the outside gate and Australian Guineas winner Grunt in barrier one…. Read More »
The owners of Chautauqua have been given a lifeline as they bid to get the popular sprinter reinstated to race after a series of barrier trial failures. The eight-year-old has become a repeat offender, refusing to jump in official trials beginning with his first offence in February. After considering submissions… Read More »
Trainer Brent Stanley expects The August to improve on whatever he does in the Group Three McNeil Stakes at Caulfield as he plans the colt’s path to feature races for three-year-olds later in the spring. The August won his two starts as a juvenile and was beaten for the first… Read More »
Trainer Mark Newnham has saddled up the first two-year-old barrier trial winner in Sydney for the season with Exceed The Stars beating three opponents over 740 metres at Randwick. The colt is one of the most advanced youngsters in Newnham’s stable and all going well, he will head to next… Read More »
