Sometimes the best plans in racing go astray which was the case with tough stayer Endless Days at his most recent start. It is the reason Endless Days will back up within a week in the UBET Handicap (2200m) at Doomben on Saturday. Endless Days, who is trained by father-son… Read More »
The Willie Mullins-trained Sharjah has won the Galway Hurdle with his stablemate, dual Melbourne Cup placegetter Max Dynamite, out of the placings. Making his handicap debut under the burden of 11st 7lb (73kg), the Rich Ricci-owned Sharjah travelled well into contention, before jumping alongside another stablemate Blazer at the final… Read More »
Godolphin’s Wild Illusion has shown superior stamina over 2000 metres to win the Nassau Stakes at Goodwood. Trained by Charlie Appleby and ridden by William Buick, the 4-1 chance improved on her second places in both the Oaks at Epsom and the Ribblesdale at Royal Ascot to claim the second… Read More »
Trainer Mitchell Beer has been fined following a tweet offering to promote shares in a racehorse without holding the relevant licence. Racing Victoria stewards ruled his conduct, or negligence, could have lead to a breach of an Australian racing rule. The rule states that any person wishing to make an… Read More »
Chris Waller will donate his guaranteed prize money from the staying race at Randwick to drought relief and will also support gynaecological cancer research fundraising on the day. The trainer has all but one of the runners in Saturday’s 2400m-race named in memory of Cindy Sullivan. “I am fortunate enough… Read More »
Training newcomer Julius Sandhu hopes to one day see stable star Princeton Spirit contesting big sprint races. But for the time being he’s content to allow the five-time winner from eight starts to progress through the grades. As part of that progression Princeton Spirit heads to Moonee Valley on Saturday… Read More »
Talented sprinter Music Magnate holds a unique place in Bjorn Baker’s stable as the trainer’s first Group One winner in his own right. Baker has been associated with many other top-line performers when he worked with his father, champion New Zealand trainer Murray Baker. While Murray Baker has made his… Read More »
The newly formed training partnership of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace is off and running with a win to Reserve Street at Pakenham. Eustace was elevated to co-trainer alongside multiple Group One winner Maher from Wednesday at the beginning of the new racing season in Australia. The partnership had its… Read More »
Gold Coast trainer Michael Costa has elected to keep rejuvenated Gold Ambition in his own class as the gelding chases a first Saturday metropolitan win at Doomben. Costa entered Gold Ambition for the Open Handicap (1630m) and the Class Three Plate (1630m) but has elected to keep the gelding in… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team’s belief Nasaayim will be better as a three-year-old will get its first examination when the filly makes her new season return at Randwick. Nasaayim, trained by David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, won two of her five starts as a juvenile and she resumes from… Read More »
Trainer Brendan McCarthy has spring carnival aspirations for Divine Mr Tycoon who will try to kick off his three-year-old season on a successful note at Moonee Valley. Divine Mr Tycoon resumes in Saturday’s Essendon Mitsubishi Handicap (1000m) having finished second and fourth respectively in his two starts as a juvenile… Read More »
There could be no more apt horse than Time To Torque to give former Group One-winning jockey Gary Doughty his first Saturday metropolitan winner as a trainer. Time To Torque makes a belated return to racing in the Tim Bell Memorial Open Handicap (1110m) at Doomben on Saturday. Doughty won… Read More »
Trainer Jarrod McLean is confident after three runs in Victoria Trap For Fools is ready to put his best foot forward. But as always the might of Australia’s leading trainer Darren Weir will be a stumbling block. As a foreman for Weir, McLean knows full well how imposing the stable… Read More »
Veteran sprinter Straturbo is enjoying full-time life in the Queensland sun and is ready to break a 19-month winning drought at Doomben. Straturbo was an honest toiler for Sydney trainer Gary Portelli, winning eight races and more than $520,000 prize money. He hasn’t won since taking the Listed Bribie Handicap… Read More »
Lightning Spear has claimed an overdue Group One success at his 16th attempt, taking out the Sussex Stakes at Goodwood. Moat of the attention in the field of eight was on the three-year-olds Without Parole and Expert Eye following their respective triumphs at Royal Ascot. With Andrea Atzeni deputising in… Read More »
Echuca training partners Michael Cornish and Donna Gaskin have been suspended for two months by Racing Victoria stewards over an alleged race day administration at Swan Hill. A routine stable inspection by RV’s Compliance Assurance Team on June 8 found a haematoma and associated fluid on the near side jugular… Read More »
Queensland jockeys are to get an increase in riding fees taking them to $200 per mount. It brings them into line with Victorian jockeys who are engaged in protracted negotiations with officials in that state to raise it further. Racing Queensland chief executive Brendan Parnell said the Queensland Jockeys Association… Read More »
Chris Waller has begun the new Sydney season at Warwick Farm the same way he signed off on the last at Rosehill with four winners on the program. Waller’s quartet on Saturday took him to a Sydney record 189 metropolitan winners, 20 more than the previous standard he set two… Read More »
Pierata has made an instant impression on star jockey James McDonald who will ride the talented horse in a race for the first time in the Missile Stakes. McDonald rode the Greg Hickman-trained Pierata in a recent Warwick Farm barrier trial and was left suitably impressed ahead of the four-year-old’s… Read More »
Self Sense will have to carry top weight in his attempt to extend his unbeaten run over jumps to four in the Grand National Hurdle at Sandown. The David Brideoake-trained gelding, who has been successfully mixing jumping with flat racing in the past four months, will have to carry 69kg… Read More »
