Newcomer to Melbourne training ranks Lloyd Kennewell hopes he has made the right decision by holding La Pomme De Pin back for a race at Moonee Valley. Kennewell has opened a stable at Caulfield and will have his first metropolitan runner from that base on Saturday when La Pomme De… Read More »
Premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan will get a guide on the spring prospects of his rising three-year-olds Ef Troop and Outback Barbie when they run in barrier trials at Doomben. Gollan bypassed the Queensland winter carnival with the pair who were both stakes winners during their two-year-old seasons and are… Read More »
James McDonald has snared the ride on Menari in the $13 million Everest. Trainer Gerald Ryan says McDonald has committed to the George Altomonte-owned Menari who will run in the race for a group comprising Max Whitby, Neil Werrett and Steve McCann. Ryan says McDonald was the top choice among… Read More »
Trainers Lee and Shannon Hope both knew their horses were given supplements containing cobalt on race days and did it to enhance their performances, a tribunal has heard. The Hopes have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of administering a prohibited substance as they fight their cobalt disqualifications, blaming their… Read More »
Sydney’s second favourite horse could run exclusively in Melbourne throughout the spring if he doesn’t gain a berth in The Everest. With only two slots remaining in October’s $13 million The Everest at Randwick, Happy Clapper has so far been overlooked. Trainer Pat Webster isn’t holding out much hope of… Read More »
Cox Plate invitee Benbatl has bounced back to form with a Group One victory in Germany. The Juddmonte International and the Irish Champion Stakes are the next potential targets for Benbatl who won three times at Meydan earlier in the year, including a brilliant victory in the Dubai Turf on… Read More »
Champion trainer Chris Waller is tipped to have another major winner in his stable in the new season with New Zealand jockey Michael McNab. Waller’s Queensland stable manager Paul Shailer tipped big things for McNab after the jockey won on Irish Optomism at Doomben on Saturday. It was McNab’s first… Read More »
David Hayes hopes to turn the clock back more than a quarter of a century when he chases a second victory in the Grand National Hurdle. Now training in partnership with his son Ben and nephew Tom Dabernig, Hayes won the 1992 Grand National Hurdle with Hip Flask. “It was… Read More »
One of Queensland’s most famous owners Evelyn Stanley will cut the ribbon to officially open the state of the art retail complex at Eagle Farm racecourse. She is the widow of Bill Stanley, a former Queensland Turf Club committeeman and businessman, and she is still a regular racegoer. The Stanleys… Read More »
The Aurie’s Star Handicap at Flemington will be the starting point for Group One winner I Am A Star who has been off the scene since last spring. The 2016 Myer Classic winner has not raced since finishing last in her defence of the Group One fillies and mares race… Read More »
She Will Reign is set to make her new season return in a star-studded Missile Stakes at Rosehill with trainer Gary Portelli anticipating the dual Group One-winning sprinter can stretch out in distance this preparation. Saturday’s Group Two 1200m-race is expected to feature a host of Group One performers and Portelli… Read More »
Trainer Matt Dunn is hoping to have at least three runners in the rich Kosciuszko at Randwick on the support card for The Everest. Dunn has early favourite Care To Think who is at $4.60 with the TAB and $15 chance Snitz who are both confirmed as chasing a slot… Read More »
Racing Queensland believes it can build on the popularity of the recent “Battle of the Bush” series with a new race scheme for country trained horses. The inaugural Battle of the Bush Series featured 16 sprinters from the country in a final on Tattersall’s Tiara Day at Doomben last month… Read More »
Poet’s Word has given trainer Sir Michael Stoute a record sixth success in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Stakes by denying stablemate Crystal Ocean in an epic finish to the midsummer feature at Ascot. The winner of the Prince of Wales’s Stakes over 10 furlongs (2000m) at Royal… Read More »
Chris Waller has celebrated his most successful season with four winners at Rosehill, including the final stakes race for 2017/18 with Mister Sea Wolf in the Winter Challenge. In the course of winning his eighth Sydney premiership, Waller has racked up a record 189 metropolitan winners, beating his previous standard… Read More »
Vega Magic has made a compelling case for one of the remaining slots into The Everest with a dominant return victory in the Bletchingly Stakes. Last year’s runner-up in the inaugural running of The Everest, Vega Magic has yet to attract the attention of slot-holders for this year’s $13 million… Read More »
Billed as a match-race between Nature Strip and Sunlight, the Listed Lightning Stakes at Morphettville turned into a one-act affair. The Darren Weir-trained Nature Strip pressed his claims for one of the few remaining slots in October’s $13 million Everest (1200m) in Sydney, racing clear of Sunlight to win by… Read More »
Trainer Steve O’Dea was worried in the middle stages when Sabkhat had a huge lead in the Kohan and Chet Open Handicap at Doomben. However, he need not have worried as his gelding ($2.70) raced away to win by 3-1/4 lengths to Stella Ombra ($9) on Saturday in an exceptional… Read More »
Self Sense has tuned up for the Grand National Hurdle with a dominant win on the flat in the VOBIS Gold Stayers at Caulfield. Trainer David Brideoake had the option of a hurdle trial at Cranbourne on Friday or Saturday’s $150,000 flat race at Caulfield and elected for the latter…. Read More »
Astute young country trainer Cameron Crockett has pulled off a masterstroke with Sharpe Hussler’s win at Rosehill, which has put the gelding in the frame for the $1.3 million Kosciuszko. And for good measure the six-year-old was also the medium of a successful betting plunge from $51 to $16 in… Read More »
