Grey Lion likely stands as the only Victorian-trained stayer left out of an original entry of four to contest the staying race at Randwick. What looked to be a strong Victorian presence has fallen away to one confirmed interstate runner – the Matt Cumani-trained import who is yet to win… Read More »
Multiple stakes winner Religify will need to regain his best form if he is to give trainer Chris Waller an 11th black-type win for the Queensland winter on Saturday. Waller accepted with Religify, Dagny and Vassal in the Listed Tattersall’s Mile (1600m) at Doomben. However, he scratched Dagny leaving Religify… Read More »
We’ve Got This will be out to reignite his racing career this preparation after returning from knee and throat surgery. The Greg Eurell-trained sprinter has won four of his 21 starts with another seven placings, including finishing third in the Group Three Bobbie Lewis Quality and second in the Group… Read More »
Two-year-old Penasquito will be closely watched despite being at long odds in betting at Doomben on Saturday. Penasquito will be first-season sire Spirit Of Boom’s first runner at 1600m in the Functions @ Tattersall’s Handicap. He is also one of the few remaining chances to give Spirit Of Boom 20… Read More »
Trainer Robbie Laing claimed his biggest victory when Polanski won the 2013 Victoria Derby at Flemington. On Saturday, at the some course, 11 two-year-olds will be vying for a ballot exemption into November’s Group One Victoria Derby, or VRC Oaks, when they contest the Byerley Handicap. Laing will be represented… Read More »
Premier trainer Tony Gollan is tossing up whether to keep promising fillies Miss Exfactor and Shesees Everything apart this week. Gollan set a Queensland record of 87 metropolitan wins on Wednesday and is keen to reach at least 90 before the end of the season. The fillies, who are both… Read More »
Dual Royal Ascot-winning sprinter Lady Aurelia has run her last race with her American trainer Wesley Ward confirming her retirement. Lady Aurelia was a seven-length winner of the Queen Mary in 2016 and returned to Ascot last season to win the King’s Stand by three lengths. She will also be… Read More »
Bookmaker Brian Mann has been charged with breaches of the rules over almost three years including allegations of $1.1 million in fictitious bet-backs. Mann is facing three charges under Australian Racing Rule 175 (a) which deals with dishonest, corrupt, fraudulent, improper or dishonourable action or practice in connection with racing,… Read More »
Country-trained horses will compete for their own version of The Everest with a $1.3-million race on the same day in October to be called the Kosciuszko. The 1200m-event on the support program for the $13-million Everest at Randwick on October 13 is an expansion of the Anniversary Highway held for… Read More »
Brenton Avdulla and Blake Shinn have ridden one winner apiece at Warwick Farm with the former maintaining his 14-win premiership lead over his rival with three meetings left this season. Avdulla went into Wednesday’s meeting after riding his 90th metropolitan winner on Saturday, a goal he said he set himself… Read More »
Tony Gollan has broken his own record for the number of winners by a trainer in a Queensland metropolitan season with three meetings to spare. Gollan set the record at 86-1/2 in 2015/16 and Daring Deeds’ win at the Gold Coast on Wednesday was his 87th metropolitan win for this… Read More »
Toby Edmonds has trained more than 100 winners this season but few have given him as much pleasure as talented mare Linlithgow at the Gold Coast. Edmonds has put a lot of time into the four-year-old mare who scored her second win from just three starts in a Class Three… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg has high hopes for Our Libretto after the former New Zealand mare landed a betting plunge at her racetrack return at Sandown. The rising five-year-old was having her first start for 12 months when successful in Wednesday’s Mypunter.com Plate. The mare, who was having her first start… Read More »
Apprentice Stephanie Thornton will have her first ride for champion trainer Chris Waller when she bids to clinch this season’s Rising Stars Series at Flemington. Thornton will ride the Waller-trained So Splendid in Saturday’s Rising Stars Final (1700m) restricted to apprentice riders. It is the culmination of a season-long series… Read More »
Jameka has taken another step on her way to a return to the racetrack with a gallop between races at Sandown. The 2016 Caulfield Cup winner was to have galloped at Sandown on Wednesday morning with one of Henry Dwyer’s team to help determine the track rating, but that was… Read More »
Former champion Brisbane apprentice Glen Charles has died after short illness aged 68. Charles was an accomplished pony club rider and rugby league player in the South Burnett region before joining trainer Ken Lee in Brisbane where he was apprentice school champion in 1969. Charles’s top wins included the Albion… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote never tires of explaining the bloodlines of No Annamossity who will make his stakes race debut at Doomben. No Annamossity is closely related to Heathcote’s seven-time Group One winning champion sprinter Buffering but not in the usual manner. “It is amazing how many times I get asked… Read More »
Apprentice Lachlan King is appealing a seven-meeting suspension for careless riding incurred at Caulfield. Stewards suspended King on Saturday after finding him guilty of careless riding aboard Strike Force at the 1200m mark of a 1400m race at Caulfield. The apprentice is currently serving another seven-meeting ban from Echuca on… Read More »
Trainer Troy Corstens would like to see an academy developed to teach newcomers about racing. Like a lot of trainers around Australia, Corstens, who trains in partnership with his father Leon, finds it difficult to get staff saying the situation is worse during winter. Corstens floated the idea with fellow… Read More »
Four days after undergoing surgery on a fractured leg trainer Ciaron Maher is back at work overseeing his large team of horses at trackwork. Maher was dislodged from Caulfield Cup winner Jameka when she whipped around after another horse walked in front of her last Friday morning. He was operated… Read More »
