Mollyfied will be given another chance to claim a late season metropolitan win when she steps up to 1600 metres at Warwick Farm. The mare goes to Wednesday’s fillies and mares race a week after a troubled run in a 1350m-race at the same track. “The plan is for her… Read More »
Back-to-back city wins by Nordic Empire have come at the right time for Cranbourne trainer Chris Parry. The six-year-old has given Parry his three solitary wins for the season and the trainer hopes the total will be extended to four when the gelding runs in a benchmark 78 race at… Read More »
New Zealand Group One winner Melody Belle has impressed Te Akau’s head trainer Jamie Richards with a trial win at Te Rapa. The filly won the 2017 Sires’ Produce Stakes at Awapuni and also the Group Two BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes in Brisbane. Richards, admits her three-year-old season was disappointing… Read More »
Coonawarra will chase a hat-trick of city wins when he steps up in grade again on his home track at Randwick. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained four-year-old has registered wins at Canterbury over 1580m and Rosehill over 1500m in benchmark 75 and benchmark 79 level at his past two… Read More »
Gale force winds across Victoria have forced the race meeting at Pakenham to be abandoned after one race. A deputation of jockeys, along with Racing Victoria stewards, inspected the position of the barriers for Tuesday’s second race where three or four of the inside gates were slow to open because… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy has changed his opinion of up-and-coming stayer Sasko who will attempt a third straight win when he runs at Sandown. After back-to-back wins at Sandown and Ballarat, Sasko runs in Wednesday’s Ladbrokes Back Yourself Handicap over 2400 metres. Sasko has been installed the $2.70 favourite to complete… Read More »
All roads lead back to the Melbourne Cup for Marmelo following his Group Two victory in France. The Hughie Morrison-trained stayer was not disgraced when ninth in the Cup last November and connections are planning a return. Marmelo might just have one more run before heading to Australia, after showing… Read More »
Trainer Shannon Hope admits he lied during his cobalt case but denies cheating by giving horses supplements on race days to enhance their performances. Hope and his father Lee have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of administering a prohibited substance as they fight their cobalt disqualifications, blaming their feeding… Read More »
A host of Victoria’s apprentice riders are set to compete against each other on the city stage at Flemington in the culmination of this season’s Rising Stars Series. The penultimate Saturday city meeting of the 2017/18 season this weekend features the Rising Stars Final which is a 1700m-benchmark-84 race for… Read More »
Veteran Gosford trainer Fred Cowell has died aged 78 after a long illness. Cowell had been based at Gosford for more than 30 years and trained a number of successful horses, highlighted most recently by Group winner Mighty Lucky. “Fred Cowell was an absolute gentleman and a very popular figure… Read More »
A ballot exemption into this year’s Victoria Derby or VRC Oaks is on offer to the winner of the Byerley Handicap at Flemington and the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable is hoping to take advantage of it. Waterhouse and Bott have sent Fun Fact south from Sydney to run… Read More »
The much-travelled Jetwings has made his way back to Gerald Ryan’s stable via Hong Kong and New Zealand with the trainer hoping to resurrect his career in Sydney. Ryan will decide after the gelding gallops on Tuesday morning whether he runs at Randwick on Saturday or is held over for… Read More »
Brisbane’s premier trainer Tony Gollan and champion jockey Jeff Lloyd will combine in the final stakes race of the Queensland season with Sheiswhatsheis in the Listed Tattersall’s Mile at Doomben. Gollan has had another good year with 130 winners and 86 in the metropolitan area to date. He needs only… Read More »
Australian jockey Zac Purton is savouring his second Hong Kong jockeys’ premiership after prevailing in an enthralling battle with Joao Moreira. Purton clinched the premiership at Sha Tin at the final meeting of the season on Sunday, breaking Moreira’s run of three consecutive Hong Kong titles in the Brazilian’s final… Read More »
Father and son training partners Lee and Shannon Hope have pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of administering cobalt, arguing it was inadvertent. The Victorian trainers blame their feeding and supplementation regime for three of their racehorses returning elevated cobalt levels in 2014. The Hopes deny administering cobalt to affect… Read More »
Epsom Derby winner Masar will not run again this season because of injury but will stay in training as a four-year-old. The Godolphin colt was ruled out of the Eclipse Stakes on the eve of the race with a leg injury and investigations have been ongoing ever since. Veterinary advice… Read More »
Zac Purton has sealed the Hong Kong jockeys’ championship, extending his lead to four over Joao Moreira with three races remaining. Purton, who won the title in 2013/14, and three-time champion Moreira, have been locked in an enthralling battle over the last few weeks of the season. The ex-pat Australian… Read More »
Chautauqua’s younger sister Mulberry Walk has failed to live up to the hype surrounding her debut, finishing second last of six runners at Hawkesbury. Trained by Peter and Paul Snowden, Mulberry Walk was the $1.24 favourite to win the six-horse 1000m-maiden for three-year-olds on Sunday. In contrast to her elder… Read More »
The firsts continue for jockey Skye Bogenhuber whose career continues to soar. Bogenhuber had her first ride for the powerful Chris Waller stable on Sacred Rebel at Caloundra and came up a winner on Saturday. She picked up the ride when Michael McNab was unable to make the weight. “It… Read More »
Winx’s spring preparation is the same as it’s been for the past couple of years, with one exception. Her long-time next door neighbour, Group One winner Foxplay, has left the Chris Waller stable after being sold to racing and breeding concern Yulong Investments. Finding a new best friend for the… Read More »
