Trainer Ciaron Maher has undergone surgery on a broken femur he suffered in fall from Group One-winning mare Jameka at trackwork. Maher came off Jameka at Caulfield on Friday morning with the mare unhurt in the incident in the exercise area. Jameka has not raced since she won the Group… Read More »
It has been a long time since Danish Twist won a race and she will get one more chance before retirement in the Listed Winter Stakes. The Kris Lees-trained mare hit a purple patch of form two years ago when she put four wins together including the Provincial Championship final,… Read More »
Premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan has urged punters not to put too big a boom on exciting juvenile Zoustyle. The gelding will be favourite when he tackles Saturday’s Two-Year-Old Handicap (1000m) at Caloundra. Zoustyle won an Eagle Farm trial by 12 lengths before his debut on June 27 when he… Read More »
Achieving Group One success remains a driving ambition for jockey Jamie Mott who is on track to finish this season with a career-best tally of winners. Mott has 106 winners so far in 2017-18 and can pass his season best tally, set a decade ago, if he can ride another… Read More »
Peter Le Grand will be the Melbourne Racing Club’s new chairman from the start of the new season, succeeding Mike Symons. Le Grand has been a member of the MRC since 1994. He joined the committee in 2005 and has been vice chairman since 2010. “On behalf of my fellow… Read More »
Trainer Kris Lees has called on premier Brisbane jockey Jeff Lloyd as he continues his push into Queensland racing at Caloundra. Lees will have Doukhan in the Group Three Queen’s Cup (3200m) where he will take on his recent Sydney conqueror Plot Twist. Damian Browne rode a double for Lees… Read More »
Top-class racehorse and stallion Naturalism has died at Meringo Stud on the NSW south coast aged 29. “He retired from racing in 1993 and stood at Segenhoe Stud before relocating to Meringo Stud,” Kylie Mercer from Meringo said. “Naturalism served mares up until 2010 and had been enjoying his retirement… Read More »
Chautauqua has taken an all-important step towards being reinstated to race and in more encouraging news jockey Tommy Berry believes the champion sprinter feels as good as ever. The horse passed the first of two barrier tests in his bid to be cleared to race, jumping cleanly from the gates… Read More »
Best Solution has taken a step to a possible Melbourne Cup campaign with victory in the Princess of Wales’s Stakes at Newmarket. Last seen finishing fifth in the Dubai Sheema Classic behind Hawkbill, the Saeed bin Suroor-trained Best Solution ran saw the 2400 metres out strongly as he held off… Read More »
Chautauqua has passed the first of two barrier tests in his bid to be reinstated to race. The multiple Group One winning sprinter came out of his gate cleanly at Flemington on Friday morning and sprinted past his rivals at the finish of his trial under jockey Tommy Berry who… Read More »
Chris Munce has won his third Grafton Cup but his first as a trainer with First Crush enduring a torrid run to win the Listed race. Munce won the 2350m Grafton feature twice as a jockey on Count Scenario (1999) and Storm Hill (2005). Runner-up in the Ipswich and Caloundra… Read More »
Two Japanese horses have been confirmed as Caulfield and Melbourne Cup entries as the countdown begins towards the spring carnival. Racing Victoria said on Thursday, Chestnut Coat and Sole Impact have both been entered for the 2018 Caulfield Cup and the 2018 Melbourne Cup. The TAB has Chestnut Coat, a winner… Read More »
Despite opening up what appears another premiership-clinching lead in Melbourne, jockey Craig Williams is not resting on his laurels. Williams has ridden 12 winners from the past three city meetings to open up an 11-win lead over Damian Lane in the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership with five meetings remaining. The six-time… Read More »
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has apologised for incorrect information it released about withholding Weetwood Handicap day prize money payments to some horses trained by Ben Currie. Commissioner Ross Barnett said on Wednesday prize money from April 7 had not been released to the connections of Hang and Givus a… Read More »
Sir Bacchus boasts a win over Redkirk Warrior but while the latter has gone on to win three Group One races, the Chris Waller-trained gelding will be aiming for a first black-type success in in the Winter Stakes. Redkirk Warrior will run in the July Cup at Newmarket on Saturday… Read More »
The late Jim Moloney will be honoured with a Listed race in his name during the Melbourne Racing Club’s spring carnival at Caulfield. Moloney, who trained champion sprinter Vain, was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame in 2015 and died, aged 90, later that year. John and Gerard… Read More »
Co-trainer Simon Zahra is confident Crystal Dreamer is ready to perform to his best in the Sir John Monash Stakes after a faultless build-up to the Group Three race. Crystal Dreamer resumes for his first start since March and usually performs well fresh and also likes Caulfield having won three… Read More »
Tough kiwi stayer Megablast will need to set a modern day weight-carrying record if jockey Damian Browne is to complete his list of Caloundra feature wins. Browne, who will be riding on a stay pending an appeal on a handling charge, partners Megablast in Saturday’s Group Three Queen’s Cup (3200m)… Read More »
Bragging rights about which horse is the best at Caloundra over 1000 metres are up for grabs. Rarely has the one race featured four horses with such strong track and distance records as Saturday’s Latitude Construction Consulting Handicap. Heading the way is Tarzan who holds the 1000m-record at the Sunshine… Read More »
The chance to race on a bigger track has convinced trainer Kelly Schweida to run three-year-olds Shogun Sun and Bluebrook at the Sunshine Coast. Schweida had Wednesday’s Grafton Guineas pencilled in for both horses after they won at the recent Caloundra metropolitan meeting two weeks ago. Instead Shogun Sun will… Read More »
