Trainer John McArdle acknowledges Egyptian Bullet faces a task against odds-on favourite Nature Strip but believes the A R Creswick Series Final presents the filly with a chance to secure black-type. Egyptian Bullet won three straight races before finishing fifth in her most recent start at Moonee Valley in a… Read More »
Jamie Barkley is to join the Australian Turf Club as chief executive, a position he currently holds with the Sydney Cricket Ground Trust. ATC chairman Laurie Macri announced Barkley’s appointment on Friday. Barkley has more than 24 years experience in sports administration and is an avid racing fan. “Our board… Read More »
Multiple Group One-winning New Zealand trainer Roger James is to form a partnership with his racing manager Robert Wellwood. Best known in Australia for the deeds of grand mare Silent Achiever, James will begin the new training venture at the beginning of the 2018/19 season. “I’ve had Ross Taylor, Lance… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg is hoping for a strong tempo to help Galaxy Raider show his best in the Winter Championship Series Final at Flemington. After finishing a close second in a heat of the series at Sandown in May, Galaxy Raider was given a month until his next run at… Read More »
Weight has been the telling factor in the decision to target the Silver Bowl Series Final with in-form filly Remember The Name who will be chasing her third-straight win at Flemington. The Danny O’Brien-trained Remember The Name was entered for Saturday’s Rivette Series Final (1600m) for three-year-old fillies and also… Read More »
A sharp drop in class and a softer track can help Gold Coast-trained Slydini break a frustrating statistic at Doomben. Slydini was eighth at his most recent start in the Listed Mumm Stakes (1600m) at Doomben three weeks ago on a hard track. Apart from that run Slydini has a… Read More »
Gregorian Chant gets the chance to chase a black-type win late in her juvenile season when she heads to Flemington for the Taj Rossi Series Final. The Mitchell Freedman-trained filly finished fourth on debut over 1200m at Moonee Valley last month before winning a 1400m-maiden on a heavy track at… Read More »
In-form jockey Skye Bogenhuber believes the chance to link full-time with Scone trainer Brett Cavanough is too good to pass up. Toowoomba-based Bogenhuber and Cavanough combined to win the Group Two Moreton Cup with The Monstar at Caloundra last month. She also rode several winners for Cavanough when he had… Read More »
A horse trained by Richard Laming has returned an elevated cobalt level with Racing Victoria stewards continuing their investigation. Laming was told of the irregularity on June 20 and on Thursday was told of the confirmatory findings of the sample taken from Iam Ekstraordinary before his fifth placing in a… Read More »
Smart filly Miss Exfactor will take another step in a long-range plan when she runs at Doomben. The Tony Gollan-trained filly will be attempting to make it three wins on end since a spell when she tackles Saturday’s 3YO Handicap (1100m). Miss Exfactor had been entered for Sydney and Brisbane… Read More »
Record numbers of yearlings have been entered for Australia’s premier two-year-old races, the Golden Slipper and Blue Diamond Stakes. A total of 2452 horses have been nominated for the $3.5 million Golden Slipper, the world’s richest race for juveniles to be run at Rosehill on March 23 next year. There… Read More »
Mintha will be given another chance to convince her trainer Tony McEvoy she can be effective at 1600 metres when she runs as the likely favourite in the Rivette Series Final at Flemington. The three-year-old filly was tried twice in Group One and Group Two races last spring over the… Read More »
Fresh from success with an imported stayer at Sandown, Sydney trainer Matthew Smith will make another raid on Melbourne racing. Villardo won over 2400m at Sandown on Wednesday and Smith will send La Courbette south for Saturday’s Banjo Paterson Series Final (2600m) at Flemington. Both joined Smith from Europe and… Read More »
Triple Group One winner Santa Ana Lane is the latest horse to snare a place in The Everest at Randwick, with Inglis confirming the gelding for its slot in the $13 million sprint. Santa Ana Lane won the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes last spring and added another two… Read More »
Veteran galloper Someday has trialled well enough to boost trainer Desleigh Forster’s confidence she can have a two-centre double in two days. On Friday, Forster will be in Rockhampton where she thinks smart sprinter Too Good To Refuse has a top chance in the $100,000 Newmarket. She will be back… Read More »
Craig Williams has surged ahead in the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership but Damian Lane will not be giving up without a fight. A winning treble to Williams at Sandown on Wednesday sent the six-time premiership winner five wins clear until Lane pegged one back in the final race. Lane gets the… Read More »
Leading Queensland apprentice Jag Guthmann-Chester has a rare opportunity to ride for champion trainer Chris Waller at Doomben. Waller usually books senior jockeys for his horses in Queensland but has decided to use Guthmann-Chester’s 2kg claim on Religify on Saturday. Religify has been handicapped with 63kg in the Open Handicap… Read More »
Apprentice jockey Jackson Murphy has picked up some key rides as he begins the next phase of his career at Doomben. Murphy rode with success in the NSW Northern Rivers before joining Eagle Farm trainer Chris Anderson last year. He has been riding at the Gold Coast on most Saturdays… Read More »
Sarrasin’s American campaign will begin earlier than planned with the six-year-old to run in a 1600m-race at Belmont with Melbourne jockey Regan Bayliss to ride. Trainer Richard Freedman has the Sword Dancer Invitational at Saratoga on August 25 as a Group One target in the United States. He and the… Read More »
Jackson Morris has briefly celebrated his first Sydney win for some years before having it taken away in the stewards’ room at Canterbury and copping an 11-meeting suspension and $500 fine. Morris, who has spent most of the past decade in Queensland, was first past the post on the Jim… Read More »
