Wise Hero has been freshened since his most recent start and trainer John Price is looking forward to taking the consistent gelding back to the races. Four-year-old Wise Hero has four wins and six placings from 11 starts and runs for the first time in four weeks in Saturday’s 1200m-benchmark… Read More »
Toowoomba trainer Mark Currie has been granted an extension of a stay on his disqualification for two years. Currie went to the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Tuesday seeking the extension after he lost an internal review of his conviction and disqualification on 16 charges. The charges arose from… Read More »
Trainer Logan McGill has been fined a total of $4400 relating to a horse in his care returning a positive sample to a corticosteroid after a race at Stony Creek. The prohibited substance Triamcinolone Acetonide was detected in the post race blood sample taken from the McGill-trained Integrated on March… Read More »
Trainer David Payne is pleased to see a race for two-year-olds at Canterbury over longer than usual so he can test Commentator and Tarka with a view to their futures. Payne likes training stayers and believes they should start young with his two to run over 1550 metres in Wednesday’s… Read More »
Jamie Kah will reunite with talented filly Mintha when South Australia’s premier jockey makes the trip to Melbourne for the midweek meeting at Moonee Valley. Kah has ridden 141 winners this season and heads to Moonee Valley for Wednesday’s meeting having been booked to ride the Tony McEvoy-trained Mintha and… Read More »
Champion Singapore trainer Mark Walker has celebrated his first Group One win in the island nation with Elite Invincible. The ex-pat New Zealander won five premierships in his home country and had 22 Group One winners for Te Akau Racing but Sunday’s Charity Bowl (1600m) was his first since he… Read More »
Trainer Dan McCarthy admits Ashlor’s recent run of placings has been frustrating but he is hoping for a change of fortune for the talented sprinter at Caulfield. McCarthy has Ashlor and stablemate Liberty Song among the 46 nominations for Saturday’s 1200m-benchmark 84 race but says his plan is to only… Read More »
Trainer Jason Warren has spring carnival ambitions for two-year-old filly Trilli who will first try to land a Saturday metropolitan victory at Caulfield. Trilli was placed on debut at Sale last month before showing a good turn of foot to win a midweek city race against her own age and… Read More »
Having trained his first winner for OTI Racing, Matthew Smith is hoping the same horse can step up again at Rosehill. Plymouth Road led all the way to claim the 2400m-handicap at Randwick on Saturday and if he continues to please Smith, he will back up at Rosehill a week… Read More »
Blue blood colt Nordicus is closing in on his race debut after winning a barrier trial at Rosehill. The Bjorn Baker-trained two-year-old is by six-time Group One winner Dundeel out of five-time Group One winner Miss Finland and fetched $900,000 at last year’s Magic Millions yearling sale on the Gold… Read More »
Improving Victorian mare Jamaican Rain is expected to get her preferred soft track when she tackles the Listed Glasshouse Handicap at the Sunshine Coast. Trainer Richard Laming sent Jamaican Rain to Brisbane with the Group One Tatt’s Tiara in mind but when she failed to make the field he instead… Read More »
A running and handling inquiry into top Queensland jockey Damian Browne’s ride on Fighting Teo at Caloundra will be heard after a three week delay. Stewards opened the inquiry after Fighting Teo ran sixth in a Class One handicap on June 1 as the $3 favourite. It was adjourned and… Read More »
Hugh Bowman and Werther have gone down by a neck in the Group One Takarazuka Kinen at Hanshin in Japan won by Mikki Rocket. The John Moore-trained Werther, the 2015/16 Hong Kong Horse of the Year, was having his second start for four months in Sunday’s 2200m-race after a series… Read More »
Talented apprentice Fred Kersley is hoping to continue to make a mark in Melbourne having made the permanent move to the Lindsay Park stable. Kersley initially transferred to Victoria from Western Australia on loan to the Lindsay Park team of David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig in early December… Read More »
Talented Seaway is likely to be top trainer Chris Waller’s sole runner in the Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas. The race holds a special place for Waller with Winx successful in 2015 to begin a streak of wins which now stands at 25, 18 at Group One level. Waller said… Read More »
Widgee Turf is scheduled to get one more chance to add to his season tally of six city wins in an open handicap at Caulfield which will double as an audition for a crack at a weight-for-age race. A victory at Moonee Valley last Saturday week from the Patrick Payne-trained… Read More »
While Redkirk Warrior is on the other side of the world recovering from his unplaced run at Royal Ascot, another of Lindsay Park’s open-age sprinters is building up for the spring. Vega Magic has only raced once this year when he failed in his defence of the Group One Goodwood… Read More »
A second to Crystal Ocean in the Group Two Hardwicke Stakes at Royal Ascot has been enough to convince connections Red Verdon can be a force in the Melbourne spring carnival. Trained by Ed Dunlop, Red Verdon finished 2-1/2 lengths behind Crystal Ocean who gave Sir Michael Stoute his 11th… Read More »
NSW-trained horses have again dominated the Brisbane winter carnival winning more than half the black-type races on offer. Since the start of the winter carnival in April there have been 54 stakes races with NSW winning 33. Leading Sydney trainer Chris Waller has led the way with 10 stakes wins… Read More »
Rockhampton trainer John Pointon has been suspended for six months after one of his horses showed traces of cobalt after a barrier trial. A stewards inquiry was told a urine test taken from the Pointon-trained Raunchy Woman after a barrier trial at Rockhampton on October 27 showed cobalt above the… Read More »
