Young guns Spirit Of Boom and Zoustar will resume their battle for the honour of being named Australia’s champion first-season sire in the Group One J J Atkins Plate at Doomben. Eureka Stud’s Spirit Of Boom will have two runners in Saturday’s J J Atkins (1600m), Plumaro and Boomsara, while… Read More »
Leading trainer Chris Waller may still have five runners in the Group One Queensland Derby despite the scratching of Tangled. Waller’s Queensland stable manager Paul Shailer said Tangled was found to be lame after trackwork at the Gold Coast and was scratched on Thursday morning. “We have sent the vet’s… Read More »
Queensland trainer Ben Currie will not be allowed to race horses in NSW until the resolution of 31 charges levelled against him. Racing NSW stewards issued Currie with a show cause notice on May 30 and on Thursday determined the Toowoomba trainer could not race any horses in the state… Read More »
Rising Red has been ruled out of the Group Two Brisbane Cup. Busuttin Racing announced on Twitter on Thursday the last-start Premier’s Cup winner had heat in one of his joints following a track gallop on Tuesday and was out of Saturday’s 2200m race. “Connections are disappointed not to be… Read More »
Star British horse Cracksman headlines a list of 13 international horses invited to take up the challenge against champion Winx in the Cox Plate. The Moonee Valley Racing Club issues invitations to some of the best-performed middle-distance horses in the world in a bid to attract them to run in… Read More »
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller is on track to break another prize money record at Doomben. Waller set a record for Australia when his winners in Sydney and Caloundra last Saturday lifted his season earnings to $30,637,380. Waller has runners in each of the three Group One races at Doomben… Read More »
The first thing Tegan Harrison did after she unsaddled recent Scone winner Siren’s Fury was to ask for the ride if the mare came to Brisbane. Harrison had just produced a super ride to win the Group Three Dark Jewel on Siren’s Fury for Sydney trainer Jason Coyle. “It was… Read More »
Trainer Matt Dunn would rather concentrate on the positives after Care To Think again drew poorly in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Doomben. Care To Think has been racing well but has been hampered by poor barriers. For the seventh time in his past eight starts Care To Think… Read More »
Dual-purpose trainer Willie Mullins has saddled his 3000th winner but still has several big-race ambitions including the Melbourne Cup. Mullins reached the personal milestone after Timi Roli carried the silks made famous by 22-time Grade One winner Hurricane Fly to glory in in a hurdle at Wexford on Wednesday (Thursday… Read More »
The Moonee Valley Racing Club is set to announce which international horses will receive invitations to contest the Cox Plate. The club will invite some of the leading weight-for-age middle distance horses from around the globe to contest this year’s race in October, with those chosen announced during Thursday. This… Read More »
Brilliant steeplechaser Denman has been put down at the age of 18 his trainer Paul Nicholls has announced. The winner of four Grade One races including the 2008 Cheltenham Gold Cup had deteriorated and the decision was made to euthanise him. “The decision was taken by his devoted owner Paul… Read More »
Apprentice Ethan Brown’s shot at winning the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership has taken a minor hit after he incurred a careless riding suspension at Sandown. He sits third in the premiership race with 42 winners, four behind Damian Lane who rode a double on Wednesday to take top spot, one win… Read More »
A midweek meeting at Sandown in early winter is a far cry from spring’s Caulfield Guineas. But jockey Michael Walker is already looking that far ahead with Fighting Harada after the colt’s victory in the Clanbrooke Racing Handicap for three-year-old colts and geldings on Wednesday. Walker won the Caulfield Guineas… Read More »
Tasmanian trainer Barry Campbell expects Derasa to measure up when the three-year-old filly makes her first mainland appearance at Flemington. Derasa has won four of her seven starts, including her past three, and is scheduled to travel to Melbourne by ferry overnight on Thursday to run in Saturday’s Ron Taylor… Read More »
Rachel Hunt was dislodged as Monsieur Sisu made his way to the gates at Canterbury but hung tough when it mattered to secure a coveted city win for Paul Cave. By breaking his maiden at the third attempt, the at-times temperamental gelding got small-scale Warwick Farm trainer Cave off the… Read More »
Champion Brisbane jockey Jeff Lloyd will need a doctor’s clearance before riding Perast in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap. Lloyd had two rides before he was stood down from his remaining ones at the Gold Coast on Wednesday after telling stewards he was feeling unwell. Lloyd has been wasting to… Read More »
Nordic Empire has lived up to his control freak reputation by dominating his opposition from the front at Sandown. The Chris Parry-trained galloper jumped to the lead in Wednesday’s Dream Thoroughbreds Handicap and held off his rivals up the Sandown straight. Ridden by apprentice Stephanie Thornton, Nordic Empire ($11) defeated… Read More »
Braces has recorded back-to-back city wins for the first time in his career to continue trainer Greg Hickman’s purple patch on a sodden track at Canterbury. Consecutive midweek Benchmark Handicap victories have earned the six-year-old gelding his first trip to Rosehill since January last year, providing he recovers from a… Read More »
Lightly-raced Propelle will be out to boost her rating with a view to the spring in the final planned start of her juvenile season at Flemington. The Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra-trained filly finished fourth as favourite on debut at Sandown last month before convincingly winning a maiden at Sale… Read More »
Doomben’s Stradbroke Hcp meeting will step back into the 1970s, with the main event to be run as race five due to concerns about heavy rain before or on Saturday. The May 26 meeting at the track was delayed for 90 minutes when the rail had to be moved after… Read More »
