Hugh Bowman has announced his intention to return to the Sydney racing fold in a few weeks. Bowman had a short stint in Japan after this year’s autumn carnival in Sydney and he is currently serving a careless riding suspension incurred in the recent Japan Derby. The star jockey, who… Read More »
If the rain comes to Sydney as predicted, trainer Gerald Ryan expects a reversal of form from Samantha in the Listed June Stakes at Randwick. The mare finished last at her most recent start but having been fully vetted and found to have no issues, she will line up in… Read More »
Champion jockey Hugh Bowman is set to accompany the Melbourne Cup trophy to his home town in country NSW ahead of his latest bid to win the country’s most iconic race for the first time. Bowman’s home town, Dunedoo, was on Monday announced as one of 37 destinations for this… Read More »
Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie is facing a $5000 fine on a positive swab charge after losing an appeal in the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal. The charge is not related to 31 other charges recently brought against Currie which have also been the subject of a QCAT hearing in the… Read More »
The new Polytrack training surface at Hawkesbury has passed its first test with a soft opening ahead of a full workload. A dozen locally trained horses were given light work-outs on the track on Monday morning. The Brad Widdup-trained Ajani, partnered by track rider Mikey Wade, was the first horse… Read More »
Leading kiwi jockey Mark Du Plessis will ride Queensland hope Most Important in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap at Doomben. Trainer Tony Gollan and owners Graham and Linda Huddy had a long discussion before electing to go with Du Plessis who has been based in Brisbane this winter. They were… Read More »
Eagle Farm trainer Les Ross is hoping predicted rain arrives in Brisbane this week as he has elected to back Miss Sara up in the Group One J J Atkins (1600m). About 12mm is forecast late this week and the Brisbane Racing Club has moved one race, the Daybreak Lover… Read More »
The decision to keep Study Of Man at home instead of taking him to Epsom for the Derby has paid off with his victory in the French equivalent, the Prix du Jockey Club at Chantilly. The Pascal Bary-trained colt stamped himself as a leading contender following an impressive display in… Read More »
The Stradbroke Handicap program at Doomben will be cut from nine to eight races to protect the track. Doomben has taken a heavy workload in recent times but will have had two weeks rest since its May 26 meeting which was delayed midway through the afternoon to move the rail…. Read More »
Gai Waterhouse’s Group One Queensland Derby hopes rest with a gelding she originally earmarked as a sprinter. Originally based at Waterhouse’s Flemington stable, Han Xin was sent to Brisbane after his third in the Listed Galilee Series Final (2400m) at Caulfield in mid-April. “The option was to go to South… Read More »
As champion Winx begins pre-training ahead of her next campaign, her trainer Chris Waller still has some unfinished Group One business this season. Winx is responsible for six of Waller’s 12 Group One wins in 2017/18 with four elite races left, three on Saturday at Doomben where the stable will… Read More »
The Monstar will get his chance at Group One level in the Stradbroke Handicap with Aquis Farm stepping in to pay the late entry fee. Trained by Brett Cavanough at Scone, The Monstar claimed his biggest win in Saturday’s Moreton Cup at the Sunshine Coast. The gelding was not in… Read More »
A step up in distance should be a plus for Fundamentalist in the Group One J J Atkins Plate with co-trainer Ben Hayes believing the filly is poised to run a huge race. Fundamentalist, who has finished strongly for second in stakes races in Adelaide in her past two starts,… Read More »
Joe Pride has long pleaded for veteran Destiny’s Kiss to be treated more kindly by handicappers, and now he is about to put his argument in writing. The Warwick Farm trainer will contact Racing Queensland in a bid to ensure the nine-year-old gelding does not cop what he fears will… Read More »
Stud-bound Impending’s good recent form on his least favourite wet tracks has the powerful Godolphin stable confident he can become the eighth horse to win back-to-back Stradbroke Handicaps. Impending, who won last year’s Stradbroke as a three-year-old, has top weight of 57.5kg in the big race this year. He is… Read More »
Trainer Mark Young will break new ground when he travels two-year-old Luck Favours to England for the Royal Ascot meeting. It will be Young’s first international foray and victory would be his biggest success. By former Australian galloper Starspangledbanner and bred to northern hemisphere time, Luck Favours leaves on Wednesday… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan will have to find a new rider for Most Important in Brisbane’s premier sprint, the Group One Stradbroke Handicap, after Jim Byrne elected to go with the other local hope Crack Me Up. Most Important was well beaten in the Group One Kingsford Smith Cup last start… Read More »
Queensland trainers want all money raised through a new point of consumption tax to be returned to the racing industry rather than just a share. The state government is expected to announce the basis on which the tax will be implemented in the budget on Tuesday week. A point of… Read More »
Trainer Peter Snowden admits he considered scratching Snippet’s Land before the gelding scored his first win in two years at Caloundra. Snippets Land ($20) drew the outside barrier in a field of 17 on Saturday but stormed home late to beat I’m A Rippa by half a length in the… Read More »
Melbourne jockeys’ premiership contender Damian Lane is one of four riders who have incurred careless-riding suspensions at Moonee Valley. Lane rode a winner at Saturday’s meeting aboard Anjana to move to within one of premiership leader Craig Williams but was later suspended for eight meetings. The multiple Group One-winning jockey… Read More »
