Chris Munce is hoping speedster Snoopy can break through for his first stakes win and help the trainer close in on 50 winners in a season for the first time. The former jockey took up training in January 2015 and has already trained more than 150 winners, 48 in 2017/18…. Read More »
Group One-winning New Zealand jockey Michael McNab has grasped the opportunity to try out as Chris Waller’s Queensland stable rider under Gold Coast foreman Paul Shailer. “I fly out next Friday and I’ll get a look around the stables at the Gold Coast that day and then ride work there… Read More »
Gold Coast jockey Laura Cheshire will renew a long-standing association when she has her first Group Two ride in more than decade. Cheshire will ride Kaharau for New Zealand trainer Kenny Rae in Saturday’s P J O’Shea Stakes (2200m) at the Sunshine Coast. “I rode for Kenny as an apprentice… Read More »
Trainer Jeff Searle is no stranger around country tracks of Victoria but will be breaking new ground when Tildy Lad runs at Moonee Valley. The seven-year-old runs in the WT Partnership Handicap (1200m) on Saturday and will be Searle’s first runner at the city course. Based at Bordertown in South… Read More »
Aidan O’Brien admits the forecast soft ground is not ideal for any of his five runners in the Oaks at Epsom. It is 20 years since the champion trainer first claimed the fillies’ Classic with Shahtoush and he has since stretched his tally to six with Imagine (2001), Alexandrova (2006),… Read More »
The dam of Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign has fetched $2.1 million at the Magic Millions Gold Coast National Broodmare Sale. Courgette was last lot of Book One of the sale on Thursday and was offered by Yarraman Park. Tony Bott on behalf of E Thoroughbreds outbid Gerry Harvey’s… Read More »
The Aidan O’Brien-trained Saxon Warrior is odds-on favourite to add the Derby at Epsom to his 2000 Guineas victory. But O’Brien has voiced concerns about the recent rain at Epsom as he goes in search of a record-equalling seventh win in the blue riband. O’Brien has also declared Delano Roosevelt,… Read More »
Trainer Jeremy Gask has had a double at Gosford with his second and third Australian runners since he returned from a long stint in England. Originally from Adelaide, Gask spent a decade in England where his best horse was durable sprinter Medicean Man, runner-up in the 2015 King’s Stand Stakes…. Read More »
Trainer Stuart Kendrick hopes drawing the outside barrier may not be the problem it appears for track specialist Tarzan at the Sunshine Coast. Tarzan has a lot in the plus column as he chases his first stakes win in the Listed Queensland Lightning (1000m) on Saturday. The gelding holds the… Read More »
Leading trainer Darren Weir doesn’t get a lot of down time with the large number of horses in his care. After racking up a double at Geelong on Tuesday to take his season tally to 405 wins, Weir has had a couple of “quiet days” by his standards. He didn’t… Read More »
Jockey Billy Egan has been cleared over his handling of a horse at Mornington with the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board dismissing the charge. Racing Victoria stewards charged Egan with failing to take all reasonable and permissible measures to ensure Zizzis was given full opportunity to win or obtain the… Read More »
John Thompson remains upbeat about Special Missile’s chances at Rosehill despite the consistent gelding’s frustrating preparation of near misses. The Randwick trainer was convinced the gelding had won last start on May 19 only for a photo-finish to confirm he had been nosed out by King Darci. Thompson has watched… Read More »
Tough gelding Spectroscope will drop back in distance in an effort to get him back in winning form at the Sunshine Coast. Spectroscope hasn’t won since taking the Doncaster Prelude at Rosehill in March last year but has been close up on several occasions in recent races. He was a… Read More »
Trainer Jason Warren will be hoping history repeats when Violent Snow heads to Moonee Valley chasing an upset win. Violent Snow runs in Saturday’s Goodlife Essendon Handicap (1500m) having won the corresponding benchmark race for fillies and mares at Moonee Valley a year ago as a $26 chance. That was… Read More »
Scone trainer Brett Cavanough has called on one of his favourite jockeys, Skye Bogenhuber, to help coax spirited The Monstar back to winning form at the Sunshine Coast. The Monstar should get conditions to suit when he tackles Saturday’s Group Two Moreton Cup (1200m). The Sunshine Coast track looks certain… Read More »
Stewards have allowed suspended trainer Ben Currie to transfer horses he had nominated for Gatton and Toowoomba to other trainers to allow them to race. Currie is currently suspended after fronting stewards on Monday when he was charged with 31 breaches of racing rules and he can’t nominate or accept… Read More »
Moonee Valley has been a happy hunting ground for trainer Jerome Hunter this season and he is looking for it to continue when racing returns there for the first time in more than two months. Hunter has had four winners and two placings from just seven Moonee Valley starters in… Read More »
Jockey Winona Costin has come back from several concussions and broken bones so the irritation caused by Ronstar’s bowed spine is just a minor impediment. The 23-year-old has a high threshold for pain, and high hopes for the two-year-old who will attempt to stay unbeaten in the Spring Carnival On… Read More »
At 45, Damian Browne is showing he still has what it takes as a leading rider ahead of the first Group Two meeting on his home track at the Sunshine Coast. Browne is the leading winter carnival jockey having ridden 14 winner and claimed five feature races including the Group… Read More »
Trainer Bruce Hill has decided to erase Man of His Word’s last-start failure from his memory banks. Man of His Word was an excellent third in the Group Two Hollindale Stakes (1800m) on May 5 before being well-beaten when 10th in the Group One Doomben Cup (2000m). Hill was at… Read More »
