Group One-winning mare Secret Agenda is to head to the broodmare barn with connections announcing her retirement from racing. The Mick Price-trained Secret Agenda retires having won seven of her 23 starts and earnings approaching $1.55 million. The five-year-old’s biggest win came in last year’s Group One Robert Sangster Stakes… Read More »
The Darren Weir-trained Handsome Thief is the only runner in the Moreton Cup who can upset the order for the Group One Stradbroke Handicap. Saturday’s Group Two Moreton Cup (1200m) at the Sunshine Coast, previously known as the QTC Cup, has a ballot-free exemption for the winner into the Stradbroke… Read More »
Talented New Zealand jockey Jason Waddell is taking an extended break to get over the loss of his mother which has been compounded by his own ill-health. “I’ve been struggling to grieve for my Mum and I had health issues and I wasn’t too good after the Australian Derby,” Waddell… Read More »
Sydney jockey James McDonald’s comeback will continue when he rides at the Royal Ascot meeting. McDonald, who returned to riding earlier this month after serving an 18-month ban for a betting offence, has been booked by English trainer Charlie Hills for Equilateral in the Group One Commonwealth Cup. Equilateral is… Read More »
Toowoowba trainer Ben Currie will be unable to have any runners for at least a week after his application for a stay on a suspension for racing rules charges was adjourned until Friday. Currie had applied for an interim stay until his hearing on Friday but that was rejected. The… Read More »
The Seymour racetrack will be out of action for racing for at least another four months to allow further testing and works to be done on the surface. Concerns were raised about the size of divots being kicked back during a meeting at Seymour in April, forcing three meetings to… Read More »
It was hardly a resounding statement by Silent Explorer, but David Payne believes he has a rising star after the gelding broke his maiden at Warwick Farm. The two-year-old vindicated the South African-born trainer’s affection for stallion Lope De Vega by claiming the #Theraces Plate (1200m) by a nose. Connections… Read More »
Victorian trainer Mitchell Beer is thinking outside the square in his quest for a financial return for owners. Based at Mornington, Beer has opened a satellite stable on the NSW border at Albury for the winter months. The venture had immediate results on Tuesday with Broadstone winning at Albury. Beer… Read More »
A suspension has cut short leading jockey Hugh Bowman’s riding stint in Japan. The world’s highest-rated jockey arrived in Sydney on Tuesday, a week ahead of schedule after he was banned following his ride on outsider Etario in last weekend’s Group One Japan Derby in Tokyo. The suspension covers Stradbroke… Read More »
Seasons has spiked a frustrating sequence of near misses by breaking her maiden with a stylish win at Warwick Farm. After finishing second at the first two starts of her career at Canterbury, the Les Bridge-trained filly steered clear of trouble in the TAB.com.au Plate (1200m) to hit the line… Read More »
Newcastle three-year-old Banner Season grabbed a place in next week’s Group One Queensland with his hard-fought win at Ipswich. Banner Season was 22nd on the order of entry for the Queensland Derby on June 9 and needed to get the $30,500 first prize money to make the field. The gelding… Read More »
Country trainer Paul Preusker hopes he won’t be taking back luck with him when he accompanies his three runners to Moonee Valley. Preusker has been time poor in recent months but has turned out 13 winners from his past 50 starters. Unfortunately he missed his first city double at Caulfield… Read More »
Symon Wilde admits he is still unsure what level lightly raced Inn Keeper can reach but the Warrnambool trainer is looking forward to finding out. Inn Keeper has won six of his eight starts and made a successful introduction to city racing at Caulfield last start on May 12. That… Read More »
Considering the lay-off Sons Of John endured before a luckless comeback, Jason Attard has brushed another potential setback to the gelding’s return to racing. Topweight for Saturday’s Octagonal Handicap (1400m) at Rosehill after just one start in more than a year, Sons Of John also copped the outside barrier when… Read More »
A few trainers could breath easier but at least two others remain on edge after first acceptances were taken for the Group One Stradbroke Handicap. There were few shocks when the 30 first acceptances were released for the $1.5 million Stradbroke to be run on June 9. Order 📝: View… Read More »
Former French galloper One Foot In Heaven, who was once a contender for Europe’s richest race, will try to break his Australian maiden at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. One Foot In Heaven and his stablemate Egg Tart will be attempting to give trainer Chris Waller his fourth stakes quinella… Read More »
A likely soft track rating is expected to help former New Zealand mare Aide Memoire return to her best in the Group Two Moreton Cup at the Sunshine Coast. The Sunshine Coast is one of the few places in southeast Queensland to have had significant rain in the past two… Read More »
Frankie Dettori has travelled to Ireland to give his Epsom Derby mount, the Dermot Weld-trained Hazapour, a work-out ahead of the Classic. With his stable jockey Pat Smullen out of action since late March after being diagnosed with a tumour, Weld has turned to Dettori to partner the Derby Trial… Read More »
Le Romain is the latest high-profile defection from Brisbane’s premier sprint, the Group One Stradbroke Handicap. A close second to Impending in Saturday’s Group One Kingsford Smith Cup, Le Romain joins Group One winners In Her Time and English as non-runners at Doomben on Saturday week. Trainer Kris Lees says… Read More »
A stay application by Queensland trainer Ben Currie against a suspension of his licence pending the hearing of racing rules charges against him has been delayed. At a stewards hearing on Monday, Currie was charged with 31 breaches of racing rules dating back two years and suspended pending completion of… Read More »
