Mick Burles, best known for preparing popular Tasmanian galloper The Cleaner, has called time on his training career because of illness. Burles, who along with cult hero The Cleaner captured the imagination of the Australian horse racing community a few seasons ago, last had a runner at Launceston in late… Read More »
Everest hopeful English has joined slot holder In Her Time as a non-starter in the Stradbroke Handicap with a view to the $13 million Everest. Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have decided to send the dual Group One-winner for a spell rather than run her in the Group One Stradbroke… Read More »
Col McKenna has paid $2.6 million for his favourite horse, buying his partners out of Jameka at the National Broodmare Sale so he can retain the triple Group One winner for breeding. McKenna raced Jameka with a syndicate but on Tuesday his Halo Racing Services paid what is the top… Read More »
Cameron Crockett is wary of Nictock’s propensity to self-harm undermining the gelding’s return to racing at Rosehill. The Mudgee trainer has been baffled by the four-year-old’s recent tendency to kick himself during track work and trials, and so far the Randwick Equine Centre and Crockett”s vet have been unable to… Read More »
Prominent Japanese owner Katsumi Yoshida has paid $1.5 million for Group One winner Silent Sedition at the National Broodmare Sale. The William Reid Stakes winner is the third mare to fetch more than $1 million on the opening day of the Magic Millions sale. Bloodstock agent Dean Hawthorne has snared… Read More »
Jockey Dale Smith has lost an appeal against a careless riding suspension but had one meeting shaved off his penalty. Smith was found guilty of careless riding in a race at Geelong on Sunday and appealed against both the decision and also the severity of the nine-meeting penalty. The Racing… Read More »
Bloodstock agent Dean Hawthorne has topped the $1.4 million he paid for Abbey Marie by paying $1.7 million for Omei Sword at the National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast The Group One-placed Omei Sword, by High Chaparral out of 2009 Thousand Guineas winner Irish Lights, was offered for sale… Read More »
A fitter Bel Sonic is set to continue his campaign at Moonee Valley after passing a barrier test in a trial at Werribee. The talented three-year-old was narrowly beaten in his return from a spell at Caulfield on May 12 but trainer Jason Warren was forced to take the gelding… Read More »
David Payne is hoping Silent Explorer can follow in familiar footsteps as he continues his racing career at Warwick Farm. The Rosehill trainer has an affinity with Silent Explorer’s sire Lope De Vega since buying Be Like Dad, a now five-year-old who has earned $221,000 prize money. French Fern, the… Read More »
Group One winner Abbey Marie has fetched $1.4 million at the opening session of the National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast The five-year-old was the sixth horse through the Magic Millions ring on Tuesday and went to the bid of Dean Hawthorne Bloodstock and Freyer Bloodstock. Trained by Mick… Read More »
Triple Group One winner Jameka will be the headline act at the annual National Broodmare Sale on the Gold Coast. Trained by Ciaron Maher to win the 2015 VRC Oaks, 2016 Caulfield Cup and the 2017 BMW, Jameka’s racing career was cut short by illness. She will be sold at… Read More »
Queensland’s leading trainer Ben Currie will lodge an application for a stay on a suspension of his licence after he was charged with 31 breaches of the racing rules. Toowoomba-based Currie, who leads the state premiership with 130 wins, was called to front a reconvened stewards inquiry in Brisbane on… Read More »
NSW trainers and industry participants have again been warned about the substance synephrine found in orange peel and used in a number of herbal preparations and nutritional supplements for humans. Racing NSW stewards have alerted trainers it can also be found in certain types of hay and grass. Stewards have… Read More »
Win, lose or draw in a heat of the All Victorian Sprint Series, Ashlor won’t be fronting up for the final when it’s conducted at Flemington. But it won’t stop trainer Dan McCarthy racing for $100,000 in the fourth heat of the series at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Three of… Read More »
Trainer Gary Portelli is keen to see if Ronstar can repeat his debut win to give him a guide to his spring prospects. The two-year-old beat Group Three placegetter River Bird to win at Rosehill on May 19 with the Jason Coyle-trained filly among the entries again on Saturday. If… Read More »
Dual Group One-winning mare Egg Tart will get the chance to prove she could be a 2018 Caulfield Cup horse when she runs at Caloundra. Egg Tart hasn’t won since the 2017 Queensland Oaks (2200m) but she showed she was back on track with her second in the Group One… Read More »
Leading Sydney jockey Brenton Avdulla has suffered a lower back injury in a barrier trial incident at Randwick. Avdulla was dislodged on the way to the stalls and then trodden on when he was on the ground. He will have tests to determine the extent of the problem and whether… Read More »
A placing in a Werribee barrier trial has Ability ready for a return to the racetrack. Ability ran second to Balancing Act with Craig Williams aboard in Monday’s 800m-trial and is set to run at Flemington on Saturday week. The former Robert Smerdon-trained sprinter, now in the care of Henry… Read More »
Trainer Jessica Harrington has realised a long-held ambition, registering her first Classic victory with Alpha Centauri in the Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh. Harrington has enjoyed plenty of success both in the National Hunt division and the Flat sphere, but a big space on her CV reserved for one… Read More »
Senior Lindsay Park trainer David Hayes leaves for Royal Ascot confident Redkirk Warrior is in peak condition. The gelding won an 800m-barrier trial at Werribee on Monday in which he streeted his five rivals under Regan Bayliss. Hayes was delighted with the way Redkirk Warrior quickened turning for home and… Read More »
