Caulfield Cup winner Boom Time is one of a number of Lindsay Park big names set to trial at Tatura. Boom Time won last year’s Caulfield Cup under Cory Parish before going on to finish 15th to Rekindling in the Melbourne Cup. He then travelled to Tokyo for the Japan… Read More »
Outstanding first-season sire Spirit of Boom will stand for a Queensland record service fee of $55,000 at Eureka Stud. Spirit of Boom is Australia’s leading first-season sire by winners with 11 individual winners of 16 races from 35 horses to race. He has had four stakes race winners – Ef… Read More »
Trainer Aaron Purcell has slipped back into a quieter lifestyle at Warrnambool after enjoying a hectic six months as the replacement trainer for suspended Ciaron Maher. Since handing back the reins to Maher, Purcell has only had six runners in the ensuing two weeks. On Sunday he won the Terang… Read More »
The new-look Kensington track at Randwick is ready for racing after several barrier trials to test the surface. The inner track at Sydney’s premier course will be used on Wednesday for racing for the first time since November 2014. The Kensington track was rebuilt at the same time the new… Read More »
The much-travelled Highland Reel will return to Australia, this time to stand at Victoria’s Swettenham Stud. Trained in Ireland by Aidan O’Brien, Highland Reel ran third to Winx in the 2015 Cox Plate and won seven Group One races in the United States, Hong Kong and England. He is by… Read More »
Godolphin stalwart Hartnell is among 17 entries for the Group One All Aged Stakes on the final day of Sydney’s autumn carnival. A triple Group One winner and multiple placegetter, Hartnell has not raced since finishing out of the placings in the Australian Cup at Flemington on March 10. Three-year-old… Read More »
Apprentice Stephanie Lacy has had a one-month suspension on a handling charge quashed in another case highlighting delays in appeals in Queensland. She has been riding on a stay since last August. Lacy was outed after riding Kulaba in a race at the Sunshine Coast on July 23 last year…. Read More »
Ben Smith is envisaging another Group One success with El Dorado Dreaming as the anguish of In Her Time’s TJ Smith Stakes run subsides. Smith said the two-year-old filly pulled up well after her giant-killing run in the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Randwick on April 7, when the $81… Read More »
With winter approaching, apprentice Tahlia Hope has scored a timely double at Caulfield as she prepares to ride without her country claim. Hope added her first Saturday metropolitan double to a midweek pair at Sandown, giving the 19-year-old her ninth city victory. Both winners, Kapaulenko and Magic Consol, are trained… Read More »
Any stud plans for Trapeze Artist are on hold with the colt to line up in the All Aged Stakes before being set for the $13 million Everest. Owner Bert Vieira has been in talks with breeders but has told trainer Gerald Ryan the focus will be to get Trapeze… Read More »
Leading Queensland sprinter Most Important has trialled brilliantly as he prepares to prove he is up to Group One company. Most Important has been one of Queensland’s most consistent horses having won nine races and $847,000 prize money. The five-year-old hasn’t started since winning the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup (1400m)… Read More »
A Caulfield double has Regan Bayliss back in form as he is about to head to Brisbane to ride at the upcoming winter carnival. Bayliss returned to riding last week after being sidelined for two indiscretions during Flemington’s autumn carnival in March. He incurred a reckless riding ban aboard Main… Read More »
Silent Sedition has pulled up lame from her unplaced run in the Coolmore Legacy at Randwick and Melbourne trainer Andrew Noblet will turn his Group One attention to her stablemate Super Cash. The equal favourite in Saturday’s Coolmore Legacy (1600m), Group One winner Silent Sedition was found to be 2/5… Read More »
Davy Russell has continued his magnificent season by steering Tiger Roll to a thrilling victory in the world’s most famous steeplechase, the Grand National at Aintree. A dual Irish champion jockey, Russell’s was famously informed he had lost the job as No.1 jockey for Gigginstown House Stud over a cup… Read More »
Racing Queensland officials are confident a three-week break from racing will help Doomben perform to its best during the winter carnival. Doomben has had the major workload with Eagle Farm closed for most of the past four years for redevelopment. There were major worries about Doomben in recent weeks after… Read More »
Tiger Roll and Davy Russell held on to claim a dramatic victory in the Grand National at England’s Aintree course. Gordon Elliott’s eight-year-old landed his third Cheltenham Festival success in the Cross-Country Chase last month, to go with previous victories in the Triumph Hurdle and National Hunt Chase, and was… Read More »
Jockey Dean Holland has been suspended and fined for breaching the whip rules on Zacada, who was beaten a nose in the $2 million Sydney Cup. Holland was outed for one week and hit with a $3000 fine for using the whip 12 times before the 100m in Saturday’s 3200m… Read More »
For a fleeting moment, jockey Mark Zahra considered he might have been a chance of a huge boilover in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes on Gailo Chop. But within the blink of an eye, champion Winx levelled up and then careered away over the final 200m to win by nearly four… Read More »
Singapore-bound Daniel Moor has ridden the last four winners at Caulfield providing him with his first quartet in the city area. His four-timer came upon Magnapal and Working From Home for Warrnambool trainer Daniel Bowman along with Reilmartini for Darren Weir and King River for John Price. The four winners… Read More »
Damian Lane is looking forward to relaxing back home in Western Australia after wrapping up his Sydney autumn carnival in a rush at Randwick. The 24-year-old Melbourne-based jockey wasted no time setting the tempo in the Group Two Sapphire Stakes (1200m) on Quilista and after building a six-length advantage midway… Read More »
