Trainer Robert Heathcote believes stable war horse Hopfgarten can run a big race in the Listed Weetwood Handicap but he has still lowered his winter carnival plans for the gelding. Heathcote is in the happy position of having a rising star and an old stager hand at Saturday’s Toowoomba meeting…. Read More »
Promising filly Naduri is taking a step back in class in a bid to strike winning form before a winter break. The David Brideoake-trained two-year-old heads to Bendigo on Saturday to run in the $250,000 VOBIS Gold Rush. A debut winner at Warrnambool in February, Naduri was then stepped up… Read More »
Trainer Chris Waller is already envisaging a bright future for Lean Mean Machine as he makes the step up to stakes company at Randwick. A $250,000 yearling at the Magic Millions sale, the two-year-old began his career in style with victory at a Warwick Farm midweek meeting last month. Lean… Read More »
A new look mounting yard will be unveiled for the next race meeting at Flemington. The Victoria Racing Club has announced an increase in the size of the mounting yard ahead of their next meeting on Anzac Day. The mounting yard gains another 10 metres after being extended to 27… Read More »
Apprentice Emma Ljung is hoping her run of success with trainer Tony Sears can translate to her biggest win. Ljung will ride Hard Stride who has drawn barrier 17 in Saturday’s Listed Weetwood Handicap (1200m) at Toowoomba. The rider brought up 10th winner for Sears this season when The Lawyer… Read More »
Redzel’s rise to prominence and the emergence of In Her Time means dual TJ Smith Stakes placegetter English again has her work cut out in the $2.5 million weight-for-age feature at Randwick. Three-time winner Chautauqua will miss this year’s race but that hasn’t made Sydney’s premier sprint any easier. Waterhouse’s… Read More »
Jockey Brodie Loy has been disqualified for 12 months and suspended for another nine on drug-related charges and giving false evidence to stewards. Loy pleaded guilty on Thursday to four charges relating to a delayed urine sample he gave on the evening of January 29 at Calvary Hospital in the… Read More »
Winx will add extra star power to the opening day of The Championships, with the mare to have a gallop between races at Randwick in preparation for the Queen Elizabeth Stakes. The champion will gallop over 1000m after the first race on Saturday’s Derby/Doncaster program, something her trainer Chris Waller… Read More »
THE 153RD DONCASTER MILE * The world’s richest mile (1600m) handicap worth $3 million. HISTORY * Highlight of first day of The Championships at Randwick. * First run in 1866 when it was won by Dundee and has since been won by many of the finest horses to grace the… Read More »
SIRES’ PRODUCE STAKES 1400m, $1 million, Group One for two-year-olds at Randwick HISTORY * First run in 1867 when won by Glencoe * Some greats of the Australasian turf have won the race including Furious (1921), Hall Mark (1933), Ajax (1937), Shannon (1944), Tulloch (1957), Fine And Dandy (1959), Wenona… Read More »
The show cause hearing of trainer Robert Smerdon will not go ahead following consideration of written submissions to Racing Victoria stewards. Have Your Say 🗣: Should stewards have forced Smerdon to attend the hearing? – Comment below Smerdon was given a show cause notice to attend a hearing on Friday… Read More »
Arbeitsam will break the mould if he can present Gai Waterhouse with a record-setting eighth Doncaster Mile. The legendary Waterhouse employed a tried and true formula to dominate the Randwick feature before the advent of Chris Waller as Sydney’s leading trainer. Pharaoh set the tone in 1994 when he raced… Read More »
Tavistock Abbey returns to the scene of his maiden victory when he launches his Queensland Derby campaign in the Bendigo Guineas. The Anthony Freedman-trained gelding broke his maiden at his third start last September at Bendigo over 1600m before taking out the Victoria Derby Trial (1800m) at Flemington. Tavistock Abbey… Read More »
The Paul Smith-trained Ferniehirst is free to run in the $500,000 Country Championship final after an inquiry into a positive test to a human anti inflammatory medication. A pre-race blood sample taken from the mare before she qualified with her second in the Northern Rivers heat on March 11 showed… Read More »
Popular NSW jockey Darren Jones will be remembered one year on from his death in a three-horse fall at Warialda with a memorial race to be held in his name at the country track. The 48-year-old fell from the Peter Sinclair-trained Montague Clan in a support race at last year’s… Read More »
Observational and the Bendigo racetrack seem to be made for each other. The imported gelding has raced twice at the country venue, recording two victories, both in the Golden Mile. He lines up in the Listed Golden Mile again on Saturday trying to make it back-to-back wins in the race… Read More »
Goulburn trainer Danny Williams is “over the moon” about his three runners in the $500,000 Country Championship Final at Randwick. The popular trainer has joint-favourite Don’t Give A Damn, promising mare Pumpkin Pie and rising gelding Acquittal in the 1400m-race on the first day of The Championships on Saturday. “I’m… Read More »
Jockey Matt McGillivray has been suspended for a month after stewards found him guilty of a handling charge for his ride on Mr Epic at Doomben. Stewards opened an inquiry after Mr Epic ran 10th in Saturday’s Open Handicap (1350m) after leading for home. At a resumed inquiry on Thursday… Read More »
Divine Mr Tycoon gets the chance to bank some significant prize money at just his second start in the VOBIS Gold Rush at Bendigo on a day when his elder half-brother will be out to reignite his career after throat surgery. Trainer Brendan McCarthy is set to saddle up two-year-old… Read More »
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller has many Group One contenders at Randwick for the first day of The Championships but will keep an eye on the Toowoomba meeting where the stable will have feature race runners at the Queensland track for the first time. Waller established a Gold Coast base… Read More »
