Jockey Jim Orman has notched another milestone and returns to the scene of one his biggest wins as he gets his career back on track after an injury-enforced break. Orman has been back riding for two weeks after fracturing his back in a fall at the Sunshine Coast in early… Read More »
Ferniehirst’s place in the $500,000 Country Championship final is in doubt with a swab taken from the mare before her qualifying run found to contain the anti-inflammatory naproxen. Trained by Paul Smith at Coffs Harbour, Ferniehirst ran second to Snitz in the Northern Rivers heat of the Country Championship to… Read More »
The excitement continues for Peter Gelagotis with the Victorian trainer still on a high from having a runner at the Dubai World Cup meeting ahead of his bid for a Derby win in Sydney. The Gelagotis-trained Illustrious Lad finished fifth, the best of three Australian-trained runners in the Al Quoz… Read More »
In Her Time’s bid for a slot in the second edition of The Everest can gain further traction when she takes on inaugural winner Redzel in the Group One TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick. Trainer Ben Smith is anything but resting on his laurels after the five-year-old mare won the… Read More »
Far from Kementari being knocked off his stride by his first encounter with Winx, James Cummings believes the George Ryder Stakes has set the colt up up perfectly for the 2018 Doncaster Mile. Godolphin’s head trainer says finishing 1-3/4 lengths from the champion when third at Rosehill has topped the… Read More »
Trainer Mark Webb and his biggest owner Alan Newcombe’s plan to forge a relationship with the elite Darley Stud has produced the stable’s second upset juvenile race winner in three days at Ipswich. Webb and Newcombe’s filly Senchel’s Voice ($13) stormed home to beat Mishani Rain ($3.40) by three-quarters of… Read More »
Trainer Peter Morgan is keeping the latest campaign of smart three-year-old Sircconi simple with a view to the spring. All he wants is to see the colt’s rating rise to a level where getting into bigger spring races is a relatively easy assignment. The winner of the 2017 Group Two… Read More »
Melbourne filly True Excelsior will head north for the opening day of The Championships to chase a stakes race success at her first Sydney appearance. The Leon and Troy Corstens-trained three-year-old filly has twice been placed in Group Three races in Melbourne and gets her latest chance at that level… Read More »
After two months plying his trade in NSW jockey Noel Callow has returned to Victoria with a winning ride at Sale. Callow headed to NSW in February in search of more opportunities but decided to return home to Victoria after clocking up endless kilometres travelling to country venues. He called… Read More »
An already memorable season for jockey Michael Dee could get even better when he links with a renowned stable for the first time to chase Doncaster Mile glory on lightweight hope Arbeitsam. Melbourne-based New Zealander Dee notched his third Group One win of the season when he steered Hiyaam to… Read More »
Tony McEvoy might have the best maiden in Australia in his stable but the trainer is hoping dual Group One placegetter Oohood can shed that tag in the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes. Oohood has been placed in all five starts during her juvenile season including a third in the $1.5… Read More »
Jockey Skye Bogenhuber has a leading chance to complete a successful homecoming when she rides multiple stakes winner Rudy in the Toowoomba Cup. Bogenhuber won the Toowoomba Cup on Bang On in 2013, the same year she completed the feature double by winning the Weetwood Handicap on Miss Imagica. She… Read More »
A bigger and stronger Hardham is set to make a reappearance at Bendigo which his trainer hopes will eventually lead to a campaign in Brisbane. David Brideoake has selected Saturday’s Listed Golden Mile (1600m) on the roomy Bendigo circuit to launch the four-year-old’s winter campaign. Brideoake has picked out the… Read More »
A mixture of factors has led trainer Ben Currie to book Sydney jockey Bob El Issa for Amanaat in the Listed Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba. Amanaat has won six of his past seven starts and will be having his second open company start after scoring at Doomben two weeks ago…. Read More »
York racecourse has announced Sky Bet as the new sponsors of the Ebor Handicap, which will be worth STG1 million ($A1.8 million). In a five-year deal, this year’s race will have a 75 per cent increase to STG750,000 before rising to the million for 2019. The race conditions will also… Read More »
Hong Kong-based Australian jockey Nash Rawiller will miss the Doncaster/Derby meeting at Randwick because of travel difficulties. Among his scheduled rides on Saturday were the Chris Waller-trained The Lord Mayor in the Australian Derby and Tchaikovsky from the Peter and Paul Snowden stable in the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes. Waller’s… Read More »
Star sprinter Redzel has put in a sparkling work-out ahead of his next Group One assignment in the TJ Smith Stakes. Redzel was the first of the carnival contenders out on the course proper at Randwick on Tuesday morning with both jockey Kerrin McEvoy and trainers Peter and Paul Snowden… Read More »
The barrier draw has made little difference to the betting picture on the Doncaster Mile with the two favourites to eyeball each other in the gates. Godolphin colt Kementari remains steady at the top of the TAB’s market at $3.50 after coming up with gate two on Tuesday with Happy… Read More »
Natalie Young reckons barrier draws cost Rising Red and Sully wins in the New Zealand Derby and its Victorian equivalent, and she fears history could repeat at Randwick. Young, who trains with partner Trent Busuttin, was frustrated after their trio of runners in Saturday’s $2 million Australian Derby (2400m) copped… Read More »
As if Tom Melbourne hasn’t found it hard enough to find the winners’ stall, the Doncaster Mile barrier draw has also conspired against him. The seven-year-old’s owner Terry Henderson of OTI Racing played along with his cult status by asking Sky Racing personality Ron Dufficy to draw Tom Melbourne’s number… Read More »
