Champion jockey Hugh Bowman will miss the Tancred Stakes meeting at Rosehill and must receive a medical clearance before riding Winx in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Bowman was stood down by the course doctor at Warwick Farm two races into Wednesday’s card and has been diagnosed with a viral infection…. Read More »
Premier Brisbane jockey Jeff Lloyd will need a doctor’s clearance before he can chase another milestone at Doomben. Lloyd, who has been battling a virus for a week, won on Te Amo at Ipswich on Wednesday to take him to 98 Queensland victories for the season. He was later stood… Read More »
Nine-time Irish champion jockey Pat Smullen’s career is on hold after he was diagnosed with a tumour. The 40-year-old stable jockey for Dermot Weld said in a statement he was focused on overcoming his illness. “Most people will have been aware that I have been in hospital in recent days… Read More »
If Europe’s leading trainers want to take on Winx they will have to travel to Australia to do so. Speculation over the champion mare’s schedule for the remainder of the year ended on Wednesday when trainer Chris Waller ruled out an overseas campaign. Winx will instead focus on winning an… Read More »
Rhys McLeod says he’s got to put in the hours behind the wheel to keep the winners flowing. With dual meetings on a Wednesday in Victoria, McLeod took advantage of riding at Stony Creek before getting in the car for a 90-minute trip to the twilight meeting at Sandown. The… Read More »
Pure Elation may have missed the Golden Slipper, but Peter Snowden continues to marvel at the filly’s durability. A frustrating Melbourne campaign put Pure Elation behind the eight-ball for the world’s richest two-year-old race, and running second to Estijaab in the final lead-up race was not sufficient to make the… Read More »
Kerrin McEvoy is rapt to be back riding Almandin for the first time since the pair teamed up to win the 2016 Melbourne Cup. One of Australia’s leading jockeys has been tasked to guide the eight-year-old gelding through his first start in Sydney in Saturday’s Group One Tancred Stakes (2400m),… Read More »
Flashy filly Te Amo lived up to her breeding with the easiest of wins at Ipswich on Wednesday. Te Amo was one of three impressive three-year-old fillies to win, signalling the winter carnival is looming. Trainer Toby Edmonds continued his great run with horses owned by Segenhoe Stud syndicates when… Read More »
Chris Gibbs has adhered to former training partner Donna Logan’s Australian Oaks strategy by bringing Danzdanzdance from New Zealand for the Group One Vinery Stud Stakes. Logan, who is now training in Singapore, used Saturday’s 2000m feature for three-year-old fillies to prepare newcomers to Sydney racing for their main target…. Read More »
An overseas trip for champion racemare Winx has been ruled out to concentrate on another Australian spring campaign. Have Your Say 🗣: Did connections make the right decision? – Comment below Trainer Chris Waller ended months of speculation on Wednesday when said the world’s best thoroughbred would race on in Australia… Read More »
Lindsay Park’s depth of sprinter-milers will see it represented with a quarter of the field in the Victoria Handicap at Caulfield. The 1400m Group Three feature on Saturday has a capacity field of 16 plus one emergency with Lindsay Park running He’s Our Rokkii, Fastnet Tempest, Cannyescent and So Si… Read More »
Trainer Ron Quinton has revised plans to aim Dixie Blossoms at the Doncaster Mile, meaning her rivalry with stablemate Daysee Doom will extend to the Group One Queen Of The Turf Stakes. The duo clashed for the seventh time in the Group One Coolmore Classic on March 17, and a… Read More »
Group One winner Dal Cielo has passed two barrier trial tests and is ready to resume his roller-coaster career on Saturday. Trainer Kris Lees indicated in all likelihood Dal Cielo will contest a 1050m race at Doomben. Dal Cielo did his early racing in New Zealand where he won the… Read More »
Darren Weir’s first Sydney Group One winner Gailo Chop is on track to secure a double for Victoria’s leading trainer in the Tancred Stakes at Rosehill. Gailo Chop faces a seven-day turnaround for just the second time in his 27-race career as the seven-year-old gelding spearheads a 10-strong field for… Read More »
Victorian Daniel Moore and New Zealand’s Alysha Collett have been granted six-month licences to ride in Singapore. Moor, 33, has ridden more than 700 winners, 48 this season, and has won four Group races. He has ridden in Malaysia, Mauritius, China and Korea as well as Australia. Collett, 23, comes… Read More »
Dual Guineas winner Churchill will stand at Coolmore Australia in the southern hemisphere season. By champion European sire Galileo, won the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket and the Irish equivalent last year. “I travelled to Ireland last week to inspect a number of stallions and I was blown away by Churchill”… Read More »
Hong Kong champion Joao Moreira will ride Success Days when the Irish visitor takes on Winx in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick. The Ken Condon-trained Success Days is in quarantine at Canterbury Racecourse along with Moreira’s Sydney Cup ride, Japanese horse Prestwick. Success Days, the winner of last year’s… Read More »
Lindsay Park will rely on two of its three entries in the Group Three Easter Cup at Caulfield. Having entered Addison, Golden Mane and Jacquinot Bay, the latter pair will line up for the stable in the 2000m-race on Saturday. Golden Mane was scratched from the Mornington Cup (2400m) last… Read More »
Lee Curtis has resorted to putting Lasqueti Spirit over jumps in an attempt to lift the Group One-winner’s performance before her main autumn target, the Sydney Cup. The Rosehill trainer has tinkered with the four-year-old mare’s pre-race regime as he tries to coax the VRC Oaks winner from a form… Read More »
Clarry Conners will test his belief Torvill can get over ground and run her at 2000 metres in the Group One Vinery Stud Stakes at Rosehill. The trainer also nominated the filly for Saturday’s Group Two Emancipation Stakes (1500m) against older mares but said she would stick to her own… Read More »
