A midweek twilight race meeting in the lead-up to Blue Diamond Stakes day has been shifted from Sandown to Caulfield. Caulfield hosted the first Wednesday twilight city meeting of Racing Victoria’s current 10-week trial on January 17, with that meeting hailed a success. It prompted the Melbourne Racing Club to… Read More »
Trainers Danny O’Brien and Mark Kavanagh will have to wait a little longer to find out if they face time on the sidelines following a submissions hearing on penalty over their long-running cobalt case at the Victorian Civil Appeals Tribunal. VCAT president Justice Greg Garde has reserved his decision which… Read More »
Apprentice Lachlan King will take the next step in his career when he makes his city debut at Sandown with five rides. The 19-year-old is the son of retired champion jockey Steven King whose major wins included the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups double on Let’s Elope in 1991 and the… Read More »
Kathy O’Hara will spend even more time travelling between Sydney and Melbourne after a scheduled jump-out session featuring Group One winner Single Gaze was postponed. O’Hara is the regular rider of 2016 Vinery Stud Stakes winner Single Gaze who finished second in the $3 million Caulfield Cup during a six-start… Read More »
Jockey Kerrin McEvoy has been cleared to ride after recovering from a broken hand. McEvoy needed surgery on his right hand after breaking his third metacarpal in a pre-race incident at Randwick on December 16. He was taking Sugar Bella to the barriers when she made a sudden sideways move… Read More »
Katelyn Mallyon has racked up her third win from eight rides in NSW since relocating from Melbourne. She opened her account on Saturday aboard the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained two-year-old Make “Em Cry at Kembla Grange. At Wyong on Sunday, Mallyon steered the John O’Shea-trained Buckle Up to win… Read More »
Kathy O’Hara will make a flying visit from Sydney to Melbourne ride Single Gaze in a Caulfield jump-out ahead of the mare’s return in the C F Orr Stakes. O’Hara rode at Goulburn on Monday and will return after the gallop on Tuesday morning for the meeting at Gosford later… Read More »
Winx’s part-owner Debbie Kepitis is among those waiting on the result of Hugh Bowman’s appeals against two careless riding bans which would stop him riding the champion in her return in the Apollo Stakes. The jockey has lodged an appeal against penalty for a careless riding suspension from Friday’s Warwick… Read More »
Fresh from a Group Three win with unbeaten filly Lady Horseowner, trainer Greg Eurell will be chasing another stakes success at Caulfield when three-year-old I Did It Again makes his return. I Did It Again is entered in Saturday’s Group Three Manfred Stakes (1200m) for his first start since disappointing… Read More »
Golden Slipper-winning trainer Gary Portelli will get a guide on his prospects for a defence when he saddles up at least two runners against the second favourite at Rosehill. Exceltic will make his debut in Saturday’s Canonbury Stakes in which Dio D’Oro is also scheduled to run but Patron Black… Read More »
Racing Victoria’s new head of integrity services, Jamie Stier, will begin in the role at the start of May. Stier was announced as RV’s incoming executive general manager of Integrity Services in mid-December. He will start on May 1 after concluding his duties as the Chief Regulatory Officer at the… Read More »
Oakleigh Plate-bound Snitty Kitty is among the headline nominations for the Listed W J Adams Stakes, which have been extended. The 1000m-sprint is one of three stakes races on Saturday’s Caulfield program along with the Group Three Chairman’s Stakes (1000m) for two-year-olds and the Group Three Manfred Stakes (1200m) for… Read More »
Trainer David Payne is not expecting too much from Ace High when he returns in the Expressway Stakes but is keen to get the colt to the races. The winner of the Victoria Derby on November 4, Ace High had a few weeks in the spelling paddock before returning to… Read More »
Promising three-year-old Rancho Montoya is set to embark on his first staying campaign when he resumes at Doomben. There are few better bred horses in Queensland than Rancho Montoya who is by High Chaparral out of the Group One winning mare Isolda who beat Octagonal in the 1995 Champagne Stakes…. Read More »
Hugh Bowman will appeal two careless riding bans which will keep him off Winx’s back in her return in the Apollo Stakes. The jockey has lodged an appeal against penalty for a careless riding suspension from Friday’s Warwick Farm meeting and if he can get that and another incurred the… Read More »
Greg Eurell is keen to send unbeaten juvenile Lady Horseowner into the Blue Diamond Stakes at her next start, with the filly expected to be a late entry for the Group One race. Lady Horseowner made it two-straight wins when she finished strongly between runners in Saturday’s Group Three Blue… Read More »
Country-trained horses in Queensland will compete in a new series culminating in a $100,000 final to be run at Doomben during the winter carnival. The $260,000 Battle of the Bush series will have 16 qualifiers from eight country regions contesting the final on June 23. To be eligible to compete… Read More »
Trainer Chris Waller says he may have to turn his phone off as jockeys clamber to replace the suspended Hugh Bowman on champion Winx in the Apollo Stakes. Bowman copped two suspensions in two days at Warwick Farm on Friday and Auckland on Saturday, ruling him out of the ride… Read More »
Toowoomba trainer Steve Tregea’s determination to buy broodmare Miss Argyle has rewarded him with a possible future star in Sunshine Coast winner Bergerac. Bergerac claimed his fourth win at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. Tregea, who runs a combined training-breeding business at Windemere Stud, was the original underbidder on Miss… Read More »
Golden Rose winner Trapeze Artist is ready to begin his quest for another Group One victory and will be nominated for the Expressway Stakes. But trainer Gerald Ryan says he will study the entries before committing the colt to Saturday’s Group Two weight-for-age Expressway Stakes at Rosehill. The other option… Read More »
