Craig Williams will appeal a six-meeting suspension for breaching the whip rules at Caulfield. Williams was hit with the ban after pleading guilty to using the whip six times more than allowed before the 100m mark in Sunday’s Maree Madden-Melder Handicap (1800m) aboard Stormy Shore who finished midfield. The champion… Read More »
Matt Dunn has trained a career-high six winners on the nine-race program at Murwillumbah, his home track. Dunn regularly travels his horses up and down the highway to Brisbane and Sydney with success including Saturday’s Highway Handicap with Runway Ready at Randwick. Brisbane jockeys Robbie Fradd and Jeff Lloyd rode… Read More »
Two runners at the meeting is all it has taken for the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable to claim a winning double at Caulfield. After Shenandoah got home narrowly in the opening race on Sunday’s card for stable apprentice Zac Spain, senior jockey Stephen Baster kept a perfect record… Read More »
Beau Mertens has walked away from a nasty looking fall in a race at Caulfield, with the star young jockey complaining of a sore knee. First reports suggested Mertens would be taken to hospital for further assessment after the fall from Orient Line in the Matthew Davies Handicap (1600m) on… Read More »
Matthew Lindsay has realised a dream with the only horse he trains winning at his home track at Caulfield. Magnesium Rose is the first horse 32-year-old Lindsay has trained and the filly won on debut at Bairnsdale in July before making it two wins from four starts with victory in… Read More »
Sydney filly Dinnigan is expected make the field for the Magic Millions Guineas throwing open the race for Australia’s richest maiden at the Gold Coast. Dinnigan ran second in the Group Three Vo Rogue Plate at Doomben two weeks ago and will head to the $250,000 Magic Millions Maiden if… Read More »
Star young jockey Beau Mertens has been taken to hospital to be checked over after a fall in a race at Caulfield which sadly saw Orient Line humanely euthanised. Mertens and his mount Orient Line came crashing to the turf in the straight in Sunday’s Matthew Davies Handicap (1600m), won… Read More »
Kopi Luwak landed Danny Williams in hospital after he rode him for the first time, so understandably he has adopted a cautious approach with the gelding. Williams had three options for Kopi Luwak’s second career start, his first since he suffered a tendon injury in late 2015, and opted for… Read More »
Trainer Kelly Schweida and jockey Matt McGillivray are both hoping former Victorian Mighty Like’s win at the Gold Coast is an omen for the future but for different reasons. Schweida will have Shogun Sun in the $2 million Magic Millions Guineas on Saturday and probably Cellargirl although she is also… Read More »
Scream Park will return home to New Zealand for the inaugural Karaka Million 3YO Classic despite being beaten at Randwick. Trainer Chris Waller was hoping for a third successive win at Randwick on Saturday but Scream Park weakened in the run home and had to settle for fourth in the… Read More »
There will be 24 first-season sires represented at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale but for Queenslanders the performance of Spirit Of Boom’s second crop will command the most attention. Spirit Of Boom’s first crop have taken all before them and the 2014 Doomben 10,000 winner had seven winners before the… Read More »
A well-judged ride from apprentice Zac Spain has helped Shenandoah to an all-the-way win at Caulfield. Shenandoah ($6.50) crossed to the front early in Sunday’s Mareee Madden-Melder Handicap (1800m) and after rallying in the straight the four-year-old mare lasted to win by a half-neck. Addison ($5.50) and So Splendid ($5… Read More »
An unusual set of circumstances has denied the promising Malvern Estate a start in the $250,000 Magic Millions Provincial/Country Cup at the Gold Coast. Trainer Desleigh Forster had been aiming Malvern Estate for Saturday’s Magic Millions Country Cup (1400m) since he ran second in a Doomben barrier trial in November…. Read More »
The youngest rider in the Welsh Grand National has ridden one of the oldest horses to win the race at Chepstow. Runner-up in 2016, 13-year-old Raz De Maree (16-1) stayed on stoutly for 16-year-old James Bowen and Irish trainer Gavin Cromwell. Bowen has been making great strides in his first… Read More »
Chad Lever has ridden his first winner since returning from serious head injuries suffered when he fell from his mount at Scone last year. Lever celebrated a significant victory aboard the Chris Waller-trained gelding Auerbach in the opening race at Wyong, with the four-year-old gelding pipping Julie Magic by a… Read More »
Aqua D’ivina has given trainer Matthew Smith and connections plenty to mull over after the filly qualified for the Magic Millions carnival at late notice in style at Randwick. The three-year-old had to win to be assured of making the field for Saturday’s $2m Magic Millions Guineas and she did… Read More »
Jason Collett has overshadowed Hugh Bowman’s homecoming with a record-equalling haul of winners at Randwick. The New Zealander opened Saturday’s meeting with a double and then saluted on two more occasions to match his success back home at tiny Dargaville, which hosts two meetings a year. When Collett guided Siren’s… Read More »
A snap decision to change the race day gear on Endless Days has given the Peter and Will Hulbert training partnership a chance at their biggest ever pay day. Endless Days ($8) assured himself of a start in next week’s $1 million Magic Millions Trophy when he wore down the… Read More »
There will be no shocks in the final fields for the $2 million Magic Millions Two Year Classic and $2 million Magic Millions Guineas after Saturday’s racing. Stewards confirmed Steve O’Dea’s Singular Sensation would be a scratching after pulling up sore in work last week. The final fields for next… Read More »
Declan McDonogh replicated tactics familiar back home as front runner Positive Problems withstood a late challenge to produce the Irishman’s first metropolitan win at Randwick. McDonogh finally claimed a Saturday city winner at the 11th attempt as Positive Problems held on by a nose to deny Medaille and Hugh Bowman,… Read More »
