The rescheduled Mornington race meeting has now been abandoned because of the forecast for extreme heat in Victoria. This means there will be no races in the state on Saturday. Earlier this week racing officials moved the Caulfield metropolitan meeting from Saturday to Sunday, swapping it with Mornington where temperatures… Read More »
Trainer Matt Dunn is hoping apprentice Boris Thornton’s three-kilogram claim to can help overcome Quatronic’s run of bad luck with barriers when he runs at the Gold Coast. Thornton’s claim will reduce Quatronic’s weight to a luxury 55.5kg but he will still have to overcome barrier 11 to win the… Read More »
Adelaide trainer Phillip Stokes will test Eclair Calling in Melbourne for the first time at Caulfield, believing the interstate trip will have longer term benefits for the lightly raced gelding. Eclair Calling is set to run in Sunday’s Sandra Cheevers Handicap (1400m) while his stablemate Trogir returns to Caulfield for… Read More »
Ef Troop has had an easy hit-out in a jump-out in his final lead-up to the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast. Ridden by race jockey Matt McGillivray, the Tony Gollan-trained Ef Troop led all the way to beat another Classic candidate, stablemate Outback Barbie, on the… Read More »
Italian jockey Daniele Porcu has died aged 34, weeks after being diagnosed with cancer. Porcu rode at the Japan Cup meeting in late November but on December 8 he revealed his illness on Facebook. A Group One winner in his native Italy, Porcu moved permanently to Germany after the 2008… Read More »
Things are looking up for injured gelding Gingernuts after a major setback in his rehabilitation. The New Zealand star suffered a fractured pastern on the way to the barriers for the Group One Emirates Stakes at Flemington in November. He had surgery to correct the break at the University of… Read More »
Godolphin is looking for a new assistant trainer in Melbourne with David Charles to return to an administrative role in the organisation. Charles has been managing Carbine Lodge at Flemington for more than three years but has previously expressed his desire to stand down from the stable operation. “Charles informed… Read More »
Trainer Gary Moore hopes previous experience of the Gold Coast track can help Paquirri’s bid to earn a berth in the Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic. Paquirri will need to win Saturday’s Two-Year-Old Handicap (1100m) at the Gold Coast to make the field for the Magic Millions Classic a week later…. Read More »
Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller has applauded Racing NSW for transferring the Warwick Farm meeting to Randwick after he witnessed the effect of heat stress first-hand. The last time a metropolitan meeting was held at Warwick Farm on December 23, in-form gelding Cellarman displayed worrying signs after he won a… Read More »
Lightly raced Addison is slowly building her racing career. Now a four-year-old, Addison has had four starts, registering three wins, and is already with her third trainer. She started out with Darren Weir, but after running last in a barrier trial at Stawell in July 2016, was transferred to Patrick… Read More »
Joe Pride will run Gamblestown reluctantly at Randwick and says Destiny’s Kiss is also likely to be beaten the next time he starts the stable stalwart. The trainer is frustrated on two fronts ahead of Saturday’s relocated meeting from his home base at Warwick Farm. He says out-of-form Gamblestown’s chances… Read More »
Viceroy has the chance to prove himself at Randwick with Canberra trainer Luke Pepper confident the time is right to step him up in class. The five-year-old has his first Saturday metropolitan start in a Benchmark 79 Handicap (1200m) after resuming with a midweek victory at Canterbury last month. Viceroy,… Read More »
Greg Eurell says Fontein Lad has taken no harm from an incident which forced his late scratching at a recent Moonee Valley meeting and the trainer expects a good showing from the gelding at Caulfield. Fontein Lad was to run at Moonee Valley over 2040m on December 23 but was… Read More »
A forecast of fine weather has convinced trainer Ben Currie Cantbuybetter can back up at the Gold Coast, a week after running at Doomben. Cantbuybetter gave Currie and connections a stakes win two starts back when he took out the Listed Brisbane Handicap (1600m) at Doomben. He was a fighting… Read More »
The half-sister to Blue Diamond winner Miracles Of Life has made a winning debut at Geelong. A $1.2 million yearling, Angel was sent out the $2.50 favourite under Mark Zahra before scoring a 1-3/4 length win in a Two-Year-Old Fillies Maiden (1118m) on Thursday. Angel is trained by Lindsay Park… Read More »
Trainer Matthew Smith is cautious about promising filly Aqua D’ivina’s next move as the Magic Millions carnival looms as a possibility. Although he hasn’t won one of the major races at the Gold Coast showpiece, the meeting has been lucrative for the Warwick Farm trainer. Combat Kitty ran second to… Read More »
After being denied by a narrow margin in her first Melbourne start, three-year-old filly Aeecee Tong De is favoured to go one better when she lines up at Caulfield. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Aeecee Tong De broke her maiden at Canterbury in Sydney on her return from a… Read More »
Early Melbourne form will determine whether trainer Mick Kent will be a participant at the Dubai World Cup Carnival. Kent is one of three Australian trainers to have horses accepted to run at the carnival which begins on January 11 and runs until Dubai World Cup night on March 31…. Read More »
Promising three-year-old Cruze begins a consolation campaign at the Gold Coast after failing to get enough prize money to make the Magic Millions Guineas. Trainer Barry Lockwood was hoping to qualify Cruze for the Guineas in last Saturday’s Group Three Vo Rogue Plate but the gelding was first emergency and… Read More »
Kerrin McEvoy has had the cast removed from his broken hand as the top jockey’s recovery from injury continues. McEvoy cracked the third metacarpal of his right hand while attempting to restrain the Kris Lees-trained mare Sugar Bella en route to the barriers at Randwick on December 16. He needed… Read More »
