Tasmanian galloper Life On The Wire has extended her winning streak to four and remains unbeaten this campaign with a last grasp win at Sandown. Life On The Wire will now head home following her victory in Saturday’s Ladbrokes Money Wire Handicap to be set for a stakes race at… Read More »
With a familiar jockey in the saddle, Dreamforce has rediscovered his form with a crushing win at Randwick. Blaike McDougall rides the five-year-old’s track work as trainer John Thompson’s apprentice, and that insight was invaluable as Dreamforce bounced back from a disappointing last start on the same track a fortnight… Read More »
Trainer Jack Duncan promoted himself to president of the Jamie Kah fan club after the Adelaide based jockey won the $100,000 Provincial Series final on Stonecast at Doomben. Stonecast was backed from $21 into $16 before finishing strongly along the fence to beat the very unlucky Dapper One ($10). The… Read More »
Trainer Kris Lees will now play a waiting game with Randwick winner Sasso Corbaro to see if she makes the field for the rich Magic Millions Guineas. Before Saturday’s race, the filly was 36th in the order of entry for the $2 million Magic Millions Guineas (1400m) at the Gold… Read More »
Trainer John Moloney will ponder the immediate future of Graceful Storm after the filly remained unbeaten with victory at Sandown. The Caulfield-trained filly was a debut Bendigo winner earlier this month before adding Saturday’s Ladbrokes Plate (1000m) to her record. A $110,000 Magic Millions yearling purchase on the Gold Coast,… Read More »
Mark Newnham rode the first horse ever raced by Frank Mittiga, and 17 years later he has an opportunity to train another Magic Millions 2YO Classic winner for his long-time supporter. Quackerjack needed to win the New Years Day At Royal Randwick Plate (1100m) to earn a trip to the… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan’s confidence that Just Orm would run well at Doomben was boosted when the gelding threw his track work rider on the morning of the race. Gollan picked up where he left off at the previous Doomben where he had four winners when Just Orm ($5.50) score by… Read More »
Apprentice Nyssa Burrells remains in an induced coma following surgery to relieve a bleed on her brain after a fall. Burrells was injured when the horse she was riding in a jump-out at Warwick Farm on Friday fell and landed on top of her. Racing NSW said her condition remained… Read More »
Ballarat trainer Matt Cumani has not been surprised by the quick progression up the staying ranks of Etah James. The five-year-old mare will be chasing her first stakes success when she runs in the Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington on Monday. A veteran of only seven starts, Etah James has… Read More »
Willie Mullins will not rush any decisions on the future for Faugheen after he was pulled up behind shock winner Mick Jazz in the Ryanair Hurdle at Leopardstown. The 2015 Champion Hurdle winner was sidelined for the best part of two years after a stunning performance in the 2016 Irish… Read More »
Quackerjack has a final opportunity to double trainer Mark Newnham’s representation at the Magic Millions carnival when he runs at Randwick. The two-year-old needs to go back-to-back after a confidence-building victory at Kembla Grange to have any hope of joining Magic Millions 3YO Guineas contender Super Ex at the Gold… Read More »
John Sargent hopes the combination of a seasoned stayer, an in-form jockey, a light weight and a small field can give Paragon a stakes win at Randwick. The ex-pat New Zealand trainer cited those factors as confidence boosters ahead of Monday’s Listed Tattersalls Club Cup (2400m), Paragon’s first black-type race… Read More »
The forgotten two-year-old of Queensland racing, Hopes Eternal, is ready to burst back into the limelight at Doomben. Hopes Eternal won his first two starts at Toowoomba and Doomben in sensational style. In both wins he got a long way back but swamped the opposition with devastating bursts of speed…. Read More »
Katelyn Mallyon will join fellow Victorian jockeys Regan and Jake Bayliss at the New Zealand summer carnival when she rides New Zealand Derby hopeful Te Akau Shark in a lead-up race at Hawke’s Bay. Mallyon, partner of expatriate Kiwi jockey James McDonald, has a strong book of rides at Monday’s… Read More »
John O’Shea’s return to training in his own right has enabled him to reconnect with a yearling he bought in New Zealand. Kuro was snapped up by O’Shea and Jason Abrahams of Champion Thoroughbreds at the Karaka sale for $180,000 and the now six-year-old gelding has proved a wise investment…. Read More »
Trainer John Moloney hopes a return to the wide open spaces of Flemington can lead to another stakes race success for Dornier. The last time the stayer raced at Flemington, the then three-year-old won the VRC St Leger in April. On Monday, Dornier will chase another Listed victory over the… Read More »
Provincial jockey Aaron Bullock has reacted philosophically to being dumped from Magic Millions 2YO Classic favourite Jonker for Hugh Bowman. Connections of the promising colt have opted to book the recently crowned World’s Best Jockey for the $2 million race at the Gold Coast on January 13. Bullock had been… Read More »
Randwick trainer Peter Robl is set to continue his good run of black-type wins in Queensland with Curdled at Doomben. Robl, who has been training for just over two years, has won stakes races in Queensland with Eloping (Silk Stocking), Ninth Legion (Eye Liner Stakes) and Curdled (Winning Edge Stakes)…. Read More »
Trainer Aaron Purcell is hoping to end the year with a city success with one of his own horses at Sandown. Purcell is the caretaker trainer for Ciaron Maher’s large team while that trainer serves a six-month suspension. But it is one of his original team he is looking to… Read More »
Premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan has suggested Notonyourlife is Spirit Of Boom’s first black-type winner but he isn’t laughing when he says she can win more black-type before retirement. Notonyourlife is in-foal to Spirit Of Boom and rewarded her connections’ decision to race on with her when she won the… Read More »
