Brisbane Racing Club track manager Sean Bridges has resigned and will finish up almost immediately. Bridges has been the track manager at Eagle Farm for about five years. He met with BRC officials earlier this week about a possible restructure of the track management during next year’s remedial work on… Read More »
Gerald Ryan will head to Warwick Farm hoping two last-start second placegetters can turn those results into wins. Pipeline was beaten a short head by Drachenfels over 1200m at Rosehill on December 9, the same day Heliosphere finished a long head behind Sparky Lad over 1400m. Heliosphere steps up to… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott like to aim high and are already planning for the next spring carnival with European import Imperial Aviator. The last-start Rosehill winner is in Melbourne to run in a 2500m-handicap at Moonee Valley on Saturday as part of his learning curve. Stephen Baster rode the… Read More »
Gary Moore is upbeat about the imminent launch of My Song’s racing career, though he has not set his sights too high for the gelding at Canterbury. He had hoped the three-year-old would already boast the experience of many of his rivals in a Maiden Plate (1100m), but shin soreness… Read More »
Leading jockey Kerrin McEvoy has undergone surgery on a hand injury but there is no time-frame for his return. McEvoy broke a bone in his hand in a pre-race mishap at Randwick on Saturday when he was taking Sugar Bella to the barriers. Racing NSW’s Dr David Duckworth said the… Read More »
Ballarat trainer Dan O’Sullivan expects Fine Evader to relish the step up to 2400 metres when he has his second start at the distance at Sandown. Fine Evader runs in Wednesday’s Ladbrokes Handicap and it will be the six-year-old’s first attempt at 2400m since his three-year-old days. At his sixth… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy has confirmed smart filly Sunlight will head to the Gold Coast in a bid to ensure she makes the field for the $2 million Magic Millions Classic. Saturday’s 900m-race for two-year-olds attracted 25 nominations as the jostling for Magic Millions berths intensifies. Sunlight was scratched from the… Read More »
Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds has won the fifth annual Queensland Racing Media Association’s award for personality of the year. Edmonds received the award at a function attended by trainers, jockeys, racing officials and the media. The award is given to the person in racing judged to have given the… Read More »
Solo Saxophone will become the first of superstar Frankel’s progeny to be tested over jumps when he runs at Catterick. The three-year-old colt will fly the flag for the much-coveted stallion in a two-mile juvenile hurdle at the North Yorkshire circuit on Tuesday (Wednesday AEDT). Trained by Dan Skelton and… Read More »
Caulfield trainer John Sadler has been suspended for six weeks after pleading guilty to an improper conduct charge. The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board heard on Monday that Sadler had recently lost his love of racing after being charged by Racing Victoria stewards over his conduct before and after Observational… Read More »
Trainer Ciaron Mahar is devastated to hear his former jumper Al Garhood has died, aged 18. A winner of 11 jumps races, Al Garhood last raced in 2012 and was living out his retirement at the property of Col McKenna who races Jameka with Maher. Al Garhood was famous for… Read More »
Apprentice Ben Thompson has lodged an appeal against a 12-meeting careless riding suspension incurred at Caulfield. Thompson is appealing the decision of Racing Victoria stewards to suspend him as well as the severity of the ban. He was outed for causing interference aboard Written In Stone in Saturday’s Moorookyle Park… Read More »
Trainer Jason Warren has his eyes fixed on a $2 million race at the Gold Coast with Bel Sonic but first he has to perform at Moonee Valley. Bel Sonic needs to win the VOBIS Gold Carat (1200m) on Saturday to book a berth in the Magic Millions Three-Year-Old Guineas… Read More »
A Caulfield trainer has been suspended for six weeks after pleading guilty to an improper conduct charge. Racing Victoria stewards charged John Sadler over his conduct before and after Observational was scratched from the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown on November 18. They alleged Sadler made comments to chief… Read More »
New Zealand Group Two placegetter Cut Me Loose will do his future racing in America for trainer Wesley Ward. Raced by Australian retail giant and Westbury Stud principal Gerry Harvey, Cut Me Loose was sent to America on the recommendation of his trainer Shaune Ritchie after bleeding at trackwork. “He… Read More »
Single Bullet’s lead-in to the rich Magic Millions meeting on the Gold Coast has been modified after the colt’s luckless outing at Rosehill. Trainer Gary Portelli had intended to run the three-year-old next in the Christmas Classic (1200m) at Randwick on December 30 but Single Bullet will now make an… Read More »
One of New Zealand’s most durable stayers, Castletown, has died aged 31. The gelding was trained by Paddy Busuttin to win 16 of his 103 races, six at Group One level including three Wellington Cups. He also raced with distinction in Australia, winning the 1992 Caulfield Stakes and running third… Read More »
Ballarat trainer Matt Cumani will chase a Magic Millions start with two-year-old Akkadian via a trip to Sydney. Cumani will start the colt in the $100,000 Two-Year-Old Plate over 1200m at Warwick Farm on Saturday. The trainer says Akkadian needs to win to confirm a place in the $2 million… Read More »
Trainer Paul Butterworth is having a short family holiday this week but his mind will be on business when stable star Capital Gain runs in a barrier trial at Deagon. Capital Gain won the Group One J J Atkins Stakes (1600m) in June and Butterworth has deliberately set him a… Read More »
Victoria will have an additional two feature Sunday meetings in the next jumps season. The success of the Grand National Steeplechase meeting at Ballarat in August is the catalyst for Warrnambool and Bendigo to each hold a program of five jumps races and two flat races exclusively for jumps riders… Read More »
