Two Queensland Racing Integrity Commission stewards are recovering after they were allegedly assaulted during a stable inspection at Toowoomba. The stewards, from the commission’s Integrity Regulation Unit, were conducting an inspection at a Toowoomba property on Tuesday when they were approached by an industry participant. It is alleged the man,… Read More »
Tim Robinson is to become the acting boss of Racing Victoria’s integrity services department after the departure of Dayle Brown. RV announced on Tuesday that Robinson, RV’s current head of investigations and intelligence, would assume the role of acting executive general manager – integrity services, from December 1. Brown announced… Read More »
Warrnambool trainer Symon Wilde is keeping his options open with in-form Dodging Bullets who is nominated for two feature races at Sandown. Wilde says Saturday’s Group Three Eclipse Stakes (1800m) has been the plan for Dodging Bullets but the six-year-old also holds an entry for the Group Two Zipping Classic… Read More »
Scott Singleton will soon learn whether a trip to New Zealand’s Karaka yearling sale two years ago pays dividends. Singleton brought a Tavistock filly back to his Hawkesbury training base with an eye to the future, and after a patient lead-in Stock Up starts racing at the metropolitan class meeting… Read More »
Kris Lees has decided against sending last-start Randwick winner Doukhan south for the Sandown Cup but the Newcastle trainer will still be represented at the meeting by stakes-placed filly Yulong Xingsheng. Lees nominated nine-year-old Doukhan for Saturday’s Listed 3200m-race but said he would remain in NSW for a suitable 2700m-benchmark… Read More »
Black Heart Bart is the topweight for the Group One Railway Stakes in Perth with 59kg, half a kilo more than Godolphin’s Doncaster Mile winner It’s Somewhat. The 1600m-race at Ascot on Saturday week is the first of the Group One races at the West Australian summer carnival. Formerly trained… Read More »
Craig Williams has withdrawn his appeal against a careless riding suspension, his second from Melbourne Cup week. Williams lodged an appeal on Monday with the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board against the decision of Racing Victoria stewards and the severity of an eight-meeting ban from an incident at Flemington last… Read More »
Trainer Aaron Purcell says Black Sail and Villermont only need to get through upcoming track gallops to contest the Group Two Sandown Guineas. Purcell will take Villermont to Sandown on Tuesday for a gallop while Black Sail will remain at Caulfield for a slightly less strenuous work-out ahead of Saturday’s… Read More »
Trainer Joe Pride has decided not to extend Ball Of Muscle’s campaign to the Perth summer carnival with the last-start Flemington winner off to the spelling paddock. Ball Of Muscle won the Listed Absolut Stakes (1000m) last Thursday at the Oaks meeting while his half brother Terravista did his Warwick… Read More »
Two major staying races at Sandown are set to have less than capacity fields with nominations extended. Entries for the Zipping Classic (2400m) at weight-for-age on Saturday and the 3200m-Sandown Cup will remain open until 10am on Tuesday. Only nine horses have been nominated for the Zipping Classic with 14… Read More »
Gold Coast father-and-son training partnership Bryan and Daniel Guy has been building up a summer team away from the glare of city racing but are set to run promising two-year-old Animal Spirits at Doomben. Animal Spirits was ready for her debut at Doomben on Saturday but Guy scratched her when… Read More »
Six-time Melbourne Cup-winning owner Lloyd Williams is a proud Melburnian and Victorian but says he would like to see a couple of Sydneysiders run racing. Williams says Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’Landys and its recently retired chairman John Messara were ideal candidates to run racing in Victoria after the… Read More »
Jockey Craig Williams has lodged an appeal against his latest suspension incurred during the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington. Thursday’s ban was Williams’ second for the week after he was outed for 11 meetings on Tuesday. Williams appealed that ban and had it reduced to eight meetings by the Racing… Read More »
Untamed Diamond has taken her Australian form home to New Zealand to win her first Listed race and earn a crack at Group One level. The winner of three races in Sydney and a close runner-up to Bidii Babe in the Listed Bright Shadow Stakes (1200m) in Brisbane in May,… Read More »
The resurgence of Gai Waterhouse has been highlighted by a week at Flemington where she and training partner Adrian Bott have come out on top with five winners over the Melbourne Cup carnival. Their results were capped by Pinot in the VRC Oaks, a first win in the Classic for… Read More »
Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie expects to get more offers for smart restricted class sprinter Amanaat after the gelding made it four straight wins for the stable. Amanaat is looming as one of the best buys Currie has ever made on his regular trips to dispersal sales in NSW and Victoria…. Read More »
Gary Portelli has not been inundated with future Golden Slipper hopefuls as he thought he might be on the back of She Will Reign’s win in the world’s richest race for two-year-olds. With the Easter yearling sale following hard on the heels of the Warwick Farm trainer’s career highlight, he… Read More »
Godolphin’s Kidmenever will have his second Australian start when he runs in the Group Three Eclipse Stakes at Sandown. Kidmenever was one of four Charlie Appleby-trained horses to come from England to Melbourne for the spring carnival. Only Folkswood and Qewy, who was retired after racing at Flemington on Saturday,… Read More »
Most Important could be given a barrier trial a few days before making his return to Brisbane racing at Doomben. Trainer Tony Gollan is confident Most Important can bounce back from a poor Melbourne campaign in Saturday’s Listed Keith Noud Quality (1200m) at Doomben. Most Important picked up a $500,000… Read More »
The future of injured New Zealand gelding Gingernuts will become clearer after he undergoes a CT scan. The four-year- old fractured a near front pastern as he was cantering to the start of Saturday’s Emirates Stakes at Flemington. Michael Dee jumped off quickly and veterinary staff were on the scene… Read More »
