The Lindsay Park team has accepted an invitation to run Caulfield Cup winner Boom Time in the Japan Cup. David Hayes, the senior Lindsay Park trainer and owner of Boom Time, famously won the Japan Cup with Better Loosen Up in 1990 and Boom Time races in the same colours…. Read More »
EMIRATES STAKES – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW * Group One, 2000m, $2 million, weight-for-age. Run at Flemington on Saturday, November 11, 4.55pm HISTORY * Formerly the Mackinnon Stakes (2000m) held on Victoria Derby Day and used as a Melbourne Cup lead-in * But the VRC decided its importance as… Read More »
An excited Gai Waterhouse has celebrated victory in one of the few big races to have eluded her with Pinot dominating the finish of the VRC Oaks. The fillies Classic is a staying test over 2500 metres at Flemington and the occasion has proven too much for the odds-on favourite… Read More »
Gary Moore is confident he has an autumn Derby contender in All Too Huiying but the trainer could also look to strike again with the colt this spring after a stakes win at Flemington. All Too Huiying ($31) rallied in the straight under jockey Michael Walker to hold his rivals… Read More »
Most trainers try to pick the right moment to put blinkers on a horse but Joe Pride has left it a little later than usual with Terravista. The eight-year-old lines up in Saturday’s Group One Darley Classic (1200m) at Flemington, three years after he beat Chautauqua, Lankan Rupee and Buffering… Read More »
Duca Valentinois has capped a successful day for Godolphin at Hawkesbury by finishing strongly to win the Listed Ladies Day Cup. Jockey Jason Collett bided his time on the seasoned six-year-old gelding who was last as the field of 10 turned into the home straight. Eventually a gap opened and… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse has trained her first VRC Oaks winner as Pinot outstayed her rivals in the $1 million race at Flemington. Ridden by Stephen Baster, Pinot ($5.50) led home a rough result in the three-year-old fillies Classic in beating Bring Me Roses ($31) by 1-1/3 quarter lengths. Hiyaam ($21) was… Read More »
After an absence of more than two years and a string of minor placings, classy sprinter Ball Of Muscle has made his way back to the winner’s stall on the big stage at Flemington. The $2.50 favourite in Thursday’s Listed Absolut Stakes over the straight 1000 metres, the Joe Pride-trained… Read More »
Tasmania’s reigning horse of the year Hellova Street has got into the action on Melbourne Cup week with a stakes race win at Flemington on VRC Oaks day. The Scott Brunton-trained gelding was already a Listed winner at Flemington and added Thursday’s Group Three TCL TV Stakes (1400m), leading all… Read More »
Several racing figures have been interviewed and phone records searched as part of an investigation sparked by the alleged raceday treatment of a Robert Smerdon-trained horse. The investigation reportedly involves several stables, training figures and racing administrators. Smerdon is being investigated over the alleged raceday treatment of the mare Lovani… Read More »
The South Australian apprentice jockey suspended for two weeks after punching a horse has broken his silence, as animal activists demand a lifetime ban. Footage of the incident broadcast by Racing.com shows Port Lincoln attendants trying to get fractious filly She’s Reneldasgirl into the barriers, with 22-year-old rider Dylan Caboche… Read More »
The country’s biggest trainer has come away with the quinella in Victoria’s biggest race for country-trained horses at Flemington. Darren Weir has trained the winners of many Group One races including the 2015 Melbourne Cup but reckons just getting a runner in Thursday’s $200,000 Country Cup (1600m) was hard. Weir… Read More »
A great grandson of one of the most famous grey racehorses has produced a barnstorming finish to win the annual VRC Oaks day race named after another high profile grey. The Mike Moroney-trained Tribal Wisdom, a descendant of 1989 Japan Cup-winning mare Horlicks, arrived just in time to grab Harbour… Read More »
Jason Deamer has raised the bar for unbeaten sprinter Bon Amis as the Newcastle trainer makes a rare excursion to Sydney. Deamer, who has only had two city runners this year, tests Bon Amis in Saturday city company for the first time when the four-year-old lines up in the Cellarbrations… Read More »
German trainer Andreas Wohler will leave Melbourne with a win beside his name even it’s not the one he really wanted. Wohler, trainer of 2014 Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist, brought Red Cardinal this year but he finished 11th of the 23 runners on Tuesday. Red Cardinal will stay in Victoria… Read More »
Michael Dee has no doubt his success during the spring carnival has led to him riding Gingernuts in the $2 million Emirates Stakes. And the 21-year-old is hoping to make his latest opportunity count. Dee notched his first Group One win in The Metropolitan in Sydney on Foundry in late… Read More »
DARLEY CLASSIC – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW * Group One, 1200m, $1 million, weight-for-age. Run at Flemington on Saturday, November 11, 4.10pm HISTORY * First run in 1960 as the Craven ‘A’ Stakes and won by Karina with numerous changes to the race name since * A Group One… Read More »
Boom country apprentice Zoe White will make a low-key debut in city Saturday racing on veteran Friendly Dragon at Doomben. When based in Rockhampton, White was the state’s leading apprentice last season with 80 winners mainly in central and northern Queensland. White, who has ridden 120 winners, moved to Brisbane… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan is hoping it will be a case of third time lucky for his smart filly Miss Exfactor as he attempts to get her to the races on Saturday. She was due to run at the past two Saturday meetings as a lead-up to a Magic Millions carnival… Read More »
Godolphin trainer James Cummings has thought long and hard before deciding to give Demerara one more start this spring. A winner at her first two starts for the campaign in Sydney, Demerara and stablemate Jorda run in Thursday’s Group Three Kennedy Plate (1100m) at Flemington. Sent out odds-on favourite at… Read More »
