Takedown’s defence of the Group One Winterbottom Stakes in Perth has been thwarted by a foot laceration. The five-year-old gelding’s preparation ended at Randwick on October 28 when he suffered the injury at the start of the Filante Handicap. “At the start he jumped slightly sideways and Kaepernick’s aluminium plate… Read More »
Gary Moore has high hopes he has an Australian Derby candidate on his hands in All Too Huiying. The colt continues his racing development at Flemington on Thursday where he will try to extend his winning sequence to three. If All Too Huiying can run in the top three in… Read More »
Young Irish trainer Joseph O’Brien is in no rush to make any plans with Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling. The son of champion Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien, Joseph upstaged his father who trained runner-up Johannes Vermeer in Tuesday’s Cup, giving owner Lloyd Williams his sixth win and a one-two finish. O’Brien… Read More »
THE VRC OAKS – WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW * Group One, 2500m, $1 million, set weights, three-year-old fillies. Run at Flemington on Thursday, November 9, 5pm HISTORY * First run in 1861, the same year as the inaugural Melbourne Cup, and won by Palestine * Lengthened from 12 furlongs… Read More »
After a week of wasting you might imagine a Melbourne Cup- winning jockey would enjoy a nice post-race meal. But a shrunken stomach didn’t allow Corey Brown such extravagance after his second Melbourne Cup win on Tuesday. His dinner consisted of a slider burger before the last of his press… Read More »
Leading Emirates Stakes contender Gingernuts will be ridden by Michael Dee in the Group One race at Flemington with Hugh Bowman losing an appeal against a careless riding suspension. Te Akau Racing, which manages the syndicate that races the triple Group One winner, has turned to its former apprentice to… Read More »
David Payne will make his first assessment of Regal Rage as he strives to develop another stayer in the mould of dual Group One-winner Ace High. A week after Ace High won the Victoria Derby at Flemington, the Rosehill trainer will cast a critical eye over the three-year-old gelding at… Read More »
The horse Aaron Purcell was most looking forward to training when he took over Ciaron Maher’s stable has lived up to all his expectations and is primed for her main target in the VRC Oaks. Aloisia is the $1.60 favourite for Thursday’s $1 million VRC Oaks at Flemington, having already… Read More »
Six-time Melbourne Cup-winning owner Lloyd Williams has thrown his support behind declaring emergency acceptors for the Melbourne Cup. The call for emergencies came up again after Who Shot Thebarman was withdrawn two days out from Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup, leaving a field of 23 to run. Victoria Racing Club chairman Amanda… Read More »
Pinot will be striving to deliver champion trainer Gai Waterhouse a sought-after VRC Oaks at Flemington. The blue blood filly by the Waterhouse-trained former champion juvenile Pierro out of an Australian Oaks winner Dizelle, is the $6.50 second favourite for Thursday’s $1 million Oaks at Flemington with Aloisia at $1.60…. Read More »
After winning a sixth Melbourne Cup, owner Lloyd Williams says planning for a seventh has already began. Rekindling gave Williams his sixth win in Australia’s most famous race when he defeated another of the owner’s horses, Johannes Vermeer, at Flemington on Tuesday. Williams first won the Cup in 1981 with… Read More »
Talented gelding Cantbuybetter will need to produce an exceptional run at Doomben to warrant at trip to Western Australia for the Group One Railway Stakes. Cantbuybetter was an eye-catching first-up second over 1200m in fast time last Saturday week and will step up to a more suitable 1350m in an… Read More »
Queensland’s prize money levels will rise with a move for the government to fully fund all country non-TAB meetings. The Labor government has made an election promise to allocate $17.5 million per year for the next four years to fund country racing. Racing Queensland welcomed the election commitment which would… Read More »
A woman has been charged with conduct endangering serious injury after a car was driven onto train tracks and had its tyres deflated at the Melbourne Cup. The Ford Laser was driven across tracks at Ascot Vale on Tuesday as a protest about refugees on Manus Island, causing train delays… Read More »
As the son of the world’s most prolific trainer, Joseph O’Brien has always expected he would follow his father Aidan. On Tuesday, the 24-year-old Irishman did something his father has not, winning the Melbourne Cup with Rekindling for retired Australian businessman Lloyd Williams. And while he was born to train… Read More »
Michael Dee’s first Melbourne Cup ride didn’t go as well as he hoped but the young jockey has still continued his fine spring carnival with a Group race win on the day. Dee got the opportunity to ride Gallante in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup but last year’s Sydney Cup winner, who… Read More »
It was the Melbourne Cup when Lloyd Williams had the luck of the Irish. The enduring owner was at the end of the rainbow collecting the pot of gold once again with his sixth Cup victory, and this time it was a quinella. Rekindling, ridden by Corey Brown, was a… Read More »
Australians have punted almost $90 million with the TAB on the Melbourne Cup, won by Irish invader Rekindling. Although the outlay was down on the $94.5 million wagered on last year’s race, the other races on Tuesday’s card garnered more support than 12 months ago “On our preliminary figures total… Read More »
Jockeys Hugh Bowman and Craig Williams will appeal careless riding suspensions handed out at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day. The pair were each suspended for 11 meetings, commencing after the Oaks meeting on Thursday, with a return date of November 18. Bowman and Williams hope to have their appeals heard… Read More »
A STABLE RELATIONSHIP – AIDAN AND JOSEPH O’BRIEN * Aidan O’Brien, 48, is considered one of the world’s best trainers. He set a record this year by training 26 Group One winners in a calendar year * His son Joseph was a jockey. When aged 19 in 2012, he and… Read More »
