Trainer John Zielke admitted he was staggered when his two-year-old You Know The One scored an upset win at the Gold Coast on Saturday. You Know The One ($20) hugged the rail to beat Brinkmanship ($3.10) by two lengths. Zielke’s other runner, the hot favourite Rains Aplenty ($1.55), finished a… Read More »
Cameron Crockett has taken a measured approach with Mar Nero leading into the Highway Handicap at Randwick. The seven-year-old came to the Mudgee trainer as a 19-start maiden with a habit of missing the start and has won three races under Crockett. After the mare finished third at the start… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy is excited to see a couple of his stable’s new season juveniles step out in Melbourne’s first two-year-old race of the season. McEvoy saddles up filly Sunlight and colt Scottish Rogue in Saturday’s Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (1000m) at Flemington. McEvoy says being able to bring new… Read More »
WHO IS WINX? * A six-year-old bay mare, foaled September 14, 2011 by Street Cry out of Vegas Showgirl * Bought at the 2013 Magic Millions yearling sale for $230,000 * Owned by Magic Bloodstock Racing (Peter and Patty Tighe), Richard Treweeke and Debbie Kepitis * Trained by Chris Waller… Read More »
Snitzkraft’s Sydney debut has been called off because of illness on the eve of the Group Two Roman Consul Stakes at Randwick. The Brisbane colt was to use Saturday’s 1200m-race as a lead-in to the Group Three Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield on October 18. Patricia Gesler, who trains in… Read More »
Godolphin has outlasted Coolmore in a bidding duel at the Tattersalls sale to secure the highest-priced yearling sold at auction this year, paying 4 million guineas ($A 6.745 million) for a daughter of champion European sire Galileo out of American Group One winner Dank. Records galore at Book 1 of… Read More »
Ben Melham has appealed the careless riding suspension which threatens to keep him out of the Caulfield Guineas meeting. Fellow Group One-winning jockey John Allen has also appealed the severity of a careless riding ban he incurred at the same Ballarat meeting on Thursday and he would need to get… Read More »
Having already booked his ticket in the Caulfield Cup, imported stayer Harlem will try to cement a place in the Melbourne Cup. Harlem runs in Saturday’s Group Three Bart Cummings at Flemington, with the winner of the 2500m-race earning a ballot exemption into next month’s $6 million Melbourne Cup. A… Read More »
Group One winner Silent Sedition will be tested down the Flemington straight course for the first time when she makes her season return in the Gilgai Stakes. The Group Two 1200m-sprint will be a stepping stone to the mare’s main spring goal, the Group One Myer Classic (1600m) at Flemington… Read More »
Champion Winx is the racehorse for all occasions and all conditions. That’s why her trainer Chris Waller says there’s no need to over-analyse things heading into the mare’s bid to extend her winning streak to 21in Saturday’s Group One Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. The mighty mare, rated the world’s best… Read More »
Barry Lockwood has no problem identifying the last time he had a competitive stayer. The Brisbane trainer quickly nominated Algonquin Club as the horse he hoped Surprise Bullet would eventually emulate. “That’s the only other stayer I’ve had,” Lockwood said. A long-term foreman for Brian Smith during the 1980s, Lockwood… Read More »
Former Sydney stakes performer Torgersen has worked well enough to end a two-year winning drought but his stable remains worried about his will to win. Torgersen will be having his second Queensland start in the Open Handicap (1400m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday. As a younger horse Torgersen was… Read More »
A step up to 1800 metres at Flemington will tell trainer Steve Richards whether it is worth persevering to the Victoria Derby with Sunquest. But a lacklustre run may persuade Richards to freshen the three-year-old for a shot at another stakes race on Derby day. From the outset Richards has… Read More »
Chris Meagher will take another step in his training career when he has his first Queensland metropolitan runners in his own name at the Gold Coast. He will saddle Monteux (Open Handicap), Gatlinburg (Benchmark 90), and Tap This (Benchmark 80) on Saturday. Meagher has an extensive background as a trainer… Read More »
Veteran trainer Harold Norman would like nothing more than to welcome his former apprentice Rikki Palmer back to Queensland racing with a winner. Palmer (nee Jamieson), who had ridden 130 career winners, was riding for the first time as senior jockey when she broke her arm in a fall at… Read More »
Unless he successfully appeals a suspension, Ben Melham will miss lucrative rides at the Caulfield Guineas meeting. Melham was outed at Ballarat on Thursday with his ban to begin after Saturday’s Flemington meeting and end a day after the Caulfield Guineas meeting on October 14. He is the regular rider… Read More »
Paul Butterworth has capped a great 2016-17 season by winning the Wayne Wilson Medal for an outstanding effort by a Queensland trainer. He was the only Queenslander to train a Group One winner for the season when Capital Gain won the J J Atkins Stakes at Doomben in June. Butterworth… Read More »
Godolphin jockey William Buick will make his return from an eight-week injury break at Ascot. He will ride the Charlie Appleby-trained Blue Point, favourite for Saturday’s Group Three John Guest Bengough Stakes at Ascot. Buick has been has been out of action since falling from Permian in the Secretariat Stakes… Read More »
Trainer Ron Quinton has escaped a penalty over illegal levels of cobalt found in two of his horses with incorrectly labelled feed accepted as the likely culprit. Quinton fronted a Racing NSW stewards inquiry on Thursday after pre-race urine samples taken from Boss Lane and Imanui in August revealed higher… Read More »
A Victorian trainer has been disqualified for six months following a Racing Victoria stewards inquiry into the attempted race day treatment of three horses. Rexmont, Alsimon and Tarpeia were all withdrawn from their respective races at Moe on September 25 following a report from the RV Compliance Assurance Team after… Read More »
