Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds is heading to Melbourne to supervise the final stages of star filly Houtzen’s first-up run. Houtzen will resume in the Group Two McEwen Stakes (1000m) which will be her first attempt at weight-for-age racing. The Magic Millions Classic winner on her home track in January,… Read More »
Getting a horse to Birdsville can be a hazardous exercise, but for Kym Healy it’s just another destination on an eventful outback journey. No one in racing spends more time on Australia’s back roads than Healy. The man who earned a formidable reputation in the bush as a camel racing… Read More »
Star Rockhampton apprentice Zoe White has been suspended ahead of her full-time move to Brisbane. White, who has won 112 races mainly in central Queensland, will link full-time with trainer Tony Gollan at Eagle Farm on Monday. She has been travelling from Rockhampton to ride work and in some midweek… Read More »
The three retiring Brisbane Racing Club board members will seek re-election at the annual general meeting. Under the BRC constitution three board members must retire each year but they can nominate for re-election at the AGM, which this year is on October 18. The AGM will attract more than usual… Read More »
Her trainer admits he was worried and her jockey has had a few anxious moments but Winx has remained cool under pressure to record her 19th-straight win. Josh Parr on Red Excitement ($26) took the bull by the horns and cleared out to a lead of about 10 lengths in… Read More »
Jockey Brad Rawiller will miss the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes meeting at Moonee Valley after being suspended for careless riding at Caulfield. Rawiller was outed for 10 meetings after pleading guilty to careless riding around the 400m mark of the Listed Heatherlie Handicap (1700m) on Saturday aboard eventual runner-up… Read More »
Grande Rosso has capped a memorable day for Lindsay Park with a consolation win at Caulfield. The six-year-old’s victory in the 1400m Handicap completed a winning treble at Caulfield on Saturday, with earlier success for Vega Magic and Hell Or Highwater. In addition to wins with Formality in the Furious… Read More »
An all-the-way win in the $1 million Memsie Stakes at Caulfield has confirmed former Perth sprinter Vega Magic’s emergence as a star of the Australian turf. Vega Magic was sent out the $2.25 favourite in Saturday’s first Australian Group One race of the season and jockey Craig Williams took the… Read More »
Kerrin McEvoy has ridden a career-high five winners in a day, bringing up the milestone on the Gerald Ryan-trained Washington Heights at Randwick. The win gave Ryan some consolation when Washington Heights fought back after being headed by the Chris Waller-trained Dawn Wall in the Schweppes Handicap (1400m). Earlier the… Read More »
Pat Webster and Josh Adams have applauded each other after Happy Clapper made a stylish return to racing in the Tramway Stakes at Randwick. While the seven-year-old gelding’s strong finish, which earned a ballot exemption for the Group One Epsom Handicap (1600m) later this month, drew plaudits, his trainer and… Read More »
Hell Or Highwater has completed a winning hat-trick but more importantly collected a stakes race victory at Caulfield. The Lindsay Park-trained five-year-old was successful at Flemington and Caulfield before Saturday’s win in the Listed Heatherlie Stakes over 1700m. Ridden by Dean Yendall, Hell Or Highwater started the $4.80 favourite in… Read More »
Former West Australian sprinter Vega Magic has taken out the first Group One race of the Australian season with an all-the-way victory in the $1 million Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. The five-year-old gelding, ridden by Craig Williams, took up the running in the 1400m weight-for-age race on Saturday and gave… Read More »
Champion trainer Darren Weir admits he didn’t think Voodoo Lad was ready to win first-up at Caulfield. Trained out of his Warrnambool base, Weir saw Voodoo Lad at Ballarat on Monday morning for a track gallop ahead of Saturday The Heath over 1100m. To Weir’s eye Voodoo Lad was big… Read More »
Trainer Matt Dunn’s prediction his gelding Snitz would win a classy race the day he drew a good barrier was proved right on Saturday. Snitz ($4.80) had won only one previous race but had no luck in his other four runs, which produced two seconds, a third and a fourth…. Read More »
Formality will target the Group One Golden Rose rather than The Everest after the classy filly claimed another black-type win by a narrow margin at Randwick. A fortnight after she scored the Silver Shadow Stakes by a long head from one of Saturday’s rivals Alizee, the Lindsay Park-trained three-year-old again… Read More »
A return to a firmer surface has helped Savanna Amour bounce back from a first-up failure to record a narrow victory in the Group Three Stakes at Caulfield. The John Meagher-trained mare won the Group Two Angus Armanasco Stakes and Group Three Gold Coast Guineas during her autumn preparation. The… Read More »
Tough mare My Dimantine is in line to give her trainer Brian Smith another Newcastle Cup win after returning to the winners circle from a two years drought on Saturday. My Dimantine ($10) was having her first start since finishing second in the Queensland Cup over 3200m on July 15… Read More »
Group One-winning sprinter Redzel has staked an emphatic claim for inclusion in the country’s richest race with his triumphant return in the Concorde Stakes at Randwick. With tactics all important in the four-horse field for Saturday’s Group Three 1000m sprint, Kerrin McEvoy left nothing to chance and took Redzel ($2.25… Read More »
Merchant Navy has maintained his unbeaten record with an impressive first-up victory at Caulfield. The well-bred three-year-old will go chasing a Group One double at his next two starts after winning Saturday’s Group Three H D F McNeil Stakes over 1200m. Providing Mark Zahra with the third leg of a… Read More »
Racing Queensland was able to access some emergency generators to help the Cairns Amateurs Cup meeting go ahead after a massive power failure. The meeting was held up when a transformer exploded at about 1pm crippling the meeting. Races were suspended while Cairns club officials and Racing Queensland staff frantically… Read More »
