Winx will have 11 rivals in the Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick in her bid to extend her winning sequence to 19. The champion will wear earmuffs on Saturday with trainer Chris Waller and jockey Hugh Bowman hoping to avoid a repeat of the Warwick Stakes when she jumped out the… Read More »
Caulfield Cup contender Gingernuts will begins his campaign in the Group One Tarzino Trophy at Hastings but connections aren’t expecting too much first-up. The New Zealand Derby and Rosehill Guineas winner is expected to have two starts at home before travelling to Australia. “The 1400 metres will be too short… Read More »
Experienced jockey Mark Pegus will relocate to Queensland to link with Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie. Pegus, 37, has ridden just under 1000 winners in a long career in Victoria and South Australia. His best win was on Shadoways in the 2008 Group One Goodwood in Adelaide. Pegus will ride at… Read More »
Last year’s winner Almandin and minor placegetter Hartnell are the equal $13 favourites for the Melbourne Cup following nominations for Australia’s most famous race. There were 140 entries taken on Wednesday including 31 from overseas and 10 horses that ran in 2016. Leading Australian trainer Darren Weir, who won the… Read More »
With nominations for the Melbourne and Caulfield Cups released earlier today here are some of the key facts and figures from the list of nominations for the two feature races. Caulfield and Melbourne Cup Entries * 140 Melbourne Cup nominations, including 31 northern hemisphere-trained horses * 142 nominations for the… Read More »
Trainer Ciaron Maher has Group One aspirations for three-year-old Merchant Navy who is set for a stakes-race return at Caulfield. Unbeaten in three starts, Merchant Navy is set to run in Saturday’s Group Three HDF McNeil Stakes over 1200m. Merchant Navy won on debut over 1200m at Pakenham in March… Read More »
Leading Australian trainer Darren Weir believes he has three or four realistic chances to repel the overseas invasion as he dreams of another Melbourne Cup and his first Caulfield Cup. Weir has nominated 17 horses for the Melbourne Cup and 20 for the Caulfield Cup, including Japanese stayer Admire Deus…. Read More »
Horses trained in seven countries outside Australia including for the first time Scotland, have been nominated for the Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup. Ten overseas trainers have nominated horses for the feature races including Scotland’s Iain Jardine. A total of 140 horses have been entered for the Melbourne Cup and… Read More »
Ex-Godolphin head trainer John O’Shea can continue developing his latest venture after successfully arguing he should be fined rather than suspended for his role in his former stable’s strangles case. O’Shea was fined $30,000 by Racing NSW stewards on Tuesday after a penalty hearing in Sydney. Earlier this month he… Read More »
Stakes-placed former New Zealand filly So Far Sokool makes her Australian debut at Sandown where her new trainer Archie Alexander expects to learn more about the pint-sized three-year-old. So Far Sokool won once and finished second twice, including in the Listed GN Foal Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie, in three New… Read More »
The different style work-outs at Caulfield of two Memsie Stakes hopefuls have their interstate trainers in good spirits ahead of the Group One race. Kris Lees, who trains Le Romain, sent the gelding off on a gallop on the course proper while Nick Olive tested Single Gaze against some local… Read More »
Brett Cavanough has put himself, and The Virginian, in the conversation for The Everest and the Scone trainer hopes a slot-holder takes notice. Cavanough has an eye on October’s inaugural $10 million highlight of the Sydney spring carnival at Randwick. In the latest meeting at Randwick on August 19, Cavanough… Read More »
Canberra trainers have lost the battle to remain part of the Highway races for country-trained horses. Racing NSW announced on Tuesday, they would no longer be eligible after December 2. “In taking the decision, the Board of Racing NSW considered submissions made on the matter by the Canberra Racing Club… Read More »
David Vandyke admits he wondered at times whether Yankee Rose would make it back to the racetrack. The now four-year-old is a dual Group One winner of the ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes at two and the Spring Champion Stakes at three. She was placed behind Winx and Hartnell in last… Read More »
Former Godolphin trainer John O’Shea has faced a penalty hearing in Sydney over the strangles case. O’Shea appeared before Racing NSW stewards on Tuesday after being found guilty of giving false evidence in an investigation into a case of strangles in the Godolphin stable last year which was not reported…. Read More »
John Sargent is looking forward to seeing what impression Gauguin can make in his first start for the Randwick trainer at Canterbury. The four-year-old gelding is among 10 horses the former New Zealander acquired after James Cummings joined Godolphin as head trainer. Sargent saddles up Gauguin in Wednesday’s Schweppes Handicap… Read More »
Star mare Yankee Rose has pleased trainer David Vandyke in a gallop at Caulfield. Vandyke took the chance to gallop the mare on the course proper ahead of Saturday’s Group One Memsie Stakes. Yankee Rose, who can be a lazy trackworker, worked better than Vandyke expected ahead of her first… Read More »
Leading trainer Darren Weir has had a horse return a positive test to a banned substance in a jump-out at a country racecourse. Air Guitar returned a positive swab to phenylbutazone and oxyphenbutazone, a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory at Burrumbeet in June. The three-year-old was contesting a jump-out for the purpose of… Read More »
For the second time this preparation, stablemates Red Excitement and Harper’s Choice will front up against Winx, this time over the Randwick 1600 metres in the Chelmsford Stakes. Trainer Gerald Ryan confirmed the pair would run in the Group Two race on Saturday but said his Tramway Stakes entrants, Deploy… Read More »
Winx has been listed at $1.06 in first markets for the Chelmsford Stakes in which she will bid to extend her winning streak to 19. There were 16 nominations taken on Monday for Saturday’s Group Two 1600m-race at Randwick including Winx’s stablemate Foxplay who is on the second line of… Read More »
