The Melbourne campaign of Tasmanian-trained Tshahitsi is set to continue, and so is that of his trainer Imogen Miller. Tshahitsi runs over 1400m at Flemington on Saturday, a trip he was successful over in the Echuca Cup last month and at Flemington on June 10. Miller, who trains in partnership… Read More »
Ben Currie missed the Ipswich Cup meeting with a virus but can take comfort from the fact he is now leading the Queensland trainers’s premiership. Currie had two winners at Toowoomba on Friday and another when With A Promise won the Three-Year-Old Handicap at Ipswich on Saturday. It took his… Read More »
Jordan Childs will return from a careless riding suspension with a milestone in his sights. Childs has been stuck one win off outriding his claim for almost a month since winning the Listed Straight Six on Tashbeeh on May 20. He is hoping it won’t take much longer to notch… Read More »
Sydney jockey Corey Brown will be able to ride at the final Group One meeting of the season at Doomben despite being suspended at Ipswich. Brown rode the Darren Beadman trained Reverine to win Saturday’s Bundamba Plate and pleaded guilty to causing interference on the home turn. Stewards said Brown… Read More »
Queensland stewards have warned trainers to watch for horses chewing shavings and fences which have arsenic treated timbers after two inquiries into high levels returned in swabs. The warning comes after a long-running inquiry into a swab containing arsenic returned by runner-up Binalong Road after last year’s Rockhampton Cup. Stewards… Read More »
Victorian galloper Self Sense has revelled in a return to a soft track to win the Listed Ipswich Cup (2150m), the first part of a three-leg Queensland project. The gelding, which was backed from $5 to start $3.40 with Luxbet, burst away in the straight on Saturday to beat Benzini… Read More »
A fast-finishing Petrology has denied champion jockey Craig Williams a win in the annual Moonee Valley race named in honour of his late cousin. Williams rode the Paul Preusker-trained Magic Consol ($11) in Saturday’s Travis Harrison Cup and hit the front late in the 1600m race, only for five-year-old gelding… Read More »
Trainer John Thompson gave Hugh Bowman a gee-up about the Sydney jockeys’ premiership race before the last at Rosehill and Invincible Knight put in the hard work to get to the line. Bowman finished Saturday’s meeting with a double to leave Brenton Avdulla, who won the card opener on Gaulois,… Read More »
Veteran jockey Jeff Lloyd has produced a top ride to rekindle his long-term friendship with trainer Darren Beadman and win the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic at Ipswich. Lloyd rode Maternal, who landed a $4 to $2.90 betting move, when she beat her stablemate Kinshachi ($5) by a long head on… Read More »
After having her judgment questioned in one race, rising apprentice Rachel King has shown her ability to adapt in another to get the best out of Supply And Demand at Rosehill. Earlier on Saturday, King was given a grilling by stewards over her tactics on Arbeitsam, the $2.30 CrownBet favourite… Read More »
Tasmania’s premier jockey David Pires has made the most of a rare Melbourne visit to land his second Moonee Valley winner, 14 years after notching his first. Pires continued his successful association with Tasmania’s premier trainer Scott Brunton and six-year-old gelding Lord Da Vinci on Saturday, guiding the sprinter to… Read More »
Revolving Door has completed a double for trainer Clinton McDonald, with a strong on-pace first-up win at Moonee Valley. Having his first start since being gelded, Revolving Door took out the Epworth Medical Imaging Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. Ridden by Mark Zahra, Revolving Door ($6.50) scored a half-length win from… Read More »
Apprentice Tiffani Brooker has made the most of a last-minute booking on Monsieur Gustave to guide the gelding to a close win in the Listed Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) at Ipswich. Brooker gave Monsieur Gustave ($18) the run of the race up on the pace on Saturday and he fought… Read More »
Trainer Bjorn Baker has taken three horses to the races at Rosehill and come away with his first metropolitan treble. Test The World got the ball rolling on Saturday and was followed by Sir Plush and Collateral. Any doubts Baker had about the wet track first-up with Sir Plush were… Read More »
Hugh Bowman has concocted a masterful ride to reward Liapari’s perseverance with a narrow benchmark triumph at Rosehill. Just when pre-race favourite Moss ‘N’ Dale and Reiby The Red appeared to be duelling for victory in the TAB Rewards Handicap on Saturday, Bowman switched Liapari to the rails as the… Read More »
Test The World might not win by big margins but it seems no matter what is thrown at her, she just wins. The Bjorn Baker-trained filly stretched her winning run this preparation to four at Rosehill on Saturday. Those four wins have come with a combined margin of less than… Read More »
The victory of Essence Of Terror at Moonee Valley has meant a lot to jockey Chris Symons. Saturday’s win in the Zouki Handicap (1000m) by the Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra-trained mare broke a run of outs for the jockey. “I’ve had so many seconds lately,” Symons said. “It’s nice… Read More »
Apprentice Brendon Stockdale has linked with a horse trained by his father and owned by his mother to notch a special win at Moonee Valley. The Frankie Stockdale-trained three-year-old Unique Lovely ($5.50) finished strongly down the outside in Saturday’s Bidfood Handicap (1000m) to score by a length over Miss Vesper,… Read More »
Kris Lees runs a big stable at Newcastle but few of his charges are as game as Just Dreaming. After wining the Australian Turf Club Handicap (1400m) at Rosehill on Saturday, the filly has had four victories from eight starts, prompting talk of bigger targets in her four-year-old season. Lees… Read More »
The giant Godolphin operation has brought up its 200th winner for the season and its first at Ipswich, with Revenire scoring a brave win. Godolphin’s interim trainer, Darren Beadman, was too ill to see Impending win last week’s Group One Stradbroke Handicap but he was on hand for Revenire’s ($3.90)… Read More »
