Jockey Tegan Harrison gave a timely reminder of her ability with a winning double at the Gold Coast on Wednesday. Harrison has been among Queensland’s top jockeys in the past four seasons with more than 300 winners. However, this season she has struggled for quality rides after losing the top… Read More »
The second Australian runner by former champion UK galloper Frankel has finished out of a place on debut at Sandown. New Horizons, prepared by Darren Weir, became the first galloper by Frankel to race in Victoria. Foaled in Japan from Irish-bred Canadian Group One winner Miss Keller, three-year-old New Horizons… Read More »
Joe Pride is counting on fitness, a wet track and a one-dimensional approach to racing to carry My Psychiatrist a long way over an extended distance at Randwick on Saturday. In a Stayers Cup where only two of the nine acceptors have raced over the 3200m, My Psychiatrist will be… Read More »
For the first time in seven years, nominations for the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup will close on the same day. Racing Victoria has announced nominations for this year’s Caulfield Cup (2400m) and Melbourne Cup (3200m) will close on August 29, meaning the Caulfield Cup nomination deadline has been pushed… Read More »
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has released figures it says shows the new appeals system is working with 86 cases resolved in the first year of operation. QRIC introduced a new internal review system for Queensland codes of racing in August last year. QRIC Commissioner Ross Barnett pointed to the… Read More »
Clearly Innocent is an easing Stradbroke Handicap favourite after drawing an outside barrier but trainer Kris Lees insists it might not be enough to stop his latest stable star. Clearly Innocent drew barrier 20 which means if the five emergencies don’t get a run he will start from gate 15… Read More »
Clearly Innocent is an easing Stradbroke Handicap favourite after drawing an outside barrier, but trainer Kris Lees isn’t concerned. Clearly Innocent drew barrier 20 which means if the five emergencies don’t get a run he will start from gate 15 in the Group One race at Doomben on Saturday. The… Read More »
While Darren Weir remains well clear in this season’s Melbourne trainers’ premiership, the Lindsay Park stable is closing in on a milestone of its own. The Lindsay Park team of David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig has 98 metropolitan winners in Victoria this season and could reach 100 as… Read More »
John Ferguson has stepped down as chief executive and racing manager of Godolphin saying his position is untenable in light of comments by trainer Saeed bin Suroor. Earlier this week, bin Suroor said in an interview with Racing Post he reported directly to Sheikh Mohammed amid reports of tension between… Read More »
Two Australian Turf Club staff have been fined after pleading guilty to a range of charges relating to the treatment of former racehorses used in its mounted security division. The ATC’s mounted security co-ordinator Michelle Steele was fined $5000 when the inquiry concluded on Tuesday. She admitted two charges of… Read More »
The family connection to Leilani Lodge will endure when James Cummings relocates to Godolphin, with his father Anthony confirming a return to the famous Randwick stable. Anthony Cummings and his son Edward will inherit the boxes utilised by James once the Australian Turf Club completes remedial work at the stables… Read More »
Adelaide trainer Phillip Stokes will use a late-season juvenile race at Flemington to test the waters for a potential Melbourne spring campaign for unbeaten filly Counterplay. Stokes plans to send Counterplay across from Adelaide for Saturday’s 1100m handicap for two-year-olds after the filly has won her first two starts in… Read More »
Mick Bell is clinging to the hope the best wet-track horse in the race can still have Stradbroke Handicap conditions in his favour despite a venue shift. Bell is preparing Jungle Edge for Brisbane’s premier sprint, but the Victorian trainer is unhappy the race has been switched from Eagle Farm… Read More »
The battle for the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership will continue at Sandown and trainer Craig Widdison is hoping one of the contenders can steer Willi Willi to another win at the venue. Craig Williams reunites with three-year-old Willi Willi in Wednesday’s Le Pine Funerals Handicap (1400m) after guiding the gelding to… Read More »
Centre Pivot is not expected to take centre stage in the Listed June Stakes at Randwick on Saturday as Peter Robl again sets a tough initiation for the gelding after a break. The six-year-old resumes after a 19-week spell with Randwick-based trainer Robl conceding Centre Pivot will use the unfavourable… Read More »
Apprentice Nick Heywood will have extra incentive to win on Leucura when the country galloper returns to city racing. Heywood, a rising star among Sydney’s apprentice ranks who is on the verge of outriding his 3kg city claim, has five rides at Canterbury on Wednesday. And his father, Wagga Wagga… Read More »
The Muswellbrook Race Club will hold a benefit night to support the family of popular local trainer Lewis Seib who has died from brain cancer aged 60. Seib, who had trained at Muswellbrook for 45 years, was diagnosed with Stage 4 brain cancer on May 3 and died on Saturday…. Read More »
Group One-winning sprinter Famous Seamus has been retired after a career that realised 12 wins and more than $1.3 million. Trained by Noel Mayfield-Smith, Famous Seamus beat Spirit Of Boom and Buffering to win the 2014 BTC Cup. In October that year he finished third in a three-way photo-finish to… Read More »
The state of the Edenhope track has forced an upcoming meeting to be transferred to Hamilton. Sunday’s meeting has been moved because of significant rainfall in the Western Districts with the Edenhope track receiving double its long term average of rain in April and May. The transfer has resulted in… Read More »
It is no surprise to trainer Noel Mayfield-Smith that English Derby winning jockey Padraig Beggy was straight back to work a day after his surprise victory. Beggy spent time in Australia attached to Mayfield-Smith’s Hawkesbury stable before returning to Ireland after being outed by Racing NSW stewards in late 2014… Read More »
