Hours after Winx was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame, trainer Chris Waller celebrated another achievement as talented colt Sambro won for the first time. The two-year-old provided Waller’s 200th win at Warwick Farm when the $3.30 favourite beat the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Icon Of Dubai ($6)… Read More »
Three-year-old Mount Panorama has shed his title as Australia’s best performed maiden. Mount Panorama, the $1.45 favourite, was having his 13th start when he came from the tail of the field to beat Witness ($31) by 1-3/4 lengths in a Maiden Plate (1200m) at the Gold Coast on Wednesday. Trainer… Read More »
Jeff Englebrecht left it to leading jockey Hugh Bowman to make the right call on tactics before Difficult To Get scored a last-stride win at Warwick Farm. Concerned a wide draw would bring his filly undone in the Schweppes Handicap, Englebrecht said he was happy to rely on Bowman’s experience… Read More »
Chris Waller’s quartet of runners in the seventh at Rosehill have an added incentive to score a victory on Saturday. The benchmark 93 handicap over 1500m for three-year-olds and up has special significance for Waller, given the race now carries the name of the star of his stable, 2017 Australian… Read More »
Five-time Melbourne Cup winning owner Lloyd Williams says he’s delighted to be inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame. Williams, who was announced as an inductee on Wednesday at the Australian Racing Museum, has spent more than 50 years in racing as an owner while also serving time as… Read More »
After finishing third in the Andrew Ramsden Stakes a year ago, last-start winner De Little Engine is poised for another crack at the $200,000 Listed race on his home track. The Danny O’Brien-trained gelding showed he was on target for the Andrew Ramsden at Flemington with his 4-1/4 length victory… Read More »
Trainer Helen Page has breathed a sigh of relief with tough gelding Rudy scraping into the field for the Doomben Cup. Page has carefully planned Rudy’s campaign around a start in the Saturday’s Doomben Cup (2000m) but those plans looked like they would come unstuck under Queensland’s new ballot conditions… Read More »
Top kiwi jockey Kelly McCulloch is hoping she can be as successful as her sister Rosie Myers on tough stayer Benzini in Brisbane this winter. Benzini will be having his first start in Australia since last winter when he races in Saturday’s Doomben Cup (2000m). Rosie Myers rode Benzini in… Read More »
Doomben Cup favourite Articus has arrived in Brisbane after securing a place on a flight from Melbourne. Articus and his Darren Weir-trained stablemate Star Exhibit, who will also run in Saturday’s Group One Doomben Cup, got on a cargo flight in the early hours of Wednesday morning. Weir has several… Read More »
Bobby El-Issa has lodged an appeal against a four month suspension for his handling of a horse in a Goulburn maiden. Soul Testa finished sixth in the 1600m-race on March 17 with Racing NSW stewards on Tuesday citing several occasions when El-Issa did not take options available to him. They… Read More »
Victoria Racing Club chief executive Simon Love has resigned after less than two years in the job. Love took up the role in mid-2015 after four years as an executive general manager with the VRC. He has agreed to stay in the position until an interim chief executive is appointed…. Read More »
Young jockey Regan Bayliss has ridden a career-best five winners in a day at Geelong, all for the powerful Lindsay Park stable. After wins to Sia, Mutin, Bogong Road and Vintage Quartz on Tuesday’s provincial program, Bayliss told broadcaster Racing.com it had been one of his goals to ride four… Read More »
Flemington trainer Saab Hasan has welcomed back an old favourite to his stable with open arms. Shoreham is set to line up for Hasan, who now shares in the ownership, in an 1800m benchmark 84 race at Flemington on Saturday, two years after leaving Melbourne. It was at the corresponding… Read More »
Group One performer Fell Swoop will take no further part in the Brisbane carnival with Canberra trainer Matt Dale turning his attention some of his up-and-coming stablemates. Hay Now has been challenged to transfer her country form to the city as the ultra-consistent mare continues to weave through the grades…. Read More »
The emerging training career of Matt Cumani has hit a hurdle with the 36-year-old suspended for the rest of the season and fined $20,000 for failing to notify stewards for almost a month of a strangles infection in his Ballarat stables. Cumani faced the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board on… Read More »
Bobby El-Issa has been outed for four months for his handling of a horse in a Goulburn maiden. Soul Testa finished sixth in the 1600m-race on March 17 with Racing NSW stewards on Tuesday citing several occasions when El-Issa did not take options available to him. Watch 📺: Click Here… Read More »
Trainer Richard Jolly is hoping for third time lucky with sprinter Karacatis in Adelaide’s premier sprint, the Group One Goodwood at Morphettville. The eight-year-old contests the $1 million race at Morphettville on Saturday coming off a last-start win in the D C McKay Stakes on May 6. Karacatis first contested… Read More »
New Zealand trainer Donna Logan is hoping Jake The Muss can cement a trans-Tasman trip to join stablemate Here He Comes in the Queensland Derby. Jake The Muss runs over 2100 metres on Wednesday at Ruakaka, his home track. Logan and co-trainer Chris Gibbs believe Jake The Muss has the… Read More »
Jean Dubois returns to France in July with perseverance the motivation, not homesickness. While countryman and predecessor at Woodpark Stud in Mittagong, Louis Baudron eventually yearned for home last year, Dubois will source French talent to strengthen his stable. Initially a leading reinsman and harness racing trainer, Dubois switched focus… Read More »
The chances of Darren Weir being a player in the Brisbane winter carnival rest with a Qantas cargo carrier in Melbourne. Weir has horses booked to travel to Brisbane in the early hours of three mornings this week but the stable won’t know until as late as 10pm whether they… Read More »
