Champion trainer Darren Weir is one win shy of equalling his Commonwealth record of 348 victories in a season. After nine winners over the first two days of the Warrnambool carnival, Weir has trained 347 winners in 2016-17. Weir opened the Warrnambool carnival with four winners with another five on… Read More »
Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller must wait to notch another training milestone after he was denied a 200th Warwick Farm winner as he jetted to the Kentucky Derby. Although he had 10 runners spread over five races at the midweek meeting, Waller, who celebrated his first winner at the track… Read More »
Ulmann is bound for another trip to Brisbane after scoring a first-up win in the Wangoom Handicap at Warrnambool. The Darren Weir-trained gelding gave the champion trainer his fifth winner on the program on the second day of the three-day carnival in Wednesday’s 1200m-feature sprint. Ulmann raced in Queensland as… Read More »
Stewards believe they had no choice but to downgrade the track rating at Eagle Farm to a heavy eight despite no rain falling at the track for 10 days. Eagle Farm was originally rated a soft seven for the first four races on Wednesday but was then downgraded. It was… Read More »
Darren Weir is confident Renew can make a successful return to flat racing after recording an impressive all-the-way win in the Galleywood Hurdle at Warrnambool. Renew remains unbeaten in three jumps starts and Weir said the Listed Andrew Ramsden Stakes (3200m) at Flemington on May 20 loomed as a target… Read More »
Slow Pace sounds like an ominous horse to ride, yet Rachel King couldn’t be happier as her apprenticeship gathers momentum with a chance in a city stakes race at Rosehill. English-born King usually spends her Saturdays on the provincial or country circuit, so the nine-year-old gelding she guided home at… Read More »
The preparation for Warrnambool’s Grand Annual Steeplechase has been a lot smoother for Spying On You the second time around. The South Australian jumper ran fifth in last year’s 5500m marathon and lines up on Thursday as a last-start winner. Spying On You won the Great Eastern Steeplechase at Oakbank… Read More »
Queensland’s chief steward Allan Reardon has agreed to extend his contract by at least 12 months. It had been widely speculated Reardon would retire at the end of the 2017 winter carnival. However, Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Ross Barnett said Reardon had agreed to stay on in his role for… Read More »
Queensland plans have been put on the backburner for the Mike Moroney-trained War Legend who will instead run on his home track at Flemington. War Legend finished sixth in the Group Three Easter Cup (2000m) last start at Caulfield after which connections decided to keep him home in Victoria, at… Read More »
Trainer Nick Olive is already thinking ahead to the spring carnival as he prepares Single Gaze for the Hollindale Stakes at the Gold Coast. Olive arrived on the Gold Coast on Sunday night to oversee Single Gaze’s lead-up to Saturday’s Group Two race which has attracted a field of 12…. Read More »
Trainer Archie Alexander wants to turn the Warrnambool Cup into a last man standing affair. The Ballarat trainer saddles Survived in the 2350m-Listed race on Thursday and wants jockey Dean Holland to be aggressive in his approach to the race. Survived finished sixth in last year’s Warrnambool Cup before going… Read More »
Grand Annual Steeplechase-winning jockey Nathan Dunn could think of no better place to train his first winner. Dunn now prepares a small team on the Mornington Peninsula and was at Warrnambool on Wednesday to saddle Bedroucho in the Idetect Maiden Plate. Circling the field under Aaron Lynch, Bedroucho, who was… Read More »
Multiple Group One winner Black Heart Bart headlines the nominations for the Group One Stradbroke Handicap. The first nominations for the seven Group One races over the Brisbane winter carnival closed on Wednesday with 133 horses entered for the Stradbroke to be run on June 10. Black Heart Bart, who… Read More »
Connections of runner-up Violate have lodged a complaint against the result of the Gunsynd Classic in which the rider of the winner breached the whip rules. The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has received the formal complaint about the result of the Group Three race at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Dreams… Read More »
Already this year jockey Katelyn Mallyon has linked with trainer Andrew Noblet to win two feature sprints in Melbourne with Silent Sedition and Super Cash. On Saturday, Mallyon gets the chance to add another when she rides Super Cash in the $1 million Group One Robert Sangster Stakes in Adelaide…. Read More »
Godolphin’s Thunder Snow has taken to the track at Churchill Downs for the first time since clearing quarantine ahead of the Kentucky Derby. The Saeed bin Suroor-trained UAE Derby winner jogged once around before galloping a mile (1600m) on Tuesday. He arrived in the United States from England on April… Read More »
South African jockey Keagan Latham is adept at riding on the flat, but he must clear a massive hurdle that threatens to throw his career off track in Australia. Latham has his maiden Sydney metropolitan ride at Warwick Farm on Wednesday and although Nothing Too Hard is rated $101, the… Read More »
Skippy is that you? A kangaroo has hopped into a horse race in country NSW before realising it had punched above its weight. The roo darted onto the track midway through the 2125m benchmark handicap at Cessnock, in the state’s Hunter Region, on Tuesday afternoon. The marsupial bounded along the… Read More »
Perth trainer Neville Parnham has decided to keep Malibu Style in Melbourne to run at Flemington rather than head to a stakes race in Adelaide. Malibu Style has been based at Flemington in recent weeks for his Victorian campaign which has so far netted a second placing at Caulfield before… Read More »
Jason Attard laughed when he recognised the irony of his preferred weather forecast for Sydney this week. Ideally the Hawkesbury-based trainer wants the track at Rosehill downgraded from good to soft to suit six-year-old gelding Sons Of John – the type of conditions that were prevalent during the autumn carnival…. Read More »
