Trainer Matt Cumani is facing charges for failing to notify stewards of a strangles infection at his Ballarat stables for almost a month. Racing Victoria stewards on Wednesday issued Cumani with two charges, one of conduct prejudicial to the image, interests, or welfare of racing and the other for failing… Read More »
Promising mare Invincible Express has overcome problems before and during a race at Ipswich to stay on course for the winter carnival. Invincible Express ($2.50) made it five wins in a row when she won an 1100m- Class Six race on Wednesday. She was taken out of the barriers before… Read More »
The winners are starting to flow in Victoria for trainer Grahame Begg and the next step is to snare a city success. Begg has had five winners from his past seven runners with his small team based out of the Pinecliff facility on the Mornington Peninsula, and has had a… Read More »
Maryore was a support act at Randwick the day Winx stole the show in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, and now Canberra trainer Philip Courtney is taking the star of his stable on the road again. The Provincial Championships final winner on April 8, Maryore makes her Queensland debut on Saturday… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Tony Allen says he’s planning a comeback in New Zealand next month. Allen, 50, wants to snag his 1000th win at Trentham on May 27, pending trial rides the week before and the finalisation of his jockey’s licence. Allan won the Melbourne Cup on giant New Zealand… Read More »
The track condition will determine whether talented sprinter O’Malley has his first-up run in a stakes race at Caulfield. O’Malley is set to line up in the Listed Bel Esprit Stakes (1100m) on Saturday, his first run since finishing out of the placings at Sandown last November. Enver Jusufovic is… Read More »
Jamie Richards saw a lot to like about Chance To Dance in his first run under a new training regime. He just hopes that inconsequential exertion in the abandoned Sydney Cup won’t count against the gelding when the Group One $2 million staying feature is re-run at Randwick on Saturday…. Read More »
Young trainer Ben Currie had the best day of his career at Toowoomba a fortnight ago and hopes to translate that into further stakes success at Doomben. At 26, Currie is one of the youngest trainers in Queensland but he has already prepared more than 300 winners. The Toowoomba-based Currie… Read More »
Racing Queensland has reinstated official trials at Eagle Farm and Doomben in an effort to boost betting turnover and national media coverage. The two major metropolitan tracks have not hosted official trials in more than three years. Instead there have been jump-outs where horse names were not declared and trackwork… Read More »
Craig Williams will miss the Sydney Cup ride on favourite Big Duke after failing to get a careless riding ban reduced on appeal. Williams needed to get two meetings shaved off his eight meeting ban from Sandown on Monday to be free to ride the Darren Weir-trained Big Duke in… Read More »
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) has decided not to continue with appeals against the decisions in two cases involving alleged cobalt level breaches. The matters were listed before the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal (QCAT). QRIC was appealing the decision to clear trainers Lyn Paton and Rochelle Smith who… Read More »
Members of Racing Victoria have unanimously approved special resolutions to amend the RV constitution, moving closer to an independent board. The special resolutions relate to reforms of the appointment process of directors of the RV Board announced by Victoria’s racing minister Martin Pakula last December. While passed by RV members… Read More »
Multiple Group One winner Tepin has been retired after losing her enthusiasm for racing. Winner of the Breeders’ Cup Mile in 2015 and twice the United States champion mare on turf, she was narrowly beaten on what was her final career start when she attempted to defend the race at… Read More »
Trainer Mike Moroney will be chasing a second Sydney Group One win in as many meetings when veteran stayer Mister Impatience lines up in the rescheduled Sydney Cup. Tivaci gave Moroney his 49th Group One win in Saturday’s All Aged Stakes at Randwick. A decision on whether he is retired… Read More »
Perth visitor Malibu Style goes to a stakes race at Caulfield with the benefit of one Melbourne experience under his belt. His trainer Neville Parnham hopes that will stand him in good stead in Saturday’s Listed Bel Esprit Stakes (1100m) on Saturday. Malibu Style started his Melbourne campaign with a… Read More »
Injured apprentice jockey Melanie Bolwell has been talking to family after doctors removed her breathing tube. Bolwell has been in the Gold Coast Hospital since a three-horse fall at Warialda last Saturday week in which fellow rider Darren Jones suffered fatal injuries. Racing NSW safety officer Maurice Logue said Melanie’s… Read More »
A track gallop at Caulfield has convinced trainer Stuart Webb to run Annus Mirabilis in the rescheduled Sydney Cup at Randwick. Annus Mirabilis contested the abandoned race at Randwick on April 8 and the gelding has pleased his trainer since returning to his Caulfield base. But he will need a… Read More »
The brilliant Invincible Express missed a clash with another promising mare, Tumbler, at Doomben but is ready to return to racing at Ipswich. The four-year-old was nominated for Saturday’s Open (1050m) at Doomben but trainer David Vandyke decided instead to race her on Wednesday. The Barry Lockwood-trained Tumbler won the… Read More »
Godolphin’s England-based trainer Charlie Appleby has finally received some positive news regarding his Sydney-based contingent with Polarisation cleared to contest a re-run of the Sydney Cup after passing a veterinary inspection. The five-year-old gelding, who passed the winning post first at Randwick on April 8 before jockey Corey Brown realised… Read More »
Craig Williams has lodged an appeal against the severity of a careless riding suspension which will keep him from riding Sydney Cup favourite Big Duke. Williams was outed at Sandown on Monday with the $2 million Sydney Cup to be re-run on Saturday after being declared a no-race on April… Read More »
