Top Brisbane sprinter Most Important has been sent for a spell and will miss the winter carnival. Most Important had been back in trainer Tony Gollan’s Eagle Farm stables for two months and was being set for a comeback run in the Group Two Victory Stakes on April 29. The… Read More »
Her autumn campaign has barely finished but already plans are being made for Winx’s spring. Those plans don’t take too much working out. Her path to a third Cox Plate will pretty much mirror the preparation leading to her second. Winx gave her fans what they expected with her four… Read More »
In the space of two weekends during The Championships under-rated gelding Sense Of Occasion has more than doubled his career earnings without winning a race. After finishing third in the $3 million Doncaster Mile last Saturday week, connections of the Kris Lees-trained Sense Of Occasion decided to also give the… Read More »
A double at Toowoomba for apprentice Rebecca Williams has set the scene for an Australian first. Williams produced two of the rides of the day at Toowoomba to win on Cantbuybetter and Real Ego. It took her to 13 wins for the season and fourth place on the Queensland metropolitan… Read More »
Injured apprentice jockey Melanie Bolwell remains in the Gold Coast Hospital with bleeding on her brain after a three-horse fall at Warialda which claimed the life of fellow rider Darren Jones. Leanne Henry escaped with general soreness and bruising in Saturday’s fall while Bolwell was transferred to the Gold Coast… Read More »
One For Arthur has won the world”s most famous steeplechase, taking out the Grand National for Scottish trainer Lucinda Russell and jockey Derek Fox. The last winner to come from Scotland was Rubstic in 1979. Fox nearly missed the ride, only returning to action earlier in the week after breaking… Read More »
Jockey Corey Brown is $2000 lighter in the pocket and will spend a week on the sidelines after using his whip too many times on third placegetter Sense Of Occasion in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Racing NSW stewards suspended Brown for a week and issued him with the fine for… Read More »
A record crowd has descended upon Randwick to watch champion racehorse Winx cruise to her 17th consecutive win. The attendance of 26,801 outweighs the 25,535 people who witnessed Black Caviar’s final race at the 2013 TJ Smith Stakes before the grandstand was reconfigured. Punters dressed in the mighty mare’s signature… Read More »
Melbourne mare Secret Agenda will be on the road again after claiming a Group Two win at Randwick. The Mick Price-trained four-year-old was a dominant winner of Saturday’s Sapphire Stakes (1200m) to confirm a trip to Adelaide for a tilt at the Group One sprint double of the Goodwood Handicap… Read More »
Winx’s jockey Hugh Bowman has claimed his third successive Nathan Berry medal on the same day he steered the champion to her 17th consecutive win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes. The medal is named for the late jockey who died in 2014 from a rare form of epilepsy and is… Read More »
Richard Treweeke had every reason to be giddy when Winx scaled even greater heights. One of the remarkable mare’s three owners, Treweeke struggles with vertigo. But the 86-year-old stood firm at Randwick on Saturday after Winx racked up her 17th win in a row in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes. “I… Read More »
Lightning and a lack of light has forced the abandonment of the final three races at Caulfield. A thunderstorm hit Caulfield following the running of the sixth race on Saturday which put the meeting on an indefinite delay. Racing Victoria stewards inspected the track following almost 10mm of rain and… Read More »
Trainer Ben Currie started his day with a setback, followed up with a double and then was part of history in the Listed Weetwood Handicap on Saturday. In a deceptive finish, Currie’s mare Col ‘N’ Lil dead-heated with Jumbo Prince in Toowoomba’s premier race. Currie and Jumbo Prince’s trainer Michael… Read More »
On a day when punters dressed in blue to watch Winx win, it was a black and white Yves Saint Laurent-inspired look that won the Fashion Chute judges’ hearts. Sydney designer and stylist Kash O’Hara beat 500 entrants to claim the top prize at Randwick on day two of The… Read More »
Learning to relax over a staying distance has seen Lycurgus win a stakes race at Caulfield. Lycurgus won the Listed Galilee Series Final (2400m) on Saturday and now trainer Danny O’Brien is eyeing races over a longer journey. The three-year-old is bred on sprinting lines, being by Star Witness from… Read More »
Class told as Cylinder Beach gave jockey Jim Byrne a record-equalling fourth Toowoomba Cup. Trainer Desleigh Forster planned to have Cylinder Beach at Randwick on Saturday taking on superstar Winx in the Group One Queen Elizabeth Stakes. Instead she brought Cylinder Beach home to Queensland and elected to go to… Read More »
Chris Waller has trained a Group One double on the final day of The Championships with Foxplay beating her older rivals in the Coolmore Legacy Stakes. As expected, Waller’s wonder mare Winx streeted her rivals in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes, but it wasn’t as easy for Foxplay. One of only… Read More »
Dreams Aplenty showed he was on course for the big winter three-year-old races with a brave win in the Toowoomba Guineas on Saturday. Apprentice Tiffani Brooker was forced to use up Dreams Aplenty ($1.90) early from his outside barrier to reach the lead. However, the gelding then led all the… Read More »
The Sydney Cup has been called off mid-race after two horses lost their riders in the $2 million staying feature. Who Shot Thebarman and Almoonqith came to grief soon after the field left the home in straight in the Group One race at Randwick, dislodging their respective jockeys Blake Shinn… Read More »
After a lean autumn carnival in Melbourne, training cousins Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra have bounced back with a winning double at Caulfield. Sword Of Light stepped up to 1600m to win the buyaracehorse.com.au Handicap before Crystal Dreamer scored in the 1000m Sandown Park (UK) Handicap on Saturday. Both horses… Read More »
