Dual purpose performer Max Dynamite is unlikely to go to the Cheltenham Festival with another crack at the 2017 Melbourne Cup his main aim. The Willie Mullins-trained seven-year-old finished half a length behind Prince Of Penzance in 2015 but two outings on the Flat last year yielded little joy and… Read More »
Bookmakers are taking no chances with Winx, posting her at $1.10 in first markets to win her 10th Group One race and second Chipping Norton Stakes. There were 13 nominations taken on Monday with Hartnell at $8 again the only horse given a chance to beat the champion who had… Read More »
Property will be given his chance to achieve a rare feat in the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes but connections of Limestone have decided not to pay a late entry fee to run the filly in the $1.5 millon race. The owners of the Robert Smerdon-trained Property have paid the… Read More »
Jockey Craig Newitt has won a host of Melbourne’s biggest sprint races and has a third Oakleigh Plate in his sights, this time with Extreme Choice. Newitt rides the Mick Price-trained Extreme Choice in the 2017 Oakleigh Plate having already won a Blue Diamond Stakes and Moir Stakes at Group One… Read More »
Australia’s second highest rated horse Hartnell is the 58kg topweight for the 2017 Doncaster Mile, receiving one kilogram more than Black Heart Bart and Hong Kong entries Beauty Only and Helene Paragon. Hartnell is a doubtful runner with his Godolphin stablemate Hauraki, the $8 favourite, to carry 56.5kg. Hauraki won… Read More »
Trainer John Zielke hopes to mark his completed move to Toowoomba with a win by two-year-old Ruby Red Heart and an open day at his new stables. Zielke set a record for the number of juvenile winners in Queensland with 15 last season. He was based at Caloundra but has… Read More »
A more acclimatised Exospheric will meet one of his Caulfield Cup conquerors again when he begins his second Australian campaign in the Peter Young Stakes at Caulfield. Exospheric arrived in Australia with the international contingent for last year’s spring carnival features, joining the Lee and Anthony Freedman stable. He finished… Read More »
Champion mare Winx has opened the $1.10 favourite for the Chipping Norton Stakes in which she will be chasing her 15th consecutive victory and 10th Group One win. Saturday’s Chipping Norton Stakes (1600m) at Randwick has attracted 13 nominations including six of Winx’s Chris Waller-trained stablemates. Winx made an emphatic… Read More »
Nominations for the Group One Futurity Stakes at Caulfield have been extended after only seven entries were taken for the weight-for-age race. Premier Victorian trainer Darren Weir looks set to have more than half the field with four nominations highlighted by multiple Group One winner Black Heart Bart. The six-year-old… Read More »
Brisbane jockey Robbie Fradd will appeal a suspension which threatens to derail his slight hopes of catching runaway premiership leader Jeff Lloyd. Fradd received his fourth suspension this year when stewards outed him for 14 days after they found him guilty of careless riding on Bo Rossa at Ipswich on… Read More »
Prolific NSW country jockey Greg Ryan has notched another significant milestone, riding his 3500th winner. The 51-year-old Ryan rode a double at Dubbo on Sunday to finish the meeting on 3501. Ryan is second on the Australia’s all-time winners’ list behind record holder Robert Thompson who is on 4262.
Hugh Bowman will miss Randwick Guineas day after being suspended for careless riding in Hong Kong. Bowman was outed for his ride on Dinozzo in the Hong Kong Classic Cup at Sha Tin on Sunday and misses three meetings on March 1, 5 and 9. He will ride champion Winx… Read More »
A horse from the farthest corner of the state has thrust himself and his trainer into the limelight with victory in the Country Championship heat at Dubbo. James Hatch and Stoneyrise made the two-day trip literally from the back of Bourke to run in Sunday’s $150,000 race to decide the… Read More »
Jeff Lloyd’s has reached 93 metropolitan winners for the season, a total which would have won all but four of the previous 100 Brisbane jockeys premierships. Records have been kept of Brisbane jockeys’ premierships since 1918 and the statistics bear tribute to Lloyd’s freakish first 6-1/2 months of the season…. Read More »
Any hopes rival trainers might have been harbouring that Winx had a tough run in the Apollo Stakes have been put to bed by Chris Waller. The champion made a delayed start to 2017 last Monday at Randwick after the scheduled meeting two days earlier was moved because of extreme… Read More »
Damien Oliver will be out to maintain his perfect record on Fell Swoop who is out to break his Group One duck in the 2017 Oakleigh Plate. Trained at Canberra by Matt Dale, Fell Swoop has his first start for 2017 at Caulfield on Saturday after finishing second in three… Read More »
Stable star The Quarterback has come through his barrier ordeal before the Lightning Stakes with a few bruises and trainer Robbie Griffiths is hoping for better luck on 2017 Blue Diamond Stakes day. The Quarterback went down in his stall on Saturday and was one of three late scratchings from… Read More »
Desleigh Forster’s Australian Oaks hopes have been dashed with Meadow to miss the Sydney classic and possibly the Queensland Oaks after being sent for a break with a mystery problem. Her trainer pulled the pin on her campaign after she was beaten a long way at Doomben on Wednesday after… Read More »
The Blue Diamond Stakes has come around too soon for Muraaqeb who will be aimed at the Golden Slipper with the 2017 Black Opal Stakes a possible lead-in to the $3.5 million race. The latest two-year-old winner from the powerful Lindsay Park stable made an immediate impression on debut over… Read More »
A statue of legendary jumps jockey Sir Tony McCoy will be unveiled on the opening day of next month’s Cheltenham Festival. McCoy retired nearly two years ago having been crowned champion jockey 20 times and ridden 31 winners at National Hunt racing’s showpiece meeting. The life size bronze, crafted by… Read More »
