Last year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Don Cossack has been retired after suffering a setback, trainer Gordon Elliott has announced. Don Cossack was beaten just twice in 12 starts since October 2014 and connections had been making bullish noises recently about a return. “It’s a real sickener for Gigginstown, myself,… Read More »
Lindsay Park’s unbeaten fillies Catchy, Tulip and Formality feature among the 198 second acceptors for next month’s $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes. Godolphin has paid up for 25 two-year-olds in Victoria’s premier juvenile race, one more than the Lindsay Park stable of trainers David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig…. Read More »
A colt by first season sire Dundeel out of champion of her era Miss Finland has fetched top price of $900,000 on the first day of the Magic Millions sale on the Gold Coast. The versatile Miss Finland won the 2006 Golden Slipper and the VRC Oaks later that year… Read More »
Apprentice Regan Bayliss has had a mixed day at Sandown, riding a winning double before copping a suspension for careless riding in another race on the program. Bayliss, who last month outrode his claim, moved to equal fourth in the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership with a winning double on Wednesday aboard… Read More »
Bobby El-Issa defied death to beat cancer and has now held out his rivals on the racetrack to record his first city winner since making a remarkable comeback. El-Issa returned to the saddle in April after a battle with leukaemia to ride a winner on his first day back. While… Read More »
The mare who kicked off Mitchell Beer’s training career has returned to the winner’s circle for the first time in a year at Sandown, giving apprentice Ethan Brown his first city winner. But the day didn’t quite go to script for Brown who was suspended for seven meetings after pleading… Read More »
Rookie sire Golden Archer has had a timely first winner with Lady Lark’s success at Eagle Farm. Lady Lark ($5) sat three-deep without cover but was still too strong in a Two-Year-Old Maiden (1200m) on Wednesday. The Peter Moody-trained Golden Archer was a multiple stakes winner and finished third in… Read More »
A horse trained by Trevor Andrews has returned a cobalt level above the revised threshold of 100mcg per litre of urine. Racing Victoria stewards announced on Wednesday the Andrews-trained Coppola returned a level of 118mcg/L in a pre-race sample taken before he raced at Geelong in December 4. The reserve… Read More »
While wet weather wiped out Malice’s chance to run in the Villiers, trainer John O’Shea is optimistic about the flow of his altered preparation. The gelding carries Godolphin’s hopes of in Friday’s Listed Gosford Gold Cup (2100m). Their retained English rider James Doyle will get his first look at Gosford… Read More »
Victorian jockey Daniel Moor will make a rare trip to Sydney to continue an association with the Danny O’Brien-trained Portman at Randwick. Moor won on Portman at Bendigo two starts ago and was happy to answer the call from O’Brien to head north to ride the four-year-old in Saturday’s Hyland… Read More »
New Zealand record holder and Cox Plate winning jockey David Walsh has confirmed his retirement from the saddle. Walsh, who has battled ill health this season, announced his decision on Wednesday. “Retiring has been on my mind for a while, but I didn’t want to make the call until I… Read More »
As Gerald Ryan continues his search for the next Snitzel on the Gold Coast, The Pharoah has enhanced the reputation of the champion sire he once trained. While Ryan is in Queensland for the Magic Millions race day and yearling sale, three-year-old colt The Pharoah opened his winning account in… Read More »
Apprentice Ben Thompson has had plenty to do with Airalign and is looking forward to reuniting with the seven-year-old when the gelding faces his biggest test at Flemington. The Tom Cowan-trained Airalign steps to stakes company for the first time in Saturday’s Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m) and is among… Read More »
Fresh from Colesberg’s giant-killing debut, trainer David Payne is set to unveil the stable’s latest talented juvenile Momentum To Win. Colesberg upset well-supported favourite Single Bullet at Warwick Farm on Saturday, prompting Payne to earmark the colt as a Group One Champagne Stakes prospect. Stablemate Ace High is also on… Read More »
It would not be more apt for trainer Gerald Ryan to win his first Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic with a son of Snitzel. Ryan will saddle Snitzel’s son Chauffeur who will go a long way to recouping his sales topping $1.6 million price tag if he can win the $2… Read More »
Swan Hill trainer Austy Coffey has been fined $2500 over a positive swab to caffeine returned by one of his horses after a maiden win. Coffey pleaded guilty to presenting Burrum’s Buzz to race at Swan Hill on September 23 when caffeine and its metabolite Theophylline were detected in a… Read More »
Helsinge, the mother of undefeated champion mare Black Caviar, has died at the age of 15. Owned by Rick Jamieson of Gilgai Farm, the unraced Helsinge made a significant impact as a broodmare, most notably as the mother of Black Caviar who was unbeaten in her 25 starts which included… Read More »
British racing has received a seismic jolt with the Jockey Club Racecourses announcing Kempton, home of the historic King George VI Chase, could be closed for housing redevelopment. The track’s owners, who operate 14 other racecourses in Great Britain, hope to invest STG500million ($A825 million) into the sport in a… Read More »
Emerging apprentice jockey Deanne Panya has been retained to partner Foreign Prince in the Listed Gosford Cup where she will be pitted against champion Melbourne-based rider Damien Oliver. Trainer David Payne has kept the faith in Panya who is equal-third with Nick Heywood in a tight Sydney apprentice premiership race… Read More »
Zupacharged is ready for another crack at the Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington where he will be out to improve on his minor placing from a year ago. The Kylie Vella-trained seven-year-old gelding was scratched from the recent Group Three Standish Handicap (1200m) on January 1 – a race he… Read More »
