The latest UK-based apprentice to travel to Victoria for a summer riding stint will hit the city arena in Melbourne for the first time when he rides at Sandown. English apprentice Patrick ‘Paddy’ Pilley started a three-month loan with Flemington trainer Nigel Blackiston a couple of weeks ago and has… Read More »
Warrnambool trainers may need to compromise after having access to beaches in the area restricted. Horses will be banned from working on two of the beaches during the summer months while horse numbers will be restricted at other locations. Jane Baker, secretary of the South West Owners, Trainers and Riders… Read More »
New Zealand Group One winner Ugo Foscolo will join the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott in Sydney following a change in his ownership. Trained by Stephen Marsh to win five of his six starts including the 2000 Guineas, Ugo Foscolo will be raced by in a partnership headed by prominent… Read More »
Rebel Dane has put in a solid performance to win a 1000m-barrier trial at Rosehill ahead of his upcoming trip to Hong Kong. The Gary Portelli-trained dual Group One-winning sprinter will be Australia’s lone representative at the International meeting at Sha Tin on December 11. Ben Melham made the trip… Read More »
English trainer Jamie Osborne has created a bit of a stir on social media by offering the ride on one of horses via Twitter. Osborne needed a claiming apprentice for Secret Interlude, who he also owns, in a race for junior riders at Kempton on Wednesday with Georgia Dobie the… Read More »
While he passed through a ready-to-run sale without meeting his reserve, two-year-old Salvador is showing enough promise for Wendy Roche to be considering a tilt at a race worth more than 10 times his price tag. The trainer bought the colt for $46,000 from the Inglis Classic yearling sale with… Read More »
A field of 12 will contest Perth’s biggest sprint race, the Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot. Saturday’s Group One race over 1200m has attracted five eastern states visitors who will tackle seven local sprinters. The field is headed by the Joe Pride-trained Terravista who is coming off a last start second… Read More »
Six expatriate Australian jockeys have had their licences extended to ride in Singapore. Danny Beasley, Corey Brown, Vlad Duric, John Powell and Michael Rodd have been granted 12-month licences in 2017 while Glen Boss has been granted a licence for the first six months of the new year. Duric, who… Read More »
Romney’s Choice’s last-start second as favourite in a Class Four race at Hawkesbury is looking a lot better now with the winner, Circular, backing up her win with success in the Goulburn Cup. Trainer Noel Mayfield-Smith will bring Romney’s Choice from Hawkesbury to Rosehill on Saturday confident she can be… Read More »
Just on a year ago, trainer Russell Bell made the long haul down from Alice Springs to win a race with Sirbible at Moonee Valley. On Saturday Sirbible chases a fourth win at the track, this time from a new training base at Colac. Sirbible won another race at Moonee… Read More »
Cameron Crockett has ridden a countless number of horses in his life but none quite compare to his stable star Barbass. But the young trainer wants Barbass to make the transition from talented two-year-old to proven three-year-old in his first-up run against his own age group in a benchmark handicap… Read More »
Veteran Queensland sprinter Steel Zip will trial this week as he prepares for what will probably be his last campaign. The nine-year-old has many fans in Queensland because of his almost white coat and tough attitude to racing. Steel Zip has had 74 starts for 11 wins, 20 minor placings… Read More »
Hugh Bowman has steered Not Listenin’tome to an upset win in the Group Two Jockey Club Sprint at Sha Tin, a lead-up to the Group One Sprint on Hong Kong International day in three weeks. The former Australian sprinter was sent out at 42-1 and held off the favourite Lucky… Read More »
Victorian race caller Greg Miles has announced his retirement after more than three decades and a record 36 Melbourne Cups. Miles told RSN927 he thought the time was right and he wanted to go out while he was still on top. He says he will work out his contract which… Read More »
The family of paralysed jockey Freddy Tylicki has celebrated a special win with his sister Madeleine Tylicki saddling her first winner as a trainer. Freddy Tylicki has been left paralysed in the lower half of his body following a race fall three weeks ago. His sister, who has been training… Read More »
After breaking through for his first win in more than 18 months, Gallant Harmony could chase a second victory a week later at Moonee Valley. Gallant Harmony scored an all-the-way victory in the Tonks Plate (1200m) at Ballarat and trainer John Sadler is eyeing a benchmark 84 handicap over the… Read More »
Rebel Dane is breathing a lot easier these days and so is his trainer. Gary Portelli credits a successful throat operation and a change in his training methods with getting the horse back to Group One winning form which he hopes he can transfer to the big stage in Hong… Read More »
Brisbane Race Club officials are confident a change of track for the Group Three Fred Best Classic will not impact on its reputation as a great form race. There has been much debate about the Doomben 10,000 moving from Doomben to Eagle Farm to give that track three meetings in… Read More »
After a spring campaign to remember with two Group One wins, star filly Global Glamour is already building up towards her next big target. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained filly claimed a Group One double on consecutive Saturdays in October, winning the Flight Stakes at Randwick and the Thousand… Read More »
Melbourne jockey Damian Lane will continue his travels when he rides in Hong Kong for two weeks including the showcase International meeting at Sha Tin. Lane travelled to his home state, Western Australia, on Saturday and won the Group Two WA Guineas in Perth on Variation. He missed out on… Read More »
