Premier Queensland trainer Tony Gollan could start up to four horses at Rosehill to test whether they have what it takes to join his new Sydney stable. After winning his third consecutive Brisbane trainers’ title last season, Gollan confirmed plans to take out 20 boxes at the western Sydney track…. Read More »
As one of Melbourne’s most successful jockeys continues a spring carnival suspension, another returns on Bendigo Cup day at a meeting not originally in his diary. Craig Williams returns from a riding ban with five mounts at Wednesday’s Bendigo meeting wanting to get his eye back in before the start… Read More »
The Victoria Derby 2016 barrier draw will be crucial if So Si Bon is to turn the tables on Sacred Elixir when they meet again in the Classic at Flemington. That’s the opinion of So Si Bon’s trainer Robbie Laing who is confident the colt only needs a little luck… Read More »
Pam Baker nearly passed out in her lounge room when Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup in 2015. “It was the end of a long era and Michelle did it!” Baker told reporters on Tuesday at the launch of a showcase at the MCG… Read More »
Buoyed by the surprise spring return of top-line sprinter Terravista, trainer Joe Pride heads to Canterbury confident Sugar Bay Leonard can add to the stable’s recent success. As Pride prepares for a three-pronged attack on Cup week at Flemington, Sugar Bay Leonard is set to line up in an 1100m… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has lost a bid to have his reckless riding suspension reduced so he can ride in Saturday’s prestigious Victoria Derby meeting. A Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal judge on Tuesday upheld the 20-meeting suspension, saying it was the minimum appropriate penalty. “Although no injuries or death… Read More »
Craig Williams will ride Highlad in the Victoria Derby 2016, replacing Damien Oliver who has lost his bid to have a reckless riding suspension reduced. Oliver had five rides booked at Saturday’s Derby meeting at Flemington pending the result of his appeal on Tuesday. Hugh Bowman is his replacement in the… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver will miss Saturday’s Victoria Derby 2016 meeting after failing to have his suspension for reckless riding cut. Judge Pamela Jenkins on Tuesday upheld Oliver’s 20-meeting suspension, after earlier finding him guilty of reckless riding over his winning ride on Flying Artie in the Blue Sapphire Stakes… Read More »
Chris Waller has erred on the side of caution and put the best interests of champion mare Winx first in deciding to send the dual Cox Plate winner for a spell. Winx won her second Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Saturday, streeting her rivals by a record margin of… Read More »
Dual Derby winner Harzand has been retired and will stand at the Aga Khan’s Gilltown Stud in Ireland. Trained by Dermot Weld, the colt won the Epsom Derby and the Irish Derby but was unplaced in the Irish Champion Stakes and the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe earlier thiso month…. Read More »
Golden Slipper winner Capitalist has worked sharply up the straight course at Flemington but a decision on which Group One sprint he contests is yet to be confirmed. Co-trainer Peter Snowden said they will weigh up whether to start the colt in Saturday’s Coolmore Stud Stakes or wait for the… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver’s last hopes of riding in Saturday’s prestigious Victoria Derby meeting rest with a judge. Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal vice president Judge Pamela Jenkins will announce at 11.30am on Tuesday what penalty Oliver faces after finding him guilty of reckless riding. Oliver needs his suspension cut… Read More »
Group One winner Terravista will run at least once this spring, with trainer Joe Pride keen to get a run under his belt before he takes on next year’s sprinting features. While Pride had planned to give his stable star the spring off, he has changed his mind and will… Read More »
The acting chairman of Racing Victoria says he would happily welcome David Moodie back to his role in the top position. Mike Hirst stepped into the job after Moodie stood aside pending an investigation into an undisclosed matter by racing integrity commissioner Sal Perna. “I would like to think he’s… Read More »
Racing fans will have to savour Winx’s second Cox Plate win with the mare to be sent to the spelling paddock instead of the Emirates Stakes. Trainer Chris Waller issued a statement on Monday, two days after Winx’s spectacular eight-length win over Hartnell at Moonee Valley, confirming she would not… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver displayed a cavalier attitude and reckless indifference to the possible grave consequences when he deliberately rode his mount into another racehorse, a judge has found. Oliver has failed to have his reckless riding charge downgraded but argues his 20-meeting suspension, which rules him out of Saturday’s… Read More »
When Mark Newnham was Gai Waterhouse’s right-hand man he got to know champion colt Pierro as well as anybody. As a trainer in his own right, he could be responsible for the stallion’s first winner if Ispo Facto lines up in the race named after his father at Rosehill on… Read More »
The opening day of the 2016 Melbourne Cup carnival brings about a change of attitude in the jockeys. There’s little banter between the riders who are focused on their mounts in the nine stakes races, four at Group One level. Senior jockey Dwayne Dunn notices the change in the jockeys… Read More »
While most of the leading contenders have taken a traditional route to the 2016 Victoria Derby, two hopefuls from the John Sargent stable have been on a less orthodox path. Derby favourite and already a Group One winner, the Tony Pike-trained Sacred Elixir, won Saturday’s Group Two Moonee Valley Vase… Read More »
Tamworth trainer Lesley Jeffriess had never laid eyes on Lonely Orphan when she agreed to pay $1300 for her. “I bought her sight unseen over the phone,” Jeffriess told AAP. It turned out to be a shrewd buy, with Lonely Orphan already earning more than 37 times her price tag… Read More »
