Danny Nikolic will miss another spring racing carnival but won’t give up on his two-pronged battle to ride again, even if it means going all the way to Australia’s highest court. Nikolic wants to mount a High Court challenge to a police order banning him from race meetings but Racing… Read More »
Godolphin stayer Qewy has moved a step closer to a Melbourne Cup start with his all-the-way win in the Geelong Cup. Qewy led home an all-international result from horses stabled at the Werribee quarantine centre in the 2400m-race on Wednesday. Ridden by Kerrin McEvoy, Qewy ($4) scored by a long-head… Read More »
Days before Winx’s Cox Plate defence, the champion mare’s part-owner Debbie Kepitis has had another win to cheer about at Warwick Farm. As trainer Chris Waller puts the finishing touches on Winx’s preparation for Saturday’s weight-for-age championship, he teamed up with Kepitis for Chaussure’s win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday…. Read More »
Saga Miss has confirmed her rating as one of the most improved mares in Queensland with an authoritative win in open company at the Gold Coast. Before Wednesday, Saga Miss had won a maiden and a restricted race over 1800 metres. The training team of Peter and Will Hulbert looked… Read More »
The Manikato Stakes is a 1200 metre weight-foro-age Group One sprint worth $1 million at Moonee Valley. HISTORY: * Formerly known as the Freeway Stakes, the race was renamed in 1984 in honour of the famed sprinter Manikato who won the race twice and is buried at Moonee Valley. *… Read More »
Captain Duffy has earned himself a shot at the 2016 Victoria Derby with a strong staying performance at Geelong. The South Australian-trained three-year-old, who has been based at Caulfield for the spring, outstayed his rivals to take out the Geelong Classic on Wednesday. A pick-up ride for Noel Callow following… Read More »
Singapore based Vlad Duric has been booked to ride Excess Knowledge in the Melbourne Cup. But first Duric will partner the stayer in the Moonee Valley Gold Cup on Saturday. Duric, who is sitting second on the jockeys’ premiership table in Singapore this season said it was always a thrill… Read More »
Golden Slipper winner Capitalist will attempt to become the latest three-year-old to upstage the older sprinters in Melbourne this season when he tries to emulate Sepoy in the Manikato Stakes. Peter Snowden prepared Golden Slipper winner Sepoy who is the most recent three-year-old to win the Group One Manikato at… Read More »
Michelle Payne is baffled by the rule that will prevent her riding at next year’s Sydney carnival where she hopes to have three-year-old Queen Of Zealand as an Oaks contender. Racing NSW on Wednesday reaffirmed its policy dual trainer/jockey licence holders would not be able to ride in the state…. Read More »
Medaille may have taken her time breaking through, but a strong midweek win has foreshadowed her potential to rise to Saturday grade. The Godolphin filly lived up to her $3 favouritism to win by 1-3/4 lengths from Collage ($9) with Blanco Cara ($16) third. Assistant trainer Darren Beadman said Medaille… Read More »
The jockey who rode the last mare to win two Cox Plates has thrown his support behind Winx to achieve the feat at Moonee Valley. Sunline’s jockey Greg Childs, who is now retired, says the Chris Waller-trained Winx is the deserved favourite and the horse he’d want to be riding… Read More »
Kris Lees is happy for Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Lucia Valentina to fly under the radar as he prepares the multiple Group One winner for the Cox Plate. The trainer is convinced the winner of Sydney’s richest race is going just as well heading into Saturday’s $3 million feature at… Read More »
After a glittering debut campaign, Daysee Doom has failed to recapture the form which rendered her unbeaten and heading towards a stakes race. Trainer Ron Quinton believes stretching her to 1400 metres in Saturday’s Alconex Fire Handicap at Randwick may hold the key to getting her back to the winner’s… Read More »
Danny Nikolic’s claim that the chief racing umpires are corrupt puts Racing Victoria in an impossible position if he regains his jockey licence, a tribunal has heard. Nikolic will go to Australia’s highest court to fight a police order banning him from race meetings but RV maintains he still faces… Read More »
Chris Munce has often been the centre of racing attention in late October but this year it will be in Brisbane rather than Melbourne. Not that long ago Munce would have been riding in the Group One Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on Saturday but instead he is the trainer… Read More »
As the Melbourne Cup 2016 approaches, international contender Wicklow Brave has had a trip away from his temporary home at Werribee. The Willie Mullins-trained stayer was taken to Geelong on Wednesday for a work-out over 2400m. It didn’t start well with the stayer shifting a shoe on the float trip… Read More »
Jockey Danny Nikolic will go to Australia’s highest court to fight a police order banning him from Victorian race meetings. But Nikolic still faces “insurmountable hurdles” in his separate battle to regain his jockey licence after four years on the sidelines, a tribunal has heard. The Court of Appeal on… Read More »
Queensland racing officials hope to attract more horses from Sydney and Melbourne for the summer carnival with a $1.6 million bonus plan. RQ and UBET announced the bonus scheme on Wednesday and hope it will focus national racing attention on Queensland. There will be $500,000 bonuses, known as the Queensland… Read More »
Happy Clapper’s trainer Pat Webster has never before had a horse good enough to run in a Cox Plate, and doubts he will again. But in Happy Clapper, the Randwick trainer has one he believes is a top four chance in Saturday’s $3 million Cox Plate race at Moonee Valley. Happy… Read More »
Queensland apprentices Bridget Grylls and Josh Oliver have lost appeals against their one-month suspensions on handling charges relating to a race at Doomben.. Grylls had her suspension reduced to three weeks but Oliver’s penalty remained at four weeks. They are expected to take their cases to the next level at… Read More »
