The ban preventing controversial Caulfield Cup-winning jockey Danny Nikolic from entering racecourses during race meetings will remain in place. The Court of Appeal has upheld the Victorian Police chief commissioner’s challenge to a decision which overturned the ban on the basis that Nikolic “was not provided with details of adverse… Read More »
The ban preventing controversial Caulfield Cup-winning jockey Danny Nikolic from entering racecourses during race meetings will remain in place. The Court of Appeal has upheld the Victorian Police chief commissioner’s challenge to a decision which overturned the ban on the basis that Nikolic “was not provided with details of adverse… Read More »
Irish horse Sir Isaac Newton will carry Lloyd Williams’ navy and white colours in the Caulfield Cup with the Australian businessman joining Coolmore in the ownership. The Aidan O’Brien-trained five-year-old is on the fourth line of betting at $12 for Saturday’s $3 million handicap over 2400 metres. Williams, his wife… Read More »
English Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby is excited to have a live chance in a Group One race with his first runner in Australia. Appleby was at the Werribee quarantine centre on Friday morning to watch the stable’s 2016 Caulfield Cup runner Scottish go through his paces before Saturday’s race. Scottish… Read More »
Second emergency Vengeur Masque has gained a Caulfield Cup start with the scratching of Big Memory from the $3 million race. The Tony McEvoy-trained Big Memory was found to have inflammation in a hock and was withdrawn on Friday morning. Vengeur Masque, trained by Mike Moroney, is the $301 outsider… Read More »
Damien Oliver’s hopes of a third Cox Plate rest on his appeal against a reckless riding suspension. The jockey fronts the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board in Melbourne on Friday in a bid to overturn the ban which will prevent him riding French horse Vadamos in the Cox Plate on… Read More »
After a busy autumn and winter campaign for Danish Twist, trainer Kris Lees wondered how well the stakes winning mare would bounce back this spring. But Danish Twist answered that with a strong first-up third in the Group Two Premiere Stakes at Randwick in a three-way photo finish with Takedown… Read More »
While Faraway Town’s never-say-die attitude kept her in the paddock longer than her contemporaries, every time they raced her form looked better. Trainer Matthew Smith’s rising star returns to Randwick on Saturday for the Listed Brian Crowley Stakes (1200m). “She’s going super. She’s in really good shape,” Smith told AAP…. Read More »
Caulfield has been a happy hunting ground for Snowden Racing and the father-and-son team is poised to make an impact again at one of the Melbourne track’s biggest meetings of the year. The Sydney-based Peter and Paul Snowden have already won three stakes races at Caulfield this season from 10… Read More »
From a young age, Joe Ible was certain he would follow in his father’s footsteps and become a horse trainer. The 26-year-old Canberra trainer has come a long way in the past four years, with 10 horses in work and ambitious plans for gelding Major Sharpe who races at Randwick… Read More »
Godolphin’s Australian trainer John O’Shea expects to know early in the Caulfield Cup 2016 whether Tally has any chance to win. This year’s Australian Derby minor placegetter has had Saturday’s $3 million handicap over 2400m as a long-range target. But his hopes were dealt a blow at Tuesday’s barrier draw… Read More »
There probably aren’t too many professional athletes who can lay claim to the journeyman tag at 21. But jockey Koby Jennings, originally from Victoria’s Gippsland region, has ridden in two states and two territories in vastly different conditions. Ahead of his last meeting as an apprentice at Randwick on Saturday,… Read More »
Anyone in Nigeria, Nicaragua or Nepal with a good internet connection will be able to watch the Melbourne Cup live when Twitter streams the race to its global audience. The social media giant is using Australia’s richest horse race to continue its push into live video, following its experiment with… Read More »
When De Little Engine started his spring campaign trainer Danny O’Brien was looking at another race on Caulfield Cup day. But as numbers began to fall, the six-year-old has found himself in Saturday’s 2400m-handicap. The gelding was first emergency when the field was finalised on Tuesday and gained a start… Read More »
The bearded bakers behind Knafeh Bakery will put down their rolling pins to cheer on big brother, Bobby El-Issa in the saddle at Randwick racecourse. The bakers who serve the Jerusalem street sweet Knafeh from the walls of a shipping container embellished with street art, will set up shop at… Read More »
The Cox Plate is being billed as a showdown between champion Winx and in-form Hartnell, but the latter’s trainer isn’t buying into that. John O’Shea, who took Hartnell and fellow 2016 Cox Plate hopeful Hauraki to gallop at Moonee Valley on Thursday, insists Saturday week’s Cox Plate shapes as an… Read More »
A major race win made getting back on the horse that little bit easier for comeback jockey Josh Parr. Tycoon Tara’s $400,000 Golden Pendant victory at Rosehill last month was the biggest the Group One-winning jockey has had since returning from almost eight months out of the saddle because of… Read More »
JAPANESE PRECISION Zac Purton’s ride on Admire Rakti in the 2014 Caulfield Cup didn’t look too pretty but it was effective. Zac Purton had the Japanese horse three-wide in clear air for most of the race and when he asked him for a finishing sprint, he put on a display… Read More »
The mare Kerrin McEvoy hopes can deliver him an elusive Cox Plate has pleased the jockey in her first experience at Moonee Valley. McEvoy rode Lucia Valentina in a solid piece of work with grand campaigner Happy Trails at Moonee Valley on Thursday morning, the Kris Lees-trained mare’s first time… Read More »
Enigmatic Londehero’s bond with his regular trackwork rider has been the catalyst for him finally living up to his potential. Londehero will be aiming for his fourth win from his past five starts in the Open Handicap (1200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Murwillumbah trainer Matt Dunn has always had… Read More »
