Craig Williams’ first win in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes 11 years ago added another chapter to a family history in the race. The jockey has since added another four victories in the 1400m Group One handicap at Caulfield in the past decade and is favourite to win it again… Read More »
Denmagic is the horse that represents rejuvenation for trainer David Pfieffer. Some of the stable’s leading lights including Group Two winner Cradle Me, Atmospherical, who was fifth in last year’s Oakleigh Plate, and Inside Job have been retired or transferred to other trainers in the past year. Denmagic gets the… Read More »
Samara Dancer can emulate an elder sibling by winning a Guineas Prelude at Caulfield, but her trainer Phillip Stokes hopes she can do even better in her Group One finale two weeks later. The premier Adelaide trainer believes Samara Dancer has improved going into Saturday’s Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) after… Read More »
Group-winning colt Good Standing has been scratched from the Caulfield Guineas Prelude and will remain in Sydney to run in the Stan Fox Stakes. The James Cummings-trained colt was a dual acceptor for the 1400m Group Three race at Caulfield and the 1500m Group Two event at Rosehill on Saturday…. Read More »
Stradbroke Handicap winner Under The Louvre will miss the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield. A wide draw combined with top weight of 58kg in Saturday’s race has forced trainer Robert Smerdon to come up with plan B Under The Louvre will instead head to Sydney on Saturday week for… Read More »
Darren Weir has trained the winners of Melbourne’s two Group One races this season and is looking to keep the run going at Caulfield. The Weir-trained Black Heart Bart took out the Group One Memsie Stakes at Caulfield last month before stablemate Palentino denied him in the Makybe Diva Stakes… Read More »
Sky Hunter has earned himself a second tilt at the Melbourne Cup with a return to winning form at Goodwood. The six-year-old beat just two runners home in the Flemington showpiece last year but having been specially prepared with a repeat mission in mind by trainer Saeed bin Suroor, confidence… Read More »
Three-time Sydney premier jockey Nash Rawiller has celebrated a big night at Happy Valley with four winners. When he relocated to Hong Kong two years ago, Rawiller was Australia’s leading Group One rider and he said he hoped to get more opportunities in the big events in the Asian racing… Read More »
Apprentice jockey Blaike McDougall has landed himself in hot water after using colourful language to respond to a social media message criticising his riding. McDougall was fined $200 for improper conduct after responding to a Facebook message from a punter who gave him negative feedback on a ride in May…. Read More »
A vet who denies supplying cobalt to trainers in two states says his former boss is using him as a scapegoat. Forced to give evidence to Victorian trainers Danny O’Brien and Mark Kavanagh’s appeals against their cobalt disqualifications, Dr Adam Matthews again denied being involved. Vet Dr Tom Brennan claims… Read More »
Glyn Schofield has won a race in the stewards’ room, been beaten in a photo finish and judged a front-running ride to perfection in the first three races at Warwick Farm. The Chris Waller-trained Cross Stitch was beaten by a short half head in the Hyland Race Colours Plate (1600m)… Read More »
Racing Victoria has won a long-running battle against horse trainer Mark Riley after it successfully appealed a decision that cleared him of a doping charge. Riley was slapped with a three-year racing ban after he was found to have administered a prohibited substance to his horse Gold For Kev following… Read More »
Grafton will host the first $150,00 heat of next year’s Country Championships series with Wyong to kick off the Provincial Series. The first country heat will be at the Northern Rivers club on February 12 with the Wyong race on February 23. The Country Championship final will be at Randwick… Read More »
Jockey Adam Hyeronimus has had insult added to injury with stewards handing him a six-meeting suspension for his ride in a race he lost on protest. Hyeronimus’ mount Audacious Choice was first past the post in the Hyland Racing Colours Plate (1600m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, but stewards decided… Read More »
Racing Victoria has won its appeal against a decision to clear trainer Mark Riley of doping. Riley was slapped with a three-year racing ban after he was found to have administered a prohibited substance to his horse Gold For Kev following a race at Sandown Racecourse in July 2014. Riley… Read More »
Stephen Baster admits he was caught off guard by Awesome Rock’s last-start Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes win but the jockey is eagerly awaiting the Underwood Stakes. The Leon and Troy Corstens-trained five-year-old gained automatic entry into next month’s Cox Plate with his win in the Group Two Dato Tan,… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team has decided the time is right to put blinkers on Seaburge for the first time in the Caulfield Guineas Prelude. And the colt’s jockey Mark Zahra is hoping he stands up to be counted in the Group Three race with a view to the Caulfield Guineas… Read More »
Tim Martin was at trackwork when the vet called to tell him one of his mares was suffering from colic after giving birth. Armed with the treatment, the trainer spent his Saturday afternoon trying to save her. “It wasn’t working so I rushed her into Camden (vet hospital) and she… Read More »
Singapore-based Australian jockey Corey Brown is happy to still be in the minds of trainers as the spring carnival approaches. Brown has five mounts at Caulfield on Saturday, including Thames Court in one of the day’s features, the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, a race he won in 2003… Read More »
A vet says he has been used as a scapegoat by another veterinarian in cobalt cases. Dr Adam Matthews denies fellow vet Dr Tom Brennan’s claim he supplied bottles containing a substance called vitamin complex that Brennan gave to horses in Victorian trainers Danny O’Brien and Mark Kavanagh’s stables. Matthews… Read More »
