Lindsay Park and the all-conquering Darren Weir stable saddle half the field in the opening Group One race of the season, the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. Weir has the top three in early betting, the $2.80 favourite Black Heart Bart, Mahuta ($5.50) and Palentino ($6.50) along with last year’s Melbourne… Read More »
A bull rider from Bowraville is confident one of the two horses he trains can match it with racing’s heavyweights. Bush trainer Shannon Fry is getting ready to make the 5-1/2-hour trip with Sofin for the Listed Premier’s Cup at Rosehill on Saturday. The northern NSW town’s most famous sporting… Read More »
Trainer David Vandyke is hopeful one-time Golden Rose favourite Yankee Rose will be ready to trial next Tuesday despite spraining a fetlock in a track gallop. Vandyke called a vet to his Sunshine Coast stables after Yankee Rose showed inflammation in a fetlock after her trackwork on Tuesday morning. Stable… Read More »
The prospect of a soft track has boosted the chances of veteran stayer Brave Ali achieving a rare feat at Doomben. On recent efforts Brave Ali is a great chance on Saturday to become the fourth 10-year-old to win in open company in Brisbane in recorded history. The 1970 Brisbane… Read More »
A field of 14 has been declared for the Group One Memsie Stakes with trainer Darren Weir to saddle up four runners including favourite Black Heart Bart who has drawn barrier five. Melbourne Cup winner Prince Of Penzance begins his spring campaign in the season’s first Group One race at… Read More »
Group One winner Black Heart Bart is a drifting favourite ahead of the declaration of the final field for the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. The Darren Weir-trained six-year-old has eased from $2.70 to $2.80 for Saturday’s Group One race with money coming for stablemate Palentino who has firmed from $8… Read More »
Former Golden Rose favourite Yankee Rose has eased to $11 for the $1 million race amid concerns about her fitness. The ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes winner assumed favouritism when Capitalist was ruled out of the race on September 10. She was replaced at the top of the market by Saturday’s… Read More »
The first official barrier trials for the new season’s two-year-olds has been moved to Randwick with Canterbury to undergo remedial work. The Australian Turf Club says above average winter rainfall has put a burden on the track with a meeting on September 28 moved to Rosehill in addition to the… Read More »
Gadfly doesn’t have the profile of most of his opponents in the Run To The Rose but his trainer believes it is worth putting him to the test. The Paul Perry-trained colt earned his way to Saturday’s Group Two race at Rosehill with his last-start win over 1200 metres on… Read More »
Former senior racing executive Matt Rudolph’s two-year disqualification for his conduct in the Sam Kavanagh cobalt case has been halved. In November, a Racing NSW Board sub-committee disqualified Rudolph for two years after finding he acted improperly and tried to influence the trainer to change his evidence to stewards about… Read More »
Miss Promiscuity will take on the males in the Group Three Heath at Caulfield instead of racing against her own sex in the Cockram Stakes, Tom Dabernig, who trains in partnership with David and Ben Hayes, said Miss Promiscuity had freshened up well following a two-run Adelaide campaign which followed… Read More »
Winning the Premier’s Cup will be the Litt family’s biggest success in racing. Retired NZ dairy farmer Jim Litt established the stable at Warwick Farm in 2013. His son Richard, a one-time foreman for Bart Cummings and John O’Shea, has been pivotal to the operation. “We just potter along. It… Read More »
A Lotta Love has already been placed at Group Three level and her trainer is hoping that is an omen for her next assignment. Sam Pritchard-Gordon has aimed the five-year-old at Saturday’s Group Three Cockram Stakes (1200m) at Caulfield since her unplaced run in the Leilani Series Final at Flemington… Read More »
A midweek restricted race at Sandown will give trainer Archie Alexander a spring guide to lightly raced filly The Housemaid. A nomination for October’s Thousand Guineas at Caulfield, The Housemaid will line up in The Grand Hotel Frankston Handicap (1300m) on Wednesday. The Housemaid goes into the race off a… Read More »
Another Snappy has had just five of his 26 starts for Sydney trainer Gerald Ryan but has a much longer association with his jockey. Kacie Adams has ridden the gelding 19 times and gets a rare chance to claim a city win at Warwick Farm on Wednesday when the six-year-old… Read More »
Muswellbrook trainer Todd Willan believes Akasaki is the best horse to come to his stable since Country Championship winner Artlee. The three-year-old will be put to the test in the Highway Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill on Saturday. “I’ve got a very high opinion of this horse,” Willan said. “He’s the… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver reunites with Lord Of The Sky in the first Group One race of the new season at Caulfield. The pair will be trying to add Saturday’s Memsie Stakes (1400m) to their victory in the Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield last month. In between Oliver rode Miss Rose… Read More »
Five up-and-coming trainers have been announced as the finalists for the inaugural Colin Alderson Rising Star Award. The winner will be named at the Scobie Breasley Medal night on Thursday in Melbourne. The finalists are Archie Alexander, Daniel Bowman, Mitchell Freedman, Wez Hunter and Sam Pritchard-Gordon. The Colin Alderson Rising… Read More »
Ryan Moore is back riding trackwork but there is no time frame on the three-time British champion jockey’s return. Moore has won many of the world’s biggest races including the 2014 Cox Plate on Adelaide and Melbourne Cup on Protectionist. He hasn’t ridden this month, taking time out with an… Read More »
Scott Perrin has resigned as chief executive of Racing.com which broadcasts Victorian racing via its digital and free-to-air platforms. Perrin, who oversaw the launch of Racing.com from June 2015, tendered his resignation on Monday. Racing.com chairman, David Moodie, made the announcement on Monday afternoon and thanked Mr Perrin for his… Read More »
