Apprentice Ben Allen will ride at the feature meeting at Caulfield before starting a careless riding suspension. Allen was outed for causing interference near the 200 metres of the final race at Sandown on Wednesday aboard the winner Hellbent. His ban begins after Saturday’s Caulfield meeting where he has four… Read More »
Chris Parry can remember the days when the older trainers got a go in racing. Nowadays it’s much tougher and he says it’s all about public relations. “In this day and age it appears you’ve got have Twitter and all that sort of stuff,” Parry said. “You’ve got to know… Read More »
News of Danny O’Brien’s cobalt positives was leaked to fellow Victorian trainer Peter Moody, an inquiry has heard. Moody told O’Brien in January 2015 he had heard the Flemington trainer may also have a cobalt positive. Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie spoke to Moody immediately before the trainer called O’Brien,… Read More »
Three multiple Group One-winning trainers combined to win all seven races at Canterbury in a strong showing on the verge of spring. Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller and his closest rival in last year’s metropolitan premiership, John O’Shea, flexed their muscles at Wednesday’s meeting with a treble and double respectively…. Read More »
Winta Chiller is likely to make her second racetrack appearance in three days in a fillies and mares race at Caulfield. The Shawn Mathrick-trained mare was beaten a nose as favourite in a 1600m-race at Sandown on Wednesday and is an acceptor at Caulfield on Saturday. And Mathrick is favouring… Read More »
Cupping has left its mark at the pool at Rio, but the signature circular bruises have also been spotted in the jockeys’ room at Sydney racetracks. Used to treat muscle pain, the Chinese therapy involves placing cup-like devices on the body to draw blood to the surface of the skin… Read More »
Veteran jockey Glen Colless has bounced back from a health scare to claim a winning double for trainer Kelly Schweida at Doomben. Colless, who won the Group One BTC Cup on Malaguerra in the winter, couldn’t have picked a better day to show his skills with a crowd of 15,000… Read More »
Mick Price says Hardham has had the right preparation to finish in the money when he makes his racetrack return at Caulfield. Hardham will be having his first start for Price when he tackles the Vain Stakes on Saturday. The three-year-old won his debut at Pakenham in March for Peter… Read More »
Capitalist knocked out a Golden Slipper field but that hasn’t dampened Star Turn’s trainers’ appetite for a re-match. The two have not raced since the Slipper at Rosehill in March and are set to return to the scene of their only showdown in the Group Three San Domenico Stakes (1100m)… Read More »
Veteran sprinter Zin Zan Eddie is likely to make his first interstate trip and continue Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith’s top strike rate in Brisbane. Smith accepted with Zin Zan Eddie in the Moet & Chandon Open Hcp (1400m) at Eagle Farm and the Spring Preview Handicap over the same… Read More »
Suavito kicks off her spring campaign looking to add another stakes race over the 1400 metres at Caulfield to her first-up record. The Nigel Blackiston-trained mare runs in the Group Two P B Lawrence Stakes on Saturday over her favourite course and distance. Suavito has started over the Caulfield 1400m… Read More »
Group One-winning jockey Larry Cassidy hopes to make a sooner than expected return to the saddle after a one-year injury lay-off. Cassidy hasn’t ridden since June 8 last year because of recurring problems with his knees which needed surgery. Cassidy has been riding at the trials and jump-outs in the… Read More »
Michelle Payne’s hopes of a second Melbourne Cup on Prince Of Penzance appear to be over. It was revealed on Wednesday that Payne will not partner the Melbourne Cup winner when he resumes in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield on August 27. The news angered Payne who vented her frustration… Read More »
Banned Sydney trainer Sam Kavanagh maintains he got a life sentence for cobalt use that he did not deserve. Kavanagh said his cobalt case had destroyed his career and he had been bullied on social media and in the media. “It’s ruined my family. It’s ruined my friends,” Kavanagh told… Read More »
A Queensland trainer has been disqualified for 12 months after a horse he raced in NSW returned a high level of cobalt. Toowoomba-based John Smith was outed after a pre-race urine sample taken from Summer Forever before he raced at Lismore on May 7 was found to contain levels of… Read More »
What’s The Story and Valley Girl have been added to the nominations for the Cox Plate. The two New Zealand-trained horses were the only late entries when they closed on Tuesday. What’s The Story, runner-up in the New Zealand Derby, is prepared by Stephen McKee who won two Cox Plates… Read More »
Prominent Australian owner Damion Flower has paid $285,000 for a Scat Daddy yearling filly at the Fasig Tipton sale at Saratoga. Flower and his trainer Gerald Ryan will return to Sydney from New York later this week but the filly out of Me And Miss Jones will stay in the… Read More »
Dual champion Irish jumps jockey Paul Carberry has been forced into retirement because of an ongoing issue with a leg injury. Carberry won the 1999 Grand National on Bobbyjo and was a 14-time winner at the famous Cheltenham festival. The 42-year-old has not ridden competitively since he fractured his left… Read More »
Under pressure to keep quiet about Dr Tom Brennan’s involvement in his cobalt case, Sam Kavanagh became enraged when even his father believed the vet over him. The outed Sydney trainer has again said he was pressured by the Flemington Equine Clinic vet and its practice manager Aaron Corby not… Read More »
Robbie Laing is putting all talk of Lord Of The Sky heading overseas behind him as he prepares the sprinter for a stakes race at Caulfield. Lord Of The Sky recorded his first win in more than two years at Caulfield on July 30 and heads back there on Saturday… Read More »
