New stable recruit Tycoon Tara has given Peter and Paul Snowden victory in the first Group race of the Sydney season in the absence of her star stablemate Capitalist. The Snowdens opted not to run the Golden Slipper winner in Saturday’s Group Two Missile Stakes (1200m) because of the heavy… Read More »
Tommy Berry has ended the first Saturday meeting of the new season with a winning double, including a stakes success. But it was a close run thing with Berry among the riders ready to call time on Saturdayt’s meeting after the third race as the rain which had been expected… Read More »
The benefits of Lindsay Park’s stable in Adelaide has shone through at Flemington with a winning double. Shaf, winner of the Jockey Celebration Day Handicap, joined earlier winner Zunbaqa for David Hayes, his son Ben and Tom Dabernig, after a successful campaign in Adelaide. Ben Hayes was dispatched to Adelaide… Read More »
Brilliant mare Hidden Pearl is on course for a second chance at winning an interstate stakes race after her scintillating comeback win at Eagle Farm. Trainer Barry Lockwood spent five months plotting Hidden Pearl’s return and his hard work paid off when she beat Pienkna ($7.50) by 4-1/2 lengths in… Read More »
Tulloch Lodge’s new era has been christened with a stakes win by Golden Rose-bound colt Thronum. The stable established by Gai Waterhouse’s legendary father Tommy Smith now carries the name of her co-trainer Adrian Bott. Waterhouse and Bott’s first runner in a black-type race was also their first winner in… Read More »
Sydney jockeys have honoured their fellow riders at a sombre ceremony on Jockey Celebration Day. The annual event commemorates fallen and injured jockeys and raises awareness and funds for the National Jockeys Trust which supports seriously injured riders and their families. “We recognise the contribution that jockeys make to this… Read More »
There is no stopping Darren Weir. After notching a Commonwealth training record of 348 winners last season of which 106 came in Melbourne, Weir saddled a treble in consecutive races when Ulmann took out the VRC Member Daniel Mahar Handicap at Flemington on Saturday. Ulmann’s win followed victories from Killarney… Read More »
New stable recruit Tycoon Tara has given Peter and Paul Snowden victory in the first Group race of the Sydney season in the absence of her star stablemate Capitalist. The Snowdens opted not to run the Golden Slipper winner in Saturday’s Group Two Missile Stakes (1200m) because of the heavy… Read More »
Lightweight apprentice jockey Deanne Panya has thrived in difficult conditions for racing, riding a winning double at Randwick. Panya’s mounts won by a combined 14 lengths when Snappy One took out the Highway Handicap (1400m) and Lie Direct gave nothing else a chance in the 2400m benchmark 74 race on… Read More »
A trip to the country has sparked former Group One competitor Best Case back to top form at Eagle Farm. Best Case had been well beaten at his two previous starts but landed a $13 to $9.50 betting move when he beat Jetset Lad ($3.60) by 1-1/2 lengths in the… Read More »
Zunbaqa has extended her winning sequence to four and provided Ben Hayes with his first Flemington winner. Hayes joined his father David and cousin Tom Dabernig at the start of the season in a training partnership with Lindsay Park. In charge of stables in Adelaide and in Sydney during carnivals,… Read More »
Kim Craft’s decision not to rush Beloso has continued to pay dividends with an impressive win at Eagle Farm. Craft bought Beloso for $35,000 at the 2015 Gold Coast sales and formed a syndicate of women owners to chase the female bonus in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic. However, Beloso… Read More »
The decision to chase wet weather has paid off handsomely for connections of Victorian mare Birds Of Tokyo. A late nomination for the first race on the Randwick program, Birds Of Tokyo handled the heavy track with ease to win the Benchmark 78 (1800m) by 6-1/4 lengths. A last-start winner… Read More »
Henry Dwyer has been on a steep learning curve from the day Caroun entered his stable. Caroun is one of two jumpers Dwyer trains and the only one to have raced over obstacles this season. On Sunday, Caroun contests the Grand National Hurdle at Sandown. Dwyer inherited Caroun when Peter… Read More »
Jockey Frankie Dettori heads to Ascot needing two winners to reach 3000 in Britain. Dettori came away from Newmarket with one winner on Friday (Saturday AEST) aboard Hollywood Road. Dettori was in flying dismount mood afterwards and keeping his fingers crossed he hits the landmark at Ascot in the Shergar… Read More »
A vet denies deceiving trainers Mark Kavanagh and Danny O’Brien or using their racehorses as guinea pigs for a substance called vitamin complex. Dr Tom Brennan said Kavanagh and O’Brien knew he was adding the vitamin complex to drips given to some of their horses and the Flemington trainers each… Read More »
Corporate bookmaker William Hill has gained exclusive rights to stream NSW racing on its digital platform. In a deal announced on Friday, Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys said the governing body had conducted a competitive tender process before agreeing terms with William Hill, which is headed in Australia by… Read More »
It took until start No.57 for Pretty Possum to break her city duck with connections hoping it won’t be as long for her second success. On Saturday the mare runs at Flemington in the Jockey Celebration Day Handicap over 1000m after winning at Moonee Valley on July 13. Pretty Possum… Read More »
Gary Portelli knows he is saddling up the best horse in the Missile Stakes but admits he is clueless about tactics. The field for Saturday’s Group Two 1200m-sprint has been reduced to five with the scratchings of Golden Slipper winner Capitalist and Group One-placed Generalife because of the heavy track…. Read More »
Jim Cerchi jnr is not afraid to hitch up the float and travel to get a winner. The 38-year-old horseman who trains out of Karasi Park at Coronet Bay on Victoria’s Westernport Bay, is prepared to go to Naracoorte in country South Australia or the Sapphire Coast in NSW chasing… Read More »
