The returning King Of Light put his rivals in the shade when he won the Listed Idyllic Prince Stakes over 1300m at Belmont, coming home in cruise control. The Daniel Morton trained chestnut was resuming after a nine-and-a-half month break from race action, but that put very few punters off… Read More »
Trainer Bryan Dais’s hot run of form burnt away the opposition in the $85,000 Murwillumbah Cup when the five-year-old gelding Golden Cross stormed down the outside in the home straight to complete a hat trick of his own and give Dias a fifth winner from his last seven runners. Golden… Read More »
The 2026 Juddmonte International did indeed end up being a two-horse race, but those two horses where not the two horses who were expected to fight out the finish. All of the fanfare before the race, which was quite legitimate at the time, centred upon the Ombudsman v Constitution River… Read More »
Trainer Bryan Dais is having the time of his life at present … and he is looking to extend his stable’s enormous run of form into another week when he sends Golden Cross out to contest the $85 000 Murwillumbah Cup on Friday … a race which comes with a… Read More »
A full field of fourteen runners will face the starter in the $120 000 Leon Macdonald Stakes over 1400m at Morphettville Parks on Saturday with the Will Clarken and Charlotte Sorby trained Cicala and the Henry Dwyer trained Cote Atlantique currently vying for favouritism at odds of $3.70 and $3.80… Read More »
It is rare to find a feature race at Belmont without a last start winner, but that is the case with the $125 000 Listed Idyllic Prince Stakes which will be contested over 1300m on Saturday. It is not hard to find a picket-fence form-line though, with the Daniel Morton… Read More »
The 2026 York Ebor Festival, which takes place from Wednesday, August 19 to Saturday, August 22, at York Racecourse, kicks off with an opening day feature race spectacular … the Group 1 1.5 million pound Juddmonte International, which will be the richest race staged at York. The contest pits the… Read More »
It is forty-two years since that fateful day on August 18, 1984 when the Fine Cotton ring-in at Eagle Farm was exposed and erupted as a racing scandal that will forever live in infamy. Fine Cotton, of course, was not there. A horse named Bold Personality was substituted in an… Read More »
The Patrick Payne trained The Cunning Fox claimed a second win in the J J Houlahan Hurdle at Ballarat, having previously landed the 3250m contest in 2024. The 2026 edition arguably provided as good a race as you could wish for from a three-horse field, with the way the field… Read More »
This is a pretty impressive way for an apprentice to outride her 4kg claim. Tara Atherden had five rides on the six race card at Carnarvon on Sunday and she came away with four winners … and there were no ‘gimmes’ in there with only one of Atherden’s winners being… Read More »
The Justine Erkelens trained Too Dardy passed a tough test when he took out the $100 000 Blue Spec Stakes over 1650m at Belmont in style. The seven-year-old, who jumped at a starting price of $9 with online betting sites, was stepping out beyond 1400m for the first time and… Read More »
The Darryn Patemen trained Kings Sicario put the cherry on the top of a superb campaign when he won the $100 000 Broome Cup in thrilling fashion in front of crowd reportedly numbering 7000 people … a tremendous on-track figure for any Country Cup meeting and one which underlined the… Read More »
The $350,000 Grand National Steeplechase over 4500m on a likely Heavy 10 track … that is the daunting task facing ten starters in the big race at Ballarat on Sunday. The current betting suggests it will come down to a three-way contest between the $3.10 joint favourites Sing For Peace… Read More »
Apprentice jockey Jefferson Tsang might need a bit of luck to complete a Broome Sprint / Broome Cup double on Saturday when he rides the $41 outsider Lutz, but the fact that he is having a terrific two weeks in the saddle is not in question. The young rider also… Read More »
A full field of fourteen runners will face the starter for the 2026 edition of the $100,000 Broome Cup, which will be contested over 2200m on Saturday. As things stand at this time, those fourteen runners represent ten different stables who are based in eight different locations from Coolup, Darwin,… Read More »
After fifteen nominations, only four runners will line up in the $100,000 J J Houlahan Hurdle over 3250m at Ballarat on Sunday. Trainer Patrick Payne sends out half of the field with his last start winner The Cunning Fox, who won a hurdle race over 3400m at Hamilton on July… Read More »
That’s two meetings down, two to go for multiple premiership winning jockey Orman, who is using the last week of his stay in Queensland to improve his race fitness and get his eye in once again as he prepares to return to Hong Kong on Monday where he will ready… Read More »
The $40 000 Broome Sprint looked to be a shoe-in for the Susan Olive trained Now You See Me and that perception turned into a harsh reality for the four-year-old’s eight rivals who Now You See Me absolutely destroyed in a run home that saw the son of All Too… Read More »
Here’s the article with the featured race linked on first mention and a natural four-word betting term incorporated into the copy. It’s Ladies Day at Broome on Tuesday where the featured Broome Sprint over 1300m could be Now You See Me’s race for the taking. The Susan Olive trained son… Read More »
Seeing a trainer saddle a race trifecta is not that unusual … think Waller, think Gollan … but the feat of Sharryn Livingstone in achieving that distinction at the Sunshine Coast was another story altogether, almost bordering on the extraordinary. That was because not many trainers, if any at all,… Read More »
