It’s been a while coming, but Skirt The Law, the Tony Gollan trained 2023 Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic winner, will be back in action for the first time in seven months at Eagle Farm on Saturday. When the Better Than Ready filly won the Magic Millions it was a win… Read More »
Seems you can’t keep a good horse down. Well, that’s the case with Rothfire at least … down and out on Friday. Getting ready to get back in the game just three days later. It’s been a quite amazing seventy-two hours for the stable. Last Friday was not a good… Read More »
Trainer Chris Meagher will take Saturday’s Doomben winner Arentee to Rockhampton to contest the $775,000 The Archer on April 28. Arentee, a seven-time winner, was dominant at Doomben, in spite of chasing from a number eleven barrier draw, when striking third-up and stepping up from 1200m to 1350m. It was… Read More »
KWT is on the move again. A little over a month ago, Brisbane based Kyle Wilson-Taylor made a phone call to trainer Andrew Scott in New Zealand hoping to advance his relationship with the Andrew Scott and Lance O’Sullivan stable while also searching for an opportunity to enhance his profile… Read More »
Trainer Bjorn Baker will send the five-year-old gelding Overpass out to defend his Quokka title at Ascot on Saturday … and he will also have a useful back-up in the form of Malkovich to support the stable cause. Overpass, a son of Golden Slipper winner Vancouver who already has $5.6… Read More »
The field for the $775,000 The Archer, Queensland’s richest regional race which will take place at Rockhampton on April 28, is beginning to take shape as the big race slot holders start locking in their selected runners. The Brisbane based training partnership of Steven O’Dea and Matt Hoysted will send… Read More »
When a trainer identifies an Oaks prospect early and the horse continues to perform well enough to justify following a path to that big Group 1 race, that, in the first instance, is a very satisfying result for the stable. David Vandyke made no secret of the fact he held… Read More »
There is still plenty of fight left in this old-timer yet. In fact, At Witz End, an eight-year-old, Danny Bowen trained gelding is thriving and it is all full steam ahead as he sets out to make it three straight wins when he takes on a Quality Handicap test over… Read More »
The very smart four-year-old mare Chinny Boom will look to land her ninth career win in only her fourteenth start when she contests a Quality Open Handicap over 1200m at Doomben on Saturday. For the Clinton Taylor trained daughter of Spirit Of Boom, Saturday’s result, and more particularly how she… Read More »
It had been just a month-and-a-half shy of two years since Vlad Duric last rode a winner in Australia … but he reset that statistic at Ipswich today when he guided the Jennifer Fraser trained grey mare All Stashed Up to victory in the last race on the card, saluting… Read More »
Damian Browne has many memories of his race riding career, from the pleasure of his multiple Group 1 victories … who will ever forget Browne’s international success on Buffering in the Group 1 Al Quoz in Dubai … to the despair of severe injuries, one of which resulted in him… Read More »
Queensland has been a hot bed of emerging riding talent in recent seasons with the likes of Angela Jones and Cejay Graham making merry in the Sunshine State as they climbed the ladder of success to be ready and able to mix it with the top tier of riding talent… Read More »
It was only a few sentences tucked away, and perhaps easily lost, deep in a radio interview … but, arguably, the warning some of the words posed should be headline material so that it can get the attention of racing authorities. Vlad Duric, who has just returned to Australia from… Read More »
Fresh from passing the landmark 700-winner total in Singapore (being only the fifth jockey to do so), Vlad Duric has arrived in Brisbane ready to enter the next phase of his career. Duric arrived in Brisbane on Monday, was out at trackwork this morning and is expected to be in… Read More »
Apprentice Bailey Wheeler’s turbulent time with trainer Annabel Neasham has come to an end with the top trainer terminating their trainer / apprentice arrangement. In the past Neasham had taken the rare path of twice ‘suspending’ Wheeler from ride riding. On the first occasion, in mid-October last year, it was… Read More »
It might be fair to say that only the ‘age criteria’ racing rule, which is going to force the twelve-year-old Fab’s Cowboy into retirement at the end of the season, is the only thing that is going to stop him winning races, even at this late stage of his career…. Read More »
Over the years, certain sports teams have managed to transform their home game venue into a fortress of sorts, where the opposition’s game fails to gain traction as it lines up, not only against the home side, but also facing the furnace created by the solid support of the home… Read More »
The fabulous Fab’s Cowboy roadshow continues on Saturday at a country non-tab meeting at Moranbah. That’s all of 1600km from racing’s Saturday’s Golden Slipper showpiece and, at best, it might get a small blimp on the news radar … which you might miss if you blink. That’s all quite understandable… Read More »
Uncommon James, Queensland’s only runner in the Group 1 Galaxy at Rosehill, is certainly not there to make up the numbers. While this is a one-off raid down south before reaching for some big prizes during the Queensland Winter Carnival, the Group 1 winner in the Oakleigh Plate a little… Read More »
When Press Link dismissed his opposition with contemptuous ease at Eagle Farm on Saturday to make it three wins from three starts, Bryan Guy’s smile could not have been brighter. If you had not been at the track for quite a while you would have been forgiven for assuming that… Read More »
