Ethan Brown and Zac Purton will both make their way from Hong Kong to Doomben this week to ride in the Group 1 Doomben 10,000 which will be contested over 1200m at the city track on Saturday. The background stories to the participation of these two riders have taken different… Read More »
Star mare Lady Of Camelot will miss Saturday’s Group 1 Doomben 10,000 and her planned Royal Ascot campaign after a bizarre encounter with a stingray during a beach session in Queensland. Co-trainer Adrian Bott reported to stewards that the mare suffered wounds to her near foreleg after making contact with… Read More »
There will be no Triple crown winner in the US this season with the connections of the Kentucky Derby winner Golden Tempo deciding to bypass the second leg … the Preakness … in favour of allowing their history making winner more time to recover from the strenuous, come from behind… Read More »
The $200,000 Group 3 Ken Russell Memorial Classic has attracted a highly competitive field of two-year-olds with no less than four of the nine strong field going into the race unbeaten and another two runners being last start winners. The Tony Gollan trained Boomelli is one of those last start… Read More »
It is a case of Western Australia’s loss being South Australia’s gain as trainer Indianna Weinert prepares to relocate her stable from Albany to Adelaide. It’s a bold move by the young, progressive trainer, one obviously buoyed by the results achieved by the stable star Smooth Chino whose win in… Read More »
Queensland Winter Carnival action moves to the Gold Coast this weekend and Pride Of Jenni’s nomination for the $500 000 Group 2 AD Hollindale Stakes has just put the expectation up another notch on the excitement barometer for the race. Pride Of Jenni’s presence in a race always does that…. Read More »
With Antino being removed from the list of opposition for the Tony and Calvin trained gelding Half Yours heading to towards a three-race targeted Queensland Winter Carnival campaign, the way forward still isn’t simple, but the McEvoy team does have one less formidable rival to worry about. The 2025 Melbourne… Read More »
To say that the postponement of Queensland richest regional race, the $1 million Archer at Rockhampton on Sunday, was a disappointment would be an understatement. Reports and social media posts have called it many other things, the bulk of which have been uncomplimentary in both content and tone, but with… Read More »
When the dust had settled on a grandstand finish to the one hundred-and-fifty-second running of the Kentucky Derby at Churchill Downs, Cherie DeVaux had made history by becoming the first female trainer to win the race … jockey Joe Ortiz had become the ninth jockey to complete the Kentucky Oaks… Read More »
Beatty gained his revenge over AfireofGidgeecoals and gained redemption for his only career loss at the hands of that runner when he landed the $200,000 Sires’ Produce Stakes at Ascot. The Sean and Jake Casey trained son of Gingerbread Man had gone down to Afireofgidgeecoals in their previous clash in… Read More »
The very smart four-year-old chestnut Smooth Chino claimed his seventh win from only nine starts when he won the Group 3 Northam Stakes over 1300m on Sunday. He also has one runner-up finish to his credit. The Indianna Weinert trained son of Maschino was last seen in the $5 million… Read More »
Yellow Brick, who won the $1.5 million Magic Millions QTIS Open over 1300m at the Gold Coast in January, will take aim at a second $1 million race win at Rockhampton on Sunday where he currently holds down the second favourite status for The Archer. In the process Yellow Brick… Read More »
A day after the Stradbroke Season officially kicks off at Eagle Farm with the $350 000 Group 2 Queensland Guineas on Saturday, the provincial venue at Rockhampton will host The Archer, a $1 million slot race, which has attracted a notable field of runners for their Sunday extravaganza. Tony Gollan,… Read More »
Apprentice Jace McMurray has been flying in recent times, to the extent that he currently leads the Brisbane Apprentice Jockeys’ Premiership … three wins ahead of defending champion Emily Lang … but he had a day at Ipswich yesterday which he will want to forget. The young rider had two… Read More »
Many of the feature races at Ascot over the past four months have featured a ‘rematch’ between two or more contenders who had clashed earlier and were now renewing their rivalry. The Group 3 WA Sires’ Produce Stakes, which will be contested at Ascot on Saturday, is no exception. Key… Read More »
Zac Lloyd has been given the opportunity to put one over his father Jeff, with the young rider being booked to ride one of top trainer Justin Snaith’s runners in this year’s Durban July, the biggest race in South Africa which will be contested on July 4. Jeff Lloyd won… Read More »
It has been a long road back for the 2024 Melbourne Cup winner Knight’s Choice who will have only his second start in the seventeen months since that famous victory on the first Tuesday in November when he lines up for the Listed Brisbane Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday…. Read More »
The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman trained Alpha Sofie … a winner of four of her seven races … will be looking to bounce back in Saturday’s Group 2 Tobin Bronze Stakes at Morphettville after posting disappointing results in her last two starts. The chestnut filly won two out of… Read More »
Zac Purton latest assessment of Ka Ying Rising will hardly give any of the champion’s opponents any cause for comfort as the David Hayes trained runner looks to extend his magnificent, undefeated, record breaking run to twenty straight wins when he runs in the Group 1 Chairman’s Sprint Prize over… Read More »
Fresh from his maiden success in Hong Kong on Wednesday night, Ethan Brown has confirmed he will be on a fly-in, fly-out mission when he returns to Australia to take the ride on the Ciaron Maher trained Jimmysstar in the Group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup May 30 at Eagle Farm…. Read More »
