After riding high since relocating to the Gold Coast “King’ Callow’s career has been brought down to earth after the seasoned jockey was suspended for three months and fined $4500 following a Victorian Racing Tribunal’s hearing into betting related charges which occurred all the way back in 2013 when Callow… Read More »
You wouldn’t blame the Tony and Maddysen Sears training partnership if they were already counting down to the inaugural running of the King Of The Mountain feature race which will be held at their home track at Toowoomba on December 31. With $750 000 on offer, the King Of The… Read More »
After seemingly marking time for several seasons, largely due to the negative impact of Covid, Singapore Turf Club’s release of their fixture list for the period April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024 has given great cause for optimism about the future of racing in the precinct as it has… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan walked away from the Metropolitan meeting at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday a very satisfied man. Not only did Le Palmier and Sneaky Five quinella the Swiss Ace Plate for the champion trainer, but it was his earlier winner in the form of the Spirit Of Boom… Read More »
It will forever remain a remarkable moment in racing history … the day when Tears I Cry won the 2007 Emirates Stakes at odds of 100-1. It was a significant result in many ways as it was both trainer Ciaron Maher’s and jockey Nikita Beriman’s first Group 1 win …… Read More »
The confirmation by the Hong Kong Jockey Club that Jamie Kah will represent Australia, along with Jye McNeil, in the prestigious Longines International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley on December 7 adds further lustre to the Kah’s already formidable reputation as a race rider. But there is work to be… Read More »
‘Delighted to announce that in conjunction with @BallymoreStabls we have secured high class European G1 winner Alenquer to race in Australia. Heads south next month to aim for the Sydney autumn carnival.’ That tweet from Paul Moroney confirmed that trainer Mike Moroney would have the newly purchased Group 1 winner… Read More »
The Everest winning trainer Clayton Douglas will soon welcome a valuable addition to his stable’s brain-trust with Paul Gatt set to join the Douglas operation after the seasoned and successful rider confirmed that he will retire by the end of the year and move from South Australia to Victoria. The… Read More »
It seems you just cannot keep owner Brae Sokolski out of the headlines. Whether it is the crowning success with his Melbourne Cup winner Verry Elleegant … or his trials and tribulations with the same mare during her European campaign … or his success stories with the likes of Incentivise… Read More »
With the Longines Hong Kong International Races on December 11 just twenty-six days away, it will be interesting to see how the current and on-going Covid situation in this prime racing precinct impacts, if at all, on Hong Kong’s biggest race-day. As things stand at the moment, two of the… Read More »
There has been a sequel to the disturbing situation raised by a photograph taken at track work on August 30 during the build-up to the iconic Birdsville race meeting in September with jockey Ric McMahon pleading guilty to a charge related to the possession of a banned device. Police alleged… Read More »
There has been a new twist in the case of champion jockey Christophe Soumillon who now faces the prospect of having the current two-month suspension he is serving extended for an, as yet, undetermined period of time or even revoked. Soumillon was handed the two-month suspension after seemingly unceremoniously elbowing… Read More »
It doesn’t matter what your starting point is … a seventy-six percent increase in prize-money for a particular feature race is a huge boost … and when it comes in what is already Regional Queensland’s richest race it is a really big deal for that racing region. The Archer, held… Read More »
Good old Peter Moody … a salt of the earth, tell it like it is character if ever there was one … but, then again, there still remains a line you cross at your peril as Moody found to his cost when his comments regarding the performance in the saddle… Read More »
The Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) has confirmed that Hugh Bowman will take up a three-month riding contract in Hong Kong. An official release by the HKJC reads (in part): ‘The Committee, by way of written resolution, resolved to grant a Club Jockey’s licence to Hugh Bowman for the period… Read More »
Following the backlash surrounding the Starship Foundation’s reported rejection of a substantial donation (see separate story), Starship Foundation’s CEO Aisha Daji Punga has issued a second statement to 1News to try and clarify the situation … now suggesting that it was time constraints that had torpedoed the deal and not… Read More »
Natalie Hinkley was crowned the star of the show at today’s Melbourne Cup Call Of The Card at Crown where she took on punters writing bets upwards of $1million in liability. swiftbet took multiple big bets from punters on tomorrow’s Melbourne Cup including $15,000 on High Emocean at $61, $70,000… Read More »
Jimmy Orman, Queensland’s leading jockey, will not be riding in Brisbane on Melbourne Cup day. Instead, Orman will make his second trip to Sydney in seventeen days to once again ride the David McColm trained Far Too Easy, who he partnered to a runner-up finish in the $2 million The… Read More »
Mathew Ellerton, who has been appointed the new trainer for the Kennedy Racing stable, will have his first runner for the Kennedy team at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day when Zakat, a six-year-old Lonhro gelding, goes out to face the starter in race eight on the card. The Ellerton/Kennedy partnership… Read More »
Two of Australasian racing’s greatest jockeys … whether you are looking at it from a current or an historical perspective … will be perched on some vantage point at Flemington tomorrow watching the big race instead of riding for their lives to try and secure further personal Melbourne Cup glory…. Read More »
