Showing initiative and being proactive has earned Kyle Wilson-Taylor a big weekend away from home and an opportunity to put international experience on his riding resume. Brisbane based Wilson-Taylor will have six rides at Trentham in New Zealand tomorrow … rides which cover everything from the Group 1 NZ Oaks… Read More »
Party For Two, the winner of the three-year-old Jewel, has pulled up well after her barn-storming win at the Gold Coast last Saturday and the stable will now plot a path for her through to the Winter Carnival. “It was a good to get that result … to get that… Read More »
We didn’t know it at the time, but a couple of day’s after suffering a big disappointment race result-wise, trainer Allan Chau showed a great deal of foresight when summing up his situation. “That one went against me. Things turn around. Maybe next time the luck will be with me,”… Read More »
Nikita Beriman and Party For Two is a story with a changing landscape, but, in spite of being separated for a while, the bond between this horse and rider has remained intact and ready to go when called upon … as they showed to such good effect when Party For… Read More »
It is an old enough saying …’have saddle, will travel’ … but a lot of the times that just means the saddle gets worn and the jockey gets weary with the jockey’s reward … win, lose or draw … being that they get to do it all over again the… Read More »
An unexpected e-mail from Racing Victoria had Taranaki based trainer Robbie Patterson reaching for the phone to call the owners of Puntura to tell them their horse had received a late invitation to compete in the $4 million All-Star Mile at Caulfield on March 16. It was too good a… Read More »
David Vandyke is arguably one of the most astute trainers in the country. One of his biggest assets is his patience and the finely measured way in which he brings his horses along, trying not to push any horse beyond its capabilities at any given time, having long since mastered… Read More »
No trainer … or anybody involved in racing as a whole for that matter … is more respected than Helen Page. The way she presents herself … the way she conducts herself … the calm and kind attitude she brings with her presence … the humbleness that is always in… Read More »
Trainer Les Ross is no stranger to having multiple horses in a race and he certainly has the numbers in the AQUIS, QTIS Two-Year-Old Jewel at the Gold Coast on Saturday where he will saddle no less than seven runners in the sixteen strong field. “I’ve only got seven out… Read More »
Two $500 000 QTIS Jewel races … a two-year-old and a three-year-old edition … headline the card at the Gold Coast on Saturday and the two ‘Defiant’ brothers will be looking to give trainer Stuart Kendrick a unique double on the day. Defiant Boom and Defiant Spirit share the same… Read More »
Ben Thompson is on the scoreboard in Hong Kong. It was always a given that, as a new addition to the jockey ranks in Hong Kong, Thompson would not walk into instance success. There was always going to be an adjustment period in his own work, life balance, not to… Read More »
All Inclusive, David Vandyke’s eye-catching winner of the QTIS Jewel Prelude for two-year-old colts and geldings over 1100m at Doomben, will be heading south to face his next test with the Group 2 Todman Stakes being pencilled in with a possible run at The Golden Slipper being touted beyond that… Read More »
Cejay Graham had a big smile on her face, and it had nothing to do with her on-going run of success which saw her reel in yet another two metropolitan doubles at Eagle Farm and Ipswich over the last seven days. Graham had received the news that an extension to… Read More »
They were both only shedding their Maiden tickets, but the efforts of two fillies … the David Vandyke trained Moszur and the Tony Gollan trained Torabella … at Ipswich on Wednesday are well worth noting. Moszur was second up in his fourth career start and, importantly, the daughter of Churchill… Read More »
The Kevin Kemp trained Whiskey Dream played his part in what could be a very satisfying week for his trainer when he claimed a third successive win at the midweek meeting at Ipswich on Wednesday, a sequence which has kept the son of Dream Ahead unbeaten in the three races… Read More »
The race for the Brisbane Apprentice Jockey Premiership will be well and truly resumed at Eagle Farm tomorrow with Bailey Wheeler returning to the saddle after spending a month’s stable enforced suspension from race riding … a move which was handed down by his boss Annabel Neasham. This is the… Read More »
Trainer Matthew Dunn might have the numbers and his runners have most of the betting support for the Newhaven Park Country Championships qualifier at Lismore on Saturday, but his fellow Murwillumbah based trainer David McColm might just have the horse to upset the applecart. The lightly raced, chestnut mare Fairway… Read More »
Every horse has its own story, but here is a story with a difference. The second qualifying race in the 2024 Newhaven Park Country Championships is scheduled to take place at Albury on Sunday and it comes with an usual twist in the makeup of the sixteen-strong lineup as two… Read More »
The 2024 Newhaven Park Country Championship Series gets underway this weekend with the Northern Rivers Region qualifier taking place at Lismore on Saturday … weather permitting. The track is currently listed as a Heavy 8 with rail predicted throughout Friday. Murwillumbah based trainer Matthew Dunn has loaded up for the… Read More »
Jaden Lloyd has wasted no time in getting off the mark in Singapore, where he recently secured a riding contract. Lloyd came back a winner aboard the Dan Meagher trained Pacific Beauty in his fourth ride at his first race meeting in Singapore on Sunday, admitting that he needed a… Read More »
