Jockey Matthew Poon will add a touch of international flavour to the Group 1 Doomben Cup on May 24, having been granted permission by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) to ride overseas. The HKJC media release posted today reads: ‘Permission has been granted for Jockey Matthew M F Poon… Read More »
Mornington based trainer Jason Warren has the Stradbroke very much in focus as he heads north with his Group 1 winning mare Benedetta, but first, there is no small matter of having to take care of business in the Doomben 10,000 on Saturday. Since winning the $1 million, Group 1… Read More »
Blake Shinn will be in the saddle when Tony Gollan’s stable star Antino faces the starter for the Group 1 Doomben Cup in the Group 1 on May 24. The confirmation of that booking came after a very brief pause in proceedings when Shinn was forced to consider his immediate… Read More »
The James Cummings trained Pinito simply does not know how to run a bad race and she found further reward for her consistency when she took out the Listed Gold Coast Bracelet in extremely trying conditions. This was as far as the meeting with the last race (the Bat Out… Read More »
Damian Lane is a global superstar winning races worldwide at the elite level. In case you missed it, Lane was at it again last Sunday where he claimed his sixth Group 1 win in Japan when taking out the Tenno Sho (Spring) at Kyoto over 3200m aboard Redentor. Lane saluted… Read More »
Look through any set of Queensland Winter Carnival results and you will find that trainer Peter Snowden seldom targets feature races in Queensland without coming away with some success … but you will have to go a long way to find an easier win of his than that registered by… Read More »
The powerful Tony Gollan stable made it race-to-race wins at the Gold Coast when Rockribbed comprehensively outgunned his rivals when saluting in the Listed Australian Turf Club Trophy. One race earlier, the well-performed Floozie had got the Gollan scoreboard rolling with her hard-earned win in the Silk Stocking in a… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan was suitably chuffed with Floozie’s concentrated effort which proved good enough to take out the Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast. The four-year-old mare only relocated north to Gollan’s stable earlier this year as a two-time winner from ten starts and she has gone from strength… Read More »
Jake Bayliss, who partnered Lubrication to a stunning upset win in the $1 million The Archer at Rockhampton on Sunday, has been very much a work in progress in recent months since linking up with riding mentor Robbie Fradd. Fradd enjoyed a highly successful career worldwide in the saddle himself,… Read More »
The Group 2 A.D. Hollindale Stakes will take pride of place at the Gold Coast on Saturday. The race has belonged to trainer Annabel Archibald (formally Neasham) for an incredible four years in a row … courtesy of her superstar performer Zaaki in 2021, 2022 and 2023 and Numerian in… Read More »
October, a four-year-old gelding, scored an eye-catching win at Eagle Farm today in his first start in Australia since relocating to the Tony And Maddysen Sears stable, after formerly racing in Singapore. Contributing to the merit of the son of Ocean Park’s fifth career win was the fact that he… Read More »
Just a week ago, the news broke that Godolphin were restructuring the Australian arm of their global organisation and that James Cummings would move on to the next chapter of his career at the conclusion of the current season as a trainer in his own right. While the local industry… Read More »
To their credit, co-trainers Tony and Maddysen Sears identified Beau Dazzler as their Group 1 Queensland Derby contender very early in the piece … and the colts third place finish in the Group 2 Queensland Guineas at Eagle Farm on Saturday, when hitting the line well over the 1600m trip,… Read More »
It will be a first for globe-trotting, gun jockey Craig Williams when he walks into the Callaghan Park entrance for the Rockhampton Turf Club’s $1 million The Archer race-day this Sunday. “I haven’t ridden in Rockhampton before,” offered Williams who, only last Sunday was in action in Hong Kong where… Read More »
Co-trainers Annabel and Rob Archibald, fresh from a fine feature race double at Eagle Farm yesterday, will be looking to plunder more Queensland riches when they send out two runners in the $1 million The Archer at Rockhampton today. With two Group 2 wins already in the bank … courtesy… Read More »
It might sound like it is just throwing a couple of clichés around, but the fact remains … ‘if you have got a ticket, you have got a chance’ … and … ‘the horse doesn’t know what price it is.’ So, talking to Jeff and Rikki Dunn, the trainer and… Read More »
It would be fair to say that Andrew Mallyon tends to fly under the radar a bit … a quality, top class rider who the spotlight, more often than not, seems to bypass in favour of those more famous in the riding ranks. But that doesn’t mean Mallyon is not… Read More »
On Saturday, Emily Lang, the current Brisbane Jockey’s Premiership leader, will be looking to put her name on the Queensland Guineas winners roll when she gets her chance on the Tony Gollan trained Boomtown Boss. Lang, who moved to the powerful Gollan stable at the start of the season, has… Read More »
Multiple Brisbane Premiership winning trainer Tony Gollan is preparing to try and repel the Southern raiders as the Stradbroke Season officially gets under way at Eagle Farm on Saturday “I certainly like taking on the southerners at home, more so than I do travelling away … but it is still… Read More »
The Barry Lockwood trained Give Me Space has been marked up as the horse to beat in the Listed Daybreak Lover at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The lightly raced three-year-old has earned that respect having won three times, finished second twice and third once in his six starts in a… Read More »
