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 »
It was a big weekend for the Bayliss family. At Randwick on Saturday, Regan Bayliss partnered the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Fully Lit to victory in the $2 million Inglis Millennium, with the colt overcoming the disadvantage of a wide barrier draw (number 14) and a pressurised run… Read More »
You just never know in racing. It is so easy for a trainer or owners to decide to move an underperforming horse on, not realising they might just be making that move one or two runs too early. Take the case of the Scott Morrisey trained Tikka Ready … a… Read More »
Do you want to have a bet today? Well, you are spoilt for choice to an extreme degree with all six states and two territories holding race meetings today … a very rare occurrence. New South Wales hosts meeting at Walcha and a Canterbury night meeting. Victoria matched strides with… Read More »
Hugh Bowman has bounced back a tough week to secure victory aboard the John Size trained Helios Express in the HK$13 million Hong Kong Classic Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday. It hasn’t been the best of times for Bowman recently. Not only did Bowman suffer the discomfort of a… Read More »
It was so close to a perfect result … but in the end there was no cigar just a lingering thought of what might have been. Stephanie Thompson had one ride at Eagle Farm on Saturday … just a fleeting return to the saddle before she joins her husband Ben… Read More »
The recently retired Damien Oliver will take up one more riding engagement when he lines up in the Saudi International Jockey’s Challenge later this month. Mark Van Triet, Oliver’s former manager, has confirmed Oliver’s Saudi commitment, but he has also emphasised that this will be a single assignment telling Racing.com,… Read More »
Here’s a run of form that might be difficult to emulate. It was a case of a seven-day form blitz from the six-year-old gelding Dubai Moon, who was a forty-race veteran with three wins behind his name when he arrived at the Kyneton and Hanging Rock race meeting on December… Read More »
Snaring a riding contract in Hong Kong is a much sought-after privilege. Fair to say, you don’t receive one unless you have earned it. The fact that Ben Thompson has got the call-up is due reward for his hard work over recent seasons which has brought him an ever-progressive rise… Read More »
Giga Kick’s return to the racing arena that he illuminated so brightly with, amongst others, his win in The Everest as well as his triumphs in The All Aged and Doomben 10,000 (both Group 1 races), is still on hold as trainer Clayton Douglas awaits a further veterinary test next… Read More »
The news of a probable career ending injury to Alligator Blood is not the way racing enthusiasts want to see any horse bow out, particularly after a career which has had it all … from excellence to adversity, from glory to controversy, from reaching heights to combating the lows. But,… Read More »
The independent review into the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC), announced by the Queensland Racing Minister Grace Grace in December, gets under way today when a steering committee will meet for the first time. While the review covers all three codes, Cameron Partington, from the Queensland’s Thoroughbred Alliance’s, will be… Read More »
Kelsey Hannan, who suffered a fall at Strathalbyn on Sunday, has been brought out of an induced coma in which she was placed after drifting in and out of consciousness after the fall. The New Zealand born, now South Australian based apprentice, was air-lifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital amid serious… Read More »
July 1, 2023 to January 26, 2024 … that period represents the just shy of seven months that Nikita Beriman has been out of the saddle with a shoulder injury. That’s a long time in the life of a jockey, but, like most riders, how long an injury takes to… Read More »
Apprentice jockey Cejay Graham had a day and a half out in the saddle at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, riding the winners of no less than four races to expand her level of achievement one more time. With only six months gone, Graham is already clearly the find of… Read More »
Toowoomba trainers Tony and Maddysen Sears made it a local victory when they landed the inaugural King Of The Mountain with Yellow Brick back on December 31, 2022 … and they will be at it again when the second running of the race takes place on January 1 … along… Read More »
The ever-resilient Master Jamie is the only runner from outside of South-East Queensland in the lineup for the $750 000 King Of The Mountain … and, as always, the Graeme Green galloper will deserve every respect when the big race is contested at Toowoomba on New Year’s day. An eighteen-time… Read More »
You would think Ben Thompson will have a soft spot for Toowoomba. Thompson seldom ventures up the range but in the last twelve months he has snared both the inaugural running of The King Of The Mountain on the Tony and Maddysen Sears trained Yellow Brick as well as The… Read More »
From the moment Rothfire was announced as the first entry into $750 000 The King Of The Mountain at Toowoomba on January 1, a race in which twelve slot-holders choose the runners to represent them, within certain conditions, the Robert Heathcote trained runner has been justifiably cited as the horse… Read More »
