The Tony Gollan trained Group 1 winner Antino will fly the Queensland flag when he resumes in the Group 1 All Aged Stakes over 1400m at Randwick on Saturday. Apart from Antino’s last start result when on an international mission in Hong Kong back in December … you can simply… Read More »
James McDonald was missing from the rescheduled Tancred Stakes race-day on Tuesday and he will be a glaring absentee from Day One of The Championships at Royal Randwick on Saturday when he will, instead, quite understandably, take the reins aboard the Hong Kong superstar Romantic Warrior in the US$5 Dubai… Read More »
What an incredible weekend awaits racing enthusiasts around the world. On Saturday, Day One of The Championships takes place at Royal Randwick featuring, amongst others, the $4 million Group 1 Doncaster Mile, the $3 million Group 1 TJ Smith Stakes, the $2 million Group 1 Australian Derby and the $1… Read More »
Casino Bay trounced her opposition in the Pat O’Shea Plate at Toowoomba. The supporting feature race on the King Of The Mountain card has traditionally been run as the first two-year-old race of the season in September but it, along with The King Of The Mountain itself, were both moved… Read More »
Bring on The King Of The Mountain! That was the war-cry of the Tiny and Maddysen Sears training partnership after the very speedy Steady Ready trounced his opposition for the second successive time over the Eagle Farm 1000m trip, this time stopping the clock in 56.20 seconds, not far off… Read More »
By his own admission, Jaden Lloyd has faced several challenges in his career. From moving around to different racing precincts, to taking time out on several occasions for a variety of reasons, Lloyd’s career has struggled to settle into a happy rhythm for an extended period of time with the… Read More »
Trainer Liam Birchley has long held a special touch when it comes to the training of two-year-old horses, and he will be looking to add to his list of successes in that regard when he sends out Betterlucknexttime to contest the $500,000 QTIS Two-year-Old Jewel at the Gold Coast on… Read More »
Apprentice Emily Lang’s treble at Eagle Farm on Wednesday has propelled her into the lead in the Brisbane Jockeys’ Premiership. Even with the advantage of being apprenticed to the all-powerful Tony Gollan stable, that is no mean feat, given that this is the first full metropolitan season for the young… Read More »
As South-East Queensland slowly emerges from the battering it took from Cyclone Alfred, particularly the record-breaking deluge that followed in the aftermath of Alfred making landfall, racing in the area is coming out of its enforced hibernation and getting the show back on the road. Eagle Farm did the job… Read More »
The news that Jimmy Orman has had his riding contract in Hong Kong extended to the end of the Hong Kong season has changed the dynamic of the chase for the 2024/25 Brisbane Jockey’s Premiership, a premiership which Orman has dominated over the last three seasons. Orman’s hold on the… Read More »
The Hong Kong Jockey Club has granted an extension of licence to visiting Jockey James Orman for the period from 3 April 2025 up to the conclusion of the current 2024/2025 racing season. That might be just a simple one sentence media release by the Hong Kong Jockey Club, but… Read More »
At the age of 60, with a rock-solid body of work behind his name that spans over four decades, Michael Cahill will have his last race ride at his home track at the Gold Coast on February 8, five days after he officially takes up a new role with Racing… Read More »
There it was in black and white on the Racing Australia website. Antino – Status: Retired Well, that was news to trainer Tony Gollan who, happily informed followers of the horse, who Gollan has labelled ‘possibly the best he has trained,’ that Antino’s status was very much that of an… Read More »
The Richard and Will Freedman trained Elettrica claimed the sixth win of her career when she took no prisoners in the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup, surging away over the concluding stages to score by a decisive 2.30 length margin. The race was also a triumph for young hoop Bailey Wheeler… Read More »
From riding in the famed Grand National at Aintree aboard the Joseph O’Brien trained Darasso in April 2023 to claiming his maiden Group win in Australia … it’s been quite a journey for jockey Luke Dempsey over the last twenty months. The transition from jumps jockey to flat race riding… Read More »
All you can do as a trainer is get your horse to where you want it to be for a big race and then the race itself will tell you if the horse is good enough to land the desired result. That is exactly what trainer Kurt Goldman has done… Read More »
Steady Ready’s scintillating, track record smashing win at Eagle Farm on Saturday was achieved by a happy horse racing to his true potential. That is not a simple a combination to bring into play and the Tony and Maddysen Sears training partnership deserve every credit for that great outcome in… Read More »
You can turn over the page for the New Year … and put this horses name in the notebook. There is a story to tell behind the Matthew Hoysted trained Pickabae’s arrival as a facile winner on debut at Ipswich on December 27. A glance at the formbook of this… Read More »
While multiple Premiership winning trainer Tony Gollan is busy shuffling the pack to see which cards to play … and where … in what could be a lucrative summer of racing for the top stable, the reappearance of Gollan’s 2023 Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic winner, Skirt The Law, at the… Read More »
A thorough attention to detail, taken in a cool, measured fashion, is the only way to make any meaningful assessment of a racehorse’s current situation. Take the case of Hi Barbie, the $2.60 favourite with betting sites who was eased down and out to cross the line over seventeen lengths… Read More »
