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 »
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 »
