Times have been tough, but trainer Dan Meagher hasn’t been sitting on his hands. The multiple Group 1 winning trainer has been busy maxing out the number of stable wins he can achieve and continuing to make as many memories as possible in Singapore where racing is now, sadly on… Read More »
Georgina Cartwright could not have been more excited or more pleased with herself. Fresh from riding the winners of both the Cairns Cup and the Daintree Guineas on Saturday, Cartwright was all charged up when ticking an unusual box at Kilcoy on Sunday, jumping at the chance to take part… Read More »
Yellow Brick and Sydney … it’s hardly been a love affair. Last season Yellow Brick’s campaign aimed at the $10 million Golden Eagle came to a premature end when co-trainers Tony and Maddysen Sears called time on the Sydney schedule after the well performed son of The Mission came back… Read More »
Robbie Dolan is back in town and ready to move ahead with his return to race riding following his fall back on July 20. That was the fall that sparked what amounted to the jockey’s protest which led to not only the remaining races on the day being abandoned, but,… Read More »
Just days after being officially confirmed as the new Chief Executive Officer by the Board of Racing Victoria, Aaron Morrison has addressed an issue that has plagued the national racing scene over several years. The relationship between Racing Victoria (RV) and Racing New South Wales, which at times has not… Read More »
There was no ordinary run-of-the-mill race finish in the first race at the Sunshine Coast on Wednesday. Jockey Jake Bayliss might have made the mistake which resulted in the somewhat chaotic final 75m of the race … he has owned up to that … but his riding skills, once put… Read More »
After a short settling in period result-wise, the Chris and Corey Munce training partnership has put two winners on the board in the last four days to get their first official season winner’s count underway. Team Munce’s first win came at Doomben on Saturday, courtesy of a supreme performance by… Read More »
Mark Du Plessis will be back at trackwork tomorrow morning where he will return to the saddle for the first time since a bizarre incident during the running of the second race at Eagle Farm on June 28 took him out of action. “It was my first ride of the… Read More »
Queensland’s top trainer, Tony Gollan, is in the process of expanding his stable’s already significant footprint, confirming the establishment of a second training base at the Gold Coast. This stable expansion is seen as a natural progression by Gollan, who has won eleven straight Brisbane Trainers’ Premierships. “We’ll have roughly… Read More »
The Tony and Maddysen Sears trained Yellow Brick will leave his Toowoomba base and head to Sydney next week for his assignment in the Group 3 Show County Quality over 1200m at Randwick on Winx Stakes Day on August 24. The well performed Yellow Brick boasts seven wins and five… Read More »
After winning three trials in a row, the Robert Heathcote trained Cosmo Centaurus lived up the pre-race hype to score a confident win on debut when starting as a $2.10 bookmakers favourite in a QTIS Three-Year-Old Maiden Handicap over 1000m at the Sunshine Coast. In the week leading up to… Read More »
It is difficult to retire when you are still on top of your game. Ask Frankie Dettori. He has tried, but clearly it would be fair to suggest that most people who talk about how good it would be to leave on your own terms when you are top of… Read More »
It is not often that you have a fair-sized field of three-year-olds in which by far the majority are unraced horses … this is three-year-old’s we are taking about … but that is the case in what presents as an intriguing contest in the first race at the Sunshine Coast… Read More »
Last Saturday’s Townsville Cup winner, Warp Speed, will attempt to make it back-to-back Cup wins in a seven-day turnaround when he tackles the Mackay Cup on Saturday. In the Mackey Cup, the Mark Goodwin trained eight-year-old will have to give significant weight advantage to all of his rivals (between 4kg… Read More »
Melea Castle was at it again at Doomben on Wednesday. After bringing home the $1.75 betting sites favourite Tessatori with assurance in the opening race on the card, Castle, a 3kg claiming apprentice in town, rounded off her day with a scintillating win aboard the $6.50 chance Mystic Mac in… Read More »
When an ambitious plan has a perfect outcome. That is the back-story of the Gold Coast based trainer Peter Robl and the six-year-old gelding Hadouken after the son of Real Impact made it a perfect three wins from three starts over the Darwin Carnival when completing the hat-trick by taking… Read More »
Ben Thompson, who is in Queensland enjoying a break from race riding, will head back to Hong Kong shortly to prepare for the start of what he hopes will be his first full season in that highly competitive racing precinct. “I go back in two weeks,” confirmed Thompson. “I’ll get… Read More »
The smile said it all … but, then again, Stephanie Thompson is seldom without a happy outlook at the track. But this was special in its own way. Back home for the current break in-between the Hong Kong seasons, where Steph’s husband and fellow jockey Ben now plies his trade,… Read More »
Every racehorse deserves the best post-racing life it can have … but the plain truth is that some will be luckier than others in that regard which is why it is so good to report one of the many heartwarming stories of a horse leaving racing on its own terms… Read More »
As has been well documented, there have been a number of subtle changes in the trainers ranks for the new season including, amongst others, two high profile stables realigning their positions with Paul Snowden stepping away from the Snowden training partnership, leaving his father Peter in sole charge as he… Read More »
