Bailey Wheeler has some unfinished business in town. While there is no doubt that Cejay Graham thoroughly deserved the Brisbane Apprentice Jockey Premiership for the 2023/24 racing season for her polished, professional performance both on and off the track, Wheeler was a contender for that title until he was derailed… Read More »
Racing Queensland CEO Jason Scott has given an update on the current, unfortunate track standoff at Eagle Farm, where racing has basically been suspended at this time following a fall approaching the home turn on July 20. The fall was the final straw for jockeys following their reports over many… Read More »
Apprentice Emily Lang started off the new metropolitan season with a win on Vodka Martini at Doomben on Saturday … and the 2023/24 Queensland Provincial Apprentice Jockey Premiership winner is looking forward to her first full season in town, having recently made the move from the then Steven OâDea and… Read More »
Call it the ‘prize-money premiership’ if you like … two heavy-hitters going toe to toe in the final round in their quest to become the racing stable with the most prize-money earned for the season. No prizes for guessing the combatants are Chris Waller and Ciaron Maher. It really is… Read More »
Out of sight. Out of mind. That is the sometimes cruel reality for injured jockeys as the racing industry, as it has to, continues to go about its business while they remain sidelined with an unsure and uncomfortable future. That can be a lonely and depressing place. For some, it… Read More »
There is absolutely no doubt about it in Cejay Grahamâs mind! âWhen I look back to a year ago and to everything that has happened now … I just couldnât be more grateful. It has been the best year of my life for sure! By any standard Graham has had… Read More »
A fresh face will be seen in the riding ranks in Sydney for two months later this year with Britainâs Champion Apprentice of 2023, Billy Loughnane, confirming he will travel south at the conclusion of the current British season to link up with the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable… Read More »
Finishes donât come more decisive than this! Going into the last meeting of the season at the Gold Coast on Saturday, Adam Campton and Toby Edmonds were locked together at the top of the Gold Coast Trainersâ Premiership with a seemingly cut and thrust list of entries between them being… Read More »
The finale of the Gold Coast Turf Club Trainer Premiership will bring added value to the season ending meeting at the Gold Coast on Saturday. The stables of the seasoned three-time Premiership winner Toby Edmonds and the up-and-coming Adam Campton, who is only completing his second full season as a… Read More »
Gold Coast based trainer Jay Bellamy will bring Five Star Vixen to the metropolitan meeting at Doomben on Saturday with the Headwater filly having earned her latest crack at city competition after racking up three successive wins on the Gold Coast Poly Track surface. Bellamy doesnât come to town often… Read More »
Jai Williams has become the second apprentice jockey in as many seasons to take out both the Gold Coast Jockeysâ Premiership and the Gold Coast Apprentice Jockeysâ Premiership … his thirty-nine winners placing him a comfortable nine wins clear of the second placed Jag Guthmann-Chester in the senior premiership and… Read More »
It might be a close call … who will be back in action first, the injured Robbie Dolan or a racetrack under the pump! And then again, maybe not! Dolanâs spectacular fall from Victory Command in seemingly bizarre circumstances during the seventh race at Eagle Farm on Saturday, which sparked… Read More »
It was a moment that arrived quietly … and then was gone with the wind. It came in the third race at Ipswich on Wednesday when Les Ross sent out his last runner as a trainer … thirty-six years after he saddled his first winner back on April 25, 1988…. Read More »
It was a good weekend for jockey Kyle Wilson-Taylor with notable wins at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday and at Grafton on Sunday as he quietly continues to widen his net of contacts in his search to create greater and better riding options … although the Grafton Cup Quality Prelude… Read More »
Larry Cassidy has ridden the last two winners of the Glasshouse Handicap, but the multiple Group 1 winning rider will not be attempting to land a straight hat trick of wins in the Glasshouse at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. Cassidy has, in fact, been out of action through injury… Read More »
Trainer Daniel Bowen is excited about the prospect of having his glorious old warrior At Witz End contest the Listed Glasshouse Handicap at the Sunshine Coast … and even the constant rain that has fallen at the track over the last few days hasnât dampened his spirits. In fact, it… Read More »
Good news … Samantha Collet has been cleared of any serious injury following her fall in the second race at Ipswich on Saturday. Collett was transported to hospital but did not have to stay in hospital overnight as she was released once her scans came back clear. âYeah, Iâm ok… Read More »
Zac Lloyd was back into the normal routine on Monday morning, in his own words, âback at trackwork and trials, right back into it, just working hard … keeping it going day by day.â There is no let-up in racing, but the difference on Monday was that Lloyd returned to… Read More »
Stefi Magnetica, who scored a rousing win in the $3 million Stradbroke on Saturday, will now head to the paddock with ambitions of taking on the likes of The Everest or the Golden Eagle in the Spring after the connections of the Bjorn Baker trained filly set aside the temptation… Read More »
Brett Prebble has officially called time on his riding career. Prebble, who last rode at Rosehill on February 24, released a statement this morning which reads: âItâs a real mix of emotions, but I know the time is right. âIâve had the most incredible career. Itâs not lost on me… Read More »
