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 doesn’t 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 Jockeys’ Premiership and the Gold Coast Apprentice Jockeys’ 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! Dolan’s 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 hasn’t 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. “Yeah, I’m ok… Read More »
Zac Lloyd was back into the normal routine on Monday morning, in his own words, “back at trackwork and trials, right back into it, just working hard … keeping it going day by day.” 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: ‘It’s a real mix of emotions, but I know the time is right. ‘I’ve had the most incredible career. It’s not lost on me… Read More »
There was a time when trainer John Sargent’s name mentioned in conjunction with an Oaks race was a very nice fit. Over a four-year period … from 2012 to 2015 … Sargent snared four Oaks triumphs landing those honours with Quintessential in the 2012 Queensland Oaks, Kirramosa in the 2013… Read More »
A successful season has got even better for apprentice Emily Lang, who brought home her first metropolitan winner in her fifth metropolitan ride at Doomben yesterday. That is always a memorable moment in any rider’s career, and it was one that was always going to come sooner rather than later… Read More »
Trainer Annabel Neasham is enjoying a successful Queensland Winter Carnival. Bois d’Argent win in the Group 1 Doomben Cup and Numerian’s win in the Group 2 Hollindale Stakes are the highlights so far … with the promise of more to come … but it has not only been on the… Read More »
The Bayliss brothers … Jake and Regan … will tick another box in the family racing history book at Eagle Farm on Saturday when they will lineup against each other for the first time in a Group 1 contest. The race is the $1 million Queensland Derby. “Yeah, it is… Read More »
You could be forgiven for thinking that Jim Byrne will be happy just to be competing in this year’s Winter Carnival, once again, after being forced to watchthe carnival from the sidelines for the last two years through injury. But you would be wrong … or, at very least, that… Read More »
Veteran trainer Rex Lipp will be looking for his third success in the BRC Sires Produce Stakes when Superalloy lines up in the Group 2 contest at Eagle Farm on Saturday … and he will also be eyeing off a possible Stradbroke showdown with his smart Encryption gelding Cifrado two… Read More »
Craig Williams is having a great run in Queensland. He followed up a double at Doomben last Saturday … where he scored with Tiger Shark and Golden Boom (in the Chief De Beers) … with two winners from two rides at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday and then he was… Read More »
In a shock announcement, trainer Les Ross has confirmed he will not be renewing his training license at the end of this season. A decision which will mark the end of one of the most successful owner/trainer partnerships in racing … that between Ross and Mike Crooks’s Mishani Enterprises, whose… Read More »
Four wins in a row … unbeaten … over $100,000 banked in prize-money already … that’s the way to kick off a racing career and trainer Lawrie Mayfield-Smith is rightfully pleased with the exploits of the lightly raced four-year-old gelding Majestic Boom who added that fourth win to his record… Read More »
