Giga Kick’s return to the racing arena that he illuminated so brightly with, amongst others, his win in The Everest as well as his triumphs in The All Aged and Doomben 10,000 (both Group 1 races), is still on hold as trainer Clayton Douglas awaits a further veterinary test next… Read More »
The news of a probable career ending injury to Alligator Blood is not the way racing enthusiasts want to see any horse bow out, particularly after a career which has had it all … from excellence to adversity, from glory to controversy, from reaching heights to combating the lows. But,… Read More »
The independent review into the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC), announced by the Queensland Racing Minister Grace Grace in December, gets under way today when a steering committee will meet for the first time. While the review covers all three codes, Cameron Partington, from the Queensland’s Thoroughbred Alliance’s, will be… Read More »
Kelsey Hannan, who suffered a fall at Strathalbyn on Sunday, has been brought out of an induced coma in which she was placed after drifting in and out of consciousness after the fall. The New Zealand born, now South Australian based apprentice, was air-lifted to Royal Adelaide Hospital amid serious… Read More »
July 1, 2023 to January 26, 2024 … that period represents the just shy of seven months that Nikita Beriman has been out of the saddle with a shoulder injury. That’s a long time in the life of a jockey, but, like most riders, how long an injury takes to… Read More »
Apprentice jockey Cejay Graham had a day and a half out in the saddle at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday, riding the winners of no less than four races to expand her level of achievement one more time. With only six months gone, Graham is already clearly the find of… Read More »
Toowoomba trainers Tony and Maddysen Sears made it a local victory when they landed the inaugural King Of The Mountain with Yellow Brick back on December 31, 2022 … and they will be at it again when the second running of the race takes place on January 1 … along… Read More »
The ever-resilient Master Jamie is the only runner from outside of South-East Queensland in the lineup for the $750 000 King Of The Mountain … and, as always, the Graeme Green galloper will deserve every respect when the big race is contested at Toowoomba on New Year’s day. An eighteen-time… Read More »
You would think Ben Thompson will have a soft spot for Toowoomba. Thompson seldom ventures up the range but in the last twelve months he has snared both the inaugural running of The King Of The Mountain on the Tony and Maddysen Sears trained Yellow Brick as well as The… Read More »
From the moment Rothfire was announced as the first entry into $750 000 The King Of The Mountain at Toowoomba on January 1, a race in which twelve slot-holders choose the runners to represent them, within certain conditions, the Robert Heathcote trained runner has been justifiably cited as the horse… Read More »
The very smart Weigall Tiger will be looking for his fifth win in a row when he runs in the City To Surf Plate (a set weights contest for three-year-olds over 1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. After kicking off his career with a third place finish as a $31… Read More »
New Zealand trainer Andrew Forsman is moving stables after being successful in a tender process for boxes at Flemington. Forsman had been at Macedon Lodge for much of the year, but he has embraced the opportunity that the Flemington option provides. “We’ve used Flemington a few times before for our… Read More »
Beau Dazzler, the New Zealand bred two-year-old from the Tony and Maddysen Sears stable, will be heading to New Zealand next month to tackle the Karaka Million at Ellerslie on January 27. Beau Dazzler has had an eventful two career starts to date. On debut, the son of Ardrossan simply… Read More »
Frankie Dettori has given the current state of racing in Australia an indirect compliment. Quoted in an article published by The Sun, Dettori raised more than a few eyebrows in Britain when he stated that, if he had his time again now, he wouldn’t start out in Britain. “If I… Read More »
While not the biggest race on the calendar, trainer Tony Gollan ticked off a box with great satisfaction earlier this year when All That Pizzazz, easy to back at $11, touched off the $1.45 favourite Yellow Brick in the Weetwood at Toowoomba. It was a race that Gollan, originally from… Read More »
The Tony and Maddysen Sears stable will be the defending champions going into the King Of The Mountain contest on New Year’s Day at Toowoomba, having won the inaugural running of the race with Yellow Brick last year. The stable effectively has two slots in the race with stable client… Read More »
The Toby and Trent Edmonds training partnership will come to an end on Magic Millions day at the Gold Coast next month, the scene of one the stable’s greatest victories when Houtzen took out the 2007 running of Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic, maintaining his unbeaten record at the time. “I… Read More »
Apprentice Cejay Graham is taking the 2023/24 Brisbane Metropolitan racing season by storm … much as Angela Jones did the last season. Jones’ stellar season resulted in a final total of 79 Metropolitan winners, a third place in the overall Brisbane Metropolitan Jockeys’ Premiership and a runaway win in the… Read More »
Ben Thompson has been confirmed as the jockey for Rothfire in the upcoming King Of The Mountain which will kick off racing in the New Year in Queensland at Toowoomba on January 1. It will be the second running of the King Of the Mountain with Thompson looking to go… Read More »
The new turf track at the Gold Coast Turf Club scored a high pass mark in it’s first test under true racing conditions on Saturday when seventy-five horses, over seven races, competed in the first race meeting held on the new racing surface. While it was only the first test,… Read More »
