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 »
Frankie Dettori very much runs his own show. His presence and his approach to the photo-shoot he was asked to participate in at the Gold Coast when the club unveiled its new turf track on Saturday underlined that fact. The maestro conducted proceedings in his own inimitable style. From the… Read More »
The Queensland Racing Minister Grace Grace has launched an independent review into the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC). Grace’s decision … a huge development … comes on the back of continued concerns from stakeholders about both QRIC’s performance and its relationship with other groups working within the broader industry. The… Read More »
The year 2023 is one which Larry Cassidy will happily put behind him and want to forget. Cassidy made a welcome return to race riding at Doomben on Saturday, November 25 after being sidelined for two months, but sadly, his come-back only lasted for the two rides he had that… Read More »
Resist change at your peril. That’s a fair call in this ever-changing day and age, but … do me a favour … eligible connections can now win a slot in the Stradbroke. Really!! That’s the latest ‘innovation’ from Racing Queensland that will come to fruition when The Gateway is decided… Read More »
If Damien Oliver is to salute in his last Group 1 ride on the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott trained Zoumon in the $1.5 million Northerly Stakes at Ascot on Saturday, he will have to help his mount negotiate any disadvantage associated with a wide barrier draw (barrier fifteen out… Read More »
In less than a year’s time he will be back in the Australian training ranks but, right now, Dan Meagher is focussed on the challenge facing his star performer Lim’s Kosciuszko in Sunday’s HK$32 million Group 1 Longines Hong Kong Mile (1600m) at Sha Tin racecourse. The Meagher family has… Read More »
Look up the form of Fab’s Cowboy and you might do a double-take. One hundred and forty-seven starts … fifty wins, thirty-one seconds and twelve third placings … that’s right, FIFTY wins. The Bevan Johnson trained ‘legend’ reached the fifty-win milestone at Mt Isa on Saturday, at last putting an… Read More »
If nominations are anything to go by, the meeting at the Gold Coast on Saturday … the first on the new turf track, will have full fields … and probably an added race or two … after two-hundred-and-one nominations were received for the scheduled seven-race meeting. Fields will be restricted… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote’s stable star Rothfire might have finished second to Zoustyle in the Group 3 George Moore Stakes at Doomben on Saturday, but Heathcote could not be happier with the nine-time winning son of Rothesay who will now head to the $750,000 King Of The Mountain at Toowoomba on… Read More »
The manner in which the John and Sheila Laxon trained Knight’s Choice won at Doomben on Saturday has reaffirmed the fact that the door is open to a host of options for the four-year-old son of Extreme Choice over the next twelve months. “That was over 2000m. He was just… Read More »
He’s back … and riding winners! There is no big news in the riding winners part of that statement, as Elione Chavez arrived back on the Gold Coast with the Jockey Championship in Sweden firmly in his grasp (his seventh Premiership title in Sweden) with his season’s honour roll including… Read More »
Barry Baldwin didn’t manage to round off his six-decade training career with a winner at Ipswich on Wednesday where his sole … and last … runner Shadow Cruiser finished fourth, just 0.60 lengths behind the winner after coming from last, all of eight lengths back, and hitting the line hard…. Read More »
The much-anticipated return to racing on turf at the Gold Coast will take place on December 9, with the refurbished track ushering in a new era for the Gold Coast Turf Club as the Club continues to move forward with its bold masterplan aimed at elevating standards and rubber-stamping the… Read More »
Michael Rodd rubber-stamped a remarkable comeback to race riding when he piloted the Shuan Dwyer trainer Anemacore to victory in a Maiden Handicap at the Sunshine Coast on Friday night. Rodd had endured and overcome a nightmare, massive twenty-nine month spell on the sidelines fighting what has been termed post-concussion… Read More »
A ride for the late Bart Cummings aboard Strasbourg in the 2004 Melbourne Cup and now a ride for Chris Waller aboard Magical Lagoon in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup 2023, nineteen years later, speaks volumes for both jockey Mark Du Plessis’s longevity in the saddle and his standing amongst the likes… Read More »
