“I’m pretty speechless, it’s been a very special day. I’ve had such a great experience here with some beautiful horses I have ridden. I was speechless after and I got goosebumps – it’s hard to make me speechless, it was a very exciting day.” Fair to say Hong Kong is… Read More »
A bit of racing history will be made today with the Gold Coast Turf Club breaking new ground … in a manner of speaking … when they host the first race meeting on their new Polytrack at their Aquis Park venue today. Eight races were originally programmed, but one race… Read More »
Robbie Fradd’s recovery from major, triple by-pass heart surgery is progressing well enough physically and, at the same time, he is also steadily coming to terms with the fact that he has not been able to end his forty-year career as a jockey on his own terms. “I’m getting there…. Read More »
Trainer David Vandyke has confirmed that Gypsy Goddess, the winner of the National Champion Three-Year-Old Filly title for 2021-22, has been sold as a broodmare and will relocate to Japan where she will join another former David Vandyke runner, now broodmare, Yankee Rose, who won the Queensland Horse Of The… Read More »
Trainer Damien Batters has the Blue Diamond Prelude in his sights as he prepares to send his emerging two-year-old filly Party For Two to Melbourne for the big Caulfield contest on February 11. Batters, who doubles as stable foreman for the David Vandyke stable, has brought the daughter of Sidestep… Read More »
Skirt The Law, the unbeaten two-year-old filly who slammed her rivals in no uncertain terms in the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast last week … will take up the Golden Slipper challenge with the world’s richest two-year-old race now being confirmed as Skirt The Law’s next… Read More »
Nikita Beriman would appear to be well on her way to mastering what we all would like to achieve … a healthy work-life balance. With the relentless, demanding pace of the racing schedule, that option is not readily available to all of those involved in the industry. Rather, it is… Read More »
It is the Expressway Stakes, a Group 2 contest worth $250 000 with the prize-money distribution paying down to tenth place as usual … yet there are only four original nominations for the race on Saturday with that nomination deadline now being extended to 11am on Tuesday. It could well… Read More »
When Jamie Kah was in Hong Kong representing Australia in the International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley in early December, the Hong Kong Jockey Club made overtures to Kah, sounding her out about the possibility of her accepting a riding contract to ride in Hong Kong for an extended period… Read More »
It is now three years down the track, but the saga surrounding Alligator Blood’s 2020 Magic Millions Guineas victory, the disqualification and then his subsequent reinstatement via Supreme Court action … will continue to play out for some time to come with the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission (QRIC) confirming it… Read More »
Ben Thompson might have just missed out on the big one with Yellow Brick in the $2 million Magic Millions Three-Year-Old Guineas … and I mean only just missed out … but he bounced back to a claim a significant victory aboard the Tony Gollan trained Vinco in the $1… Read More »
This morning’s confirmation that Skirt The Law, Queensland’s $2 million Magic Million’s Two-Year-Old Classic winner, has pulled up well after her magnificent effort at the Gold Coast yesterday has completed a perfect result for the connections of the Better Than Ready filly. “She has pulled up in good order,” said… Read More »
When Justin Huxtable lost the ride on the then unbeaten Miss Coota in the Group 3 Bruce McLachlan Stakes, he would have been forgiven for thinking that his chance of riding the Chris Munce trained filly in the $2 million Magic Millions Classic was gone. Huxtable had partnered Miss Coota… Read More »
Multi-Premiership winning trainer Tony Gollan is very happy with his runners going into the two $2 million races at the Gold Coast today … the Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic and the Magic Millions Three-Year-Old Guineas. These two races feature amongst the eight races that were postponed, moving from Saturday to… Read More »
Every year, buyers at the Magic Millions Yearling Sale are essentially pursuing the dream of owning an elite racehorse. It is a combination of desire and optimism on which much of racing is built … and the beauty of the game is that nobody knows who the next champion racehorse… Read More »
The postponement of the last eight races at the Magic Millions meeting at the Gold Coast on Saturday was the fairest outcome for the majority of runners engaged in the last eight races, which will now take place on Thursday. Saturday’s meeting officially came to an end with the steward’s… Read More »
High-profile jockey Tommy Berry has been hit with a massive suspension after fronting a Racing NSW steward’s hearing earlier today. Berry was handed a disqualification of eleven months and two weeks after being found guilty on several charges relating to his ‘accepting considerations’ from a prominent punter. Under the rules… Read More »
Due to the unfortunate abandonment of the race meeting at the Gold Coast on Saturday … which led to eight of the scheduled Magic Millions ten races being transferred to Thursday … the 2023 Magic Millions Gold Coast Yearling Sales has already been done and dusted. Traditionally, the belief has… Read More »
It might well end up being a case of where there is smoke there is fire … but, for now at least, Racing Victoria is pouring cold water on some of the possible specific changes to the Spring Carnival that have already been alluded to in some media outlets. Steve… Read More »
Somebody’s bad luck can sometimes be somebody else’s good fortune. The Mishani Enterprises team had targeted the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic from a long way out and their strategy was good enough to secure Mishani Renegade a place in the big race lineup. The Les Ross trained runner… Read More »
