Jye McNeil has been ruled out of the next two meetings in Hong Kong after returning a positive PCR test for COVID on Tuesday. The Melbourne Cup winning jockey had been booked for five rides at Happy Valley on Wednesday, but will now be replaced on his rides after being… Read More »
It remains a bit of a baptism of fire for Queensland Racing’s new Chief Steward Josh Adams whose appointment to the top stewarding job in the state was confirmed by the Queensland Racing Integrity Commissioner Shane Gillard last week. The announcement also confirmed that Adams would take over from the… Read More »
It took Nikita Beriman just ten rides to rubber-stamp her comeback to race riding with an emphatic win on the Garnett Taylor trained Bold And Lucy at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday. With Beriman having been out of the saddle for three years and four months since announcing her retirement… Read More »
The Robert Heathcote trained Rothfire will be returning home to Queensland on Tuesday night and will then have a well-deserved break from racing. The five-year-old son of Rothesay finished fifth, just 1.65 lengths off the winner Paulele in the Winterbottom at Ascot in Perth on Saturday … in what has… Read More »
The build-up for Hong Kong’s showpiece event, the Hong Kong International Races on December 11, could not be going any better for champion jockey Zac Purton. Fresh from breaking the record for the most wins by a jockey at the Happy Valley track last week, Purton set yet another new… Read More »
It has literally been years in the making … ok, we won’t go there … but the fact that The Racing Integrity Amendment Bill 2022 was finally passed into law by the Queensland Parliament on October 25 means that the workings of the Queensland Racing Judiciary system can now hopefully… Read More »
‘The Licensing Committee has approved an application received from Jockey Joao Moreira to withdraw his licence issued by the Club for the 2022/23 racing season, with immediate effect.’ That brief twenty-eight word notification posted by the Hong Kong Jockey Club marks the end of one of the most successful personal… Read More »
While one of racing’s great rivalries has officially been brought to an end with Joao Moreira handing in his Hong Kong riding license, Zac Purton continues to push the envelope at the top end of the game … and Wednesday night at Happy Valley saw Purton reach another significant milestone… Read More »
After riding high since relocating to the Gold Coast “King’ Callow’s career has been brought down to earth after the seasoned jockey was suspended for three months and fined $4500 following a Victorian Racing Tribunal’s hearing into betting related charges which occurred all the way back in 2013 when Callow… Read More »
You wouldn’t blame the Tony and Maddysen Sears training partnership if they were already counting down to the inaugural running of the King Of The Mountain feature race which will be held at their home track at Toowoomba on December 31. With $750 000 on offer, the King Of The… Read More »
After seemingly marking time for several seasons, largely due to the negative impact of Covid, Singapore Turf Club’s release of their fixture list for the period April 1, 2023 to March 31, 2024 has given great cause for optimism about the future of racing in the precinct as it has… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan walked away from the Metropolitan meeting at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday a very satisfied man. Not only did Le Palmier and Sneaky Five quinella the Swiss Ace Plate for the champion trainer, but it was his earlier winner in the form of the Spirit Of Boom… Read More »
It will forever remain a remarkable moment in racing history … the day when Tears I Cry won the 2007 Emirates Stakes at odds of 100-1. It was a significant result in many ways as it was both trainer Ciaron Maher’s and jockey Nikita Beriman’s first Group 1 win …… Read More »
The confirmation by the Hong Kong Jockey Club that Jamie Kah will represent Australia, along with Jye McNeil, in the prestigious Longines International Jockeys’ Championship at Happy Valley on December 7 adds further lustre to the Kah’s already formidable reputation as a race rider. But there is work to be… Read More »
‘Delighted to announce that in conjunction with @BallymoreStabls we have secured high class European G1 winner Alenquer to race in Australia. Heads south next month to aim for the Sydney autumn carnival.’ That tweet from Paul Moroney confirmed that trainer Mike Moroney would have the newly purchased Group 1 winner… Read More »
The Everest winning trainer Clayton Douglas will soon welcome a valuable addition to his stable’s brain-trust with Paul Gatt set to join the Douglas operation after the seasoned and successful rider confirmed that he will retire by the end of the year and move from South Australia to Victoria. The… Read More »
It seems you just cannot keep owner Brae Sokolski out of the headlines. Whether it is the crowning success with his Melbourne Cup winner Verry Elleegant … or his trials and tribulations with the same mare during her European campaign … or his success stories with the likes of Incentivise… Read More »
With the Longines Hong Kong International Races on December 11 just twenty-six days away, it will be interesting to see how the current and on-going Covid situation in this prime racing precinct impacts, if at all, on Hong Kong’s biggest race-day. As things stand at the moment, two of the… Read More »
There has been a sequel to the disturbing situation raised by a photograph taken at track work on August 30 during the build-up to the iconic Birdsville race meeting in September with jockey Ric McMahon pleading guilty to a charge related to the possession of a banned device. Police alleged… Read More »
There has been a new twist in the case of champion jockey Christophe Soumillon who now faces the prospect of having the current two-month suspension he is serving extended for an, as yet, undetermined period of time or even revoked. Soumillon was handed the two-month suspension after seemingly unceremoniously elbowing… Read More »
