It has been a while, but Stephanie Thornton is finally back on a Chris Waller trained horse, taking up the reins on Oscar Zulu in the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup on Saturday. “I think I’ve only had one ride for Chris Waller. That was back in Victoria when I was… Read More »
Weona Smartone will be one of the prime points of focus of attention at the Sunshine Coast meeting tomorrow where he will attempt to extend an already significant winning sequence. The son of Shamexpress has suffered only one defeat in his nine-race career to date and that came on debut… Read More »
The current Sunshine Coast Cup race favourite Desert Lord will come into Saturday’s contest first-up after a four-month layoff with his place on the betting boards owing as much to trainer David Vandyke’s expertise of priming his horses for the individual task he sets them as to the actual form-line… Read More »
The strict entry restrictions currently being enforced by the Western Australian Government has forced apprentice Campbell Rawiller to plot a change of course for the next stage of his career after his application to enter Western Australian … where he was due to link up with trainer Lindsay Smith …… Read More »
The training partnership of Toby and Trent Edmonds will have a three-pronged attack in the Listed Sunshine Coast Cup on Saturday where Tyzone, The Harrovian and Hard Empire will carry the stable’s flag into battle. Even with the numerical advantage the task of winning the race remains a challenging one… Read More »
It took just three rides for Tegan Harrison to get back in the winners’ enclosure following her ten month injury enforced layoff from race riding … which was a very swift and welcome outcome after all the time she was forced to sit on the sidelines. When Harrison was dislodged… Read More »
It took the combined efforts of a great trainer and a great jockey to finally put an end to the unbeaten run of Hong Kong’s Champion race-horse Golden Sixty in the Group 1 Steward’s Cup. The Francis Lui trained son of Medaglia D’oro was bidding for a record equalling seventeen… Read More »
Jockey Tiffani Brooker had her fair share of publicity going into her ride on Sneaky Starter in the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic … in fact, a lot of publicity if you consider Sneaky Starter started at a price of $201. For the most part though, Brooker’s story, in… Read More »
Multiple Premiership winning trainer Tony Gollan likes to tell it as it is. If he is confident about the chances of one of his runners he says so. If he thinks there are obstacles one of his runners might have to overcome, he will tell you what he thinks they… Read More »
Could the Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young trained Cusack be the horse who has slipped under the punters guard for the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic? The chances of the chestnut colt have almost been devoid of all publicity and he currently sits on the $29 mark in the… Read More »
Danny Bougoure will saddle the unbeaten Indiscreetly in the $2 million Three-Year-Old Guineas at the Gold Coast on Saturday. The good-looking filly booked her place in the big race by landing three wins from three starts, but there was a time when any thought of her taking up a place… Read More »
The Magic Millions Race-day at the Gold Coast has ben kind to trainer Greg Hickman over the years, to the degree that it should be a pre-requisite for those who study form to see what he has in the 2022 edition of the event. Enter Eleven Eleven, a five-year-old gelding… Read More »
Giles Thompson has announced that he has resigned as CEO of Racing Victoria, a position he has held for some five years. Thompson’s media release reads, “It has been my privilege to lead this industry for more than five years during what has been an incredible period of growth. I… Read More »
Trainer Will Hulbert plans to have a good day out at the Magic Millions race-day at the Gold Coast on Saturday, whatever the result of the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic, but if Heroic Son, the horse he co-trains with his father Peter, were to win the big one… Read More »
According to Daniel Moor, The Hong Kong Jockey Club has gone ‘above and beyond’ the call of duty to ensure that he and fellow Australian jockey Luke Currie were able to beat the arrival deadline into Hong Kong after the Hong Kong Government announced a two-week ban on flights into… Read More »
It will be a big stage for Jimmy Orman’s comeback race-day when he partners Mishani Warfare in the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Orman, who has established himself as one of the outright leading riders in Brisbane, last rode in a race on… Read More »
Tiffani Brooker will have the distinction of being the only female rider in this year’s $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic where she will ride the Mick Mair trained Sneaky Starter. Brooker hasn’t had the easiest time in recent years … on a couple of fronts! Firstly, after spending a… Read More »
Trainer Michael Costa could end up a home-town hero if Perfect Mission wins the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic on Saturday. The astute Gold Coast based trainer is well aware of the size of the challenge facing Perfect Mission but, equally, he is well satisfied with his runner going… Read More »
They don’t come more laid-back than trainer Ciaron Maher. Even if, deep down, he does have some butterflies in the stomach this week about saddling the dominant $1.85 favourite Coolangatta in Saturday’s $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic, there is certainly no evidence of it … just the usual calmness… Read More »
The Robert and Luke Price trained Jamaea currently tops the betting boards at $5 in a wide open $2 million Magic Millions Three-Year-old Guineas which will be run at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Market 💰: View the Odds for the Magic Millions Guineas The daughter of Headwater, who is… Read More »
