Mount Fuji, who was originally sold for $2.8 million at the 2019 Inglis Australian Easter Yearling Sale, has found a new home after being offered for sale at the Inglis’ 2021 August (Early) Online Sale, which ended yesterday. The four-year-old, who is winless after four starts, will head to the… Read More »
Leah Kilner has not wasted any time in demonstrating that she will provide a further boost to the riding ranks in South-East Queensland. Kilner, who landed a Saturday Metropolitan double aboard Rock Amore and Emerald Kingdom for leading trainers Tony Gollan and Robert Heathcote at Eagle Farm on July 31,… Read More »
The famous Birdsville Races have been postponed until April next year. The new dates for the event are Sunday, April 10, 2022 and Monday, April 11, 2022. The announcement, made by the Birdsville Race Club, also confirmed that the Birdsville racing fixture for September 2022 would remain in place, meaning… Read More »
Get ready for trainers and connections with contenders but no confirmed place yet in the 2021 The Everest to start lobbying hard and fast on behalf of their runners as they attempt to secure a place in the rich race line-up. Troy Corstens is one of those already beating The… Read More »
The highly rated Ayrton finished unplaced in an 800m trial on heavy going at Cranborne today, but co-trainer Mick Price was happy enough because he felt that Ayrton’s trial performance was just what the doctored as the four time winner from five starts plots a path back to racing action… Read More »
Another promising Toowoomba based runner will be heading south after a purchase offer too good too refuse was accepted by Dr Kim McCasker, the owner of the very well performed, newly turned three-year-old filly Hinged. Hinged, who established a proud record of five wins from only seven starts, all as… Read More »
With the lifting of the latest lockdown in eleven Local Government Areas across South East Queensland yesterday afternoon, Racing Queensland has confirmed that patrons will again be welcome to race meetings in South East Queensland, subject to some on-going Covid-19 provisions such as the wearing of face masks at all… Read More »
Great expectations going into the Missile Stakes turned into massive disappointment after the race for connections of the Joe Pride trained Fasika, who started favourite for the Group 2 event. Fasika finished a creditable third, less than a length behind Phobetor and Chat in the Missile Stakes, but she bled… Read More »
The Jeffrey Caught trained Fortification ($8) prevailed in a driving finish to take out the TAB Townsville Cup by 0.20 lengths from the game $41 outsider Bering Sea. The fact that less than a length separated the first four runners across the line … Play Me Now and Unbiased finished… Read More »
The smart Graeme Green trained galloper Master Jamie is now a fourteen-time winner after showing his class by shrugging off the difficulties of carrying 58kg from a number thirteen barrier draw to take out the Cleveland Bay at Townsville in style. Master Jamie has a proud record, having twice racked… Read More »
Win some … win lose. That is a saying as old as the ages, but it also implies that you can win big or lose big. James Herron, who is a slot holder in The Everest, has seen both sides of that toss of the coin, the latest being the… Read More »
Trainer Kenneth Deacon knew he was rolling the dice when he decided to back up San Bernardino at Ipswich within twenty-four hours of his Eagle Farm run. The gamble had little to do with the horse. Deacon knew his horse well and, as the result ultimately showed, he knew what… Read More »
It is the turn of Townsville to take centre stage on the North Queensland carnival circuit with two successive racedays on Friday and Saturday. Today’s feature, the Lightning Open Handicap over 1000m, went the way of the Garry Dickson trained Temple Run, who proved good enough to land his third… Read More »
It’s been three days since Rothfire’s scintillating trail on Tuesday morning and trainer Robert Heathcote could not be more thrilled with the progress of the star performer following his long road to recovery after the career threatening injury he suffered back in the Golden Rose on September 26 last year…. Read More »
Even before he saw a racecourse, things did not go well for Jack Daniel. A colt foaled in 2018, Jack Daniel broke a foot early on … then developed an eye infection which had the worst possible consequence with the eye having to be removed. This was all before the… Read More »
The fact that nobody is immune to the adverse effects surrounding mental health issues has been well documented in recent times with several high profile and successful … certainly performance-wise … elite athletes also shining the light on the on this dark but intangible presence which can take over people’s… Read More »
Three hundred and fifty odd kilometers from the fanfare of Flemington, a country track in Coleraine seemed an unlikely venue for a trainer of Tom Dabernig’s stature to gain his first winner since taking out a trainer’s licence in his own right. But that is exactly where Dabernig sent the… Read More »
There was a rousing finish to the Coffs Harbour Cup where trainer Kris Lees finally got his Coffs Cup winner in the form of the chestnut mare Itz Lily. Itz Lily had made her run with Willo Titto and these two runners joined issue inside the final 75m. It's @LeesRacing's… Read More »
This doesn’t happen often! The Beaudesert based trainer Kenneth Deacon certainly didn’t leave Eagle Farm yesterday wondering what he would do next with his then thirty-five start maiden San Bernardino. The six-year-old gelding had finished a distant 10.75 lengths behind Fiorente Star at Eagle Farm in a Maiden Plate over… Read More »
Hard work has paid off for trainer Billy Healey with Alligator Blood today becoming a formal addition to his racing stable. Healey has had Alligator Blood in his care prior to the geldings proposed move to the Gai Waterhouse / Adrian Bott stable following his rehabilitation and steady comeback to… Read More »
