The Mick Price and Michael Kent trained Our Playboy, who was easy to back at $9 in an open betting race, turned in the performance of the meeting at the Sunshine Coast when he annihilated his opposition in the Group 3, Winx Guineas. If the winning margin of 5.80 lengths… Read More »
The Listed Caloundra Cup was duly taken out, as expected, by the Joe Pride trained Stockman. The New Zealand bred son of Tavistock dominated the betting to start at the restrictive odds of $1.45, but he had to work a lot harder for victory that those odds indicated might be… Read More »
Incentivise, the horse who raced right into people hearts over the Queensland Winter Carnival, will enjoy hero status at Clifford Park in Toowoomba today where he will give a farewell parade between races four and five, at the track which has been his home base throughout his career, before heading… Read More »
Remember Benbatl? Well, here’s a reminder as to why there is justifiably a bit of expectation and excitement surrounding the Godolphin runner’s pending return to action in the coming months. In 2018, amongst other successes, the Saeed bin Suroor’s trained son of Dubawi won the $7 million Dubai Turf over… Read More »
It will be ‘take 2’ for jockey Gary Lo when he makes a return to the South Australian racing scene in the near future … and it will a very important and challenging time for the rider whose career has been in limbo for the past fifteen months. Lo spent… Read More »
In April 2020, apprentice Jerry Chau, who was learning his trade in South Australia at the time, got the call-up from the Hong Kong Jockey Club granting Chau permission to ride in Hong Kong, initially until the end of the 2019/20 season. Chau had spent just over a year in… Read More »
Melbourne Cup winning trainer Sheila Laxon, who trains in partnership with John Symons under the Esprit Racing banner, will be looking to score one for the locals at the Sunshine Coast meeting on Sunday, the last meeting of the Queensland Winter Carnival which was delayed a week following last weekend’s… Read More »
Tony Gollan was understandably well pleased with what he saw at the trials at Eagle Farm yesterday morning. Gollan runners won four trials with one runner, EF Troop, catching the eye in particular, when winning Trial 14 by eleven lengths. Back in the care of @tonygollan and thriving! Ef Troop… Read More »
Multiple Brisbane Metropolitan Trainers Premiership winner Tony Gollan will be looking to flex the stable’s muscles at Grafton today where the powerful yard has the seasoned Outback Barbie and Garibaldi engaged in the $200 000, Listed Ramornie Handicap over 1200m. Outback Barbie needs no introduction. The five-year-old Spirit Of Boom… Read More »
As the current Hong Kong season draws to a close, the action is still very much alive and well in the Hong Kong sales market with another two Australian horses being snapped up by Hong Kong buyers this week. And the search for suitable horses covers all corners of Australia,… Read More »
Queensland racing just can’t catch a break at the moment. The Warwick meeting, originally scheduled for last Sunday and the then transferred to this Wednesday, because of the state of the track, has now officially been abandoned. As stated on the Racing Queensland website, ‘The abandonment decision was made following… Read More »
The start of the new financial year didn’t bring a windfall to racing participants in Queensland. Just the opposite. It brought a wipeout … for the short-term at least. And it had nothing to do with Covid-19. This was good old fashion nature taking charge with rainfall ruling the day…. Read More »
The massive ten race meeting at Ipswich lasted two races more than the meeting did at Kilcoy yesterday but, ultimately, for the second day in a row, a meeting in Queensland was abandoned with Ipswich only going as far as race four. Trainer Michael Nolan, who won one of the… Read More »
Not surprisingly, the first Midway Handicap, which will take place at Rosehill tomorrow, has attracted a full field of runners. Back in February, as part of their $20 million prize-money increases, Racing NSW announced the introduction of Midway races … a new race concept with prize money worth $100 000… Read More »
When Hong Kong buyers come knocking it is difficult not to open the door. Ask Will Hulbert, who trains in partnership with his father Peter … but, in truth, when that knock on the door came enquiring about the stable’s Rough Habit winner Criminal defence, it did not take Hulbert… Read More »
It might not quite be the ‘nervous nineties,’ but Jamie Kah is currently pushing the scoreboard along one single at a time as she inches closer to a landmark century of wins in the Victorian Metropolitan Jockey’s Premiership. Yesterday she moved from 96 to 97 winners with a decisive win… Read More »
Horses that arrive in South-East Queensland from the north of the state are not always given the respect they deserve … irrespective of any good form they have established around tracks on the Townsville, Cairns, Mackay and Rockhampton circuit. The latest case in point is the Michael Mclellan trained Cracker… Read More »
Fields have cut up pretty badly for the meeting at Warwick Farm today where the track rating is listed as a heavy 9. There have been no less than thirty-seven scratchings, leaving just fifty-nine runners to contest the seven races with only one race (race 6) having a double figure… Read More »
It is now within touching distance … just a tantalising four wins away. That is the number of winners Jamie Kah has still to ride to become the first jockey to reach the magical one hundred metropolitan winner’s milestone in a season in Victoria. With ten metropolitan meetings left to… Read More »
To keep winning when you step up in class is one thing. To keep increasing your winning margin is another thing altogether, particularly when you won your last three starts by 7.30 lengths, 9.00 lengths and 9.50 lengths … but that is exactly what the Steve Tregea trained Incentivise did… Read More »
