The future of Sandown as a racing venue is fast becoming a major topic of debate with the Melbourne Racing Club scheduled to brief Dandenong’s eleven councillors on April 16 on a formal rezoning plan which has been put together by the club. This comes more than two years after… Read More »
Good news from Kylie Scott, wife of trainer Brett Scott, is that her husband is on the mend and is ‘doing well’ in his recovery following a nasty accident at his Mornington property back on March 3. On that day Scott was kicked in the head by a horse. It… Read More »
The training partnership of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott produced the chestnut filly Chimes in excellent order and the two-year-old daughter of Snitzel did the rest under a perfect ride from Tim Clark to land her first career win on debut at Newcastle. Up with the speed early, Chimes was… Read More »
We know most trainers generally do the hard yards anyway in terms of their commitment to the time and effort required to keep their business moving along, but every now and then they also have to deal with a curve ball that makes their task just that little bit more… Read More »
At Doomben, when the jockeys move from their conversation point with connections near the jockey’s room to go out and mount their horses in the parade ring, they pass through a gate, which leads onto the chute which runners use to find their way out on to the track. They… Read More »
Racing Queensland has released the following statement in response to the Queensland Government’s decision to place several precincts with Greater Brisbane under a three-day lockdown. The statement reads: ‘Racing Queensland has advised that meetings within South East Queensland during the Greater Brisbane lockdown period from March 29 to April 1,… Read More »
It was a case of putting the head down and saying ‘catch me if you can’. That was the game-plan of Ryan Wiggins aboard Rollinwiththeflow, both early on and then with far more intensity in the home straight in the fourth race at Doomben, a Three-Year-Old Handicap over 1350m, and… Read More »
Trainer David Vandyke may have had to play second and third fiddle in the fifth race at Doomben, but the stable was not to be denied in the sixth race when the very well supported Weona Smartone (a hot, hot $1.80 favourite with Sportsbet) proved too strong for his opposition… Read More »
Toorooloo pushed her winning strike rate record up to an impressive fifty precent when she landed the third win of her six start career in the Three-Year-Old Handicap over 1050m at Doomben. The win gave trainer David Vandyke and jockey Mark Du Plessis a double at the meeting after the… Read More »
The Matthew Smith trained Lashes ($3.20 Sportsbet) had to form to take care of things in the last race at Doomben and she duly saluted under Robbie Fradd although she did have to work to secure her victory in the Class 6 Handicap over 1200m. Lashes settled fourth and then… Read More »
Explosive Quality ($8.50 Sportsbet) lived up to her name when she burst through in a pressurised finish, putting her head in front when it mattered most to claim her third win from only ten starts. She also has five placings to her credit. There were four horses spread across the… Read More »
There is simply no substitute for class … a fact that is brought home time and again in racing. The latest evidence … watching the Toby and Trent Edmonds trained Vanna Girl ($3.70) streaking home to an eye-catching first-up win under the steadying burden of 59kg in the fifth race… Read More »
The Chris Waller / Jim Byrne combination made to a race to race double when Guise took the honours in the third race at Doomben, a BM85 Handicap over 1600m. The team had struck one race earlier with Humbolt Current and Guise ($3) followed a similar path in the running…. Read More »
After a bit of a wipe-out for most punters in the first race, Humbolt Current, the $1.60 favourite (Sportsbet), got one back for punters at Doomben when he saluted in the second race, An Open Handicap over 2000m. The six-year-old Fastnet Rock gelding had been well-supported in his previous start… Read More »
The outsider Military Gambler ($26) upstaged the main fancies in the opening race at Doomben, a Two-Year-Old Handicap over 1100m. The Chris Munce trained son of Rommel produced a sustained run and hit the line hard, an effort which carried him past the favourite Stellar Magic ($1.80) and Startantes (the… Read More »
Shadow Hero will return to Australia to continue his racing career after only a brief, five start campaign in Hong Kong. The four-year-old son of Pierro was sold Hong Kong interests last year and left Australia’s shores with a proud record, under trainer Mark Newnham’s guidance, of four wins …… Read More »
He made headlines back in October 2020 when he broke the record for the Tattersalls Autumn Horses in Training Sale when he changed hands for a purchase price of 925,000 guineas (approx $1.66m AUD). We are talking about English King, a classy son of Camelot, who was always going to… Read More »
It was a race to race double for the John O’Shea stable as Lost and Running maintained his perfect record with a solid win over the Kensington 1100m taking his career record to four wins from four starts. The race was run in pouring rain leading to the track conditions… Read More »
The New Zealand bred Waihaha Falls made no mistake on debut coming home a little bit more comfortably than the official 0.50 length winning margin suggests under a perfect ride from Tom Marquand. Waihaha Falls was given the run of the race, settling in third place stalking the speed until… Read More »
Tommy Berry completed an early double when he guided the I Am Invincible filly Ashema to victory in the second race on the Kensington track. This result gave Berry victories in both the two-year-old colts and geldings event (which he won on Kalino) and the two-year-old fillies contest in which… Read More »
