Takeover Target retired
The career of Australia‘s globetrotting sprint champion Takeover Target is over with the veteran to spend several months in the UK recuperating from the injuries he suffered at Newmarket on Friday.
The career of Australia‘s globetrotting sprint champion Takeover Target is over with the veteran to spend several months in the UK recuperating from the injuries he suffered at Newmarket on Friday.
Thanks John has been beaten when sent off as favourite in no less than four of his five runs since winning his maiden for which he also topped the boards.
New Zealand stallion succumbs to colitis and renal failure.
Buoyed by its breakthrough Australian Group 1 success in last year?s BMW Caulfield Cup with All The Good, the world’s biggest racing operation, Godolphin, has nominated seven of its best gallopers for this year’s Spring Racing Carnival feature races.
Warrnambool races cancelled
FORMER Queensland trainer Peter Moody is set to unleash the first of his powerful team when unbeaten mare Typhoon Tracy resumes at Caulfield on Saturday.
CHAMPION racehorse Weekend Hussler is on the road to recovery thanks to the shockwave therapy illegally used on Bauer in last year’s Melbourne Cup.
SHELLSCRAPE is making a compelling case to run in the $1million Golden Rose after continuing his hot winning streak at Royal Randwick yesterday.
THE run of Gigas at Randwick yesterday underlined the training genius of Gai Waterhouse who turned the horse upside down, and turned out a winner.
TAYLOR Lovelock-Wiggins sounds like a private school rugby winger or a Point Piper real estate salesman but he is the next big name in the Sydney jockey ranks.
JASON McLachlan is preparing himself for an emotion-charged day when Phelan Ready steps out at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday.
COURT Command will have a “barrier trial” in a $75,000 sprint over 1300m at Eagle Farm on Wednesday.
THE Brisbane Racing Club has relaxed its stance on the great Australian thong with Doomben declared a flip flop-friendly zone again after a three-year ban.
LIAM Birchley gets back to business with filly Paprika hoping she could emulate former champion Gold Edition’s Melbourne spring glory.
EMERGING trainer Steven O’Dea believes Kiss Me Katy might have a fitness edge on her San Domenico rivals, despite not racing for two months.
IDENTICAL twin sisters Tiara and Kirra Lees-Smith, 17, have racetrack regulars doing a double-take at Royal Randwick each morning.
METAL Bender gave Corey Brown more reason to feel envious of rival Hugh Bowman after partnerning him to a brilliant barrier trial win at Rosehill Gardens.
JASON McLachlan has some serious decisions to make this spring and he’s hoping Acorns will provide him with another in his return on Saturday.
ECONOMISTS may be growing confident the worst of the recession has passed, but difficulties still confront the breeding industry.
QUEENSLAND horse Phelan Ready turned heads at Randwick yesterday with a startling barrier trial performance. The Golden Slipper winner has made the grade.