There are sooooo many things happening in North American racing as we head towards the Kentucky Derby in a few weeks, that an occasional massive story just gets overlooked. In New York, one is developing that could be of interest globally. You probably don’t remember, but in 2011, New York-based… Read More »
There was something divinely rewarding for Linda Meech as she steered PIPPIE home to win the Gr 1 Oakleigh Plate. Remember, this was the jockey who was sensationally sacked from the star 3YO THOUGHT OF THAT days prior to the Gr 1 VRC Derby because…. ‘she wasn’t a Gr 1… Read More »
He was a super racehorse winning the Belmont Stakes and the Breeders Cup back when it was the richest race in the world. Then they retired him. He went to stud and became one of the greatest stallions ever to walk the earth. His name was A.P. Indy and today,… Read More »
The plum Gr 1 ride on Hanseatic at Caulfield this afternoon is up for grabs following the fall on Friday night suffered by his rider Luke Currie. And the really annoying part, the fall occurred AFTER the very last race. It was after the field had crossed the line. Currie,… Read More »
A significant announcement by Woodbine’s CEO, Jim Lawson, today via an interview with Thoroughbred Daily News (TDN), could change the way racing in North America is run. Woodbine is Canada’s leading racetrack and it is, as a facility, the best racecourse in all of North America. It has always stood… Read More »
It probably doesn’t matter if you are just a casual racing lover, or a trainer, breeder, jockey, professional punter, school teacher, janitor, unemployed bum, et al. If you have a punt every now and then, you have an internal Black Book in your mind always looking for future winners. Well,… Read More »
It is not often, in fact NEVER, that North American rules of racing and racing in general are better than Australia’s. That’s pretty much always been the prevailing thought. But, after a big race at Santa Anita yesterday, there just might be one teensy weenie rule that we need to… Read More »
Surely in the wet at Warwick Farm this afternoon, we are going to see some sort of history made. If I’m wrong, please advise. But the parameters are these; a $2million race with runners from three distinctly different stables, belonging to members of the same family. The Cummings clan will… Read More »
We have lost the big million dollar races at Warwick Farm this afternoon, but we have NOT lost high stakes horse racing, drama, action and suspense. As you wake this morning, news is spreading across the globe of a handsome, brave racehorse being scratched from a low key race at… Read More »
Overnight Godolphin’s superstar BENBATL just etched his name into the record books when he brilliantly and easily won the Gr 2 Al Maktoum Challenge on the dirt. Just watch the replay. Oh he is a star! Benbatl scoots home on dirt debut for @CSoumillon, Saeed bin Suroor and @godolphin… #DWCCarnival… Read More »
On Saturday at Caulfield, a massive and rather impressive milestone will be reached by everybody’s horse they love to hate: SO SI BON. Or will it? So Si Bon, who right from when he was a 2YO promised sooo much as a racehorse, faces his 11 rivals in the Gr… Read More »
A good thing happened to the world of horse racing overnight. And it was in Japan. Two much loved, admired, and followed, Australian Gr 1 winning mares, had babies. They being Gr 1 Golden Slipper winner SHE WILL REIGN (Manhattan Rain-Courgette) and Gr 1 Vinery Stud Stakes winner SINGLE GAZE…. Read More »
Gee, Victorian trainer Bryce Stanaway must be a man of tremendous patience. Throw in a good helping of hope too. At Geelong today, his 8YO mare COSTANO MILLE (Istidaad-Javaloushe) trots around in race 4 over 2212m. She’s probably going to be an $81 chance and Bryce will saddle her up,… Read More »
On Saturday, after the running of the 4th race at Randwick, stewards sent a cadet into the jock’s room. He was instructed to tell Nash Rawiller that they wanted a word with him. So Nash obliged. He came into the stewards’ holy of holies and was immediately questioned, then grilled… Read More »
The horrible fall last night in the home straight which cost Gr 1 winner MANUEL his life, has claimed another victim. His rider Barend Vorster will be out of action for some time with a confirmed broken collarbone. The South African, here to ride for Team McEvoy and who was… Read More »
Isn’t Australian racing about to receive the greatest shot in the arm it’s ever had. Which is a big call given what Phar Lap did for us, Shannon also when he won in the US, Black Caviar in England, Takeover Target in Japan and more recently Japanese superstar Lys Gracieux…. Read More »
The great Aussie callers tradition continues. News has just filtered back to Australia that the folk at the Hong Kong Jockey Club want the same tone they’ve had for years calling their English version of the races. So Sky Channel’s brilliant announcer Mark McNamara has just been given the coveted… Read More »
Flemington on Saturday. It will, as it always is, be spectacular, memorable and hopefully profitable. But for one woman, and her horse, it might be out-of-this-world peaking in all those areas. She saddles up a horse going around in race 6 over 1400m. And it’s pretty hard to put one… Read More »
In The United states overnight, many things happened. Mostly concerning the speech the President gave re the jet going down in Tehran and the strikes on Iraq. But also, quite quietly in the grand scheme of things, the sudden, impossibly unpredicted death of a US racing icon in X Y… Read More »
The Randwick-based rider Adam Hyeronimus hasn’t been seen riding in Sydney for a few months. But that’s about to change. Hippo, as he’s known, is the main trackwork rider for Gai Waterhouse and Arian Bott and as such receives plenty of mounts from Tulloch Lodge. But he has been sidelined… Read More »
