Kerrin McEvoy put his body to the test in a trackwork session on Friday morning and is fit and ready for a big day of racing at Flemington on Saturday. McEvoy was thrown from an unraced two-year-old into the outside fence at Rosehill on Tuesday as the horse was heading… Read More »
Chris Waller has snapped up the services of champion jockey Jim Cassidy to partner two-year-old Kristy Lee following the Friday scratching of highly-rated youngster Faustus. Cassidy was booked to ride the John O’Shea-trained Faustus in Saturday’s $100,000 Schweppes Plate (1100m) at Warwick Farm but the colt has been withdrawn and… Read More »
Three-year-old Pied A Terre will join an elite group of champions if he can win the Group Two Blamey Stakes at Flemington. Cox Plate-winning filly Surround was the last three-year-old Blamey winner in 1977 while Australian Cup winner Lord Dudley won in 1976 and Caulfield Cup winner Gay Icarus in… Read More »
A win by Americain in Saturday’s Australian Cup would be an emotional one for Lindsay Park trainer David Hayes whose mother Betty died overnight. The Lindsay Park dynasty, begun by Hayes’ late father Colin Hayes and his wife Betty, has won most of the major races around Australia including five… Read More »
Tommy Berry has been given the nod for the prized ride on Manawanui in the Group One Randwick Guineas after Glyn Schofield failed to get enough meetings shaved off a careless riding suspension on appeal. Schofield was suspended for nine meetings for interference over the final 50m of the Hobartville… Read More »
Ultra-consistent mare Beaded is in the best condition of her career to avenge her defeat in last year’s Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. The Peter Snowden-trained six-year-old is the forgotten horse in Saturday’s Group One feature at $21 with TAB Sportsbet despite finishing third to Black Caviar a year ago. She… Read More »
The first Group One race of the Sydney autumn is set to be run on a heavy track. Warwick Farm has been rated a heavy (9) for Saturday’s Chipping Norton Stakes meeting after receiving 103mm of rain in the past 48 hours. Racing NSW deputy chairman of stewards Greg Rudolph… Read More »
Betty Hayes will be remembered as a kind and caring woman and an integral part of the famous Lindsay Park racing dynasty. The wife of legendary trainer Colin (CS) Hayes and mother of Peter, who died in a 2001 plane crash, David and daughters Jan and Kerry, she died overnight… Read More »
Peter Robl will have to call on his experience as a jockey on Saturday, because he won’t be able to call on his experience aboard any of his seven mounts. With several of Sydney’s top riders in Melbourne for the Newmarket Handicap meeting, Robl has picked up some handy rides… Read More »
Former Victorian Craig Stott knew he was taking the risk of a lifetime and was ignoring his mother’s advice when he ventured into farming and training almost 20 years ago. Stott, who saddles up Mystical Grey in the Jae My Holdings Handicap (1350m) at Doomben on Saturday, was working as… Read More »
Victorian trainers are busy rescheduling race dates for their horses after Racing Victoria called off another two meetings following this week’s heavy rain across much of the state. Friday’s meeting at Sale and Sunday’s Wangaratta Cup meeting have been abandoned after the racecourses received 45mm and more than 100mm of… Read More »
Peter Snowden has long been a fan of top three-year-old Manawanui and admits his four Hobartville Stakes runners have their backs to the wall against him in Saturday’s Group Two feature. Snowden will start Free Wheeling, Ambidexter, Galah and Induna in the 1400m event at Rosehill in which the Ron… Read More »
Trainer Pat Carey is hoping dour mare Our Serena can load up her value as a broodmare in the Listed Roy Higgins Quality at Flemington. Carey said although the five-year-old was still a city maiden she was well placed to break through in Saturday’s 2500-metre stakes event ahead of her… Read More »
Tony Gollan is arguably one of the country’s busiest trainers at present but his immediate focus is on Cariad in the Listed Falvelon Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Gollan has been travelling back and forth from Melbourne recently preparing his star sprinter Temple Of Boom for the autumn sprints…. Read More »
Linda Meech has answered a call from Peter Moody to partner his two Rosehill runners on Saturday including exciting three-year-old Moment Of Change. It will be a rare Sydney visit from the New Zealand-born jockey who was indentured to Moody during her apprenticeship and does much of his riding around… Read More »
Adam Hyeronimus will represent NSW in the first heat of the 2012 National Apprentice Series at Moonee Valley on Friday. The 21-year-old, who is indentured to Gai Waterhouse at Randwick, will ride the Russell Cameron-trained Next in the opening heat race, run under lights over 1200 metres. It will be… Read More »
Trainer Rob Heathcote is hopeful Tomboy can boost his arsenal for the interstate autumn carnivals when the talented mare returns to Eagle Farm on Saturday. Tomboy will be attempting to post her eighth win from her past 10 starts in the Listed Tattersall’s Members’ Cup (1600m), ahead of a possible… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse has gone back to basics in a move that has delivered the desired results so far this season. The champion trainer has already prepared 11 individual two-year-old winners and one of them, Pierro, will kick off his Golden Slipper campaign at Rosehill this Saturday in the Group Two… Read More »
Some facts about the Group One $750,000 Australian Guineas (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday:- * First run in 1986 as a Group Three event and won by True Version. * Group One from 1987. * For three-year-olds under set weight conditions. * Race conducted over 2000m as the final leg… Read More »
The barrier draw has all but dashed Craig Williams’ hopes of riding a more prominent race on That’s The One in the Australian Guineas at Flemington. Williams is mindful of giving Caulfield Guineas winner Helmet too much start in Saturday’s 1600-metre Group One event but now concedes that from barrier… Read More »
