The Queensland Guineas helped put Chris Munce in the national limelight as a jockey and he is hoping the race can do the same for him as a trainer. Munce was only 21 when champion trainer Bart Cummings entrusted him with the ride on Solar Circle in the 1990 Guineas…. Read More »
Ron Quinton-trained sprinter Boss Lane will need to prove he still wants to be a racehorse when he chases his first win in almost two years in the June Stakes at Randwick. Having already undergone a significant changing of the guard at his stable with the recent retirement of Group… Read More »
Not A Single Cent is among the outsiders for the Queensland Derby but his co-trainer David Eustace believes the gelding is poised to run better than his odds suggest in the Group One race. A half-brother to one of Australian racing’s most popular horses, multiple Group One winner Happy Clapper,… Read More »
Chouxting The Mob will have his cheer squad from Perth in attendance at Flemington when he attempts a winning hat-trick. A large contingent in the ownership of the Simon Morrish-trained horse will travel from Perth to watch him run in Saturday’s TAB/ATA Celebrates Women Trainers Handicap. Morrish has slight reservations… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy believes he has found the key to his horses racing well in Queensland and hopes to confirm it in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap. McEvoy will be chasing his seventh Group One win of the season with Despatch and Dollar For Dollar in Saturday’s $1.5 million Stradbroke… Read More »
Brisbane’s premier trainer Tony Gollan started the week with a setback but hopes it ends better with chances in three Group One races at Eagle Farm. His stable star, three-year-old Zoustyle, has gone to the spelling paddock after being found with a low-grade virus on Tuesday. Zoystyle was expected to… Read More »
At Canberra on Friday, a name in the jock’s ranks no-one has ever heard of can land a winner. And maybe two! He is, like Glyn Schofield, Robbie Fradd, Jeff Lloyd and Tony McEvoy’s latest riding star Barend Vorster, a South African who is now in Australia looking for a… Read More »
Blake Shinn is the latest Australian jockey to be granted a licence to ride in Hong Kong in the new season. Shinn has been granted a part-season Club licence from July 15 until February 29, 2020. Shinn says he is proud to have been granted the licence. “Hong Kong is… Read More »
Emerging sprinter Noble Boy faces his biggest test in a surprisingly strong Hinkler Quality Handicap at Eagle Farm. Queanbeyan trainer Todd Blowes brought Noble Boy to Queensland with an outside chance to run in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap but mainly for experience against top class horses. The winner of… Read More »
Having racked up an impressive strike rate of seven wins from 15 starts, Bon Amis is poised to make his first foray into black-type racing in the Listed June Stakes at Randwick. It’s a fair feat for a horse bought unsighted for $4000 over the internet and will be even… Read More »
Robbie Griffiths rates Halvorsen a classy sprinter in the making but the trainer is still guarded about the three-year-old’s prospects of winning at his first attempt racing on the straight course at Flemington. Halvorsen is set to run in Saturday’s Ken Cox Handicap (1000m) against his own age with the… Read More »
A suspension at Doomben has not dampened jockey Michael Hellyer’s enthusiasm for his ride on his favourite horse Baccarat Baby in the Queensland Guineas. Hellyer and Baccarat Baby are set to tackle Saturday’s Group Two Queensland Guineas over 1600 metres at Eagle Farm. Baccarat Baby was originally considered a Queensland… Read More »
Victorian trainer Jarrod McLean is set to front a hearing into charges relating to the possession of an electronic apparatus, commonly known as a jigger. The trainer was also Darren Weir’s assistant and ran his stable at Warrnambool. Two charges against McLean will be heard on June 17 by the… Read More »
Godolphin’s Kate Grimwade hopes debut winner Lesage can answer a few questions when she runs on the straight course at Flemington for the first time. A debut winner at Cranbourne last month, Lesage runs in Saturday’s Bruce Gadsden Handicap (1100m) and despite being trained at Flemington since her debut, she… Read More »
