The curtain has come down on Marmelo’s racing career, with the respected stayer retired to stand at stud in France after being denied a third shot at the Melbourne Cup. Marmelo, the 2018 Cup runner-up, was controversially withdrawn from this year’s $8 million Melbourne Cup after standing CT scans indicated… Read More »
Trainer Chris Anderson was quick to thank Victorian trainer Jason Warren after Star Silk scored a tough win at Doomben. Anderson and Robert Heathcote recently dissolved their training partnership but it hasn’t stopped either training winners. Star Silk ($5.50) scored his fourth win and second for Anderson when he held… Read More »
It has been 14 years since a filly has won the Group Two Sandown Guineas but trainer Tony McEvoy is optimistic Pretty Brazen has the talent to break that drought. Pretty Brazen is one of two fillies in Saturday’s Sandown Guineas over 1600m for three-year-olds, with the Dan O’Sullivan-trained Affair… Read More »
NSW Racing has opted to play it safe as bushfires continue to burn across the state, cancelling Thursday’s Port Macquarie race meeting. Several fires are still burning on the NSW mid north coast, including two on the outskirts of Port Macquarie. With road closures and “heavy smoke” in the area,… Read More »
Four-year-old Prince Of Caviar, son of champion Black Caviar, has finished second as a short-priced favourite at Bendigo in his first start for more than a year. Trained by Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes, Prince Of Caviar is by Sebring out of Black Caviar, the mare who won all of… Read More »
Newcastle trainer Jason Deamer says Bon Amis has put an ill-timed virus behind him and is back to his best ahead of the $1 million Hunter. The six-year-old stable star has been carefully managed since his last-start third in the Group Three Show County at Randwick on August 24. Deamer… Read More »
Miss Siska is set to race for the third consecutive weekend while facing a distance test in the Group Two Zipping Classic at Sandown. The Grahame Begg-trained mare finished midfield in the Group One Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) at Flemington last Saturday week before backing up seven days later, finishing… Read More »
Premier trainer Tony Gollan believes he has found the right formula to help sprinter Capital Connection make a winning debut in open company. Capital Connection will be chasing his third win in a row when he joins a field of top short-course sprinters in the $105,000 Swiss Ace Plate (1000m)… Read More »
Racing Queensland is monitoring bushfires on the Sunshine Coast but at this stage there is no threat to Saturday’s meeting. The Sunshine Coast will host a meeting with more than 120 horses including the feature Swiss Ace Quality and Mooloolaba Cup. In 2017 fire threatened Corbould Park and several near… Read More »
The popular Happy Clapper has a virus and will miss The Gong robbing the $1 million race of its star attraction. Trainer Pat Webster said the gelding developed a temperature over the past few days and had a slight virus. He had been scheduled to trial on Tuesday ahead of… Read More »
Trainer Dan O’Sullivan hopes Affair To Remember can end what has so far been a frustrating spring campaign with victory in the Group Two Sandown Guineas. O’Sullivan had hoped to target the VRC Oaks (2500m) with Affair To Remember but aborted those plans after the filly failed to make the… Read More »
Dual New Zealand Group One winner Madison County is to continue his career in North America with trainer Chad Brown. The China Horse Club-owned gelding has won four of his 14 starts and was New Zealand’s Champion Three-Year-Old on the back of Group One victories in the New Zealand 2000… Read More »
Multiple Group One winner Sunlight will enjoy some paddock time before trainer Tony McEvoy and connections map out a program for 2020. Sunlight won the Group Two Gilgai Stakes during her five-start spring campaign which culminated in a second to Kolding in the $7.5 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill when… Read More »
Imported stayer Southern France is a late nomination for the Group Two Zipping Classic at Sandown with connections keeping their options open. Southern France finished 19th in last Tuesday’s $8 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington in his first Australian start and first run for co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David… Read More »
Le Romain’s recent third in the Redzel Stakes is cause for quiet optimism the Kris Lees stable stalwart is back near his best. The triple Group One winner finished a length behind the winner Pierata with Trekking edging him out for second. That is encouraging for Lees as Le Romain… Read More »
After a lengthy build-up, dual Group One winner Hey Doc is ready for his return from injury at Sandown after being sidelined for more than a year. Hey Doc has not started since finishing unplaced in the Group Two Bobbie Lewis Quality at Flemington in September last year. He pulled… Read More »
Popular Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds is counting his blessings after appearing to have escaped serious injury when trampled by a runaway horse. A day after the trackwork accident, Edmonds remained in the Gold Coast University hospital on Tuesday awaiting further tests and scans after being knocked unconscious. He was… Read More »
This year, the wonder race mare MAKYBE DIVA, turned 20 years of age. And to celebrate, overnight she had a baby. This one, a handsome filly by More Than Ready, is the 10th for the former two-time Australian Racehorse Of The Year. Delighted to introduce the Makybe Diva x More… Read More »
Popular jockey Jamie Mott has two broken legs as the result of a four-horse fall at Cranbourne. Mott had surgery to insert a rod and screws to a fractured tibia and fibula in his left leg following the fall on Friday night. It was later discovered he also had a… Read More »
Leading Queensland trainer Toby Edmonds is in a Gold Coast hospital after being trampled by a runaway horse on Monday. Edmonds’ son and co-trainer, Trent Edmonds, said his father was knocked out when the horse hit him. “Dad tried to stop a horse which had got away but it collected… Read More »
