Warwick Farm trainer Gary Portelli hopes Michael Cahill is as much on the ball as the first time they met when the in-form jockey rides Single Bullet for the stable at Eagle Farm. Portelli has sent Single Bullet north for Saturday’s BRC Membership Open Handicap in search of a 1000m-race… Read More »
Super Seth is high in Caulfield Guineas calculations and the colt gets the chance to show why when he resumes in the McNeil Stakes. Saturday’s Group Three 1200m McNeil Stakes for three-year-olds at Caulfield has a field of nine, with the promising Anthony Freedman-trained stablemates Super Seth and King Of… Read More »
Premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan has had one spring carnival hiccup but hopes to get back on track with classy filly Niedorp at Eagle Farm. Gollan had expected to run Niedorp and Garibaldi in the two divisions of the three-year-old handicap over 1000 metres at Eagle Farm. Garibaldi received a… Read More »
Top central Queensland apprentice Elyce Smith will make her Brisbane debut a year after being seriously injured in a fall. Smith, who is apprenticed to her father Fred Smith in Rockhampton, has been booked for three rides at Eagle Farm on the John Manzelmann trained Sensation Ally and Zoffany Rocket… Read More »
This is the most extraordinary story you will read today. We all saw those graphic, heart-warming pics of Trapeze Artist at Widden Stud last week when he was reintroduced to his former rider, the injured jockey Tye Angland. The horse bent down, sniffed him in his wheelchair and raised his… Read More »
Well-related Just Thinkin’ has taken his most progressive step in a sparingly raced career to make a winning start to a possible 2019 Victoria Derby campaign. A half-brother to the Group Three winner Thinkin’ Big, Just Thinkin’ broke through for his first win at his third start at Warwick Farm… Read More »
Rich Itch has started to repay the faith of trainer Shawn Mathrick recording a determined second victory at Sandown. An 11-start maiden before success at Sale on August 15, Rich Itch claimed back-to-back victories with Wednesday’s win in the Le Pine Funerals Handicap. Mathrick headed to Sandown races confident he… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Mike Moroney has unveiled plans for the horse he hopes can give him a second win in the famous race. Moroney, who trained Brew to win in 2000, was in his native New Zealand on Wednesday as an ambassador for the Melbourne Cup tour with the trophy… Read More »
Group One races in Sydney and Melbourne figure in Mick Price’s spring hopes for lightly raced colt Shotmaker who makes his season return in the McNeil Stakes at Caulfield. Shotmaker was runner-up on debut in the Blue Diamond colts and geldings Prelude in February before finishing 11th in the Group… Read More »
Having been to the fore in last season’s two-year-old races, Godolphin is now looking to the team to step up at three. Sheikh Mohammed’s royal blue colours were carried to victory in four of Australia’s five Group One races for juveniles in 2018/19. Bivouac did not make the elite level… Read More »
Vega Magic is set to front up on Memsie Stakes day for the third straight year at Caulfield but this time the dual Group One winner will not be contesting the day’s feature race. Now a seven-year-old, Vega Magic was a dominant winner of the weight-for-age Group One Memsie (1400m)… Read More »
The best-kept secret in Brisbane racing hit the limelight when three-year-old Profit scored an impressive debut win at the Sunshine Coast. Profit ($2.90) was slow to begin and was green in the straight before winning the Sky Racing Plate (1200m). The win took the Chris Anderson-Robert Heathcote training partnership to… Read More »
Some advice from fellow trainers has swayed Daniel Bowman into giving Begood Toya Mother his chance in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. Bowman had Begood Toya Mother entered for three races on Saturday – a stakes race in Adelaide as well as a handicap and the weight-for-age Memsie Stakes at… Read More »
Princess Jenni has made an appearance at a midweek Sandown meeting with trainer David Brideoake taking the opportunity to give the Group One Australasian Oaks winner a raceday gallop. Princess Jenni is nearing her spring racing return and Brideoake galloped the four-year-old mare with new stable acquisition and fellow spring… Read More »
Caloundra trainer Stuart Kendrick has put plans for his Group One prospect Eric The Eel on the back burner as he plans wins for two stablemates. Kendrick had varied luck with the barrier draw at Eagle Farm with Misery getting the tricky gate nine in an open handicap but another… Read More »
The Racing Queensland board has used a trip to Townsville to unveil an updated strategic plan which it believes can making racing the No.1 sporting industry in the state. RQ is keen to involve country and provincial areas as much as possible in expansion plans and had its monthly board… Read More »
Seven Group One winners feature among a field of 13 for the $1 million Memsie Stakes at Caulfield. Star Godolphin mare and favourite Alizee has barrier 11 while her stablemate Hartnell will carry the No.1 saddlecloth and jump from the inside barrier in Saturday’s 1400m weight-for-age Memsie Stakes. Market 💰:… Read More »
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has clarified the basis on which trainers can operate if they are suspended rather than disqualified. In Queensland it has been rare for trainers to be suspended instead of facing disqualification. A disqualified person can not be on licensed premises which includes racetracks and even… Read More »
Promising three-year-old Garibaldi will miss Eagle Farm on Saturday after a minor set back but is still set to resume in Melbourne next month. Garibaldi, who was stakes-placed in the Sydney autumn and also finished third in the Group Two BRC Sires’ Produce Stakes in the winter, had a jump-out… Read More »
Prominent trainer Liam Birchley will close his Brisbane stable next month. Birchley has confirmed he will no longer be a trainer but from next week will have another role in the industry. “But I can’t say anything else,” he told AAP. Birchley has sent a letter to owners outlining his… Read More »
