The Melbourne Racing Club has announced plans for a $300 million redevelopment of Caulfield racecourse that includes a second turf track. Redevelopment plans also include a new grandstand and raceday stalls and a relocation of the mounting yard. The MRC recently secured a 65-year lease on the crown land that… Read More »
A big field has accepted for Saturday’s Listed Andrew Ramsden Stakes with trainers looking to win their way into the Melbourne Cup on the first Tuesday in November. The Andrew Ramsden Stakes is raced over 2800m at Flemington and gives the winner a ballot exempt start into the 2019 Melbourne… Read More »
Caulfield trainer Geoff Wheeler has made a return to the winners’ enclosure with the maiden victory of Black Beau Tie at Moe. Wheeler is a throwback to yesteryear when the Caulfield area was dotted with trainers with stables in their backyards. With those houses and stables gradually sold off, Wheeler… Read More »
On the same day as announcing the retirement of Group One winner Music Magnate, trainer Bjorn Baker has revealed plans for his next tilt at the elite level. Irithea and Redouble, who was entered to run at Randwick, will head to Brisbane for Saturday’s Kingsford Smith Cup (1300m) at Eagle… Read More »
A sought-after jumps jockey, Richard Cully could be sitting at home watching the Australian Hurdle and Steeplechase on television when they are run at Sandown. But at Flemington a day earlier, Cully will have his trainer’s hat on when he saddles Celtic Blast in a benchmark 78 grade race on… Read More »
Ballarat trainer Simon Morrish cannot remember the last time he has had two runners nominated for a stakes race. That is the case at Flemington on Saturday with Chouxting The Mob and Mental Telepathy entered for The Andrew Ramsden which guarantees the winner a start in the 2019 Melbourne Cup…. Read More »
The Australian Turf Club has called for expressions of interest for its slot in the $14 million Everest. The club says it will again look domestically and overseas for a runner to partner the ATC in the world’s richest race on turf at Randwick in October. It says criteria including… Read More »
Bargain buy Behemoth who cost a measly $6,000 will head for a spell following his second in the G1 Goodwood with the intention to target the horse at the $7.5m Golden Eagle in the Spring. Behemoth ran an eye catching second in Saturday’s G1 Goodwood behind Despatch with trainer David… Read More »
Fresh off a Highway win last Saturday, trainer Matthew Dale is looking to continue that winning form this Saturday and will look to do it via a two pronged attack at Randwick and Flemington. According to Dale, his best chance of a win will come in the 78 over 2000m… Read More »
The racing career of an impressive stakes winner from last Saturday, is over. And connections couldn’t be happier. The rising star called Clearly, who triumphed in the Listed Centaurea Stakes in Adelaide last Saturday, at just her 3rd start in Australia, has been retired to stud. The decision ends a… Read More »
Jockey Jamie Mott has registered a perfect day at Mornington collecting four winners from his four rides. Mott started Monday’s meeting riding the first three winners before waiting in the jockeys’ room for his final ride of the afternoon in the last race. “I don’t think I’ve had four rides… Read More »
Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie has been found guilty of a further 12 charges, this time, of race day administration and has been asked to make submissions on sentence. Currie had already been disqualified for four years after being found guilty of two charges involving texts which were alleged to indicate… Read More »
Trainer Robbie Griffiths is hoping a return to the straight track at Flemington will bring out the best in Divine Quality. After she failed at her last start in the Group One Sangster Stakes at Morphettville, Griffiths elected to skip The Goodwood with Divine Quality to concentrate on Saturday’s Listed… Read More »
Warwick Farm trainer Matt Smith has put the disappointment of Fierce Impact’s Doomben Cup behind him and is looking ahead with Grey Lion and Tonsor. Fierce Impact, who finished 11th in Saturday’s Group One feature will have a spell in Queensland while Grey Lion, winner of the Listed Lord Mayor’s… Read More »
Trainer David Hayes will use the lessons he learned travelling overseas with Criterion as he aims the Lindsay Park stayers at the Melbourne Cup. The stable is starting early with the imported Alfarris who will try to earn a ticket to the Melbourne Cup 2019 via Saturday’s Andrew Ramsden Stakes… Read More »
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission Stewards have today found Toowoomba Trainer Ben Currie guilty of 12 race day treatment charges under the Australian Rules of Racing. The Thoroughbred Trainer appeared at a reconvened Inquiry in Brisbane on 11 and 12 March 2019 where he faced 14 alleged breaches of the… Read More »
Injured jockey Michael Hackett is continuing his slow recovery after suffering a head injury in a fall at the Tomingley Cup picnic race meeting. Hackett was one of three riders to fall in a race at the central western NSW track on April 27 with Ricky Blewitt and Michael Gray… Read More »
Trainer Ben Smith has been found guilty of all charges against him relating to elevated cobalt levels, race day treatments and giving false evidence to stewards. Smith trained two Group One winners in the autumn of 2018 – In Her Time (Galaxy) and El Dorado Dreaming (ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes)… Read More »
Jockey Jordan Childs hopes to ride at the Andrew Ramsden Stakes meeting at Flemington after being discharged from hospital. Childs had an MRI scan at Melbourne’s Epworth Hospital after suffering a post-race back injury at Bendigo on Sunday when he dismounted awkwardly. After being discharged from Bendigo Hospital, Childs was… Read More »
Warrnambool Cup winner Furrion has been sent to the paddock and will miss his chance for an early ticket into the Melbourne Cup. For the first time Saturday’s Listed Andrew Ramsden at Flemington guarantees the winner a ballot exemption into November’s Melbourne Cup. The Andrew Ramsden Stakes has undergone a… Read More »
