Champion jockey Damien Oliver has claimed a Group One double in Adelaide with Sydney mare Spright winning the Sangster Stakes to add to Princess Jenni’s Australasian Oaks. Saturday’s double at Morphettville took Oliver’s Group One tally to 117. While the jockey had to negotiate traffic in the Oaks (2000m), he… Read More »
Jockey Jason Collett completed a memorable day of riding at the Gold Coast when Demerara maintained her outstanding first-up record in the Silk Stocking. Forty minutes earlier, Collett won the day’s highlight, the Group Two Hollindale Stakes aboard Life Less Ordinary before riding Demerara, the $5.50 favourite, to a half… Read More »
Lawyers for Ben Currie have asked stewards to indicate on which precedents they will base their sentence of the trainer on two charges of bringing racing into disrepute. Meanwhile on Friday afternoon, Currie’s lawyers filed an application for a Supreme Court judicial review of a decision by Racing Queensland to… Read More »
Apprentice Lachlan King has been taken to hospital after falling in a race at Flemington. King was riding Belgravia in Saturday’s Brew Handicap (2600m) when he was dislodged early in the home straight. The Victorian Jockeys Association issued an update saying King is conscious and “complaining of elbow and knee… Read More »
Champion jockey Damien Oliver has had to call on all his skills to get Princess Jenni home in the Group One Australasian Oaks at Morphettville in Adelaide. Trained at Mornington in Victoria by David Brideoake, the filly found herself in traffic more than once but Oiiver was patient and steered… Read More »
Hollindale Stakes winner Life Less Ordinary isn’t the best horse in Chris Waller’s stables but the champion trainer believes the gelding is exactly what Australian racing needs. Life Less Ordinary ($5.50) gave Waller his third win in the Group Two Hollindale wen he beat his stablemate Mister Sea Wolf ($5.50)… Read More »
Trainer Anthony Freedman looks set to have two strong chances in the South Australian Derby after Ridgewood Drive pressed his claims for the Group One race with a dominant win at Flemington. Ridgewood Drive is a half-brother to 2014 Queensland Derby winner Sonntag and Freedman’s son and assistant trainer, Sam… Read More »
Pennino continued the family tradition of springing major upsets in black-type races when she won the Group Three Gold Coast Guineas. Trained by Darryl Hansen, Pennino ($11) won the Guineas in a slogging finish by a length from Defence Missile ($10) with rank outsider Million ($71) a short neck away… Read More »
Mature-age apprentice Chris Williams has celebrated his first Saturday metropolitan winner aboard Zonk at Randwick for his boss Les Bridge. Sporting the red and green colours of the veteran trainer’s beloved South Sydney Rabbitohs, Zonk was having her first start on Saturday since a bleeding attack in December. “I’m always… Read More »
Lawyers for Ben Currie have asked stewards to indicate on which precedents they will base their sentence of the trainer on two charges of bringing racing into disrepute. Meanwhile on Friday afternoon, Currie’s lawyers filed an application for a Supreme Court judicial review of a decision by Racing Queensland to… Read More »
Trainer Tony Gollan had at least one bright spot on a day when his plans with star three-year-old and ruling Stradbroke Handicap favourite Zoustyle’s winter were thrown into chaos by a heavy track. Gollan had Ef Troop and Zoustyle in the Gold Coast Guineas and Outback Barbie in the Silk… Read More »
Champion trainer David Hayes says he has had to be patient with import Fastnet Tempest who has raced to his first victory in more than a year. And even after Fastnet Tempest crossed the line first in Saturday’s Might And Power Handicap (1410m) at Flemington, Hayes had to wait a… Read More »
All jockeys escaped serious injury after four horses were involved in a fall after the winning post in the fourth race at Ipswich. Ipswich was rated in the good range in the morning but the race was run in driving rain and the meeting abandoned after 30mm fell in 30… Read More »
Ethan Brown admits things did not go to plan during the Rogan Josh Handicap on favourite Fidelia but the apprentice has praised the filly for still being able to win in style. On the back of a last-start victory at Sandown, the Robbie Griffiths-trained Fidelia was sent out the $2.90… Read More »
Splintex has shown the benefit of his first race experience to lead all the way in the two-year-old maiden at Randwick. Trained by Mark Newnham, Splintex ran third on debut on April 22 and set a quick pace in Saturday’s 1000m-race on the Kensington track to record a class record… Read More »
Trainer Gary Newham’s confidence in Winning Ways’ chances in the Listed Gold Coast Bracelet grew with every raindrop on his roof on Friday night. His conviction was well placed when Winning Ways ($17) charged home to beat Word For Word ($3.30) by a long neck on Saturday. Newham is best… Read More »
Co-trainer Paul Snowden kept a lid on winter carnival expectations for Stronger after he upstaged Accession to win the Ken Russell Memorial Classic (1200m) at the Gold Coast. Ridden by Blake Shinn, Stronger ($3.80) overhauled Accession, the $1.75 favourite, to win by a short half-head with Take Tea ($11) 3-1/2… Read More »
Jockey Brett Prebble is convinced there is still plenty of upside to two-year-old Moldova who has started her racing career with wins at Bendigo and now Flemington. After dominating an 1100m maiden at Bendigo from the front on debut last month, Moldova raced in a prominent position throughout in Saturday’s… Read More »
The Gold Coast Cup is a new race on the Hollindale Stakes card but the result was a familiar one. Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller’s Gold Coast stable has been dominating staying races in Queensland and the trend continued when the The Lord Mayor ($3.30) beat his stablemate Vaucluse Bay… Read More »
Comeback galloper The Candy Man scored his fifth win in a row and earned a crack at stakes races after his fighting victory at the Gold Coast. In a driving finish on a heavy, track The Candy Man ($3.90) beat Gold Ambition ($9.50) by a half length in the Attwood… Read More »
