By The Grace will be out to press his claims for one of Melbourne’s off-season features when he runs at Flemington. The Andrew Noblet-trained gelding is on a path to the Listed Winter Championship Final on July 9 and will be trying to win the seventh heat of the series… Read More »
Group One winner Align has been euthanised at New Zealand’s Highview Stud at the age of 19 following a battle with arthritis and a laminitic condition. The winner of the 1999 AJC Sires’ Produce Stakes after running second to Catbird in the Golden Slipper, the John Hawkes-trained Align went to… Read More »
Having broken through for his first Australian win, Bold Sniper’s trainer David Hayes is confident The Queen’s horse can go on with the job at Flemington. Dylan Dunn wore the monarch’s famous colours – purple, gold braid, scarlet sleeves, black velvet cap, gold fringe – to win on Bold Sniper… Read More »
The powerful Hawkes training team will rekindle a long-time association with jockey Paul Hammersley at Eagle Farm. Hammersley will ride in-form stayer Tucanchoo in Saturday’s Group Three Tattersall’s Cup (2200m). When John Hawkes was head trainer for the Ingham family, his son Michael ran the Brisbane stable while his other… Read More »
Gerald Ryan will send King’s Troop to Melbourne and keep Inz’N’Out in Sydney as he tries to turn the fortunes of both horses around. King’s Troop will head to Flemington instead of Randwick on Saturday to take on Spieth who beat him last time they met while Inz’N’Out will stay… Read More »
Almost seven years after their association began, veteran sprinter General Truce is still playing a special part in the career of Andrew Mallyon. The jockey will be back aboard the rising nine-year-old in Saturday’s Midwest Bellarine Hcp (1100m) at Flemington after registering his latest city win on the gelding at… Read More »
Stakes-winning filly Blueberry Hill’s road back to Group One company has been a bumpy one but trainer Liam Birchley believes she is finally ready to show her best. After Blueberry Hill won the Group Two Champagne Classic at Doomben in May last year, Birchley thought he had a genuine Group… Read More »
The much-maligned Kensington track at Randwick is to be dug up and rebuilt after being idle for more than 18 months. Since the last race meeting on the track in November 2014, the surface has performed poorly when tested in barrier trials. On Thursday, the Australian Turf Club announced the… Read More »
The ATC have announced that the Kensington racetrack will undergo a total rebuild. The @atc_races have announced there will be a total rebuild of the Kensington track. Total rebuild with superior drainage is planned. — Andrew Bensley (@AndrewBensley) June 23, 2016
A weight advantage could be the key to Sold For Song turning the tables on Tsaritsa when they meet again at Eagle Farm. The Chris Waller-trained Tsaritsa won the Queensland Guineas last Saturday week with Sold For Song running home strongly for third when she raced at the back of… Read More »
Former NSW chief handicapper Mark Webbey has died suddenly aged 58. Webbey began his career in the racing department of the Sydney Turf Club before joining the Australian Jockey Club. He was appointed as a handicapper for the AJC in 1987 and joined the NSW Thoroughbred Racing board as senior… Read More »
Young Victorian trainer Logan McGill has had a horse return a positive swab to banned substance Dexamethasone earlier this year. McGill’s runner Arapahoe Moon returned a positive test to Dexamethasone at the Avoca on Anzac Day. Arapahoe Moon who was a $20 shot in the race finished sixth of ten. Recent cases involving the… Read More »
Sydney’s leading jockey James McDonald will continue his overseas sojourn when he rides Antiquarium in the Northumberland Plate. The Charlie Appleby-trained four-year-old is a 16-1 chance in an open market for the STG150,000 ($A294,000) handicap at Newcastle on Saturday over two miles (3200m). Godolphin’s retained rider in Australia, McDonald has… Read More »
Craig Williams gets the chance to hit back in the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership with a good book of rides at Flemington. Premiership leader Dwayne Dunn is five wins ahead of second-placed Williams with just over a month of the season remaining, but Dunn will miss Saturday’s meeting through suspension. Dunn… Read More »
It’s taken longer than expected to get Tango Rain to the races but the wait has been rewarded with the colt’s debut victory at Canterbury. And trainer Gerald Ryan believes the two-year-old can develop into a stakes horse as long as he can learn to settle in the barriers. Tango… Read More »
As Turnitaround enjoys a well-earned break after a successful campaign, trainer Matthew Williams hopes another member of the family can now make her mark in town. Five-year-old Turnitaround won four of his six starts in his latest preparation including three in the city, and is having a month’s rest after… Read More »
Two-year-old Downloading has started his career in the same vein as his elder brother, star sprinter Buffering, with a debut win at Doomben. And to complete a trip down memory lane for Robert Heathcote, Damn Fine, a son of a mare he trained, Princess Qualo, took the other juvenile race… Read More »
There is a queue of people keen to take Decision Time when he retires but his trainer is not ready to let go of him just yet. Clarry Conners believes the eight-year-old still has something to give on the track and thinks he has found the perfect race as long… Read More »
Tony McEvoy won’t be surprised if Cobbmore develops into a Derby prospect in the spring and is looking forward to running him in town for the first time at Flemington. Cobbmore runs in Saturday’s Bay and Ranges Hcp (1400m) for two-year-olds and the Listed Taj Rossi Series Final (1600m) two… Read More »
Trainer David Pfieffer is resigned to saddling up Cradle Me for the last time in the Group One Tattersall’s Tiara at Eagle Farm. And the mare has a couple of things in her favour to go out a winner on Saturday with barrier four and Hong Kong-based Australian Zac Purton… Read More »
