Both of today’s NSW meetings at Casino and Bathurst have been postponed due to the state of the tracks. This is on the back of Goulburn being postponed yesterday meaning NSW will go three days between race meetings. Casino today postponed. Waterlogged sections of track between 1300m – 1100m &… Read More »
The in-form Leveraction headlines nominations for the annual David Bourke Provincial Plate at Flemington after back-to-back wins. Weights for Saturday’s $100,000 race, which will form part of a nine-race program at Flemington, were released on Monday with seven-year-old Leveraction the 60kg topweight among the 21 nominations. The 1600m event is… Read More »
New Zealand jockey Leith Innes will spend four to six weeks out of the saddle recovering from knee surgery but will be back in time to partner Provocative in her spring campaign. Innes, who won the Queensland Oaks earlier this month on the Tony Pike-trained filly will ride at Avondale… Read More »
For many of the runners in the Tattersall’s Tiara, the Group One race will be the last chance to claim valuable black type before they head to the broodmare barn. For Palazzo Pubblico it will be a chance to test her ability at the highest level before she is prepared… Read More »
Daytona Grey could be given a second chance at straight racing with trainer Leon Macdonald considering whether to run him in the final heat of the All Victorian Sprint Series to qualify him for the final. Macdonald, who trains in Adelaide in partnership with Andrew Gluyas, won the series final… Read More »
Australian trainers are used to losing horses to Hong Kong and John Sargent is more than happy to be the recipient of a reverse trend. Smart Volatility has his first start for the Randwick-based Sargent in Saturday’s Winter Dash (1200m) on his new home track and goes in as the… Read More »
Victorian apprentice Tahlia Hope has finished out of the placings in the Prix Longines Future Stars race in France but says the experience is priceless. The 17-year-old represented Australia in the invitation race for apprentices which is held annually at the French Oaks (Prix de Diane) meeting at Chantilly. Hope’s… Read More »
Mick Price is hopeful star sprinter Lankan Rupee will be back racing in time for the Group One Darley Classic this spring. The five-time Group One winner and former Australian Horse of the Year has not raced since finishing third in the Schillaci Stakes at Caulfield last October. The gelding… Read More »
Racing NSW stewards have opened an inquiry into Thomas Huet’s ride on Rainbow River in race six at Taree on June 16. Rainbow River was heavily backed from $8.50 into the $2.70 favourite before finishing 9th in a field of 12. “Huet added after being slightly slow to begin he… Read More »
Trainer Aidan O’Brien has confirmed Ascot Gold Cup winner Order Of St George will be entered for the Melbourne Cup. The horse’s majority owner, Australian Lloyd Williams, is keen to get him to Flemington in November but has warned he cannot win if he get more than 56kg. “If he’s… Read More »
Trainer Stephen Brown is looking forward to recent addition Lord Von Costa making his debut for his stable at Flemington. Lord Von Costa finished a close second at Flemington last Saturday week at his seventh career start and has since been transferred from Albury trainer and part-owner Graham Hulm to… Read More »
Two wet track wins have earned Foreign Prince a tilt at a rich winter race with trainer David Payne eyeing the $160,000 Grafton Cup. Foreign Prince’s win in Saturday’s Kensei Handicap at Rosehill, his first at 2000 metres, has his trainer confident he can deserves a chance at the 2350m… Read More »
Newmarket Handicap winner The Quarterback is slated for a three-run spring preparation in Melbourne, with races at his favourite track the focus. The Quarterback gave trainer Robbie Griffiths his first Group One win when he defeated Black Heart Bart and Chautauqua in The Newmarket (1200m) at Flemington in March. The… Read More »
Now Ninth Legion has recaptured winning form, trainer Peter Robl will give him every chance to build on his Eye Liner Stakes victory. Ninth Legion scored his first win in 510 days in Saturday’s Listed race to give Robl his second black-type success since injury ended his riding career. Robl… Read More »
Turnitaround’s winning run may have come to an end at Moonee Valley but trainer Matthew Williams hasn’t lost faith in the gelding. Turnitaround strung together four wins on the trot before finishing last as the well-backed favourite in Saturday’s Vital Healthcare Property Trust Handicap over 2040m. The gelding had a… Read More »
The country’s leading Group One trainer has one more chance to add to his season tally in the Tattersall’s Tiara. But trainer Chris Waller will look at Monday’s nominations before committing three-year-old Tsaritsa to a start in the final Group One event of the season at Eagle Farm on Saturday…. Read More »
Apprentice James Orman is likely to appeal an 11-day suspension which has severely dented his hopes of a first Brisbane senior riders’ premiership. Orman rode a double at Ipswich on Saturday to take him to 62 winners for the season, equal with Jeff Lloyd and one behind the leader Jim… Read More »
Holler has finished a disappointing seventh in the 1200m Group One Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot. The John O’Shea-trained four-year-old started strongly with a typical, front-running approach under James McDonald and was in contention in the final 100 metres. However, he was found wanting in the latter stages of… Read More »
Dwayne Dunn has extended his lead to five wins in the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership but will miss next Saturday’s Flemington meeting after being suspended at Moonee Valley. Dunn won aboard stablemates Longeron and then Firsthand at Saturday’s Moonee Valley meeting but was banned for 10 meetings after pleading guilty to… Read More »
Apprentice Ben Thompson has scored an emotional win aboard Onpicalo in the Travis Harrison Cup at Moonee Valley. A former leading apprentice, Travis Harrison lost his life in a car accident in Melbourne 20 years ago driving home to Cranbourne after a night out following a Moonee Valley meeting. Thompson… Read More »
