Trainer Con Karakatsanis has confirmed his intention to back-up stakes winner Howmuchdoyouloveme in the Group Three Show County Quality at Randwick. Karakatsanis said the horse had pulled up well from his narrow second to Peeping at Rosehill on Saturday when he led until the final bounds. Soundness issues have restricted… Read More »
Vet Tom Brennan has denied instructing a senior Australian Turf Club official to attend a meeting designed to get trainer Sam Kavanagh to change evidence naming him as the source of cobalt. Matt Rudolph, the ATC’s executive general manager – racing, has been asked to show cause why he should… Read More »
The mother-daughter training partnership of Lyn Tolson and Leonie Proctor will make one of their rare appearances at a city meeting on Saturday. The pair, who held separate licences before joining forces in the 2013-14 season, will have runners in two stakes races at Moonee Valley. Three-year-old Well Sprung contests… Read More »
Racing NSW stewards have announced a charge against former TVN reporter Brent Zerafa after his comments regarding a runner in January in which he didn’t tip on the program yet backed personally. View the Racing NSW media release below: Racing NSW Stewards advise that on the 19 August 2015 a… Read More »
Rudy hasn’t got size on his side but if he can claim the Epsom Handicap it will make for an underdog story for the ages. The five-year-old son of Red Dazzler is expected to improve sharply on whatever he does in his return to racing at Doomben. Rudy will line… Read More »
A week after Gai Waterhouse’s Golden Slipper winner Vancouver was beaten first-up by a race-fit Japonisme, the trainer finds herself in a role reversal with the in-form Kimberley Star. The filly has strung together a hat-trick of wins during the winter and heads into Saturday’s Group Two Silver Shadow Stakes… Read More »
Cannyescent will be given an opportunity to reveal just how good he is in the Group Three Up And Coming Stakes at Randwick. The son of Canny Lad will take the major step from his debut win at Goulburn, but jockey Kathy O’Hara, who rode him in his maiden victory… Read More »
Boom Brisbane filly My Girl Hayley is no certainty to head south this spring even if she begins her three-year-old season with a win at Doomben. My Girl Hayley, who was an impressive Sunshine Coast winner at her only start, makes her city debut in Saturday’s BOQ Kippa Ring Three-Year-old… Read More »
Brisbane is facing a shortage of claiming apprentices after two more were suspended at Ipswich on Wednesday. Alannah Fancourt, who is leading the Brisbane jockeys premiership, was outed for six meetings and fellow apprentice Cassie Schmidt for seven meetings. They both pleaded guilty to careless riding charges and their suspensions… Read More »
Group One winner The Offer will be the headline act at Hawkesbury when he kicks off his latest campaign in the Listed Rowley Mile. This time last year the 2014 Sydney Cup winner was at the top of Melbourne Cup markets but he had a disappointing spring and didn’t line… Read More »
Damien Oliver is set to miss the first Group One meeting of the season after being suspended on two careless riding charges at Seymour. Oliver was suspended for a total of 11 meetings after pleading guilty to careless riding in the opening race on Multifacets and in the eighth event… Read More »
Apprentice Alannah Fancourt has responded to a challenge from her master Tony Gollan and maintained her lead in the Brisbane jockeys’ premiership with a double at Ipswich. Fancourt was the darling of bookies when she upset a big plunge to win on Stitchentime ($6) and then followed up with a… Read More »
A careless riding suspension has put paid to Brenton Avdulla’s hopes of riding at Saturday week’s Memsie Stakes program in Melbourne. Avdulla was outed for six meetings for causing interference aboard the Gerald Ryan-trained Deploy near the 600m of the TAB Rewards Handicap at Canterbury on Wednesday. The jockey, who… Read More »
Warrnambool trainer Symon Wilde has been charged by stewards over a positive swab to an anti-inflammatory returned by a horse in his care after a win at Edenhope. Racing Victoria stewards issued a charge to Wilde on Wednesday for presenting a horse to race when a prohibited substance was detected… Read More »
Scone-based trainer Rod Northam will be chasing stakes success in two states when Odyssey Moon and Myamira resume in Melbourne and Sydney respectively. Group One-placed colt Odyssey Moon has been installed favourite for Saturday’s Listed McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley while seven-year-old mare Myamira begins her final racing campaign in… Read More »
A Listed affair at Hawkesbury in August is a long way from being pre-post favourite for the Melbourne Cup. For former Irish galloper The Offer, that’s the difference a year has made. The seven-year-old is on the verge of his third spring campaign for champion Sydney trainer Gai Waterhouse but… Read More »
Danny O’Brien and Mark Kavanagh will have their cobalt charges heard by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board commencing on November 30. The pair, along with veterinarian Dr Tom Brennan, faced a directions hearing before the RAD Board on Wednesday. The two trainers were on June 11 charged by stewards… Read More »
Trainer Clinton McDonald has high hopes for three-year-old Danuki and is looking forward to the colt beginning his spring campaign in the Listed McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley. Danuki showed talent in his two starts as a juvenile, winning comfortably on debut in a maiden at Donald before finishing second… Read More »
Themis has taken the first step towards the Group One Flight Stakes with a dominant performance at Canterbury. The Gai Waterhouse-trained filly ($26) sat midfield before taking off at the 600m and striding to the front in the straight to easily account for Manhattan Fever ($20) and Deploy ($4.40) in… Read More »
A horse owned by Her Majesty The Queen is gearing up to make his Australian debut. Bold Sniper had a gallop between races at Seymour on Wednesday in preparation for a potential first-up run in the Slickpix Stakes (1700m) at Caulfield on August 29. Formerly prepared in the United Kingdom… Read More »
