Godolphin apprentice Brodie Loy will be out of action for up to six weeks after scans confirmed he fractured his left elbow in a race fall at Warwick Farm. Loy’s manager Jeff Brian spoke to the young rider, who remained in Liverpool hospital on Thursday, and said Loy was in… Read More »
Trainer Trevor Miller is hoping it will be a case of third time lucky when one of his horses takes on smart three-year-old Most Important on Saturday. The Tony Gollan-trained Most Important has proved a nemesis for Miller in recent months. Most Important beat the Miller-trained Dam Wonderful by a… Read More »
Gary Portelli’s pet Chihuahua fancies his chances of taking on Sebring Sun but it is a match up of another kind the trainer is hoping the horse can win. The colt will tackle the Listed Rosebud at Randwick on Saturday bidding to stake his claim for a start in next… Read More »
Much-travelled galloper Cum Dividend could hit the road again soon to avoid Brisbane’s rock hard tracks. Cum Dividend, an impressive last start winner, has accepted for the Brisbane Centre For Pain Management Open (1350m) at Doomben on Saturday. However, trainer Liam Birchley is waiting on a track report before making… Read More »
Three harness trainers who were disqualified on cobalt irregularity charges have had their convictions and penalties quashed on appeal. In the Racing Disciplinary Board Hearing on Thursday Racing Queensland conceded there had been an innocent breach of the Racing Act in the testing of the samples. Alan MacSporran QC, for… Read More »
A low-key start to Lake Geneva’s three-year-old campaign belies Hawkes Racing’s spring ambitions for the Golden Slipper placegetter. Lake Geneva is set to start a long odds-on favourite when she resumes in a maiden race at Hawkesbury on Thursday looking to post her first career-win. The filly finished third in… Read More »
Champion Irish jumps jockey Ruby Walsh says the call-up to ride in Australia is a nice surprise. Walsh will ride the Ciaron Maher-trained Bashboy in Sunday’s Grand National Steeplechase at Ballarat and has also picked up the mount on Archfire for Robert Smerdon in the J J Houlahan Hurdle. He… Read More »
Apprentice Katelyn Mallyon has revealed she will be out of the saddle for four to six weeks because of an ankle injury suffered in a mishap at trackwork. Mallyon was cleared of a broken ankle after being taken to hospital after the accident on Tuesday, but underwent an MRI scan… Read More »
Champion Irish jumps jockey Ruby Walsh will ride Bashboy in the Grand National Steeplechase at Ballarat in Victoria. It will be the first time Walsh, who has won 10 Irish jumps jockey premierships and ridden a record 45 winners at the famous Cheltenham festival during his career, will have ridden… Read More »
Sandown’s track renovation has gained the seal of approval from officials and jockeys. Sandown held a meeting on Wednesday for the first time in four months after problems with the surface during March and April forced the transfer of meetings. Starting out as a soft six rating, the track was… Read More »
A self-confessed liar who liked to brag, John Camilleri has admitted supplying trainer Sam Kavanagh with race day drenches. But he has denied much of his original evidence to Racing NSW stewards who charged him on several counts relating to those drenches. Well-known in harness racing circles, Camilleri has admitted… Read More »
William Buick is set to team up with Australian star Criterion in the Juddmonte International Stakes at York later this month. The David Hayes-trained five-year-old finished a creditable fifth behind Free Eagle in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes on his British debut at Royal Ascot back in June, beaten just… Read More »
Nash Rawiller’s plans to ride in the early part of the Sydney carnival have been dashed after he was suspended for careless riding at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. The Hong Kong-based jockey had intended to stay in Sydney until the Warwick Stakes meeting on August 22, before heading back for… Read More »
The prospects of missing the ride on Mourinho in the PB Lawrence Stakes was all the encouragement needed for Vlad Duric to return a winner at Sandown. Duric had been sidelined since early June after injuring a shoulder in a trackwork incident. Having his first back at the return to… Read More »
The Sandown victory of Magnus Slipper was a first in the Melbourne metropolitan area for Irish jockey Alan Creighton. A former champion jockey in Spain, Creighton moved to Australia four years ago, firstly to Western Australia before moving to Warrnambool. He has since shifted to Mornington where he has teamed… Read More »
Hawkes Racing is banking on Sydney bringing out the best in talented gelding Messene when he resumes in the Missile Stakes at Randwick. Messene finished runner-up to Sweet Idea in the corresponding race 12 months ago but couldn’t replicate that form in Melbourne, where he failed to fire in two… Read More »
It is rare for a Golden Slipper placegetter to kick off their three-year-old campaign in a provincial maiden but that’s where Hawkes Racing has decided to start with Lake Geneva. Co-trainer Michael Hawkes has confirmed their intention to run Lake Geneva in a three-year-old maiden plate at Hawkesbury on Thursday,… Read More »
Veteran trainer Bryan Guy continued one of the best winning runs of his career when Planet America gave him his eighth victory in a fortnight on Wednesday. Gold Coast based Guy, a multiple Group One winner, is a former Brisbane premiership-winning trainer but has cut back his team to about… Read More »
Mick Price has a Group One ambition for three-year-old Sailing By in the spring and was relieved to see the filly break her maiden with a pleasing effort at Sandown. The daughter of Fastnet Rock was placed in the Group Three Maribyrnong Plate on debut last spring then returned in… Read More »
Of The Brave is ready for his racetrack reappearance following an exhibition gallop between races at Sandown. Ridden by race jockey Stephen Baster, the Mark Riley-trained colt had the better of stablemate Royalic at the end of an 800m gallop at the return meeting at Sandown on Wednesday. The three-year-old… Read More »
