Trainer Nigel Blackiston hopes the trade-off for Tiny’s Legacy’s bad barrier in the fourth heat of the Winter Championship is a better draw for the final. The son of Lonhro is Blackiston’s only runner at Flemington on Saturday and will jump from the second widest barrier in the 16-horse field…. Read More »
Adelaide trainer Lloyd Kennewell believes good barriers for his runners on Saturday give him a genuine chance to join his father on the Ipswich feature-race honour board. Kennewell’s father Gary won the 2013 Listed Eye Liner Stakes with the top-class sprinter Conservatorium. Lloyd has had his share of success in… Read More »
In a situation the stable would prefer to avoid, Peter and Paul Snowden will have a third of the runners in the two-year-old race at Rosehill on Saturday. The Snowdens are resigned to starting We’re Sure, Involving and Meri Rani against each other after plans to split the trio were… Read More »
Taree trainer Ross Stitt is hoping for a repeat of Single Spirit’s only other visit to Kempsey when the five-year-old contests the Wauchope Cup. The nine-time winner’s only other trip to the Mid North Coast track was in May 2013 when he won a Class Three Handicap over 1450 metres,… Read More »
Promising I’m Hector is on trial for a start in the Grafton Cup when he contests the $100,000 Winter Provincial Stayer Series Final at Ipswich on Saturday. I’m Hector won a heat of the series at the Gold Coast two starts back and then wasn’t suited by the way the… Read More »
Four Victorian racehorse trainers and a prominent veterinary surgeon have been charged over the use of the banned substance cobalt. Stewards laid a total of 29 charges against trainers Danny O’Brien, Mark Kavanagh and Lee and Shannon Hope on Thursday, ending a long-running Racing Victoria investigation. Dr Tom Brennan, employed… Read More »
Damien Oliver’s trip to Royal Ascot could be in jeopardy after a race fall at Bendigo on Thursday. Oliver is booked to ride Wandjina in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes on June 20 but will need a medical clearance from Racing Victoria’s doctor Gary Zimmerman before he can ride again. He… Read More »
Kong Kong star Able Friend is among 12 international horses invited to contest this year’s $3 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley. The Moonee Valley Racing Club committee extends invitations to the connections of selected overseas horses in a bid to attract quality international participation in the weight-for-age race. The… Read More »
Everybody needs good neighbours, just ask John Sargent. The kiwi horseman recently had his stable numbers swell by a dozen horses when Segenhoe Thoroughbreds Australia boss Kevin Maloney anointed him the new trainer of the group’s Randwick string, replacing David Vandyke. The pairing is a logical fit – they are… Read More »
Victorian trainers Mark Kavanagh, Danny O’Brien and Lee and Shannon Hope have been charged over high cobalt levels found in horses in their care. Racing Victoria stewards have also charged Dr Tom Brennan of the Flemington Equine Clinic with breaches of the rules relating to the cobalt found in horses… Read More »
A shift worker with only one horse in work will have his first runner at Flemington on Saturday. Jeremy Kenny will make a six-hour trip from Millicent in rural South Australia to give Hadda Couple his chance to complete a hat-trick in the Ken Cox Handicap. Kenny trains Hadda Couple… Read More »
Danny Beasley’s seamless return to the Tulloch Lodge fold has the jockey well placed to ride another comeback winner at Rosehill. Beasley is riding trackwork for Gai Waterhouse, rekindling an association with the Randwick trainer that delivered nine Group One victories before he went to Singapore. Six of those elite-level… Read More »
Sam Clipperton isn’t expecting a major increase in his riding commitments for Godolphin despite the departure of stable jockey James McDonald to England. McDonald has joined Sheikh Mohammed’s northern hemisphere team of riders during the English summer racing season, creating an opening for one of his Sydney understudies to share… Read More »
Darren Weir will use a flat race at Flemington on Saturday to get Gotta Take Care closer to peak fitness and a return to jumps racing. The horse, who has combined hurdle and flat racing in recent seasons, was scheduled to compete in the Galleywood Hurdle at last month’s Warrnambool… Read More »
Jockeys Damien Oliver and Chris Symons have been taken to hospital following a race fall at Bendigo. Symons’ mount Hampshire was the first to come to grief with Oliver on Mefnooda going over the top of the fallen runner. Apprentice Jye McNeil was also thrown from his mount Adopted Opinion…. Read More »
The same care and attention given to Bonecrusher throughout his life has marked the champion racehorse’s final journey. In the early hours of Thursday morning, the families of his owners Peter and Shirley Mitchell and trainer Frank Ritchie gathered to farewell Bonecrusher as he was euthanised due to effects of… Read More »
Bonecrusher, the first New Zealand-trained horse to win $1 million, has died at the age of 32. The nine-time Group One winner was euthanased at the property of his owner and carer Shirley Mitchell after he contracted the hoof disease laminitis. Bonecrusher is best remembered for his stirring 1986 Cox… Read More »
Mick Mair has lost the most promising horse in his stable with the sale of The Wildman to Hong Kong interests but he has a handy back-up in filly Mywayorthehighway. Mywayorthehighway will contest the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic (1350m) at Ipswich on Saturday when she will bid for her second… Read More »
Risen From Doubt has been put on notice ahead of his return to Flemington where he is unbeaten. Trainer Tony McEvoy has been disappointed with the three-year-old’s two starts in Adelaide this campaign when well beaten but he believes the colt has been “pinching himself” in his races and is… Read More »
Consistent Darci Be Good will have to set a modern-day weight-carrying record to win the Ipswich Cup. The Listed Ipswich Cup has a reputation for producing lightly weighted winners and Darci Be Good is near the top of the handicaps with 57kg. Since a metric scale was introduced in 1973,… Read More »
