Saturday’s Caulfield Cup winner Mer De Glace has received a penalty for the Melbourne Cup. Handicapper Greg Carpenter has announced he has issued Mer De Glace a 1kg penalty for the 2019 Melbourne Cup for his win in the Caulfield Cup. The penalty brings the JApanese stayers weight to 56kg… Read More »
Four internationally trained horses including last year’s Melbourne Cup placegetter Prince Of Arran feature among the field of 11 for the Group Three $400,000 Geelong Cup. The Charlie Fellowes-trained Prince Of Arran finished second in the Group Two Herbert Power Stakes in his return to Australian racing on October 12… Read More »
Biosecurity officers have inspected a Queensland abattoir at the centre of a racehorse cruelty scandal but no charges have been laid so far. Officers examined the Meramist Abattoir at Caboolture on Friday after the ABC 7.30 program aired distressing footage of some staff beating, shocking, and screaming abuse at former… Read More »
Champion jockey Glen Boss looks to be back in favour with Australian trainers after picking up the ride on Melbourne Cup favourite. Glenn Boss who is coming off a perfect winning Everest ride on Yes Yes Yes has been rewarded for his good form in Sydney since returning to Australia… Read More »
Thought Of That has emerged as one of the main Victoria Derby 2019 contenders after his dominant win in the Caulfield Classic but Sydney trainer Mark Newnham remains confident he has the right horse to win the $2 million Victoria Derby at Flemington. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Thought… Read More »
Glen Boss is riding the crest of a wave like no other, consolidating himself in the Sydney jockeys room after several years away. Boss moved to Victoria and then Singapore before deciding to return to Australia after his fly in-fly out victory on Brutal in the Doncaster Mile in April…. Read More »
He made an immediate impression at his Australian debut with victory in the Group One Caulfield Stakes, and Cape Of Good Hope has ticked another box in his Cox Plate preparation by having a gallop at the Valley. Cape Of Good Hope, a northern hemisphere-bred three-year-old now in the care… Read More »
A “massive” year for Damian Lane could reach even greater heights in coming weeks as the jockey bids to add the Cox Plate 2019 and Melbourne Cup to his list of major race wins. Lane won the Golden Slipper in March on Godolphin’s Kiamichi and on Saturday claimed his first… Read More »
Triple Group One winner Avilius will undertake an enforced gallop in a bid to run in the Cox Plate after bleeding from one nostril. Godolphin’s Australian head trainer James Cummings told Racing Victoria the horse was found to have bled after he returned to Flemington from a gallop at The… Read More »
Queensland jockey Skye Bogenhuber has made a successful return to race riding but she says just being back at the races is reward enough. Bogenhuber has been out of race riding for seven months after being injured in a trackwork fall at Toowoomba on March 2. She underwent intensive rehabilitation… Read More »
Assistant trainer Sam Freedman says the stable has dodged a bullet with Steel Prince who will progress his Melbourne Cup claims at Geelong. Steel Prince was to have his final lead-up for the $8 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on November 5 in the Herbert Power Stakes at Caulfield… Read More »
The inquiry into the fall in the Queensland Derby which left dual Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Corey Brown sidelined indefinitely with injury is set to resume. Queensland chief steward Peter Chadwick said the inquiry would be held on Monday afternoon with Brown and fellow jockeys Tommy Berry, Matt McGillivray and Tim… Read More »
Luke Nolen won’t be riding Constantinople in the Melbourne Cup with The Everest-winning jockey Glen Boss to ride the new race favourite. Nolen steered Constantinople home for an eye-catching fourth in Saturday’s Caulfield Cup after finding interference approaching the home turn and again early in the straight. “He was terrific.” Nolen… Read More »
Wicklow Brave, one of the most versatile horses of all time, has lost his life following a fall in the American Grand National at Far Hills racecourse in New Jersey. The Willie Mullins-trained ten-year-old was leading going to the last flight of the American Grand National but failed to clear… Read More »
Damian Lane has been suspended and fined $20,000 following his win on Mer De Glace in the Caulfield Cup. Lane was one of three jockeys banned following Saturday’s $5 million Caulfield Cup. However, Lane will be free to ride $3.60 favourite Lys Gracieux in the Cox Plate at The Valley… Read More »
Trainer Danny O’Brien expects Caulfield Cup runner-up Vow And Declare to be much better suited at Flemington in the Melbourne Cup. But the four-year-old stayer could have to rely on attrition to get into race. Vow And Declare beat all but Japanese visitor Mer De Glace in Saturday’s $5 million… Read More »
The Everest race day has found its place in Sydney with 40,912 race goers flocking to Randwick. Saturday’s crowd was a few hundred more than came to see champion Winx in her farewell appearance in April. There was some criticism of the clash with the Caulfield Cup in Melbourne, with… Read More »
Japan has claimed a second Caulfield Cup victory in five years with Mer De Glace overcoming a slow start to win in the $5 million race. Like Admire Rakti who won for Tomoyuki Umeda in 2014, Mer De Glace settled back in the field before circling his rivals to score… Read More »
Hush Writer has capped a red-letter day for Japanese-bred stayers with a barnstorming win in the Group Three St Leger Stakes at Randwick. Minutes after Japan’s Mer De Glace saluted in the Caulfield Cup, Hush Writer ($6) streaked to a comfortable victory after leading for much of Saturday’s 2600m support… Read More »
CAULFIELD CUP JOCKEYS’ COMMENTS Damian Lane (Mer De Glace) 1st : “He’s not much to look at but he’s just a tradesman at turning up and winning. I’m just so rapt he’s done the job for everyone today. I’m just forever grateful that they brought him out here.” Craig Williams… Read More »
