Angelic Light has done everything right since arriving in Perth as she chases her first Group One win in the Winterbottom Stakes. Angelic Light has finished second at her only two attempts in Group One company and is favoured to go one better at Ascot on Saturday. She was beaten… Read More »
Clarry Conners is adamant there is strength in his team of two-year-olds despite an absence of runners in Sydney’s early-season juvenile races. “I’ve had some nice babies that have trialled and I’ve just wanted to give them time. They’ve nearly all been shinsore or had some other niggling problem,” Conners… Read More »
Forty years after starting his apprenticeship at Ballarat, journeyman jockey Kevin Forrester will be chasing a hometown Cup win on Saturday. Forrester, 53, partners Mujadale in the $200,000 Ballarat Cup as his career comes full circle since his introduction to racing as a 14-year-old. Bookmakers rate Mujadale a $12 chance… Read More »
Australian Turf Club racetrack manager Lindsay Murphy is confident the Kensington circuit will stand up to Saturday’s eight-race card but admits the track isn’t perfect. The track has not been used for a race meeting since October 22 when it came under scrutiny because of the amount of kickback it… Read More »
After a lean spring carnival, jockey Stephen Baster is looking for a change of fortune in the Magic Millions Clockwise Classic at Ballarat. Baster finished second in the race last year on Geromayo, a horse owned in the same interests as his mount in Saturday’s 1000-metre race, Old Trieste. The… Read More »
Tony Gollan is counting on a genuinely run Railway Stakes to provide Michael Rodd with a Group One win before departs for a riding stint in Singapore. Rodd is going to Singapore to ride on a three-month contract from January 1 and Gollan would like nothing more than to provide… Read More »
Regally bred gelding Soros has arrived in Brisbane on a mission to add black type to the record of his dam, the champion mare Bonanova. Soros will be having his first start for in-form trainer Kelly Schweida when he tackles the Listed Keith Noud Handicap (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday…. Read More »
Boom filly Frequendly will follow a similar path to last year’s Magic Millions Classic winner Unencumbered in her quest to win Queensland’s richest two-year-old race. Unbeaten Frequendly makes her return in the Capture The Feeling Handicap at Doomben on Saturday. Trainer Les Ross makes no secret he believes Frequendly is… Read More »
Trainer Danny Curran finally posted his first Sandown winner when Written Dash was successful on Wednesday. And later in the day jockey Casey Bruce landed her first official city success when she guided the Robert Smerdon-trained Real Time home in the Heading Out Hair And Beauty Handicap. Curran, a former… Read More »
Fresh from celebrating her third city win at Canterbury on Wednesday, Jess Taylor revealed she had succeeded in extending her apprenticeship into a fifth year. The junior rider is originally from Gosford on the NSW central coast but is now indentured to Sydney trainer and former jockey Mark de Montfort…. Read More »
Jockeys are banned from using mobile phones at the racetrack but stewards made a supervised exception for James McDonald at Canterbury on Wednesday. Offered the mount on star Singapore galloper Spalato in a Group Two race in Hong Kong this Sunday, McDonald was allowed – under the strict watch of… Read More »
Three-year-old filly Hakkasan lived up to trainer Bruce Hill’s high rating when she caused an upset at the Gold Coast on Wednesday. The Sun Up Solar Handicap (1100m) was expected to be an easy win for boom filly She’s Miss Divine ($1.40) who was having her first run back from… Read More »
Autopsy results on Admire Rakti won’t be available for at least another three weeks, Racing Victoria officials say. Admire Rakti collapsed and died when he returned to his stall after finishing last when favourite in the Melbourne Cup. Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey said he had received an interim… Read More »
A highlight of the stand-alone Ballarat Cup meeting will be the Magic Millions Clockwise Classic. Open to two-year-olds purchased at Magic Millions sales around Australia, the race is run in a right-handed direction. It is the third staging of the race and last year the three placegetters all made their… Read More »
Sam Clipperton started his senior riding career by setting himself a challenge. At the beginning of the season, the 20-year-old vowed to lay the foundations that he hoped would eventually help him become one of the best jockeys in Sydney. His goal was simple: forge relationships with the leading stables… Read More »
Count Of Limonade will head for the spelling paddock irrespective of how he races in the Ballarat Cup. An Irish-bred son of Duke Of Marmalade, Count Of Limonade is part-owned by OTI Racing who will be out to continue its recent run of success in Saturday’s 2200-metre feature event at… Read More »
Country trainer Neil Owen’s decision to send promising galloper Lordag to a city stable continued to pay dividends at the Gold Coast on Wednesday. Owen usually mixes his business as a pharmacy owner with owning and training horses at Oakey, west of Toowoomba. He races his horses around Queensland’s country… Read More »
Trainer Steve Tregea is bewildered by the rating handicap system which has made smart sprinter Love Rocks one of the topweights in a stakes race at Doomben. Love Rocks has won one open-company race but will carry 58kg in the Listed Keith Noud Handicap (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday. The… Read More »
The two Australian Turf Club employees at the centre of a betting scandal have ended their tenure with the club. After they received hefty Racing NSW disqualifications for breaching the Australian rules of racing for placing bets on race days, racing clerk Shaun Lyall and betting services manager Murray Conallin… Read More »
The Australian Turf Club has sacked two employees at the centre of a Sydney racing betting scandal. After they received hefty Racing NSW disqualifications for breaching the Australian rules of racing for placing bets on race days, racing clerk Shaun Lyall and betting services manager Murray Conallin have parted ways… Read More »
