Peter Moody will take legal advice before deciding his next move in his fight against stewards’ access to his Caulfield stable. The leading trainer has again voiced his anger at a Racing Victoria integrity department demand for keys to all stables at Caulfield and Flemington racecourses. Stewards ordered trainers to… Read More »
Stud-bound mare Miss Imagica could have her career extended for one more start if she runs well in her bid for a hat-trick of Weetwood Handicap wins. Miss Imagica is one of six horses to twice win the Weetwood which is Toowoomba and Queensland provincial racing’s premier sprint. Last year… Read More »
Queensland’s hopes of winning a Group-class three-year-old race during the winter carnival will be clearer after Shiraz Attack takes on promising males Rudy and Olympic Anthem on Saturday. The trio are taking different paths to carnival Group races but will have their first acid test of their campaigns in the… Read More »
The normally routine secondary session of the Australian Easter Yearling sale was the focus of attention on Thursday as a large crowd gathered when a half-brother to Golden Slipper winner Mossfun entered the ring. The crowd wasn’t disappointed with the Magic Albert colt fetching $750,000, a record for the second… Read More »
The Australian Trainers’ Association has asked Racing Victoria stewards to extend a deadline for members to provide keys to their stables. The ATA claimed 65 percent of trainers opposed the move claiming it created a poor perception of them. RV stewards wrote to trainers last Friday informing them they had… Read More »
Well-related two-year-old Petrology is favoured to back up a debut win and continue the momentum of the David Hayes stable at Caulfield on Saturday. Petrology, a three-quarter brother to Group One winner Aqua D’Amore, trailed the speed on debut at Mornington city-class meeting before going on to beat Darley runner… Read More »
It came a week late but Unencumbered has a perfect draw for Saturday’s Sires’ Produce Stakes at Randwick. Unencumbered’s jockey Craig Williams was thrilled to land barrier two in the Sires’ but he would have liked a better alley in the Golden Slipper seven days earlier. A wide barrier ruined… Read More »
A heavy track would rule topweight Boban out of the Doncaster Mile with Chris Waller adamant that was the reason for his last-start failure. Light rain fell steadily in Sydney’s eastern suburbs on Thursday afternoon with more expected in the following 24 hours which would tip Randwick into the heavy… Read More »
Commitment and strength secured him the Group One ride on Dissident but it is an affinity with the Randwick mile which could deliver Brenton Avdulla a Doncaster victory. Avdulla has picked up the Doncaster Mile mount on the Peter Moody-trained three-year-old after pledging to get down to 51.5kg. But it… Read More »
Like several other trainers, Anthony Cummings counts the Rosehill Guineas as the one that got away. He believes he can put that right with three runners in Saturday’s ATC Australian Derby at Randwick. Shamus Award and Puccini took each other on up front at Rosehill, ruining their own chances and… Read More »
Joe Pride can make a genuine case for the odds being in his favour despite TJ Smith Stakes bookmakers barely rating his in-form stable a chance in the $2.5 million sprint. Pride has already trained two Group One winners – Steps In Time and Tiger Tees – during the Sydney… Read More »
Apprentice Jamie Kah is close to achieving every apprentice’s goal. Kah needs two more wins to outride her claim less than two years after she started riding in South Australia. The 18-year-old won the Adelaide jockeys’ premiership in her first full season before moving to Victoria to test her talents… Read More »
Excellantes’ love of Doomben swayed trainer Rob Heathcote to keep him in Brisbane rather than tackle the Weetwood Handicap in Toowoomba on Saturday. Excellantes, who has been dodging wet tracks, has drawn perfectly in barrier four in the Jim Beam Handicap (1110m) at Doomben. He has won eight races, with… Read More »
Chris Waller’s dominance of Sydney racing has been recognised by bookmakers fielding on the $3 million Doncaster Mile. As Waller trained another city treble at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, NSW TAB price assessors framed a market on the first of his six runners from his stable to finish in the… Read More »
Stephen Baster made the most of his only Sandown ride as Kincaple Chief raced into South Australian Derby contention with a breakthrough win. Kincaple Chief provided the opening leg of a race-to-race double for trainer David Hayes on Wednesday with up-and-coming mare Girl Guide notching her third win in four… Read More »
There will be no shortcuts for Bring Something in Saturday’s Listed Galilee Series Final at Caulfield. That is not because of the likely slow track but because jockey Mark Zahra will have instructions to make ground out wide in the 2400m contest. Bring Something’s trainer Ken Keys says the three-year-old… Read More »
Champion jockey Chris Munce was quick to praise his wife Kathy after Twisted Mountain’s record-breaking win at Eagle Farm on Wednesday. Munce took Twisted Mountain ($4) straight to the front and he led all the way to win by 10 lengths over Clever One ($8) in the Quest Breakfast Creek… Read More »
The significance of an early-season injury wasn’t lost on one of Australia’s biggest stables as Darley filly Shaumari lived up to expectations at Warwick Farm on Wednesday. If not for a setback, Shaumari could have easily taken her place in last Saturday’s Golden Slipper. Instead, she provided a small consolation… Read More »
Apprentices get few chances to prove themselves as big race riders. But Damien Thornton will get an opportunity to boost his career immeasurably in Saturday’s Group One ATC Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Randwick. Chad Schofield won a Cox Plate as an apprentice on maiden Shamus Award last year and… Read More »
Craig Newitt has always known Lankan Rupee is a talented horse. But six months ago he could not have predicted the sprinter would be entering Saturday’s $2.5 million TJ Smith Stakes as the winner of the Oakleigh Plate and Newmarket Handicap. Those wins make him the highest-rated sprinter in the… Read More »
