In-form jockey Nash Rawiller may be dominating the headlines in Sydney but his Victorian-based brother Brad has quietly gone about accumulating enough wins to put him on top of the Australia-wide premiership. Despite spending almost three months on the sidelines though suspension and a broken foot, Brad Rawiller has won… Read More »
International Group One winner Bayrir is set to make his Australian debut in the Listed Winter Challenge Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday. Bayrir has been given the highest rating of the 15 entries of 103 with last-start Winter Stakes winner Under The Sun on 100. Trainer Chris Waller entered Bayrir… Read More »
New Zealand boom colt Cauthen has pleased trainer Andrew Campbell with the way he has settled into Victoria ahead of his Australian debut at Moonee Valley on Saturday. Cauthen impressed experts back home with an 8-1/2 length win in his first race at Te Rapa on July 3. Campbell said… Read More »
A privileged education and a lot of hard work came together to give trainer Henry Dwyer his first city winner when Mendivil scored at Sandown on Sunday. Dwyer spent six years working for trainer Robert Smerdon and another couple in the Lloyd Williams operation before taking out his own licence… Read More »
The Melbourne Cup favourite Puissance De Lune is set to resume racing at Caulfield in three weeks. Trainer Darren Weir said the imported galloper whose jockey Glen Boss last November declared him the Cup winner, would make his comeback in the Group Two PB Lawrence Stakes (1400m). Weir said his… Read More »
Betting has been suspended on the Sydney jockeys’ premiership but Nash Rawiller isn’t ready to claim victory just yet and Hugh Bowman isn’t conceding defeat. With just a seven-race meeting at Warwick Farm on Wednesday to complete the season’s racing, Rawiller has a 2-1/2 win lead over Bowman. Rawiller has… Read More »
A leap into the great unknown is almost the only choice for the owners of Bashboy following a second Grand National Steeplechase win at Sandown that qualified him as easily the best of his kind in Australia. Bashboy’s commanding victory came under 72.5kg, the most weight carried by a Grand… Read More »
Missy Longstocking will resume trackwork on Monday with the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes on the wish list of trainer Liam Birchley. Missy Longstocking has completed a seven week spell after winning the Hampden Stakes (1200m) at Eagle Farm on June 8 which was her second win at Listed level… Read More »
A horse bred to be a classics contender on the flat finally made his name in racing with victory in one Australia’s major jumps races. Maythehorsebemagic put on a brave front-running performance to win the J J Houlahan Hurdle (3400m) at Sandown on Sunday, at the same time announcing himself… Read More »
Golden Slipper winner Overreach is building towards a racetrack return and will head a classy group of fillies and mares for owner-breeder George Altomonte this spring. The proprietor of Corumbene Stud and the winner of many Group One races, Altomonte celebrated his biggest success with Overreach in the Slipper and… Read More »
A long-range tip from premier trainer Peter Moody is always worth noting. And his latest offering is no exception. Moody notched his 200th win for the season with Alana’s Dream in a maiden at Donald on Saturday, but the celebration was all about the 16-year-old who rode her. For Regan… Read More »
Nash Rawiller has virtually sealed the Sydney jockeys’ premiership with a masterful quartet of winners at Randwick on Saturday. Rawiller began the day half a win behind Hugh Bowman in their intriguing battle for the 2012-13 title and ended the meeting 2-1/2 ahead with Bowman getting one on the board…. Read More »
Trainer Kelly Schweida was quick to defend Lennie’s Choice who bounced back to winning form at Doomben, seven days after failing as an odd-on favourite at Eagle Farm. Schweida was confident Lennie’s Choice could improve on his tiring sixth as a $1.80 favourite at Eagle Farm a week earlier. “I… Read More »
See The World gave Nash Rawiller another valuable win in his battle for the Sydney jockeys’ premiership at Randwick on Saturday, but his ride wasn’t exactly what trainer Joe Pride had in mind. Pride’s instructions to Rawiller to slot See The World in with cover in the July Sprint (1200m)… Read More »
A horse who has already established one notable winning pattern will be out to create another after scoring the fourth stakes win of his career at Caulfield on Saturday. Second Effort, already a multiple winner of Victoria’s biggest country sprint, will attempt a second successive success in the Group Two… Read More »
Jockey Larry Cassidy’s tactics aboard Beeby Gem were quizzed in a stewards’ room sequel to the last-to-first win of Keep It Moist at Doomben on Saturday. Beeby Gem led by five lengths at the 400-metre mark in the Goulburn Valley Handicap (1350m) before weakening to finish second last to Keep… Read More »
An end-of-season win at Randwick may have been the last hurrah for Follonica who is bound for the broodmare barn in the spring. Her victory in Saturday’s JMR Creative Design (1200m) was also a boost for Hugh Bowman in his battle with Nash Rawiller for the Sydney jockeys’ premiership. Two… Read More »
Trainer Mike Moroney’s decision to pull Caulfield specialist Octavia out of the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes paid off handsomely on Saturday. Octavia jumped to the front in the Daniel McMillian Handicap and the $1.95 favourite scored by 3-1/2 lengths from Draw Forward ($15) with Means A Lot ($13) third. Moroney… Read More »
Relief was the over-riding emotion for apprentice jockey Janette Johnson after a milestone win aboard Voodoo Blue Magic at Doomben on Saturday. After being held up for a run at the 250-metre mark, Voodoo Blue Magic edged out Prussian Heart to win the Canadian Club Handicap (1200m) by a half-head…. Read More »
David Vandyke is looking to Arabian Gold to give him his first Group One victory with the Flight Stakes the aim for the filly who scored her fourth win from six starts on Saturday. The Warwick Farm trainer has assembled a strong spring team with Arabian Gold headed to the… Read More »
