Battle Of Marengo is the star name among six Aidan O’Brien-trained entries for the Derby Trial at Leopardstown on Sunday. The master of Ballydoyle has saddled nine previous winners of this 10-furlong Group Two, including subsequent Epsom Derby winners Galileo (2001) and High Chaparral (2002). Battle Of Marengo is following… Read More »
John Singleton has called on Andrew Johns to “man up” and tell the truth to the More Joyous inquiry. The former rugby league great had been “weak” over his part in the public stoush which shattered the relationship between Singleton and his former trainer Gai Waterhouse, the high profile businessman… Read More »
Although he has decided against running talented filly Angelic Light in the Group One Goodwood, trainer Robbie Griffiths is still looking for success in two states this weekend. Griffiths decided to send Robert Sangster Stakes runner-up Angelic Light to the spelling paddock rather than to Saturday’s Goodwood at Morphettville as… Read More »
Veteran Group One winner Sniper’s Bullet is primed for his comeback but it will have to wait another week after he received 61.5kg at Rosehill on Saturday. Trainer Tracey Bartley said the nine-year-old would bypass the benchmark 95 in favour of the $140,000 Luskin Star Quality (1300m) on the second… Read More »
Strike The Stars has had his training varied in a bid to tap into the form that made him a Group One placegetter as a three-year-old. Trainer Anthony Cummings, disappointed Strike The Stars could only manage a worse-than-midfield Doncaster Mile finish, ordered a week away from stable life for the… Read More »
Victoria’s premier trainer Peter Moody has moved to confront speculation he may be under investigation by racing authorities over the use of peptides on racehorses. Moody, who was mentioned by British racing figures in the wake of the steroid case that has rocked the sport in the UK, unequivocally denied… Read More »
Tim Clark will have the backing of Sydney’s leading trainer when he tries to build on an impressive return to Australian racing at Canterbury on Wednesday. Clark collected the Wagga Wagga Gold Cup and the Gold Coast Guineas in his first week back from Hong Kong, ensuring his services will… Read More »
Mike Moroney’s chances of a first Queensland Derby success this winter will become clearer when two of his hopefuls look to cement interstate plans in the same race on Wednesday. Rhythm To Spare and Murcielaga line up in the Le Pine Funerals Handicap (1600m) at Sandown with both on trial… Read More »
Rugby league identity Andrew Johns and former jockey Allan Robinson have had a change of heart about appearing at the More Joyous inquiry. Johns indicated on Tuesday afternoon, through his lawyer Colin Love, he is prepared to be cross-examined by Racing NSW stewards about a statement he made concerning his… Read More »
A second placing behind Black Caviar in the Lightning Stakes followed by another second to Shamexpress in the Newmarket led Peter Moody to hold the reasonable belief that Moment Of Change was among the better sprinters in the country. But that opinion received a jolt when Moment Of Change tailed… Read More »
The Australian racing industry has been dealt another blow following the announcement that champion colt All Too Hard would be retired to the breeding barn to stand at Vinery Stud this September. The retirement of the son of Casino Prince comes hot on the heels of big sister Black Caviar’s… Read More »
Ex-footballer Andrew Johns and two others will be given one more chance to attend the More Joyous inquiry or face sanctions by racing authorities. Johns, former jockey Allan Robinson and punter Eddie Hayson have been named as pivotal players in the inquiry which centres on whether there was a problem… Read More »
It promised to have all the key ingredients of a classic soap opera, and the Racing NSW inquiry did not disappoint. A press pack of some 70 reporters and photographers staked out the horse racing body’s head office in Sydney from early Monday morning, swarming over all the main players… Read More »
Rugby league great Andrew Johns was terrified he would be fired by the Nine Network after he “embellished” what he’d been told by bookie Tom Waterhouse about the racehorse More Joyous. Businessman and horse owner John Singleton told Racing NSW’s inquiry into the matter that Johns had been drinking the… Read More »
Yet another multi-million dollar inquiry has been launched in Queensland, this time into the state’s racing industry. The government says it’s not a political witch-hunt to embarrass the former Labor government, but an independent investigation into alleged mishandling of massive contracts. Attorney-General Jarrod Bleijie expects former premier Anna Bligh and… Read More »
Trainer Anthony Cummings has selected the BTC Cup as the return race for exciting sprint prospect Your Song. Cummings said he had been weighing up between the BTC Cup in Brisbane and the Goodwood in Adelaide. Both races, run on over 1200m on Saturday, offer the same amount in stakes… Read More »
The racing future of trans-Tasman Group One winner King Mufhasa is in doubt after the gelding bled during Sunday’s Champions Mile in Hong Kong. Trainer Bruce Wallace said King Mufhasa’s trachea had filled with blood during the race and he was struggling to breathe as he came off the track… Read More »
A six-horse contingent spearheaded by one of New Zealand’s most promising gallopers will be out to make an immediate mark on the Queensland winter carnival after arriving in Brisbane On Thursday. Most prominent among the Kiwi group is the Queensland Derby prospect Survived, a last-start winner of the Hawkes Bay… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse says any conversations she had with her husband or son before More Joyous raced at Randwick on April 27 were personal and not about the condition of the horse. Waterhouse and owner John Singleton are appearing at a Racing NSW stewards inquiry into an alleged injury to the… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse says any conversations she had with her husband or son before More Joyous raced at Randwick on April 27 were personal and not about the condition of the horse. Waterhouse and owner John Singleton are appearing at a Racing NSW stewards inquiry into an alleged injury to the… Read More »
