A horse with a joint held together by screws, and a jockey who had the same affliction until recently, will team up with trainer Craig Carmody at Rosehill on Saturday. Promising gelding Single makes his comeback in the Rosehill Gardens Handicap (1400m), nine months after undergoing surgery to rectify a… Read More »
Victorian jockey Michelle Payne will make her comeback to riding on Sunday aboard a horse she helped prepare for a first-up Tasmanian win. Payne will ride Fieldmaster for her brother Patrick in the $25,000 Summer Cup at Hobart. The Group One-winning rider has been out of the saddle since suffering… Read More »
Lee Freedman, one of the most decorated figures in Australian racing, has all but conceded he will never train again. “I think I’ve had enough of the professional horse training side of things,” Freedman told Sky Sports Radio. However the The Hall of Fame trainer revealed he won’t be lost… Read More »
A horse who turns up for work early every morning and a trainer who is also an accountant combined for a rare win at Sandown on Wednesday. High Kingczar added the KS Environmental Handicap (3000m) to his modest record thanks to a perfect ride from Dwayne Dunn and his ability… Read More »
Melbourne and Caulfield Cup winner Dunaden is back in trainer Mikel Delzangles’ stable at Chantilly to prepare for what may be his final campaign. But it is likely it will be without his regular partner Craig Williams. Delzangles’ wife Ann said Dunaden had wintered well and would be aimed at… Read More »
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller has launched his bid for a third Doncaster Mile win with 21 entries for the $2 million race. But missing from his nomination is Rangirangdoo, the veteran sprinter-miler who won the race in 2010. The Australian Turf Club received 190 entries for the Doncaster when… Read More »
The knowledge that comes from riding racehorses for the best part of 60 years has told Pat Hyland to wait a couple of weeks before he begins the Doncaster Mile camapign of his best horse, Shanghai Warrior. Shanghai Warrior emerged in the early spring as a likely top-level contender, winning… Read More »
When he was 15 Cory Parish weighed 33kg and was teased so much he came to hate school. Later on he got into rodeos and turned out to be pretty good at staying on a horse’s back Then he discovered speed and decided he liked it. Not surprisingly, it soon… Read More »
The race might be limited to a select pool of horses but the Inglis Classic can go a long towards confirming a jockey’s opinion of the trainer he is riding for on Saturday. Peter Robl will partner a last-start bush winner in the $250,000 Inglis Classic at Rosehill but he… Read More »
Leading Sydney jockey Corey Brown will return to the saddle in considerably less pain than when he left it at the start of the year. Brown eased his way back into riding after shoulder surgey with four barrier trial mounts on Tuesday and then declared himself fit for a promising… Read More »
First markets for the Blue Diamond released on Tuesday contain an even bigger trap than usual for pre-post punters. The Diamond betting is headed by Adelaide youngster Miracles Of Life at $6 with Diamond Glow next at $11. But neither horse is entered for the race with connections required to… Read More »
An out-of-season appearance in Melbourne by Kerrin McEvoy is set to produce results both on and off the track, starting at Sandown on Wednesday. McEvoy has moved to a summer residence mainly to await the birth of a third child for him and wife Cathy. But thanks to the wide-ranging… Read More »
Racing will begin an hour earlier than scheduled at Sale on Thursday in an attempt to beat the worst of a predicted heat wave. The first race will now jump at noon with the last scheduled for 3.20pm. The meeting is now a seven-race card with the original race eight… Read More »
Jockey Andrew Heffernan was among those to attend the first day of what could be a lengthy British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel hearing corruption charges. Heffernan, who had been riding in Australia, was stood down by Racing NSW in October when the charges were announced. Eight unlicensed individuals also face… Read More »
Two spring Group One winners will book-end an important set of Sydney barrier trials on Thursday. Gai Waterhouse’s Metropolitan winner Glencadam Gold will figure in the opening of 14 heats at Randwick with the Victoria Derby winner Fiveandahalfstar to close out the session. Glencadam Gold is nominated to take on… Read More »
Group One winner Doctor Doom will be eased back into racing with trainer Guy Walter adopting his usual cautious approach. The four-year-old will make his first public appearance in a Warwick Farm barrier trial on Tuesday after a 10-month break. The winner of the 2011 Spring Champion Stakes, Doctor Doom… Read More »
An extra 200 metres and a return to Rosehill are the factors boosting Noel Mayfield-Smith’s confidence in Standard Bearer ahead of the 250,000 Inglis Classic. The colt has run fourth at his past two starts over 1000 metres at Warwick Farm but his trainer says the bigger track for Saturday’s… Read More »
Group One-winning filly Norzita will start her autumn campaign in Melbourne but leading Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman has the inside running to keep the ride on the Bart Cummings star. Connections have given Bowman first refusal on the filly he rode to victory in the Group One Flight Stakes at… Read More »
Melbourne’s reigning champion jockey Luke Nolen returns from his off-season break to begin the pursuit of runaway premiership leader Glen Boss at Sandown on Wednesday. But at best he will only be able to reduce Boss’s 15-win lead by one. Nolen’s only ride for the day is Aliberani who isn’t… Read More »
The Seven Network will continue to broadcast the Melbourne Cup carnival for the next five years, the Victoria Racing Club announced on Monday. The deal, which extends a longstanding relationship with the broadcaster, will ensure the spring racing carnival will have free-to-air coverage in Australia until at least 2018. It… Read More »
