The David Murphy trained Areprice will line up as a lively contender in the Bruce McLachlan Classic, a QTIS Two-Year-Old contest over 1000m, which will be decided at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. The son of Better Than Ready has yet to run a bad race in his four career… Read More »
Star Sydney jockey Tommy Berry has been fined $4000 by Racing NSW stewards after pleading guilty to giving misleading evidence during an inquiry into raceday contact with disqualified trainer John O’Shea. Berry was forced to answer questions from stewards last month after he suggested in a post-race intereview that he… Read More »
Sheila Laxon has not been back to the Flemington winner’s room since the first Tuesday in November a couple of years ago, but she is optimistic of a return this Saturday. The Macedon Lodge trainer and her partner John Symons have three Finals Day shots at their first Flemington winner… Read More »
Bohemian Angel had a false start last week, but the four-year-old mare will make her debut for Phillip Stokes this Saturday at Murray Bridge. The former Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained mare was an acceptor for a 1000-metre race at last Saturday’s Morphettville Parks meeting but the stable elected to… Read More »
General Salute boasts some of the best form lines of any horse competing at Rosehill on Saturday, and jockey Tim Clark says he only needs to race up to those to win the feature sprint on the card. The gelding finished runner-up to star mare Autumn Glow in last year’s… Read More »
A miscommunication almost cost Tyler Schiller the chance to test Gatineau in a recent barrier trial, but there won’t be any such mix-ups ahead of the juvenile’s debut at Rosehill. Schiller was accidentally legged aboard Gatineau’s stablemate Blackbelt, who contested the same 900m heat on June 19, and it wasn’t… Read More »
Billy Egan hasn’t played much of a role in Jimmy The Bear’s Winter Championship defence to this point, but he will reclaim the keys at the right time. The no-fuss jockey will be reunited with the Patrick Payne-trained gelding in Saturday’s $200,000 Listed final at Flemington. It will be the… Read More »
Jockey Daniel Jack Smith has been relicensed by Racing NSW after completing a five-year disqualification imposed over a series of betting offences committed while riding in the Northern Territory. Smith, who was previously known as Terry Treichel, was banned after pleading guilty to 32 charges, comprising 30 betting-related offences and… Read More »
It has been reported that the new inquiry into the Alligator Blood Magic Millions 3YO Guineas result is now set to commence on July 21, although the former, well-respected steward Ray Murrihy, who was due to chair the inquiry when it was previously set down to begin on May 21,… Read More »
One is trained at Toowoomba while the other is at Sunshine Coast but the common theme of gear changes will hopefully see Yes I’m Ugly and Hannabana at Ipswich on Friday. Taylah Mackinnon is based north of Brisbane and she is looking to the application of a tongue tie to… Read More »
Trainer Henry Dwyer has confirmed that his three-time Group 1 winner Asfoora will extend her final season campaign in England and will line up in the Group 3 Coral Charge at Sandown on Saturday. Asfoora has done Australia proud on the international scene over the last couple of years, winning… Read More »
The powerful Grant and Alana Williams training partnership will come out with all guns blazing in the $125,000 Listed Belmont Oaks on Saturday … with Ladies Pro (Willie Pike), Esta Mirando (Austin Galati) and Think Pink Daze (Chloe Azzopardi) all taking aim at the Oaks target … but the betting… Read More »
Star jockey Blake Shinn says he is now only weeks away from returning to race riding after spending almost eight months recovering from the horrific leg injury he suffered in a fall at Flemington on Melbourne Cup Day. Shinn sustained a severe compound fracture to his left leg in the… Read More »
Craig Williams doesn’t own the record for most wins in the Winter Championship Final, but no rider has dominated the day on which it is run like the popular veteran jockey. His lone win in the $200,000 Listed Flemington feature came aboard Magic Consol, which was part of a record… Read More »
Experience garnered towards the pointy end of the two-year-old season is expected to hold Satin Summer in good stead when she resumes in an off-season race at Rosehill. Trained by Michael Freedman, a renowned conditioner of juveniles, Satin Summer defeated subsequent VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes runner-up Zambales on debut in… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg, fresh from his Group 1 triumph with Splash Back in last week’s Tatts Tiara, could add another Queensland Winter Carnival winner to his list when he sends out King Zephyr in the Listed Glasshouse Handicap over 1400m at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday. King Zephyr will be… Read More »
Progressive Lindsay Park stayer The Western Front will continue his enduring campaign in Saturday’s $150,000 Banjo Paterson Series Final at Flemington. The 2600-metre event will be the 10th start of a campaign that began with a fourth placing in a benchmark 70 over 1600m at Flemington all the way back… Read More »
Chad Schofield and Zac Lloyd regularly share the Sydney jockeys’ room, but this weekend they will both be donning their race silks in South Africa. The talented riders, who are also cousins, both happen to be competing in South Africa’s most prestigious race, the Durban July (2200m), Schofield partnering King… Read More »
Obvious will be chasing what two months ago seemed an unlikely Finals Day victory when he looks to make it back-to-back wins at Flemington this Saturday. The Greg Eurell-trained gelding goes around in the Silver Bowl Final, a 1600-metre event for three-year-olds. The son of Toronado became a leading contender… Read More »
It has been twenty-two months since McHale last won a race, but assistant trainer Charlie Duckworth believes the stable might have found the key to breaking that drought. The five-year-old will line up in Saturday’s Listed Winter Stakes (1400m) chasing his first win since Rachel King guided him to victory… Read More »
