Local sprinter Mnementh has reversed the result from last year’s Wagga Town Plate, nailing a courageous Front Page in a photo finish to give trainer Mitch Beer one of his biggest career wins. Ridden by Winona Costin, Mnementh ($10) settled midfield and relished the solid tempo, unleashing a strong run down the centre of… Read More »
West Australian riders Keshaw Dhurun and Brayden Gaerth recently took on the country’s top apprentice jockeys and won during their heats of the National Apprentice Race Series 2023. RWWA Racing Training Manager Sharyn Lancaster said the winning pair were chosen to compete in Australia’s premier race series for emerging talent,… Read More »
Steven Pateman will spend the next five jumps races on the sidelines after being suspended on the final day of three-day Warrnambool May Carnival. Pateman was fined $750 for a whip breach on Tuesday and a further $3000 following his win on Saunter Boy in the Galleywood Hurdle on Wednesday. The jockey was rubbed out after riding… Read More »
Punters expected trainer Ciaron Maher to collect a seventh Grand Annual Steeplechase but it was not the one they expected. Stern Idol was sent out the $1.85 favourite in Thursday’s 5500m marathon but was pulled-up prior to the last obstacle by jockey Steven Pateman. Instead, it was left to stablemate Rockstar Ronnie who led throughout to give Irishman Chris McCarthy his… Read More »
Bjorn Baker is hoping for a timely form turnaround from smart mare Shades Of Rose when she drops back to Listed grade for the Takeover Target Stakes at Gosford. The winner of the Sheraco Stakes in the spring, Shades Of Rose has contested two rich slot races and a couple of the… Read More »
Matthew Kelley has held his trainers’ licence for less than a year, but the promising young horseman is already lining up for his second shot at a $500,000 pay day. Kelley will start progressive gelding I’ve Bean Tryin’ in The Coast (1600m) at Gosford’s premier stand-alone meeting, just over a month… Read More »
It would not be Warrnambool if trainer Eric Musgrove did not win a jumps race at the May Carnival. Musgrove has been coming to the three-day Carnival for more than 40 years and has won the feature jumps races â the Grand Annual Steeplechase, Brierly Steeplechase and Galleywood Hurdle â on numerous occasions. With a new breed of… Read More »
It was during last year’s Brisbane winter carnival that Huetor announced himself as a top-class horse and while the Group 1 winner has travelled a rocky road since then, connections are confident they have him back to his best. The Doomben Cup winner returns to his happy hunting ground of Queensland… Read More »
The Group 1 credentials of two Ciaron Maher’s Robert Sangster Stakes runners are not for debate and Australia’s leading trainer is confident it is only a matter of time before his other representative joins them. Ruthless Dame will chase a maiden win at the highest level in the 1200-metre fillies and… Read More »
Trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young have lowered their expectations for He’s Our Bonneval who is set to commence his latest campaign at Sandown. He’s Our Bonneval will be joined stablemate Pascero in the Ladbrokes Racing Club Handicap (1300m) on Saturday. Expectations were high for He’s Our Bonneval when he arrived from the UK and on debut for Busuttin and Young scored a soft track… Read More »
John Sargent will head to the Listed Wagga Gold Cup with talented mare Pink Ivory hoping to settle some unfinished business. Sargent captured the race in 2020 with House Of Cartier, only to have her subsequently disqualified when she returned a positive post-race swab. It was the clean skin trainer’s first such… Read More »
Blue-blooded colt Kandinsky Abstract has shown he just might have the talent to match his $3 million price tag after overcoming difficulties to post an emphatic debut win at Canterbury. A brother to multiple Group 1 winner Sunlight and dual stakes victor Sisstar, Kandinsky Abstract is by sire sensation Zoustar out… Read More »
Local trainer Daniel Bowman has described winning the feature sprint of the Warrnambool May Carnival as a big thrill. Recent stable acquisition Outlaws Revenge provided Bowman with his first win in the Listed Wangoom Handicap (1200m) on Wednesday. The Warrnambool Carnival is built around the jump’s features, but with two major flat races, the Wangoom along with the Listed Warrnambool… Read More »
The Gosford stand-alone meeting has been a successful playground for leading Newcastle trainer Kris Lees and he is hoping to continue in that vein with a trio of runners in the $500,000 The Coast. The track has hosted a Saturday metropolitan meeting for the past two years and Lees has captured… Read More »
Saunter Boy has confirmed his star status on the jumps circuit with a second win in the feature hurdle of the Warrnambool May Carnival. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained jumper carried 70.5kg to win last year’s Galleywood Hurdle but rose just 0.5kg to take out the 3200m contest on Wednesday. Sent out… Read More »
Local trainer Symon Wilde has continued his domination of the steeplechase races at the Warrnambool May Carnival providing the quinella on Wednesday’s card. Wilde prepared Britannicus to win the first day feature, the Brierly Steeplechase, while Tolemac led home stablemate Under The Bridge in the Dunroe Steeplechase (3450m) on the middle day. The Warrnambool-based trainer will have two runners in the final day’s feature, the… Read More »
A win in the $200,000 Wagga Town Plate would mean the world to local trainer Scott Spackman, especially if he could pull it off with former smart two-year-old Rocket Tiger. The gelding has taken Spackman on an incredible journey, placing in the 2021 Silver Slipper and Black Opal Stakes before… Read More »
Trainer Desleigh Forster has beaten an animal cruelty-related charge on appeal and the six-month ban imposed previously on her for her alleged actions relating to the use of a prohibitive stockwhip has been set aside. She has however been fined $1000 for possession of a stockwhip and $6000 for the… Read More »
It did not take long for Henry Dwyer to be convinced of starting Irish Butterfly in the Warrnambool Cup following his win at Sandown. Irish Butterfly went home from that win at Sandown over 2400m last Saturday and ate all his feed, something Dwyer said was a rarity. That feat had almost made Dwyer’s mind up on Sunday morning and all… Read More »
Declan Maher knows only too well what is required to win Australia’s longest race, Warrnambool’s Grand Annual Steeplechase. A round table discussion between those involved in Stern Idol has led the jumper to the Grand Annual Steeplechase at Warrnambool. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained former French jumper had been entered… Read More »
