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Horse Racing News

  • Queensland horse death reignites Hendra virus fears

    Racing Queensland is urging horse owners to vaccinate against Hendra virus after the deadly disease claimed a horse’s life in southeast Queensland — the first confirmed case in the region in three years. Biosecurity Queensland confirmed the horse tested positive last Friday and its condition “rapidly deteriorated”. The animal had… Read More »

     
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  • Racing Victoria greenlights $10m purse for Melbourne Cup

    Australia’s iconic Melbourne Cup is set to offer $10 million in prizemoney from 2025, fulfilling a long-held dream of the Victoria Racing Club. Racing Victoria is expected to confirm the record increase for the 2025-26 season later this week. The Cup has held an $8 million purse since 2020, marketed… Read More »

     
  • Fortunate Kiss causes upset in Glasshouse Handicap

    It was indeed a kiss of good fortune for Luke Tarrant when he picked up the ride on the Lloyd Kennewell and Lucy Yeomans trained Fortunate Kiss in the Listed Glasshouse Handicap at the Sunshine Coast after Ronnie Stewart, who had originally been booked for the ride picked up an… Read More »

     
  • Ceolwulf back bigger and better ahead of spring

    Joe Pride has been heartened by the performances of a horse from a rival yard this season as he begins to plot a spring carnival path for stable flag bearer Ceolwulf. The Warwick Farm conditioner watched with interest as Antino thumped his rivals in the Hollindale Stakes (1800m) and Doomben Cup… Read More »

     
  • Repossession a tough rising star for Gangemi brothers

    Repossession gave another reminder of his class when he bounced back from a setback to win the Listed Beaufine Stakes (1000m) at Pinjarra on Saturday. Showing a liking for the Pinjarra straight for a second time this campaign, Repossession completed a winning hat trick and vindicated a chaotic week for… Read More »

     
  • Veight’s spring hopes fade with neck injury

    While the McEvoy stable has just had one emerging feature race prospect show his potential in the staying ranks, another proven miler has a challenge ahead to keep his career in motion after a an otherwise innocuous setting in Queensland has seen Veight battling a neck injury. A broken bone in… Read More »

     
  • Overfull finds winning form at Sunshine Coast

    The Peter Robl trained Overfull earned his way back into the winners’ enclosure when he held off the challenge of Charming Nic to land the $200 000 Bernie Spilsbury Three-Year-Old Handicap over 1000m, a race named in honour of the long-time Sunshine Coast Turf Club doctor who is now retiring… Read More »

     
  • Caulfield Cup on McEvoy’s mind after stayer impresses

    Few would argue Tony McEvoy’s credentials as a smart operator and the experienced horseman’s eye for quality and planning is coming together so far with emerging stayer Half Yours. That strategy could raise as high as the 2025 Caulfield Cup. The four-year-old gelding has raced in Victoria, New South Wales… Read More »

     
  • The Three Hundred too good in the Winx Guineas

    All the pieces needed to fit neatly in place for The Three Hundred to return to the winners’ list and that is what occurred when the gelding took out the Winx Guineas on Sunshine Coast’s feature day of racing. Trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott needed to find the trick… Read More »

     
  • Gibbons, Pride combine for Winter Stakes boilover

    Miffed by the usually consistent Estadio Mestalla’s two disappointing runs from a spell, Joe Pride made a double-barrelled decision to change gear and tactics and the horse responded with an upset win. Pride had been at a loss to explain the gelding’s early-campaign form given he had been working well… Read More »

     
  • Jimmy gets redemption in Winter Championship Series Final

    In some ways, it was a case of righting a wrong from two years’ ago for Jimmy The Bear in the Listed Winter Championship Series Final (1600m) at Flemington. Beaten as a $2.80 betting companies favourite in 2023, Jimmy The Bear atoned two years later with a typically tough victory, with… Read More »

     
  • Earn To Burn gets the cash in Sunshine Coast 2YO feature

    Earn To Burn ($6) outgunned his opposition in a pressurised finish to win the Bruce McLachlan Classic, a QTIS Two-Year-Old Handicap over 1000m. It was a tough win for Jack Bruce trained son of Better Than Ready, who was held out four wide from a number nine barrier all the… Read More »

     
  • King Yoshi makes it three in a row at the Shunshine Coast

    The Billy Healey trained King Yoshi shrugged aside any doubts about tackling the extra ground when came home with something to spare over 1200m to land the Provincial Sprinters Series Final … a BM80 Handicap … at the Sunshine Coast. This result sealed a third successive win for the four-year-old… Read More »

     
  • Mr Verse continues his good form at the Sunshine Coast

    You certainly can’t fault the form of the Lope De Vega gelding Mr Verse, who saluted for third time in six starts at the Sunshine Coast when he arrived with inch perfect timing under a great ride from Ashley Morgan to slip past Gossip Girl, who had looked the likely… Read More »

     
  • Bridal Waltz upsets She’s An Artist at Flemington

    Co-trainer Peter Moody was quietly confident Bridal Waltz could turn the tables on raging favourite She’s An Artist in the Listed Creswick Stakes (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday. After finishing 4-1/4 lengths adrift of impressive winner She’s An Artist on June 21st, Bridal Waltz was sent out a $13 chance… Read More »

     
  • Diddle Dumpling makes a meal of rivals at Rosehill

    Connections of Diddle Dumpling haven’t ruled out giving the mare another shot at black type company after she maintained her unbeaten start to the campaign with an all-the-way victory at Rosehill. Owned by wealthy businessman John Singleton, Diddle Dumpling was competitive in stakes grade as a two and three-year-old but… Read More »

     
  • Buccleuch bolts in with Taj Rossi Series Final

    Patrick & Michelle Payne and Billy Egan have a strong record in the Listed Taj Rossi Series Final (1600m) and Buccleuch may just be the best of all. Patrick Payne notched up his third win in the race and second in conjunction with Egan, who also rode Cherry Tortoni in… Read More »

     
  • Snowden colt a Force to be reckoned with

    He has twice ridden the winner of the Golden Rose and jockey Tommy Berry can make a case for Raging Force to be given a shot at earning his way into the Group 1 showpiece. The two-year-old made it a hat-trick of wins this preparation when he comfortably accounted for… Read More »

     
  • Blake Spriggs retires from racing after near-fatal fall

    Group 1-winning jockey Blake Spriggs has announced his retirement from racing, six months after a devastating fall at Moruya left him with life-threatening injuries. Speaking to 7Horse Racing’s Lizzie Jelfs, the 33-year-old revealed he was warned by doctors that another head knock could be fatal. “To hear the neurologist say… Read More »

     
 
 
 
 
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