Brenton Avdulla and Blake Shinn have ridden one winner apiece at Warwick Farm with the former maintaining his 14-win premiership lead over his rival with three meetings left this season. Avdulla went into Wednesday’s meeting after riding his 90th metropolitan winner on Saturday, a goal he said he set himself… Read More »
Tony Gollan has broken his own record for the number of winners by a trainer in a Queensland metropolitan season with three meetings to spare. Gollan set the record at 86-1/2 in 2015/16 and Daring Deeds’ win at the Gold Coast on Wednesday was his 87th metropolitan win for this… Read More »
Toby Edmonds has trained more than 100 winners this season but few have given him as much pleasure as talented mare Linlithgow at the Gold Coast. Edmonds has put a lot of time into the four-year-old mare who scored her second win from just three starts in a Class Three… Read More »
Trainer Grahame Begg has high hopes for Our Libretto after the former New Zealand mare landed a betting plunge at her racetrack return at Sandown. The rising five-year-old was having her first start for 12 months when successful in Wednesday’s Mypunter.com Plate. The mare, who was having her first start… Read More »
Apprentice Stephanie Thornton will have her first ride for champion trainer Chris Waller when she bids to clinch this season’s Rising Stars Series at Flemington. Thornton will ride the Waller-trained So Splendid in Saturday’s Rising Stars Final (1700m) restricted to apprentice riders. It is the culmination of a season-long series… Read More »
Jameka has taken another step on her way to a return to the racetrack with a gallop between races at Sandown. The 2016 Caulfield Cup winner was to have galloped at Sandown on Wednesday morning with one of Henry Dwyer’s team to help determine the track rating, but that was… Read More »
Former champion Brisbane apprentice Glen Charles has died after short illness aged 68. Charles was an accomplished pony club rider and rugby league player in the South Burnett region before joining trainer Ken Lee in Brisbane where he was apprentice school champion in 1969. Charles’s top wins included the Albion… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote never tires of explaining the bloodlines of No Annamossity who will make his stakes race debut at Doomben. No Annamossity is closely related to Heathcote’s seven-time Group One winning champion sprinter Buffering but not in the usual manner. “It is amazing how many times I get asked… Read More »
Apprentice Lachlan King is appealing a seven-meeting suspension for careless riding incurred at Caulfield. Stewards suspended King on Saturday after finding him guilty of careless riding aboard Strike Force at the 1200m mark of a 1400m race at Caulfield. The apprentice is currently serving another seven-meeting ban from Echuca on… Read More »
Trainer Troy Corstens would like to see an academy developed to teach newcomers about racing. Like a lot of trainers around Australia, Corstens, who trains in partnership with his father Leon, finds it difficult to get staff saying the situation is worse during winter. Corstens floated the idea with fellow… Read More »
All racing participants will benefit from a $24 million increase in NSW prize money to be distributed among metropolitan, provincial and country areas. Racing NSW chairman Russell Balding announced the raft of increases on Wednesday which will come into effect from September 1. The majority of the prize money will… Read More »
Four days after undergoing surgery on a fractured leg trainer Ciaron Maher is back at work overseeing his large team of horses at trackwork. Maher was dislodged from Caulfield Cup winner Jameka when she whipped around after another horse walked in front of her last Friday morning. He was operated… Read More »
Mollyfied will be given another chance to claim a late season metropolitan win when she steps up to 1600 metres at Warwick Farm. The mare goes to Wednesday’s fillies and mares race a week after a troubled run in a 1350m-race at the same track. “The plan is for her… Read More »
Back-to-back city wins by Nordic Empire have come at the right time for Cranbourne trainer Chris Parry. The six-year-old has given Parry his three solitary wins for the season and the trainer hopes the total will be extended to four when the gelding runs in a benchmark 78 race at… Read More »
