Expected to be one of the drawcards to the meeting at Moonee Valley, Queensland galloper Uncommon James has been ruled out of the remainder of the spring with a minor leg injury. Trainers Steven O’Dea and Matthew Hoysted issued a statement on Tuesday that Uncommon James had presented with some minor filling in his near foreleg…. Read More »
Illation is set to undergo further tests as trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr try to get to the bottom of his disappointing run in the Memsie Stakes. Unbeaten in his first three starts, Illation was a drifter in the betting before finishing last in the Group 1 1400m contest on Saturday. Price had been bullish… Read More »
Boom Queensland sprinter Uncommon James will miss the remainder of the spring carnival after a setback. Trainer Steven O’Dea released a media statement on twitter on Tuesday morning announcing the news. Uncommon James has won five of his six career starts including an emphatic win in the Regal Roller Stakes… Read More »
Jockey Billy Egan underwent his second surgery on Monday following his heavy fall from Tagomago in the ninth and final race at Pakenham on Friday. Although X-rays cleared Egan of any fractures (there was initial concern about that possibility straight after the fall), as reported on Racing.com, he was then… Read More »
It is seemingly becoming increasingly likely that the field for this year’s $5 million Cox Plate will not feature any international runners. Michael Browell, the CEO of the Moonee Valley Racing Club, had been hopeful that, at very least, the Joseph O’Brien trained State Of Rest would be back to… Read More »
It was good to see jockey Morgan Butler hobbling around Corbould Park on Sunday. And no … that is not being nasty. Rather, it is an expression of relief after the terrible looking fall Butler suffered in the last race at Kilcoy on Saturday. When he didn’t move for some… Read More »
Trainer Bernie Miller was rapt with the trial of Cup Night and has his fingers crossed it signals a change of fortune for the Maschino gelding. Feet issues have restricted Cup Night to just five races in two years, but Bernie Miller says he took a significant step forward at Belmont this… Read More »
Baylee Nothdurft has joined the stable of twelve-time Group 1 winning trainer Robert Heathcote, taking up a new challenge in a racing career which has already brought notable success. Nothdurft earned a place of distinction in the Premiership records in Queensland during his successful riding career when he won the… Read More »
Fresh from his first success as a trainer, Takahide Ikenushi is already eyeing off his first feature win with Vane Tempest. The tough mare was a dominant winner of Saturday’s Furphy Handicap (1300m) at Belmont, her third run in as many weeks. Takahide Ikenushi, who rode more than 450 winners… Read More »
Fireburn might have been unplaced in her final trial before her first-up run in next month’s Group 2 Run To The Rose, but don’t expect to see trainer Gary Portelli pressing any alarm bells. The Warwick Farm horseman now knows what to expect from the Golden Slipper winner and was satisfied… Read More »
Trainer Colin Webster says the $500,000 Placid Ark Stakes (1200m) looms as a lucrative option for his classy filly, Baby Paris. The daughter of hot sire Playing God, Baby Paris is expected to tackle the Listed race in November after successfully completing a cameo winter campaign on the weekend. Baby Paris,… Read More »
William McCarthy has only been a regular in Australian form guides for a little more than a year but he has already built a feature-race CV many jumps jockeys with decades experience would be jealous of. The Irishman on Sunday won a stirring edition of the $350,000 Grand National Steeplechase… Read More »
Not for the first time, Mike Moroney is planning for life after Tofane. The four-time Group 1 winner was one of the disappointments of Saturday’s Memsie Stakes, finishing 12t in the field of 14, 8-1/4 lengths from Snapdancer. The 1400-metre Group 1 was her first start since being sold for $3.1… Read More »
Chris Waller has quashed talk of an Everest appetiser between Nature Strip and Eduardo in the Concorde Stakes, confirming he will wait for another day to kick off the champion sprinter’s spring. While Eduardo is on track to resume in the 1000m scamper at Randwick next Saturday, Waller said the race wouldn’t be… Read More »
A bonny mare claimed her second Group l, a boom horse tasted defeat while at Rosehill, there was a shock in the feature. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Snapdancer Wins Memsie Quality mare Snapdancer won her second Group l on Saturday, leading throughout… Read More »
The San Domenico Stakes has tossed up a boilover result with unheralded colt Sweet Ride storming to a surprise victory as several highly fancied rivals turned in mixed performances behind him. Golden Slipper runner-up Best Of Bordeaux failed to show his customary speed out of the gates and finished fifth, previously unbeaten… Read More »
Jockey Ethan Brown says Snapdancer has taken him on the ride of his life after registering a second Group 1 victory. Snapdancer gave Brown his maiden Group 1 win in the Robert Sangster Stakes (1200m) at Morphettville in May before a placing in the Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm the following month. Taken… Read More »
One bubble burst while another remained intact in the Cockram Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday. Passive Aggressive and Chain Of Lightning entered the Group 3 1200m race for fillies and mares unbeaten in four starts. The Grahame Begg-trained Passive Aggressive was sent out the $1.90 favourite with the Peter Moody-trained Chain Of Lightning a $7… Read More »
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott will set their sights on landing back-to-back wins in the Golden Rose after emerging three-year-old Kibou scored a runaway victory in the Up And Coming Stakes. The race had a dramatic twist prior to the start when favourite Conqueror was a late scratching at the barriers after… Read More »
Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr have a vast number of three-year-olds in their stable and they collected an early ‘black type’ victory for that age group with the success of Jacquinot at Caulfield. It was an imposing win by the colt who took out the Group 3 H D F McNeil Stakes (1200m)… Read More »
