The last-start Christmas Handicap runner-up is nominated at Caulfield and for the metropolitan meeting at Gawler and Jolly said he was leaning towards staying in SA at the early stage. “We’ve nominated for both here and Melbourne, but I am leaning towards running him at Gawler,” Jolly said. “There are… Read More »
Only two starts back he was just nabbed late on the line in a Rosehill Midway and the Marc Conners-trained Nictock will be looking to go one better in this weekend’s edition at the same track. In that version on December 4, the Nicconi gelding led everywhere bar the post before… Read More »
In form rider Ben Thompson will be doing a rain dance in the week leading up to the Magic Millions after happily committing to riding the Bryan and Daniel Guy trained Golden Artie in the $2 million Magic Millions Two-Year-old Classic on January 15. You couldn’t take the smile off… Read More »
When jockey Michael Murphy went up high in the saddle and punched the air in an exaggerated, ecstatic salute when winning on the Lindsay Gough trained Dr Why Not at Doomben on Saturday, it clearly signalled that the result had special significance for the rider. As it turned out that… Read More »
The stakes have risen for co-trainers Mick Price & Michael Kent Jnr in their new Cranbourne training base with the return of springtime stable stars pointing towards summer and autumn features. Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m) and Golden Eagle (1500m) winner I’m Thunderstruck is one of the big names to… Read More »
Waller winless!!! Well, there are two word’s you didn’t think you would see together … and, rest assured, you are not going to see it often, but that indeed was the case on New Year’s day where the undisputed heavyweight champion trainer of Australia sent out a total of fourteen… Read More »
Group 1-winning jockeys Luke Currie and Daniel Moor have jumped at the opportunity ride in Hong Kong having been granted licences by the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) to compete there for the remainder of the 2021-2022 racing season. With the likes of Zac Purton, among others, on the sidelines through injury,… Read More »
Rick Hore-Lacy, who enjoyed a successful training career through which he became a renowned preparer of future star stallions, has died after to a long battle with illness. Hore-Lacy trained his first Group 1 winner with Foxseal winning the 1985 Brisbane Cup (3200m) before the likes of Clay Hero, Canny… Read More »
A fall from the ill-fated Gold Watch on New Year’s day at Ellerslie has left Danielle Johnson with two broken bones in her lower right leg. A runaway winner of the 2020/21 New Zealand Jockey’s Premiership, in which she rode over one hundred and fifty winners with fifteen Black Type… Read More »
The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s licensing committee has confirmed that, subject to the usual formalities, it has granted a Club Jockey’s licence to Luke Currie and Daniel Moor to ride in the precinct until the end of the current Hong Kong racing season. Currie, who has thirteen Group 1 winners… Read More »
Trainer Patrick Payne isn’t one to overplay the prospects of horses under his care too often and he is true to his form after the win of Gate Crash ($2.10) in the Ladbrokes Blended Bets Handicap over 1800 metres at Sandown on Monday. This was the second win in four starts for… Read More »
A key trial run at Gold Coast on Tuesday morning and forecast inclement weather are providing added challenges for Magic Millions Classic prospect Cusack. Cranbourne-based co-trainers Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are eagerly awaiting what the weather overnight on the Gold Coast will bring as their two-year-old colt Cusack is… Read More »
Trainer John Moloney has decided to bypass the rich Magic Millions prize money on offer to stay at home with his filly Scorched Earth. The last start Flemington winner is set to tackle older horses in Benchmark 84 grade race over 1100m at Caulfield on Saturday. Moloney said there was not enough positives… Read More »
Victoria Derby winner Hitotsu is in the early stages of a preparation that is expected to see the colt run first-up in the Group 1 Australian Guineas at Flemington. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained three-year-old is in the leading trainers’ Ballarat stable going through a slow build-up. Eustace said Hitotsu had had three weeks in the paddock following… Read More »
Special K earned himself a potential slice of history, a former American mare continued her winning ways while in the Perth Cup, it was Peters Investments to the fore in another feature. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS:… Read More »
Owner Bob Peters has recorded his tenth win in the Group Two Perth Cup following the win of Midnight Blue. The Grant and Alana trained son of So You Think sat three wide throughout but was able to put a big enough gap on his rivals at the 200m mark… Read More »
Lighthouse has maintained her unbeaten record in Australia with victory in the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes at Flemington. The US-bred mare by Mizzen Mast, had to overcome a difficult passage near the 300m to claim victory in the 1400m contest at her fourth in Australia. Lighthouse commenced her Australian career for Ciaron Maher and David… Read More »
He’d been running around in races like the Villiers and the Goulburn Cup, but the John O’Shea-trained Kirwan’s Lane ($2.90) has relished dropping back in grade by posting back-to-back victories at Randwick in the space of six days. He broke through on the course proper in a Benchmark 88 on Boxing… Read More »
It was her first race start for trainer Kristen Buchanan, but rank outsider Moonshine Lady ($19) hasn’t wasted any time in getting off the mark by leading all the way over 1100m at Randwick Kensington. The six-year-old mare jumped straight to the front for hoop Koby Jennings and never let anything past… Read More »
Tigertiger has continued his rise through the grades by taking out the first feature race of the New Year, the Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington. A maiden when he arrived in Australia after 12 starts in New Zealand, Tigertiger now has five wins to his credit in nine starts for Mornington trainer… Read More »
