He was a galloper who won eight races and over $2.4 million in prize money for trainer Gary Portelli, and Rebel Dane is continuing to provide the Warwick Farm conditioner with on-track success with progeny such as Fireburn and Rebel Shadow now representing the stallion. A winner of the Group… Read More »
Sydney’s spate of wet weather has seen trainer Jarrod Austin head to Melbourne again chasing victory with Looks Like Elvis. After winning the VOBIS Gold Bullion at Pakenham on December 4, Looks Like Elvis is set to run at Flemington on Saturday in the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m). To make the… Read More »
Leading Perth owner Bob Peters has two of the leading chances as he shoots for a record tenth victory in the Perth Cup. Grant and Alana Williams will saddle up TAB’s $3.60 favourite Midnight Blue along with $4.60 second elect Pure Devotion in the Group 2 race over 2400m at Ascot on Saturday. Market 💰: View… Read More »
Racing Victoria has announced that the ‘race free week,’ which was trialled in July, will be discontinued and, as such, will not form part of the Racing Victoria calendar in 2022. Towards the end of July this year, Racing Victoria trialled a five day race-free period which was met with… Read More »
To avoid the hottest part of the day, Racing Victoria has brought forward the start of the race meeting at Echuca on Friday. With temperatures expected to peak at 41 degrees on Friday afternoon, RV has brought forward the start of the meeting to 11.10am with the final race to be… Read More »
Champion Perth jockey William Pike has been replaced aboard Midnight Blue in the Perth Cup after a change in COVID protocols. A change in West Australia’s COVID protocols will see champion jockey William Pike miss the Perth Cup. Pike had been booked to ride the Bob Peters-owned Cup favourite Midnight Blue in… Read More »
Having broken through for his first win in Victoria, Nick Ryan is now looking at a ‘black type’ race with Not To Be Mist. The former Perth galloper is among nominations for the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday. Not To Be Mist scored in the Furphy Festive Season Sprint (1200m)… Read More »
Senor Toba’s emergence as a legitimate BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) contender continued at Sha Tin on Monday (27 December) with the grey’s stout victory in the Class 2 Hong Kong Sports Institute 30th Anniversary Cup Handicap (2000m), fuelling Caspar Fownes and Joao Moreira’s hopes of successive triumphs in the… Read More »
Champion Western Australian jockey Willie Pike will miss this weekends Group Two Perth Cup meeting at Ascot due to the local government implementing a vaccination rule. The WA government this week announced all people must be double vaccinated against Covid-19 before they are allowed to attend the state’s racecourses on… Read More »
Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are leaving no stone unturned in their bid to claim victory in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on the Gold Coast. They have had their two-year-old Cusack on the Gold Coast for almost a fortnight preparing for the $2 million race on January 15. Cusack… Read More »
He’s been unlucky not to crack it for a win this preparation, but the David Payne-trained Dream Circle will get his chance to get back into the winners’ circle when he contests the Maroubra Mile at Kensington this Saturday. All three of the Dream Ahead gelding’s runs have been full of… Read More »
A fourth Victorian jockey has tested positive to COVID and faces an automatic 10 days out of the saddle. The latest COVID positive comes after a group of jockeys were stood down at Caulfield and Geelong on Sunday after attending the funeral of Chris Caserta on December 20 and a function last Thursday…. Read More »
Back in 2006 rising star Victorian apprentice Brenton Primmer had an horrific fall at Warracknabeal. In the crash he smashed two vertebra in his neck and his brain bled. Some doctors didn’t think he’d make it. He lay in hospital for two months in an induced coma. Others, when he… Read More »
Phillip Stokes may have a smart young stayer on his hands after Daqiansweet Junior completed a hat-trick at Caulfield on Boxing Day. A former New Zealand galloper, Daqiansweet Junior has only had five starts for Stokes and has won his last two starts over 2000m. Despite his win in Benchmark 84 grade in the Take… Read More »
While the focus is on obtaining the next stable star with inspections on the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions Sale, the realisation for trainers is there that the autumn carnival is not far away. The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable is beginning to get their big names back to prepare for the Group 1 races which kick off… Read More »
Racing Victoria and the Victorian Jockeys’ Association will look at ways to overcome the chaos created by COVID that saw jockeys stood down from riding on Boxing Day. Jockeys were forced to miss riding at Caulfield and Geelong on Sunday after being potentially exposed to COVID at the funeral of Chris Caserta last Monday or… Read More »
A mare earned a shot at Group l glory, a Godolphin veteran secured another Stakes win while Covid wreaked havoc at Caulfield. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Marabi Earns Oakleigh Plate Start Unbeaten mare Marabi earned ballot… Read More »
Lightly-raced Marabi has graduated to stakes company with ease taking out the Listed Christmas Stakes at Caulfield. Unbeaten in her first four starts, Marabi was first emergency when the fields for Sunday’s 1100m sprint were declared on Wednesday, but that did not stop punters from supporting the five-year-old. Supplying Jamie Kah the third leg of a winning treble, after wins on Jezoulenko and Americain Angel, Marabi… Read More »
Steve Richards has finally forgiven Holbien for putting him in hospital after “double-barrelling” the trainer as a younger horse. A then unraced and unnamed youngster, Holbien kicked out with his hind legs resulting in Richards’ injuries being akin to those suffered in a car accident, including losing his spleen, broken ribs and a damaged lung. Richards is currently suffering a hip problem but… Read More »
He had been thereabouts in nine outings since joining the Bjorn Baker camp and Parry Sound ($26) has finally posted that illusive victory in the Group 3 Summer Cup at Royal Randwick. Originally trained by John O’Shea, Parry Sound put six placings together on the bounce for Baker last campaign, with four… Read More »
