A couple of nasty falls marred a great day of racing at Randwick, an upset in a feature at the Valley while the Victorian industry lost one of their own. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Carnage At… Read More »
Sydney trainer Joe Pride has registered a two-state double with the stylish win of Ballistic Lover in a stakes race at The Valley. Ballistic Lover took out Saturday’s Listed Carlyon Stakes (1000m) a little over two hours after Queensland Guineas winner Private Eye’s first-up win in the Group 3 Show County Quality at… Read More »
Racing is renowned for being a great leveller and it was that and more for trainer John Thompson, who endured a roller coaster of emotions at Randwick on Saturday. Thompson’s afternoon started on a bright note when More Prophets scored a deserved win in the Gow Gates Handicap (1500m). However, tragedy… Read More »
Sydney jockey Brenton Avdulla has suffered a fractured neck in a fall at Randwick on Saturday. Avdulla was aboard stakes winning filly Xtremetime when the horse fell in the straight and Avdulla was rushed to the Prince of Wales hospital in which the star jockey suffered a fractured C7 and… Read More »
A variety of different work has sparked Pancho back into a winning frame of mind at The Valley. In a fast run Ranvet Handicap (2040m) on Saturday, Pancho registered his first win since taking out the Kilmore Cup (1600m) last November. Saturday’s victory was the gelding’s fifth from 29 starts and Jo Taylor, representing… Read More »
The first major of the Sydney season has produced an epic battle between an established star and a new kid on the block. Mo’Unga has upstaged glamour mare Verry Elleegant to claim the Winx Stakes and give Annabel Neasham the third Group 1 win of her fledgling career. Ridden by Tommy… Read More »
Daniel Moor has been rewarded for his work with the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable landing a stakes win at The Valley. The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained He’s Xceptional has scored a surprise first-up win at The Valley. Enjoying the fast pace in Saturday’s McKenzie Stakes (1200m), He’s Xceptional ran down… Read More »
Queensland Guineas winner Private Eye has signalled his spring carnival intentions with a powerhouse performance to claim the Group 3 Show County Quality at Randwick. The 1200m win took his record to seven victories from 10 starts and confirmed trainer Joe Pride’s plans to aim for some major spring targets. Pride… Read More »
Swift Witness has taken out the Silver Shadow Stakes but her victory has been overshadowed by a dramatic fall in the straight in which Xtremetime suffered a fatal injury. The fillies’ feature was a rough-house affair from the outset with horses jostling for positions in a moderately run race. It didn’t get… Read More »
Less than a week after the death of Deanne Pinney, the mother of trainer Kerry Parker’s two children, Tampering has scored an emotional win for the stable at Randwick. While Parker and Pinney were no longer together, she remained a crucial part of the business and the two horses who held… Read More »
The Anthony and Sam Freedman-trained Zouzarella has lived up to the pre-race hype with a narrow but impressive debut win at The Valley. The Zoustar filly was well-supported in early betting for the Roll The Dice Racing Plate (1200m) on the strength of an impressive barrier trial at Cranbourne on August 9. But come race day, Zouzarella was easy… Read More »
Kyle Wilson-Taylor has had to watch as Jaden Lloyd and Leah Kilner made flying starts to the new season while he was on the sidelines suspended and he was happy to be back in the thick of the action on Saturday. Wilson-Taylor opened his account when Undeniable was too slick for… Read More »
The last time gun jockey Hugh Bowman was lining up a crack at claiming his one hundredth Group 1 victory was when he beat the travel deadline to get into Queensland to ride the Chris Waller trained Subpoenaed in the Tatts Tiara at Eagle Farm at the end of June… Read More »
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) has announced it would be implementing the next step in the on-going whip-rule reform process … with the whip not to be used in consecutive strides at any stage of the race. This new ruling will have a particular impact on jockeys use of the… Read More »
James Mcdonald has picked up the plum mount on Silver Shadow Stakes favourite Four Moves Ahead after Nash Rawiller failed in his bid to get a medical clearance to ride. Rawiller suffered an undisplaced fracture of his foot, with an open wound over the fracture, in a race day incident… Read More »
“For me, it’s going to be an achievement just to be back riding,” Those were the words of jockey Michael Walker … when talking to Racing.com … as he put his long rehabilitation and recovery process in perspective following the severe leg injury he sustained in a fall back in… Read More »
Former jockey Elvis ‘Ricky’ Thurgood has died peacefully in Melbourne’s Alfred Hospital on Thursday night, aged 62. Thurgood suffered a catastrophic brain injury when Taras Regent suffered a fatal heart attack during the running of the 1980 Easter Cup at Caulfield. His parents, Noel and Doris, spent the past 41 years caring for their son after doctors… Read More »
At some time in their lives almost every trainer will have days where they feel the racing gods are against them, but there are also those days where they cannot deny that everything comes together for them in a way that they could not have scripted any better themselves. Trainer… Read More »
Trainer Nick Ryan has been looking for a reason to spell Mahamedeis, but has been unable to find one. For that reason, Mahamedeis will contest the Ranvet Handicap (2040m) at The Valley on Saturday, the gelding’s 11th start of the campaign. Mahamedeis started his current preparation in February over 1400m at Flemington and it has included a trip to Brisbane for a potential Winter Carnival… Read More »
Xtremetime can give trainer John Thompson his fourth win in the Silver Shadow Stakes. John Thompson reckons his Silver Shadow Stakes contender Xtremetime is like a Formula One racing car. She isn’t built to idle. Thompson made the analogy after the filly wanted to over-race for Brenton Avdulla in two lead-up trials, but… Read More »
