The MRC today announced that it would extend the deadline for nominations to be submitted for the 2021 Neds Blue Diamond Stakes until 3pm Friday August 7, 2020. The decision follows the Magic Millions’ forced moved of its National Yearling Sale back one week to August 3-4, due to Covid-19… Read More »
With the new Australian racing season fast approaching, trainer Mark Newnham believes the time is right for apprentice Tom Sherry to make his Sydney metropolitan racing debut. Sherry, who hails from Ireland, has ridden 93 winners in NSW this season in the country and provincial areas and is scheduled to… Read More »
Trainer Les Ross continued his plunder of QTIS bonus money when tough filly Hancora Field scored at Eagle Farm on Wednesday. Ross has won 11 QTIS races for two-year-olds this season which has accrued $250,000 in bonus money. Leading the way has been Hancora Field a Deep Field filly who… Read More »
The powerful Godolphin stable will be hoping jockey Michael Cahill can continue his outstanding run of success in the Listed Gai Waterhouse Classic (1350m) at Ipswich. Cahill will ride Godolphin’s Multaja who is looking for her first win in more than a year on Saturday. He has won the Waterhouse… Read More »
Consistent gelding Mr Bellagio gets a belated opportunity to make his stakes race debut at Ipswich, when he tackles the Listed Eye Liner Stakes. The last open company black-type race of the season in Queensland also presents Mr Bellagio with a chance to win over 1200m for the first time… Read More »
Bunbury trainer Holly Locke, who only has a small team, is dreaming big of blacktype success this Saturday in the Belmont Classic (2200m) via a Bob Peters cast-off. Not A Single Doubt filly Heaven’s Gift, a winner of her opening two career outings before a third two weeks ago in… Read More »
Group One-winning colts King’s Legacy and Tagaloa have been installed favourites in an early market for the $2 million Caulfield Guineas in Melbourne this spring. The TAB posted its fixed odds markets on Tuesday for a handful of Victorian spring features including the Group One Caulfield Guineas (1600m) for three-year-olds… Read More »
A number of COVID-19 cases in Liverpool has resulted in Racing NSW taking the precautionary action of abandoning Wednesday’s Warwick Farm meeting. The meeting was called off on Tuesday as the Warwick Farm racecourse is located in the Liverpool region. Racing NSW chief executive Peter V’landys said the decision to… Read More »
Jockey Ben Melham can continue to ride in races while facing betting-related charges totalling thousands of dollars. Victoria Racing Tribunal chairman Judge John Bowman has set aside three days, from September 21 to 23, for the case to be heard in the County Court. Melham faces six Racing Victoria stewards… Read More »
Trainer Adam Trinder has given star mare Mystic Journey a glowing report after watching the Group One winner cruise around in a barrier trial at Devonport as she builds towards her race return. Mystic Journey finished fourth in an 800m heat on the synthetic track on Tuesday but Trinder said… Read More »
After dominating the recent Listed Winter Championship Series Final, five-year-old gelding Sircconi is set to head back to Flemington to chase another win over the course and distance. Sircconi made a one-act affair of the Winter Championship Series Final (1600m) last Saturday week, winning by four lengths. It gave former… Read More »
The Caulfield Guineas has been earmarked for Blue Diamond Stakes winner Tagaloa, with the Cox Plate on the radar later in the spring. Tagaloa won two of his six starts during his juvenile season, highlighted by his victory in the Group One Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield in February and… Read More »
Star mare Mystic Journey headlines the entries for a set of barrier trials on the Devonport synthetic track in Tasmania. The Adam Trinder-trained Mystic Journey is entered for an 800m trial on Tuesday morning which would be her first public appearance since her eye-catching fifth placing in the Group One… Read More »
Damian Lane will return to Australia for the start of the new racing season after ending his latest Japanese stint on a winning note. Lane rode a winner at Fukushima on Saturday before completing his three-month contract at the track on Sunday. He booted home 41 winners after arriving in… Read More »
After bypassing the Grafton Cup with last-start stakes winner Frankely Awesome, trainer Kris Lees has turned his attention towards running the mare over a shorter distance on Randwick’s Kensington track. A dual Group One placegetter as a three-year-old in the Vinery Stud Stakes and ATC Australian Oaks, Frankely Awesome claimed… Read More »
A bunch of two-year-olds are set to face a distance test late in their juvenile season in the Byerley Handicap at Flemington. The Byerley Handicap is over 1800m and presents a chance for juveniles showing potential staying qualities to run over an extended distance for the first time against their… Read More »
Australian Zac Purton has wrapped up his fourth Hong Kong jockeys’ premiership and third in succession. There is one meeting remaining in the 2019-20 season in Hong Kong but Purton has an unassailable lead at the top of the premiership standings, leading Joao Moreira by seven wins. Moreira will sit… Read More »
The Deputy Premier of NSW John Barilaro has his sights on this years Melbourne Cup with the iconic race listed on the hit list of events Sydney wan’ts to host after Melbourne worsening COVID-19 situation. The 2020 Melbourne Cup has been listed as one of the events Sydney wishes to… Read More »
Peter and Paul Snowden have made headlines with their juveniles this season, laying the foundations for their young team to shine in the spring. But behind the scenes, they have been developing one of their older horses just as meticulously. In Peter Snowden’s previous incarnation as head trainer for Darley,… Read More »
Trainer Mike Moroney’s Melbourne team for the spring has been bolstered by the arrival of Group Two winner Harlech from New Zealand. Harlech arrived on Wednesday morning, along with stakes-placed rising three-year-old Snapper, to continue preparations at Moroney’s Flemington stables towards their Australian spring campaigns. Harlech registered two wins and… Read More »
