Kris Lees can remember exactly where he was when Bonecrusher and Our Waverley Star elevated the Cox Plate into racing folklore with their tooth-and-nail battle down the Moonee Valley straight. It was 1986 and almost 20 years before Lees would begin training his own stable of horses at Newcastle. Market… Read More »
Tabcorp is pleased to have secured an exclusive wagering vision partnership with the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) for the four days of the Melbourne Cup Carnival. Whether watching at home on Foxtel, at your local TAB venue or on your TAB app, Sky Racing will bring punters the live action,… Read More »
Steven O’Dea and Matthew Hoysted will be looking for their first winner as a training partnership on Saturday when they send out four runners, three at Doomben and one at the Gold Coast. “Forming a partnership was always going to be a possibility from the day Matty first came to… Read More »
Champion trainer Aidan O’Brien faces an anxious wait after his two Cox Plate horses, Magic Wand and Armory, showed signs of lameness just two days out from the race. All 14 Cox Plate runners were inspected by Racing Victoria veterinarians on Thursday and passed fit to start with the exception… Read More »
Chris Waller believes both of his gallopers in the Cox Plate, Kolding and Humidor, will have to produce peak performances to be winning chances in the Moonee Valley showpiece. Waller is aiming for his fifth victory in the Cox Plate having trained the incomparable Winx to win four in a… Read More »
For the second year in a row, Steel Prince has won himself a start in the Melbourne Cup. Racing Victoria’s chief handicapper Greg Carpenter elected to penalise Steel Prince a kilogram for his win in Wednesday’s Geelong Cup, which has taken his weight to 53.5kg. This has catapulted the Anthony… Read More »
First-up specialist Jami Lady has a wide barrier to contend with at Doomben but her co-trainer Matt Hoysted is not conceding defeat. Jami Lady resumes from a spell in the Austrans Handicap, drawing awkwardly in barrier 10 of 15 from the tricky 1050 metre start. With only a short run… Read More »
Racing Victoria veterinarians inspected all horses in Saturday’s Cox Plate (2040m) at The Valley with two leading contenders needing to be re-examined after showing signs of lameness. Aidan O’Brien’s two Cox Plate horses Magic Wand and Armory will be re-examined by veterinarians tomorrow. Magic Wand presented with lameness in her… Read More »
Jason Warren is one of many trainers who will be hoping the predicted rain doesn’t fall before the running of the Manikato Stakes. His equation for his four-year-old mare Brooklyn Hustle is simple: if the track is rain-affected on Friday night she can’t win and if it isn’t, she can…. Read More »
Peltzer will contest his second $1 million race of the spring when he lines up in the Bondi Stakes but this time trainer Gerald Ryan expects a different result. The colt finished fifth to Ole Kirk in the $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill two starts ago, that horse subsequently… Read More »
Ciaron Maher is excited about the prospect of having his first Cox Plate runners and he believes both gallopers, Sir Dragonet and Grandslam, are in with great chances. Maher said Sir Dragonet boasted world-class form, while Grandslam had the perfect three-year-old record to win and was not there to make… Read More »
Annabel Neasham has made a flying start to her training career and she is hoping to continue that momentum with her first juvenile runners. Neasham took out her trainers’ licence at the start of the season after a successful stint running the Sydney arm of Ciaron Maher and David Eustace’s… Read More »
Geelong Cup winner Steel Prince has shot up the order of entry for the 2020 Melbourne Cup after receiving a weight penalty for the race. Chief Victorian handicapper Greg Carpenter has given Steel Prince a 1kg weight penalty for the 2020 Melbourne Cup elevating the horse to 25th in order… Read More »
New South Wales trainer Michelle Russell has been banned for a period of 12 months after a horse in her care returned a positive to Heptaminol and Cobalt. Racing NSW stewards released on Thursday their findings to an inquiry into Russel’s galloper Taliano who returned a positive to Heptaminol, and… Read More »
Young trainer Will Freedman has only saddled up 20 runners since going out on his own but he has already shown promise with a metropolitan placegetter and four winners, including Zaunkonig in the Dubbo Cup. Formerly working with his father Richard at Rosehill, Freedman set up his solo Scone operation… Read More »
Jockey Luke Currie has been taken to Geelong hospital following a fall on Xilong in the eight event on the Geelong Cup meeting. Update: Doctors at Geelong Hospital have cleared Luke Currie of any injuries following his fall. Luke Currie was aboard race favourite Xilong in the eight race on… Read More »
Calvin McEvoy believes Hey Doc is on track to win his second Manikato Stakes after two runs back from a spell but he envisages a different scenario in terms of how the horse might achieve it. Three years ago as a three-year-old, Hey Doc used his speed to lead throughout… Read More »
The Geelong Cup proved a triumph for the Anthony and Sam Freedman stable as they trained the quinella, with Steel Prince holding off imported stablemate Le Don De Vie. The win was a special one for Sam Freedman as it was his first Group win as a trainer. Freedman is… Read More »
Aidan O’Brien’s right-hand man in Australia, T J Comerford, has assessed Amory’s form going into the Cox Plate as being superior to that of the stable’s 2014 race winner Adelaide. Armory boasts strong international form lines and heads into Saturday’s race after finishing third in the Group One Irish Champion… Read More »
The Anthony and Sam Freedman trained Steel Prince has outstayed his rivals to win a quality edition of the Group Three Geelong Cup on Wednesday. Steel Prince jumped as the well backed $3.50 favourite with Sportsbet and he got the job done for backers wearing down the gallant Le Don… Read More »
