Trainer Colin Little is banking on Vassilator’s liking for Flemington as a key factor as the gelding chases a second stakes victory. The Listed VRC-CRV Winter Championship Series Final on Saturday is the culmination of a series of races of which Vassilator won a heat of on June 6. Already… Read More »
Narrowly beaten in the All Victorian Sprint Series Final a year ago, the Mike Moroney-trained Milwaukee will be striving to go one better in his second attempt at winning the straight-track Listed race at Flemington. Milwaukee was second to Malibu Style in last year’s edition and that pair are among… Read More »
It has been a momentous year for Tulloch Lodge co-trainer Adrian Bott, who has kicked a number of goals both personally and professionally. In their fourth season together, Bott and training partner Gai Waterhouse have again cemented their position among the elite Sydney stables. They sit third on the premiership… Read More »
A genuine liking for the Eagle Farm racing surface is expected to help overcome a drop back in distance for Toowoomba mare Love You Lucy. Love You Lucy will be chasing her third black-type win for the winter in the Listed Bright Shadow (1200m). The mare has been the big… Read More »
Trainer Chris Anderson thought he was the victim of a practical joke when told his filly Plutocrat had drawn the inside barrier for the Listed Tattersall’s Club Stakes at Eagle Farm. Plutocrat has had a shocking run of drawing outside barriers in her only four starts. Anderson said to finally… Read More »
A nervous Ben Hayes wanted to see Aysar produce on race day the kind of performance that he knew was hidden within the two-year-old. Hayes, who trains in partnership with his father David and cousin Tom Dabernig, was relieved after Aysar raced to a comfortable three length win in the… Read More »
Lightly raced filly Le Gai Soleil has continued to build on a promising start to her racing career with a convincing city victory on the Kensington track at Randwick. The John O’Shea-trained three-year-old was sent out the odds-on favourite in Wednesday’s Bowermans Office Furniture Handicap (1550m) and notched her third-straight… Read More »
John Thompson believes Best Stone has returned a better filly this preparation and the trainer is looking forward to taking her back to the races at Randwick. Best Stone has been scratched from a couple of races in the past eight days, including at Wednesday’s Kensington track meeting, but Thompson… Read More »
Two-time AFL premiership winning coach Denis Pagan had hoped for a low-key start to his racehorse training career. Pagan was granted a restricted licence earlier in the week and wanted to run Johnny Get Angry in a maiden race at Bendigo on Friday. But when balloted from that race Pagan… Read More »
Trainer Kelly Schweida was feeling old when promising two-year-old Ready To Bolt scored an impressive midweek win at Doomben. Jockey Les Till set a slow early pace to lead all of the way to win the TAB 2YO Class 2 (1350m) on Wednesday. Ready To Bolt is by top Queensland… Read More »
Prospective buyers from Victoria have been banned from attending upcoming horse sales in NSW by the state government and the state’s governing racing body. The ban affects all those living in Victoria, including vendors, vendor staff, vets and bloodstock agents. Inglis managing director Mark Webster said the company had to… Read More »
Rockhampton flyer Master Jamie will have to carry the biggest weight to win on a Brisbane racetrack in 23 years if he is to take the Mumm 3YO (1200m) at Eagle Farm. Master Jamie quest for a 12th career win has been complicated by having to carry 63.5kgs on Saturday… Read More »
Not by design, the Greg Eurell-trained Victoria Star goes into the Listed Winter Championship Series Final at Flemington having not raced for five weeks. But Eurell is hopeful that proves and advantage rather than a hindrance to the lightly raced six-year-old gelding in Saturday’s 1600m race which has been a… Read More »
Victorian racehorse owners living in COVID-19 hotspots will be banned from attending race meetings. Owners were allowed back on course last week, but following Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews’ lockdown of those hotspots from 11.59pm on Wednesday night, Racing Victoria has also stopped those owners from the track. Racing Victoria chief… Read More »
Multiple Group One-winning jockey Ron Stewart makes a return to race riding at Eagle Farm following a fall from a ladder at his home in March. Stewart, 36, has been among Queensland’s leading jockeys since returning from international commitments four years ago. Sydney’s champion apprentice in 2002-03, Stewart has ridden… Read More »
Rosehill trainer Gerald Ryan admits he has thrown promising filly Zero To Hundred into the “deep end” in the Listed Tattersall’s 2YO Club Stakes (1400m) on Saturday. Ryan has won at least 20 winter carnival feature races in the past 25 years, but Zero To Hundred would be his first… Read More »
The Melbourne Racing Club has welcomed the announcement today that its premier race features for spring will maintain their 2019 prizemoney. The announcement comes after prizemoney was reduced for all Victorian metro and country races from 6 April as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on… Read More »
Melbourne’s flagship spring races including the Melbourne Cup will retain their rich purses while minimum prize money in Victoria will return to pre-COVID levels from the start of the new season. But 12 stakes races during this year’s Victorian spring carnival, including three Group Ones, will have a prize money… Read More »
The 100th running of the W.S. Cox Plate on Saturday 24 October at The Valley will remain at the record level of prizemoney of $5m as the elite weight-for-age horses both locally and internationally contest ‘The Race Where Legends Are Made’. Despite the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Moonee… Read More »
Country-based Victorian trainer Noel Richards has made a long overdue return to the winners enclosure with the win of Niamh Chinn Oir at Ballarat. The victory on Tuesday was Richards’ first since Captain Shillalae won at Dunkeld in November 1996. Jockey Christine Puls had the ride on Niamh Chinn Oir… Read More »
