Trainer Daniel Bowman only has to look at Begood Toya Mother’s last start to know he has got the right form to fo back-to-back in the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. In his final lead-up run 12 months ago, Begood Toya Mother finished sixth in the Memsie Stakes and… Read More »
Happy Valley will play host to an eight race meeting on Wednesday, and while there are no feature races, the depth looks strong for so early in the season. Race One: 3 Shadow Breaker Race Two: 2 Mig Energy Race Three: 4 Smart Thinker Race Four: 1 Joy Master Race… Read More »
Jockey Hugh Bowman and co-trainer Adrian Bott have been asked to attend Racing NSW headquarters for the resumption of a stewards’ inquiry into the first-up flop of Farnan. Led by chief stipe Marc Van Gestel, stewards grilled Bowman and Bott during a race day inquiry into Farnan’s unplaced performance in… Read More »
English trainer Charlie Fellowes is not in a rush to decide which jockey will ride dual Melbourne Cup placegetter Prince Of Arran this spring after Michael Walker told him he was unavailable for the ride. Fellowes, speaking on Melbourne radio station RSN, said he was surprised when Walker informed him… Read More »
This weekends Group Two The Shorts is shaping up to be a race that could define the $15m Everest with the field packed full of leading contenders. The feature sprint race at Randwick this weekend has attracted arguably its strongest and most open field in recent history with twelve horses… Read More »
Champion trainer Chris Waller will again have a strong hand in the Group One feature the George Main Stakes at Randwick this weekend with four of the seven runners, headed by star mare Verry Elleegant. She spent four days at the farm to recover from her enormous effort to win… Read More »
Chris Waller has gone back to the drawing board with Kolding and it has delivered the champion trainer an important epiphany. A perfectionist by nature, Waller was perturbed by the gelding’s loss of form during the autumn when he failed to place in five starts and again when he resumed… Read More »
Eulogies and stories are coming in from all over the world after we in the southern hemisphere woke to the news that Pat Smullen had died. The champion rider, one of the very best in the world, was 43 when cancer took over his soul last night. The Irish-based rider… Read More »
You have to be tough to be a jockey. Not just physically, mentally as well. Thank goodness promising Queensland-based apprentice Wendy Peel is. Just hours after riding her first ever city winner, she was on the deck, in agony and in need of transportation to the hospital after a track… Read More »
Star Western Australian sprinter Showmanship who was favourite for Saturday’s Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes has been ruled out of the remainder of the spring due to injury. The Grant and Alana Williams trained sprinter will miss the remainder of the spring after suffering a tendon injury in training… Read More »
Gun sprinter Bivouac heads nominations for theĀ Group Two The Shorts (1100m)Ā and last seasonāsĀ Golden RoseĀ andĀ Newmarket HandicapĀ winner is primed for a big return. āHeās done everything right and has come to hand beautifully. Heās strong and fit and looks ready to run a really good race.ā Cummings said. Nominations for this yearās… Read More »
The powerhouse Godolphin team is poised to play a major hand at Randwick with Avilius and Colette tackling the George Main Stakes and sprint star Bivouac making a much-anticipated return in The Shorts. Triple Group One winner Avilius produced an eye-catching run when he resumed in the Chelmsford Stakes and… Read More »
The Shea Eden trained Housay has stamped himself as a horse to watch after smashing his rivals by seven lengths at Wodonga on Tuesday. Trainer Shea Eden was confident heading into the race all but saying the horse ‘will win’ and his confidence was justified with the son of Zebedee… Read More »
Racing Victoria’s international recruiter Paul Bloodworth got the result he had been dreaming about when Irish master trainer Aidan O’Brien told him he would put six high quality horses into quarantine. At the top of Bloodworth’s list was last year’s English Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck, who would become the… Read More »
Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien will arguably bring one of his strongest teams of horses to date to Melbourne for the spring carnival. Paul Bloodworth confirmed that Aidan O’Brien’s stable has informed Racing Victoria that six horses would enter quarantine in Ireland in preparation for the trip to Melbourne. The horses… Read More »
Racing fans on twitter are fuming after a European stayer received a hefty weight penalty which would secure the horse a run in the Melbourne Cup. The Aidan OāBrien-trained Tiger Moth received a 2.5kg weight penalty for the 2020 Melbourne Cup after the horse won Saturdayās Group 3 Kilternan Stakes… Read More »
Champion jockey James McDonald has been booked to ride Standout when he resumes in an important renewal of The Shorts at Randwick. The sprinter will be out to showcase his claims to a slot in the $15 million The Everest when he takes on a top field that includes Classique… Read More »
Mike Moroney is sweating on emerging galloper Buffalo River gaining a start in the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes. Buffalo River has a relatively low rating and the trainer has some concerns as to whether he can get a berth in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes field with his… Read More »
The lure of a Magic Millions windfall will keep brilliant sprinter Zoustyle to only a brief cameo appearance during the spring. Trainer Tony Gollan is mindful the racing career of Zoustyle hangs by a thread after the gelding suffered a bleeding attack when he finished a first-up seventh in the… Read More »
Tom Marquand, who has enjoyed several successful riding stints in Australia, has won his first classic race in England aboard Galileo Chrome. The Joseph O’Brien-trained colt was a late pick-up ride for Marquand after regular jockey Shane Crosse became unavailable because of a positive test for Covid-19. With Crosse forced… Read More »
