Group Two-winning colt Time To Reign is set to return to racing at Rosehill for just the second start of his three-year-old season. Trainer Gary Portelli, who prepared the colt’s older half-sister She Will Reign to win two Group Ones including the 2017 Golden Slipper, has Time To Reign ready… Read More »
Racing Victoria CEO Giles Thompson is hoping patrons will still be allowed on-course by the end of July, but admits it’s less likely because of the latest coronavirus spike in the state. Owners returned to the racetrack at Ballarat on Tuesday and it was hoped members and spectators would be… Read More »
Connections of impressive Flemington winner Front Page have knocked back some sizeable offers from Hong Kong for the promising gelding. Front Page registered his fourth win from six starts in taking out the Listed AR Creswick Stakes on Saturday. It was the three-year-old’s first start on a metropolitan track and… Read More »
Trainer Kris Lees is eyeing next month’s $200,000 Listed Ramornie Handicap at Grafton with Graff after an impressive trial on Tuesday. A multiple stakes winner with more than $1 million in prizemoney, Graff has been at the Newcastle trainer’s Gold Coast base for the past month. He ran 10th in… Read More »
Former Hong Kong-trained 12-year-old Fighting Heart is set for his first start in seven years at Ipswich on Wednesday. Fighting Heart hasn’t run since being unplaced in Hong Kong on June 16, 2013. He is now with Ipswich trainer Kathleen Gruenefeld, who has nursed him through a few setbacks. In… Read More »
After a delay of 24 hours, owners have now been given the green light to start returning to Victorian race meetings to watch their horses compete. But there will be protocols in place from Tuesday’s meeting at Ballarat and restrictions on numbers and where owners can be situated on the… Read More »
Wu Gok has already played a starring role in recent Sydney staying races and he headlines the nominations for another winter feature at Rosehill. The six-year-old Chris Waller-trained six-year-old gelding has been allocated top weight of 61kg for Saturday’s Listed WJ McKell Cup (2000m) for which eight of his stablemates… Read More »
The Singapore Turf Club is set to resume racing next month with strict health and safe management measures in place. The STC confirmed in a statement that racing would go ahead behind closed doors from July 11 after receiving approval from the Government. “To minimise the risks of Covid-19 transmission,… Read More »
Warrnambool trainer Matthew Williams is convinced promising import Harbour Views can improve again in his second attempt over a middle distance before he is put away with the spring in mind. Harbour Views raced to a convincing 2-1/4length win over 2040m at The Valley on June 13 in his first… Read More »
Impressive Flemington winner Front Page has had plenty of interest from Hong Kong with seven figure offers coming for the Creswick Stakes winner since Saturday. The Geoff Duryea trained gelding could not have been more impressive at Flemington on Saturday putting away a good quality field in the Creswick Stakes… Read More »
One of Australia’s best-known racing families is set to welcome its next generation to the training ranks. Will Freedman, the son of trainer and media personality Richard Freedman, has confirmed plans to establish a stable at Scone in the NSW Hunter Valley. He will go out on his own after… Read More »
Jye McNeil’s narrow lead in the Victorian premiership is under threat with the jockey set to miss the next 10 meetings after being suspended for careless riding at Bendigo. McNeil rode a winning double at Flemington on Saturday to take his state-wide season tally to 123 as he battles with… Read More »
Australian jockey Zac Purton has extended his lead in the Hong Kong premiership with a winning double a Sha Tin. Purton started Sunday’s meeting with a three-win lead over premiership rival Joao Moreira and notched victories aboard Winning Brew and Regency Master to take his season tally to 132. Moreira… Read More »
The return of thoroughbred owners to Victorian racetracks has been delayed. Owners with runners engaged to race were scheduled to be allowed on course to watch their horses from Monday but Racing Victoria announced that has been deferred by at least 24 hours pending the finalisation of appropriate COVID safe… Read More »
‘Cheongdam Dokki rolled back the years, crushed all-comers and silenced the sceptics by completing a sensational hat-trick in the Herald Business Cup at Seoul Racecourse on Sunday.’ These are the words of English race announcer Alastair Middleton with Cheongdam Dokki’s run-away main race victory at Seoul’s Lets Run Park, with… Read More »
Charlie Appleby is dreaming of a second Melbourne Cup success with Cross Counter after taking encouragement from his performance in the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. The five-year-old became the first British-trained winner of the ‘race that stops a nation’ when striking gold in 2018 – and was beaten just… Read More »
Gytrash’s spring program is yet to be determined but Adelaide trainer Gordon Richards likes the idea of campaigning his stable star in Sydney in the lead-up to The Everest to showcase him to slot holders. The Group One Lightning Stakes winner has returned from a spell in the past week… Read More »
Michael Freedman knows better than most what it takes to build a stable from the ground up. He did it in Singapore where he trained with great success for eight seasons, in Sydney when he returned in 2016, and again in Hong Kong when opportunity knocked. But after a tough… Read More »
Multiple Group One winner Santa Ana Lane will be given the chance to prove he is far from a spent force as one of Australia’s best sprinters. The Anthony Freedman-trained Santa Ana Lane went winless during his most recent four-run preparation that included a runner-up finish in his defence of… Read More »
Conservative by nature, Tom Dabernig says he will not be making any major changes to the Lindsay Park operation following the departure of David Hayes. Dabernig and his cousin Ben Hayes take over at Lindsay Park after David Hayes’s departure for Hong Kong for a second training stint. Hayes left… Read More »
