Leading Magic Millions Guineas contender King Of Hastings has tuned up for his assignment with a barrier trial win at Rosehill. Trained by Anthony Freedman, King Of Hastings has done all his racing so far in Victoria but handled a major clockwise test on Monday with aplomb. He cruised to… Read More »
Lindsay Park three-year-old Conqueror will be racing for a trip to New Zealand for a rich sales-restricted race when he returns from a short break at Caulfield. Conqueror will run in a benchmark 78 race over 1400m on Saturday as a lead-up to the $1 million Karaka Millions 3YO Classic… Read More »
Mark Newnham believes Arousal is a stakes filly in the making and she will be given the chance to capitalise on a last-start win when she lines up at Randwick. She will be the trainer’s only representative at the meeting on Saturday when she runs in the Benchmark 72 for… Read More »
Tony McEvoy is looking forward to the day Secret Blaze gets into a staying race run at a solid tempo. But McEvoy does not see that happening on Wednesday when Secret Blaze runs in the Listed Bagot Handicap (2800m) at Flemington. Secret Blaze will be racing for the sixth time… Read More »
Having already bagged a Group One win at the Ellerslie carnival, James McDonald is looking for another aboard Australian sprinter Winter Bride in the Railway. The premier Sydney jockey returned home to New Zealand for Christmas and rode True Enough to win the Zabeel Classic on Thursday. Winter Bride is… Read More »
Gold Coast trainer Michael Costa believes things have finally fallen into place for Malahide as she heads for her biggest pay day on her home track. A last-start Eagle Farm winner, Malahide will be among the favourites for Saturday’s $250,000 Magic Millions Fillies and Mares Rising Stars Handicap (1300m). The… Read More »
The start of the new year will herald the doubling of the percentage taken from prize money to be allocated to equine welfare initiatives in Victoria. From Wednesday, two per cent of prize money distributed by Racing Victoria will be directed at those initiatives and programs of equine welfare, first… Read More »
Progressive sprinter Halvorsen has given Robbie Griffiths milestone victories as the trainer recovers from surgery for a brain aneurysm. Griffiths underwent the operation in August with doctors only allowing the Cranbourne-based trainer to resume restricted duties from November before letting him increase his workload. At Griffiths’ first official day back… Read More »
Top South Australian jockey Todd Pannell hopes to pick up several extra rides when he makes a return to his former base in Queensland to partner Russian Romeo at the Gold Coast. Last-start Morphettville winner Russian Romeo will be a leading contender in Saturday’s $250,000 Rising Stars colts and gelding… Read More »
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission says careful consideration will be needed before determining an application by disqualified jockey Danny Nikolic for a riding licence in Queensland. QRIC Boss Ross Barnett confirmed Nikolic filed an application before Christmas. “As per usual procedure, careful consideration will be made before a decision is… Read More »
Mike Smith has ridden a record-breaking 217th Grade One winner on Omaha Beach in the Malibu Stakes at Santa Anita. Smith surpassed the mark set by retired Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey to set a new mark for United States thoroughbred racing. “Jerry is someone that comes from my… Read More »
Cox Plate-winning trainer Yoshito Yahagi has ended the year on a high with two-year-old Contrail taking out the Group One Hopeful Stakes at Nakayama. His win on Saturday came a week after the Yahagi-trained Lys Gracieux added the Grade One Arima Kinen to her Cox Plate. The Hopeful Stakes over… Read More »
Victorian trainer Shane Nichols is hoping it will be a case of second time lucky at the barrier draw for Tahitian Dancer in the Magic Millions Fillies and Mares race. Nichols is best known for Group One winner I Am A Star but Tahitian Dancer is starting to edge closer… Read More »
Rachel King will spend much of the next month on the sidelines serving two suspensions incurred at separate holiday race meetings at Randwick. King was outed on Saturday for careless riding on winning mount Aquitaine for Godolphin. Her ban begins after she serves a suspension from Thursday which begins on… Read More »
Eagle Farm trainer Robert Heathcote is the first to admit he rarely has much luck at the Gold Coast but he feels that could change with Deep Image in the Magic Millions Cup. Deep Image has only been with Heathcote for one campaign but has graduated from winning in benchmark… Read More »
King Of Hastings will not be among final acceptors for the Group Three Standish Handicap having made his way from Melbourne to Sydney en route to the Gold Coast. The Anthony Freedman-trained three-year-old left his Flemington stable on Friday evening, travelling overnight to Sydney where he will housed by Richard… Read More »
Group One winner Kementari has been gelded and is to rejoin the Godolphin racing ranks after a failed career at stud. A son of Lonhro, the 2018 Randwick Guineas winner went to stud this year at a fee of $33,000. He was withdrawn from the Darley stallion roster after less… Read More »
Pam O’Neill, a legendary trail blazer for women riders in Australia, will be honoured with a $150,000 feature race named after her at the Brisbane winter carnival O’Neill fought a decade-long battle with racing authorities to get a licence to ride against men. She was a regular in women only… Read More »
Tony McEvoy is investigating different scenarios for a trip to Dubai with Group One winning sprinter Hey Doc. McEvoy, who trains in partnership with his son Calvin, said the Group One Al Quoz Sprint over the straight 1200m on World Cup night, March 28, was a possibility for Hey Doc…. Read More »
A race meeting at Werribee has been cancelled because of extreme heat forecast in Victoria. Monday’s meeting had already been brought forward to start in the morning to try to avoid the high temperatures but the forecast has been revised to reach 39 degrees at 11am and a high of… Read More »
