A track gallop will determine whether leading Magic Millions Classic hope, The Drinks Cart, runs in the Phelan Ready Stakes. The Drinks Cart, a brilliant winner at his only start, can shore up his place in the $2 million Magic Millions Classic at the Gold Coast if he wins Friday’s… Read More »
The Victoria Racing Club is stepping into the twilight zone with the first of their experimental meetings at Flemington. The nine race card on Saturday begins at 3pm with the last race run five hours later. The early part of Saturday’s program will have races spaced 40 minutes apart to… Read More »
Rockhampton trainers Ricky Vale and Jared Whelow have been fined after traces of an anti inflammatory, dexamethasone, were found in urine swabs taken from horses in their care. A Racing Queensland stewards inquiry heard dexamethasone was detected in samples taken from the Whelow-trained Mishnah at Rockhampton meetings on January 31… Read More »
Seven jockeys have been suspended in a dramatic conclusion to the London National with the race declared void. A field of 14 runners went to post for the three-mile-five-furlong handicap chase – and the drama began after Houblon Des Obeaux slipped on the bend after jumping the Pond fence for… Read More »
One of the best racedays in world racing comes around this Sunday at Sha Tin where it is Hong Kong International Raceday, with the four key International races the focus on a bumper ten race card.
Australia will be without a representative at today’s International meeting at Sha Tin with In Her Time ruled out of the Sprint. The Kris Lees-trained mare was found to have a quarter crack in her left front foot on Saturday. A day later she was re-examined but ruled unfit to… Read More »
A potential superstar was unearthed at Ascot, feature racing was held at Doomben while the cow paddock which is Pakenham hosted stand alone Saturday racing. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: I Tell Ya, She’s Special Just how… Read More »
View the final field and barriers for the 2019 Hong Kong Vase. The Hong Kong Vase will be run on Sunday 8th December at Sha Tin racecourse. Time: 4:40PM Distance: 2400m Class: Group 1 Have Your Say: Who do you think will win the Hong Kong Vase? – Comment below… Read More »
View the final field and barriers for the 2019 Hong Kong Sprint. The Hong Kong Sprint will be run on Sunday 8th December at Sha Tin racecourse. Time: 5:20PM Distance: 1200m Class: Group 1 Have Your Say: Who do you think will win the Hong Kong Sprint? – Comment below… Read More »
View the final field and barriers for the 2019 Hong Kong Mile. The Hong Kong Mile will be run on Sunday 8th December at Sha Tin racecourse. Time: 6:30PM Distance: 1600m Class: Group 1 Have Your Say: Who do you think will win the Hong Kong Mile? – Comment below… Read More »
View the final field and barriers for the 2019 Hong Kong Cup. The Hong Kong Cup will be run on Sunday 8th December at Sha Tin racecourse. Time: 7:10PM Distance: 2000m Class: Group 1 Have Your Say: Who do you think will win the Hong Kong Cup? – Comment below… Read More »
Three-year-old filly Kay Cee has given the Parnham family an historic win in the Group One Kingston Town Classic at Ascot. Trained by Neville Parnham, Kay Cee ($11) was ridden by his son Steve in Saturday’s 1800m-race, the final Group One race of the year in Australia. Kay Cee is… Read More »
Trainer David Vandyke has always expected to win a stakes race with mare Frangipani Moon but it came a little earlier than expected to Doomben. Ridden in a rails-hugging manner by jockey Jake Bayliss, Frangipani Moon ($19) got up to beat Shalwa ($11) in a driving finish to the Listed… Read More »
A race that looked as if it would not pan out for The Party Girl has turned out to be the ideal platform for the backmarker to score a confidence-boosting win. Burning Crown appeared to be the only natural front runner in Saturday’s Schweppes Handicap (1200m) at Rosehill and that… Read More »
Jockey Jarrod Fry was the lucky recipient of last-minute pick up ride, guiding Yulong January to victory at Pakenham. Ben Melham was stood down with a wrist injury following Saturday’s Pakenham Cup, in which he finished fifth aboard Carzoff. He had to forgo the ride on Yulong January in the… Read More »
The patience and persistence of Canberra trainer Gratz Vella is finally being rewarded with Stephan, who has notched back-to-back wins at Rosehill. The seven-year-old was lining up for just his 17th start in Saturday’s Elderton Homes Made. You Look Sprint (1100m) and for Vella and his owners, it has been… Read More »
Toowoomba galloper Niccanova returned to his best stakes-winning form but there is no chance the gelding will venture interstate for feature races in the near future. Niccanova ($7) charged home to beat Sydney galloper Sir Plush ($5.50) by a neck with three-quarters of a length to The Candy Man ($3.30)… Read More »
Fred Kersley went out with a plan to make the Pakenham Cup a strong staying test on Etah James. And it worked to perfection as the apprentice jockey his biggest race win. In an upset on the Matt Cumani-trained mare, Kersley stood high in the irons as he crossed the… Read More »
A daring Hugh Bowman ride aboard Handspun has produced a few pearls of wisdom from Godolphin’s Darren Beadman, who was thrilled to see the mare score an overdue win at Rosehill. Bowman was angling for a run aboard the well-backed $3.80 second favourite but just as he manoeuvred her into… Read More »
Apprentice Nick Keal has been suspended for a month after admitting steering his horse into another runner past the post in the Hamilton Hotel Handicap at Doomben. Keal rode Advance Warning and was charged with directing the horse into Les Tilley’s mount Romakash as the field was pulling up. Keal… Read More »
