Singapore will host a quality Friday night meeting with the running of the Group 2 EW Barker Trophy being the feature race. View our Singapore Tips for Sunday below. Race One: 3 Lim’s Force Race Two: 2 Pindus Race Three: 5 Tax Free Race Four: 9 Supermax Race Five: 7… Read More »
A case involving a modified whip may prompt harsher penalties with the British Horse Racing Authority to reconsider the guidelines. Danny Brock was fined PS140 by the race day stewards after he was found to have used a modified whip when he rode Resurrected to win at Chelmsford in September…. Read More »
Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate-winning jockey Damian Lane has been slapped with a second double suspension for the spring carnival. Lane was handed two suspensions on Caulfield Cup day before he was hit with two bans from Flemington on Thursday. He will miss 12 meetings following the Sandown Classic fixture… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Danny O’Brien can’t take a break from celebrating just yet. O’Brien felt a bit greedy for hoping to claim his first $1 million VRC Oaks on Thursday, two days after winning the $8 million Melbourne Cup for the first time. The trainer’s dream Cup carnival continued when… Read More »
Danny O’Brien has emerged as Australia’s latest master trainer of stayers after scoring a second feature race win during Melbourne Cup week at Flemington. Two days after Vow And Declare put O’Brien on the international racing stage with a maiden Melbourne Cup success, Miami Bound gave the trainer his first… Read More »
A campaign in Victoria early in his career has been the foundation for Pancho’s success in a stakes race at Flemington. Pancho won the Listed TCL TV Stakes (1800m) on Thursday for Chris Waller and Hugh Bowman who had earlier in the day teamed with Nudge to win the Bumble… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Craig Williams has added the $500,000 Country Final to his carnival tally, pleasing hundreds of owners in the process. In his third win on VRC Oaks day, Williams guided the $6 third favourite Star Missile to victory over $2.40 favourite Harbour Views in the Melbourne Cup Carnival… Read More »
A $240,000 punt could pay off for Darby Racing in less than three weeks as Golden Gift fancy Malkovich steps out for his racing debut at Rosehill. The leading syndicator splashed out on Malkovich at the Inglis Ready To Race sales on October 22. It was a hefty price to… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Craig Williams has been praised by Godolphin trainer James Cummings for his winning ride aboard Soothing in a stakes race at Flemington. Williams, who won Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup on Vow And Declare, has been riding with renewed confidence and followed instructions to the letter in taking out… Read More »
Still riding high after his first Melbourne Cup success, jockey Craig Williams scored another big thrill by winning the Subzero Handicap for good friends. Williams guided favourite Bumper Blast to victory in the annual VRC Oaks day race named after Cup winner Subzero for the grey’s owners, Hong Kong-based David… Read More »
Lindsay Park co-trainer David Hayes tipped the Maribyrnong Plate result in the correct order but the race did not pan out the way he expected. Hard Landing held off stablemate, filly Baaqyah, to win the Group Three race for two-year-olds on the Flemington straight 1000m course on Thursday. Hayes thought… Read More »
Young trainer Ethan Ensby is keen to exorcise the demons of his last visit to Rosehill when he returns to run Partnership on Golden Gift day. The 24-year-old is still haunted by the memory of his trip to Sydney in 2017 when Vitervo Star was fatally injured with apprentice jockey… Read More »
The curtain is drawing to a close on the career of grand Godolphin galloper Hartnell who will attempt to add to his Group One record one final time in the Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington. Saturday’s weight-for-age Mackinnon Stakes over 2000m is expected to be the last time Hartnell is seen… Read More »
Connections of Santa Ana Lane are confident the star sprinter is in a similar vein of form to 12 months ago as he prepares for a defence of the Group One VRC Sprint Classic at Flemington. The Anthony Freedman-trained Santa Ana Lane won last year’s feature sprint during the Melbourne… Read More »
Caloundra trainer Stuart Kendrick will back his confidence in Tambo’s Mate by skipping a restricted-class race to tackle stakes company. Tambo’s Mate was an acceptor in the Listed Keith Noud Quality and a Class 6 at Doomben but will run in the stakes race over 1200m. The gelding has won… Read More »
Giant gelding Fighting Teo is one of the most improved gallopers in Queensland but he will be tested when he faces a turnaround in the weights against key rivals at Doomben. At his last start, Fighting Teo easily beat Kubis with Alward third in an open handicap at Eagle Farm… Read More »
Racecaller Barry Jones, who for half a century was the voice of Queensland country racing, has died after a battle with cancer, aged 75. Jones lived for much of his life at Dalby on the western Darling Downs. He called race meetings at tracks such as Dalby, Jandowae, Bell, Warra,… Read More »
Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth has been snapped up by New Zealand’s famous Waikato Stud. The colt’s managing owner Jonathan Munz will retain a 20 per cent share with the remaining shareholders in the syndicate some of New Zealand’s leading breeders. A dominant winner of the Group One Caulfield Guineas,… Read More »
After the stunning success of 3 individual winners, and several quinellas, plus 3 trifectas, let’s go again at Woodbine’s midweek meeting. Good luck. Race 1 10:45am Synthetic 1400m Very open field of finicky females. Off the draw, SEDUCTIVE comes into play. She is tough late and should get a terrific… Read More »
Rostropovich remains in a veterinary clinic after suffering a pelvis injury in the Melbourne Cup, but the Lindsay Park stable has given a positive report on his condition. Five-year-old Rostropovich, trained by Lindsay Park’s David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, finished a long last in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup at… Read More »
