Irish visitor Ten Sovereigns will not run in the inaugural $7.5 million Golden Eagle at Rosehill. The 1500m-race for four-year-olds on Saturday was a post-Everest option for July Cup winner Ten Sovereigns but trainer Aidan O’Brien has told Racing NSW stewards the horse will not take part. Ten Sovereigns finished… Read More »
Days out from the Melbourne Cup carnival, Victorian racing authorities have reaffirmed their commitment to the welfare of retired racehorses. Racing Victoria has announced a $25 million boost to fund the first three years of an expanded welfare program while the Victoria Racing Club will donate 10 per cent of… Read More »
Melbourne Cup hopes Hunting Horn and Master Of Wine have escaped Melbourne Cup penalties for their respective wins at The Valley and Randwick. Hunting Horn won the Moonee Valley Cup on Saturday with Master Of Wine taking out the Tattersalls Cup at Randwick. Racing Victoria’s Greg Carpenter opted not to… Read More »
Group Two Moonee Valley Cup winner Hunting Horn has escaped a penalty for the Melbourne Cup. Hunting Horn was an impressive winner of the G2 race at Moonee Valley on the weekend but chief handicapper Greg Carpenter has opted not to penalise the horse for the 2019 Melbourne Cup meaning… Read More »
Group One-winning New Zealand mare Glory Days has suffered an injury and will not run in the Melbourne Cup. The seven-year-old was well positioned to make the final field of 24 but trainer Bill Thurlow has elected not to make the third declaration payment on Monday. “She banged her leg… Read More »
Japanese superstar Almond Eye has consolidated her position as the country’s best with a scintillating victory in the Tenno Sho in Tokyo. The reigning Japanese Horse of the Year, Almond Eye beat nine other Group One winners to add the Tenno Sho to her Group One Dubai Turf win earlier… Read More »
Days out from the Melbourne Cup carnival, Victorian racing authorities have reaffirmed their commitment to the welfare of retired racehorses. Racing Victoria has announced a $25 million boost to fund the first three years of an expanded welfare program while the Victoria Racing Club will donate 10 per cent of… Read More »
Hawkes Racing is leaving nothing to chance as they chase an important Group One victory with lightly raced colt Exceedance. The three-year-old is set to run in Saturday’s Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m) at Flemington. Since being elevated to Group One status in 2006, the Coolmore Stud Stakes has been won… Read More »
History awaits star Australian jockey Damian Lane when he returns to riding on Melbourne Cup day after a suspension. With wins in the Golden Slipper, Caulfield Cup and Saturday’s Cox Plate already in his keeping during 2019, Lane can create history at Flemington on November 5 when he rides Japanese… Read More »
Cox Plate placegetter Te Akau Shark will return home to New Zealand for a spell with trainer Jamie Richards to switch his attention to stablemate Melody Belle. The mare runs on Saturday at Flemington where she will try to add the Group One Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) to her three… Read More »
After digging deeper into Sunlight’s performance in The Everest, co-trainer Tony McEvoy is happy to bite the bullet for a shot at the Golden Eagle. Sunlight finished 10th behind Yes Yes Yes in The Everest on October 19, leaving the trainer puzzled and searching for answers. “When we dissected the… Read More »
Having won the Cox Plate for the first time, Japanese trainer Yoshito Yahagi is keen to return for another Melbourne spring carnival. The Yahagi-trained Lys Gracieux, a dual Group One-winning mare in Japan, showed her class in Saturday’s Group One weight-for-age Cox Plate (2040m) at The Valley to win by… Read More »
One time Melbourne Cup favourite Avilius has been ruled out of the race with Godolphin opting to spell the horse following his run in the Cox Plate. Avilius who headed the early markets for the 2019 Melbourne Cup after his successful Autumn campaign will not line-up in this years Melbourne… Read More »
After his third in the Caulfield Cup on his Australian debut, Mirage Dancer is on target for his bid for Melbourne Cup glory. Now trained at Cranbourne by Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young, the former Sir Michael Stoute-trained horse finished 1-1/4 lengths from Japanese horse Mer De Glace in the… Read More »
Caloundra trainer Stuart Kendrick can look forward to playing a major hand in the summer carnival after a double at Eagle Farm. He won with rising star Tambo’s Mate and old warrior Tarzan who scored his 15th race victory on Saturday. Tambo’s Mate has now won six of his 10… Read More »
In Her Time has come through her Everest run in great order and remains on track for a Group One sprint assignment in Melbourne. Trainer Kris Lees said it was hard to fault the mare’s effort in the $14 million dollar race in which she finished ninth, just over four… Read More »
Leading Queensland jockey Michael Cahill will be out of action for at least a month with tests confirming he has a fractured right foot. Cahill won Group One races on The Bostonian during the Brisbane winter carnival and was voted Queensland’s jockey of the year. He has started the new… Read More »
A strong nine race card will be run and won at Sha Tin on Sunday, with all races on the dirt track. The feature is the Kwangtung Cup, a Class Two event over the 1650m. Race One: 8 Dating Race Two: 6 This One’s For You Race Three: 5 Hidden… Read More »
The Futurity Trophy will become the first Group One race in Britain run on an all-weather surface with the meeting moved to Newcastle after being washed out. The final Group One race of the season, the one-mile (1600m) event for two-year-olds was scheduled to be run at Doncaster on Saturday…. Read More »
A shattered Glen Boss will miss the ride on Melbourne Cup favourite Constantinople after he was suspended for careless riding at Randwick. Boss was outed for six meetings for shifting in aboard the Kris Lees-trained Attention Run near the 350 metre mark in the City Tattersalls Club Cup won by… Read More »
