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 »
Battling with a bad back, top Sydney jockey Brenton Avdulla has capped a stellar day in the saddle with four wins including the feature race at Randwick. After feeling the heat as he scraped the rail to ride Kubrick to victory in the inaugural $1 million Bondi Stakes, Avdulla flew… Read More »
Jockey Ben Melham is clear to ride Mirage Dancer in the Melbourne Cup despite a suspension at The Valley. Melham plans to appeal the severity of an eight-meeting suspension for careless riding aboard Broadwayandfourth in Saturday’s Crockett Stakes. The suspension starts immediately ruling Melham out of next Saturday’s meeting at… Read More »
The weather and the absence of champion Winx has contributed to a fall in attendance numbers to watch Lys Gracieux win the Cox Plate at The Valley. Moonee Valley posted a crowd of 24,648 the first Cox Plate post-Winx when more than 38,000 turned up to see the champion win… Read More »
Almost four decades after watching Kingston Town win one of his three Cox Plates, Japanese trainer Yoshito Yahagi has achieved an ambition to claim Australia’s premier weight-for-age race. Yahagi is the trainer of Lys Gracieux, the winner Saturday’s $5 million Cox Plate (2040m) at The Valley, adding another feature win… Read More »
A stunning year for Damian Lane has continued with the Australian jockey adding his first Cox Plate on star Japanese mare Lys Gracieux. Having already won the Golden Slipper on Australian filly Kiamichi in March and last week’s Caulfield Cup on Japanese horse Mer De Glace, Lane added the next… Read More »
The Cox Plate Carnival was the focus for punters this week and there were some brilliant performances across the two days. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: Loving Gaby Wins Manikato A gamble made by the Maher/Eustace stable… Read More »
Recently retired NRL star Paul Gallen was ruing the poor barrier draw for his horse Te Akau Shark who came from last to finish third in the Cox Plate at The Valley. Te Akau Star ($17) drew the outside barrier in Saturday’s $5 million weight-for-age championship with jockey Opie Bosson… Read More »
Brenton Avdulla has literally had to scrape paint to win the inaugural $1 million Bondi Stakes at Randwick aboard Kubrick. The Chris Waller-trained colt started the $3.70 equal favourite in the 1600m-race on Saturday after being brought back from Melbourne following a disappointing effort in the Caulfield Guineas. Avdulla had… Read More »
Trainer Richard Litt can now look forward to a honeymoon after his three-year-old Castelvecchio finished a gallant second to star Japanese mare Lys Gracieux in the Cox Plate at The Valley. Litt had arrived in Melbourne to prepare Castelvecchio for the Cox Plate after the colt’s last start second in… Read More »
All options remain on the table for up-and-coming stayer Master Of Wine after he produced a dazzling turn of foot to win the City Tattersalls Club Cup at Randwick. His victory came nine years after the Hawkes team last claimed the race with Maluckyday, who went on to win the… Read More »
Irish horse Hunting Horn has firmed for the Melbourne Cup after winning the Moonee Valley Gold Cup in his first spring carnival appearance in Victoria. From the stable of champion Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien and ridden by Ryan Moore, Hunting Horn was well supported to start $4.20 in Saturday’s Group… Read More »
Lys Gracieux has brought her best form from Japan to claim the $5 million Cox Plate, Australia’s weight-for-age championship. A week after Mer De Glace won the Caulfield Cup for Japan, Lys Gracieux has given her rivals a start and a beating at The Valley. She came with a surging… Read More »
Chief Ironside has continued the successful invasion of international raiders by taking out the Crystal Mile at The Valley. The victory of Chief Ironside, trained by French-born UK-based David Menuisier, on Saturday followed the success of Hunting Horn in the preceding race, the Moonee Valley Cup. Other winners to come… Read More »
Madam Rouge has added a valuable Group Three win to her record in The Nivison at Randwick where Pretty In Pink has lost all hope of victory before the race started. Stewards agreed with trainer John O’Shea, Pretty In Pink had not been afforded a fair start when her gate… Read More »
