Ten races have been set down for Sha Tin on Sunday, with good depth across the program. Race One: 2 Sight Hermoso Race Two: 1 Ka Ying Power Race Three: 4 Day Day Victory Race Four: 1 Ever Luck Race Five: 4 Audacious Pursuit Race Six: 6 Blazing Wind Race… Read More »
Top sprinter Overpass was the dominant favourite for the Group 1 Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot but it was fellow Sydneysider Libertad who caused a boilover. Winterbottom Stakes I Libertad Libertad sensationally denies Overpass a piece of history in the Winterbottom Stakes š¤© A remarkable result for @jamieleemott, claiming his fourth… Read More »
Jockeys Zac Lloyd and Ash Morgan will both serve periods on the sidelines after accepting guilty pleas to separate careless riding charges from Saturday’s Rosehill Gardens meeting. Lloyd admitted to permitting Lyles to shift inwards approaching the 700-metre mark, resulting in interference to runner-up Snack Bar during the Stowe Australia… Read More »
Ryan Maloney celebrated a red-letter day at Doomben on Saturday, riding four winners including the victors in the day’s two $160,000 Listed events. The ex-pat Victorian made favourite backers happy in the first of the features, getting home aboard $2.50 punters’ elect Midnight In Tokyo in the Tattersall’s Classic (1200m),… Read More »
Promising gelding Yorkshire has rebounded from a minor health setback to take out the Group Three Festival Stakes at Rosehill, a win that his trainer admits is a bonus. Yorkshire started favourite in The Hunter (1300m) first-up but was eased down late and subsequently diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmia. Co-trainer John… Read More »
She’s A Hustler emphatically passed her first test at 2400 metres at Caulfield on Saturday, performing the perfect audition for an even bigger race over the same course and trip next spring. The Grahame Begg-trained mare landed the first Group 2 win of her already-impressive career when she wore down… Read More »
Eight years after dual Group One placegetter Spieth was retired to stud, his trainer Bryce Heys has celebrated a stakes win at Rosehill with one of the stallion’s daughters. Flying For Fun returned from a two-start campaign in Melbourne to take out Saturday’s Listed Starlight Stakes (1100m) and Heys said… Read More »
Tony and Calvin McEvoy are interstate preparing for the latter’s wedding, but it did not stop them signing off from a watershed spring with another feature success at Caulfield on Saturday. The father/son training team won the $250,000 Group 3 Blue Sapphire Stakes (1200m) with Motorsports. The McEvoys watched the… Read More »
Chris Waller’s first two-year-old winner of the season invariably proves to be a handy horse, and he expects that to ring true for Snitzel colt Fireball. The youngster made a dashing debut to take out Saturday’s Schweppes Handicap (1100m) at Rosehill, following in the footsteps of former stablemates Brazen Beau… Read More »
It might not have been a particularly popular result with the majority of punters, but Eternal Warrior got his career off to the perfect start with a blowout win in Saturday’s $175,000 Listed Merson Cooper Stakes at Caulfield. The Lloyd Kennewell-trained colt defied his $41 starting price to score a… Read More »
The progeny of champion sire Frankel dominated proceedings at Tattersalls December Foal Sale’s third session, with a colt achieving a remarkable 1,150,000 guineasāmarking the third-highest price ever recorded for a colt foal in European auction history. The session delivered extraordinary results, posting the second-highest single-day turnover in the sale’s history…. Read More »
Jaegers stamped herself as a potential stakes filly and provided trainer Gary Portelli with a satisfying win when she defeated the heavily-backed Snitzel Miss to claim the $60,000 Maiden at Canterbury on Friday evening. Under a confident ride from Alysha Collett, the three-year-old daughter of Bivouac jumped from barrier eight… Read More »
Limās Kosciuszko ā¦ twelve months ago, when he was making big waves in Singapore, that name would have struck fear into the opposition ā¦ but all these months later there is hardly a trickle of support for the champion who won ten Group 1 races in Singapore, who claimed the… Read More »
Racing NSW has issued a strongly worded statement addressing what it says is āwidespread misinformationā surrounding the future of Australiaās Black Type system and the Pattern, accusing unnamed media outlets of pushing advertiser-driven agendas and misrepresenting the facts. The controlling body said it remained fully committed to implementing the Asian… Read More »
It is impossible to separate the Hong Kong Jockey Club (HKJC) and the people of Hong Kong. They share a single heartbeat and the HKJCās input in supporting local charities, promoting community projects ā¦ and so much more ā¦ underlines a heartwarming relationship that just does so much good for… Read More »
Racing Victoria stewards have finalised their investigation into the September fall that left apprentice jockey Tom Prebble with a severe spinal cord injury. Prebble remains in rehabilitation after losing all sensation in his lower body when he fell from the Andrew Bobbin-trained Pulveriser during a race at Warrnambool. The incident… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes have their eyes on a second win in a Victorian slot race with one of their stable favourites Here To Shock. But first, HereĀ ToĀ Shock heads to the Listed Testa Rossa Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday which the stable… Read More »
The November edition of the Longines World Best Racehorse is out, and itās the Aga Khan Studs home-bred Calandagan with a 130 ranking whoās the āworld champion for 2025.ā Priced as the $4.50 pick with nation-wide wagering agencies for this 44th Japan Cup, Calandagan ranking jumped from a 125 to… Read More »
Yorkshire’s return to the races didn’t go according to plan, and his trainers are fully prepared for that to make him vulnerable when he steps out next in the Festival Stakes at Rosehill. The five-year-old was found to be suffering from cardiac arrhythmia after trailing the field home first-up in… Read More »
Import UnspokenĀ hasn’t quite reached the heights he once promised, but he has been showing signs he is close to ending a two-year hiatus from the winner’s list. Unbeaten in four starts during the spring of 2023, highlighted by his $2 million Five Diamonds victory, his only placing in 10 subsequent… Read More »
