Sir Michael Stoute has long been revered as a trainer who has no equal at improving older horses. It seems the trainer is himself improving with age and, having ended a long drought in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot last year with Poet’s Word, he didn’t have… Read More »
View the final field and barriers for the 2019 Ascot Gold Cup. The Ascot Gold Cup will be run on Friday 21st June at Royal Ascot racecourse. Time: 1:20am AEST Distance: 4000m Class: Group 1 NUMBER HORSE/JOCKEY BARRIER WEIGHT TRAINER 1 Called To The Bar (IRE) Maxime Guyon 1 9st… Read More »
Jumps jockey Martin Kelly will be out of the saddle for 20 months after being disqualified for betting offences and giving false evidence to stewards. At a Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board hearing on Wednesday, Kelly pleaded guilty to four charges issued by Racing Victoria stewards. The most serious was… Read More »
Top West Australian filly Arcadia Queen has become the sixth horse to earn a spot in the $14 million The Everest after being confirmed as the representative for slot holders The Star. Her high-profile owner Bob Peters confirmed the news on Wednesday and while he admitted there was a query… Read More »
The addition of blinkers and a step up in distance has aided Tides at Sandown, with the sister to multiple Group One winner Shoals racing to a convincing front running victory in heavy ground. The Anthony Freedman-trained three-year-old was having her fifth start in Wednesday’s Clanbrooke Racing Handicap and stepped… Read More »
Jockey Tiffani Brooker’s decision not to rush her comeback from injury has reaped benefits with her win on He’s The Deel at Doomben. A former champion Queensland apprentice and winner of five stakes races, Brooker had not ridden in a race for 11 months when she steered Travistee to win… Read More »
Talented New Zealand three-year-old Bobby Dee will be looking for a consolation win in Australia when he runs at Randwick after missing the ballot in the Queensland Debry and Brisbane cup, The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained Bobby Dee will take on older rivals in Saturday’s Schweppes Handicap (2000m). “He… Read More »
Shane Nichols says he is unlikely to try Tahitian Dancer over 1600 metres again, preferring instead to keep the stakes-placed filly to shorter distances. And with that, Tahitian Dancer has been freshened since an unplaced run at Flemington just over a month ago and drops back in distance for a… Read More »
Peter and Paul Snowden will pin their Winter Dash hopes on reigning titleholder I Thought So after deciding to head to Brisbane with stablemate Brave Song. Both sprinters were nominated for the Winter Dash (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday but only I Thought So was among the final acceptors with… Read More »
Tough gelding Kakakenny is ready to live up to his nickname as the “Chautauqua of the Bush” when he steps out for the first time on the big Eagle Farm track. Kakakenny will join other winners or placegetters from heats run at 16 tracks throughout Queensland in Saturday’s Battle Of… Read More »
Such is his opinion of Excused, Lindsay Park co-trainer Ben Hayes admits he was nervous leading into the two-year-old filly’s debut at Sandown. But Excused delivered what Hayes expected in Wednesday’s Yulong Handicap (1000m), racing to victory on a heavy track. “I was nervous,” Hayes said. “I knew she was… Read More »
Trainer Toby Edmonds will wait to see how Australian sprinter Houtzen comes through her unplaced King’s Stand Stakes run before confirming whether the mare contests more races during the English summer. Houtzen’s chances in the Group One sprint at Royal Ascot on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST) were dealt a blow when… Read More »
Star WA filly Arcadia Queen has secured a slot in this years edition of the $14m The Everest. Racing NSW announced on Wednesday that connections of Arcadia Queen have worked out a deal with slot holder The Star Casino to give the Queen of the west a spot in The… Read More »
Irithea will wear blinkers in the Group One Tatt’s Tiara at Eagle Farm but trainer Bjorn Baker stresses that does not mean she will be ridden to lead. Irithea will be looking to give the Sydney trainer his third stakes winner of the winter carnival in the final Group One… Read More »
Godolphin-trained horses continue to dominate the market for the Group One Tatt’s Tiara at Eagle Farm after the barrier draw. Pohutukawa has assumed favouritism for Saturday’s 1400m-race at $5.50 after being $8 when she was in some doubt to make the field. Market 💰: View the Tatts Tiara odds She… Read More »
It may pay to remember this name. Rising star apprentice jockey Yvette Lewis has just literally burst from nowhere onto the country racing scene in NSW with an astonishing 66% winning success rate. Sure, that is flattered by the fact she’s only had 3 rides to date, but she has… Read More »
Three Group One races on the first day of Royal Ascot started the meeting off in style and it was mixed fortunes for backers with Lord Glitters, an outsider, taking the Queen Anne Stakes to get the meeting off to a great start for the bookies. But the punters hit… Read More »
Dual Group One winner Ace High has found a home at New Zealand’s Rich Hill Stud. Prepared by David Payne, Ace High was a winner at two and as a spring three-year-old in 2017, he won the Group One Spring Champion Stakes (2000m) and Victoria Derby (2500m). He retires with… Read More »
One of the mainstays of Brisbane racing, Ricky Leisfield, will step down from his role as clerk of course after the Tattersall’s meeting at Eagle Farm. He will continue to work at Doomben but felt it was time to step aside as clerk of the course after Saturday. Leisfield arrived… Read More »
Queensland mare Houtzen has finished a disappointing eighth in the King’s Stand Stakes at Royal Ascot following a slip at the starting barrier. The Toby Edmonds-trained four-year-old went off at $25 with the local bookmakers, but hopes of shocking the home contingent in the 1000 metre Group One showpiece were… Read More »
