A trip to the beach will determine if Bit Of A Lad backs up in the Grand Annual Steeplechase after surviving a protest to win on the opening day of the Warrnambool three-day carnival. Bit Of A Lad took out Tuesday’s feature, the Brierly Steeplechase (3450m) with co-trainer Ciaron Maher… Read More »
Veteran sprinter Music Magnate is set to begin his third Queensland winter carnival campaign at the Gold Coast. Sydney trainer Bjorn Baker elected to avoid the Victory Stakes over 1200m at Eagle Farm last Saturday and is looking to run Music Magnate over 1400m seven days later in the Australian… Read More »
Instead of contesting the feature flat race at the Warrnambool carnival, Self Sense will run a day earlier in the main hurdle event. A lacklustre performance on the flat at Flemington on Anzac Day has forced a rethink from trainer David Brideoake and connections. The winner of the Yarra Valley… Read More »
Australian Oaks runner-up Scarlet Dream is pressing on for a Brisbane campaign with the Group One Queensland Oaks and possibly the Derby on the agenda. The Mark Newnham-trained filly finished just under two lengths behind Verry Elleegant in the Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick at her most recent start on… Read More »
Trainer Dean Krongold is banking on a dry start to the Warrnambool carnival in a bid to run Man Of His Word in the feature sprint race. The Warrnambool carnival can be notoriously wet, something Krongold is keen to avoid with Man Of His Word who is down to run… Read More »
A text message sent to Gai Waterhouse has led to Shane Jackson becoming her go-to rider in jumps races. Waterhouse was lamenting how difficult it was to get a rider for her horses at the start of the jumping season until she received a text message from Jackson. Along with… Read More »
Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller leads the numbers for the nominations in the Group One races in the Brisbane winter carnival. The entries for the seven Group One races held by the Brisbane Racing Club closed on Tuesday morning. There were 29 nominations for the Doomben 10,000 on May 12… Read More »
A capacity field has been declared for the Group One Australasian Oaks while a field of 15 is set to contest the Group One TAB Classic for fillies and mares. The Australasian Oaks (2000m) and TAB Classic (1200m), registered as the Robert Sangster Stakes, headline Saturday’s program at Morphettville. The… Read More »
Multiple Group One-winning jockey Damian Browne has announced his retirement. Caloundra-based Browne, 46, has not ridden since January after first having problems with a perforated bowel as a result of taking anti-inflammatory drugs for problems with his knees. The diagnosis meant Browne could no longer take the medication and has… Read More »
This might be a first in horse racing anywhere in the world. Let me set it up. You’ve seen race track winners when they retire turn into Clerks Of The Course horses, right? Subzero and Ming Dynasty come to mind. A certain, quiet, passive, non-aggressive temperament is required for that… Read More »
Adelaide Cup winner Surprise Baby is set to run at Flemington as a prelude to an attempt at a ballot exemption for the Melbourne Cup. Surprise Baby runs over 2600m at Flemington on Saturday in the lead-up to the revamped Andrew Ramsden (2800m) at Flemington on May 25. The Andrew… Read More »
Eagle Farm trainer Desleigh Forster hopes to continue her good start to the winter carnival with promising two-year-old Couldn’t Refuse at the Gold Coast. Forster’s stable star Chapter And Verse opened his winter campaign on Saturday with a runaway win in the Metricon Plate (1200m) at Eagle Farm. The trainer… Read More »
The Lloyd Williams-owned Master Of Reality has caused an upset to win the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan and set up a tilt at the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. Master Of Reality is trained by Joseph O’Brien who combined with Williams to win the 2017 Melbourne Cup with Rekindling…. Read More »
The best horse Gerald Ryan will take to a racetrack this week will not be competing but the trainer is more than keen to see Menari have a testing gallop. Menari’s stud career has been put on hold after he managed to get only 20 of 70 mares in foal… Read More »
Two jockeys recently injured in Victorian race falls have been released from hospital to recuperate at home. However jumps jockey Braidon Small and flat jockey John Keating will be on the sidelines for sometime as they recover from their injuries. Small underwent head surgery following a fall in a hurdle… Read More »
Warrnambool trainer Symon Wilde will not start Gold Medals in the Grand Annual Steeplechase just for the sake of having a runner in the gruelling contest. Gold Medals makes his jumping return in the Brierly Steeplechase at Warrnambool on Tuesday and is also an acceptor in Thursday’s 5500m Grand Annual…. Read More »
Brilliant filly Sunlight will miss the Adelaide carnival and be spelled before being prepared for an assault on The Everest in the spring. Trainer Tony McEvoy was not happy with Sunlight after she trialled at Gawler last Friday and on Monday ruled her out of Saturday’s Group One Robert Sangster… Read More »
Classy filly Outback Barbie will wear blinkers and will be ridden for the first time by Jeff Lloyd when she resumes in the Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast. Rain has played havoc with premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan’s early winter carnival plans but he will have a strong… Read More »
NSW country jockey Michael Hackett remains in an induced coma in Sydney’s Liverpool Hospital after a fall at the Tomingley Cup picnic meeting. Hackett was one of three riders to fall in the second race at the western NSW meeting on Saturday. He was airlifted to Sydney and the NSW… Read More »
The new training partnership of Robert Heathcote and Chris Anderson will kick off with six acceptors at Eagle Farm. The multiple Group One and five-time premiership winning trainer Heathcote and Anderson, who is regarded as a rising star of Brisbane racing, have spent the past six weeks putting the finishing… Read More »
