Cranbourne-based trainer Shea Eden has been disqualified for 15 months and fined $2000 by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board. The RAD Board handed down its penalty on Thursday after earlier finding Eden guilty of stomach tubing Considering on the day it was due to race at Swan Hill in… Read More »
The two rank outsiders in Saturday’s $5m All Star Mile are in doubt to line-up in the field with both under injury clouds. Both Urban Ruler and Foundry who are $126 in markets are in doubt to line-up in Saturday $5million All Star Mile at Flemington after both were found… Read More »
As a yearling, Villami caught the eye of Gerald Ryan because she reminded him of a young Winx. As a racehorse, he has rated her the best juvenile filly he has trained since Melito and Snitzerland, who were both Group winners at two. But neither fact is likely to be… Read More »
Apprentice Baylee Nothdurft can complete a big week with the plum ride on favourite Mr Marbellouz in the Listed Goldmarket at the Gold Coast. Nothdurft, who rode a double at Eagle Farm last week, won a heat of the National Apprentices’ Challenge series at Ascot in Perth on Wednesday. His… Read More »
Former champion jockey Jim Cassidy is considering swapping the golf course for the racecourse for a return to race riding. Cassidy has been recovering in hospital with bleeding on the brain and bruising following a car crash. And after talking to longtime supporter John Singleton he has flagged a potential… Read More »
German import Plein Ciel will step out for his new stable in the Listed March Stakes at Flemington with the opportunity to chase a first stakes race victory. A winner of six of his 12 starts with five placings, Plein Ciel was trained by Darren Weir for his first 10… Read More »
No matter his finishing position, Man Of His Word will land connections their biggest pay day in the inaugural All-Star Mile at Flemington. With prize money of $5 million on offer, including a first prize of $2.25 million, each runner is guaranteed a minimum of $90,000. Even if he finishes… Read More »
Akasaki was destined for the scrapheap until a hotelier took a punt on him and that faith could be rewarded at Rosehill when the horse lines up in the Group Three Maurice McCarten Stakes. Ian Campbell, who runs the Willow Tree Hotel at Scone, came across Akasaki after he failed… Read More »
COOLMORE CLASSIC Run at Rosehill over 1500m, $600,000, quality handicap, fillies & mares three-years-old and over HISTORY * First run in 1973 when won by Miss Personality * Registered race name T A D Kennedy Stakes. NOTABLE WINNERS * Emancipation (1984); Bounding Away (1987); Sunline (2000 & 2002); Tuesday Joy… Read More »
In-form Mishani Hustler looks set to prove his rating as a weights certainty in the $200,000 3YO Jewel at the Gold Coast. Mishani Hustler’s handicap rating has shot to 87.5 on the back of six wins and a second to star galloper Zousain in a Group Two race. His nearest… Read More »
Peter and Paul Snowden won’t hesitate to back-up any of their Pago Pago Stakes runners into the Golden Slipper if one or more of them can earn a last-ditch qualification for the juvenile showpiece. The training partners will saddle up a quintet of two-year-olds in Saturday’s Group Two Pago Pago… Read More »
A blistering final 600m sectional in his last-start win indicates top colt The Odyssey should have no trouble again handling 1200m in the $500,000 2YO Jewel at the Gold Coast. The Odyssey has had six starts for three wins and two minor placings with his other run resulting in a… Read More »
Altior has risen to his toughest challenge yet to extend his unbeaten record over jumps to 18 in the Queen Mother Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival. The Nicky Henderson’-trained superstar gave his supporters some anxious moments when he was headed by Sceau Royal approaching the final fence after leading… Read More »
Mick Kent junior has started a new venture with Caulfield trainer Mick Price in the best possible way with Mystery Love winning at Sandown. Price and Kent joined forces on Monday in a training partnership that he hopes will be rubber-stamped by Racing Victoria in coming weeks. Kent is the… Read More »
New Zealand-trained horses will get their chance to qualify for this year’s $300,000 Jericho Cup, Australia’s longest flat race. The Jericho Cup, first run on the desert sands of Palestine in 1918, was revived last year and staged over 4600m at Warrnambool in Victoria, with the event commemorating Australia and… Read More »
Trainer Gemma Rielly received some extra satisfaction out of the win by La Belle Jude at Sandown. Not only was it Rielly’s maiden metropolitan victory, La Belle Jude was the first horse the Caulfield-based trainer purchased as a yearling. La Belle Jude, ridden by Joe Bowditch, defied the opposition in… Read More »
Melbourne jockey Luke Currie will make a flying visit to Sydney to ride Blue Diamond Stakes winner Lyre in a barrier trial as the filly continues her preparations towards the $3.5 million Golden Slipper. The Anthony Freedman-trained Lyre has arrived in Sydney from Victoria and will have a 1050m trial… Read More »
Lessons learned during Fierce Impact’s formative Australian campaign will be put to good use as the European import prepares to return for a Doncaster Mile assault. Fierce Impact will resume in the Group Two Ajax Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill on Saturday, his first start since he captured the Summer Cup… Read More »
Eagle Farm trainer Chris Anderson entered a new stage of his association with the prestigious Think Big Stud when well-bred two-year-old Ballistic Boy won at Doomben. Ballistic Boy carried the colours of the southern NSW-based stud when he sat outside the pace and came away in the straight. Anderson has… Read More »
Promising filly Niedorp is on course to confirm early-season expectations she could win a black-type race when she tackles the Group Three Magic Night Stakes at Rosehill. Niedorp won a trial impressively in September, prompting predictions she would be a star performer in the two-year-old season. The filly started odds-on… Read More »
