Improving colt Xanthus will have his final hit-out before next month’s rich Aquis Jewel in the Prelude at Doomben.. Xanthus trialled well before his first run in a race when he finished second to star filly Vincere Volare at Doomben two weeks ago. Dunn had entered Xanthus for a two-year-old… Read More »
Apprentice jockey Chris Caserta has been charged with placing six bets on thoroughbred races over a nine month period. Racing Victoria stewards charged Caserta on Monday under the rule relating to riders not being allowed to bet on thoroughbred racing. The details of the charge are that between March and… Read More »
The Coongy Handicap will revert to three days before the Caulfield Cup with the winner earning a spot in the rich race. Following a review, the Melbourne Racing Club has announced changes to the Caulfield Cup conditions with the Coongy now one of nine local ballot-exempt races. The list of… Read More »
A decision whether Blue Diamond Stakes winner Lyre presses on to the Golden Slipper is at least a week away. Lyre came from back in the field in Saturday’s $1.5 million Group One Blue Diamond at Caulfield to make it three wins from four starts so far in her juvenile… Read More »
Apprentice Chelsea Hall has suffered fractured ribs in a fall in a jump-out. Hall was taken to the Alfred Hospital after the fall at Cranbourne on Monday morning. The Victorian Jockeys Association said scans revealed Hall sustained three fractured ribs in the incident. On Sunday, fellow Victorian rider Dylan Dunn… Read More »
Winx will have a maximum of nine rivals in the Group One Chipping Norton Stakes at Randwick when she aims to increase her Group One tally to 23. Only three of the of the 10 nominations are from stables outside her own with Aloisia, Happy Clapper and Tavago making up… Read More »
Each time you talk to Todd Blowes about Noble Boy, the confidence just grows and the young trainer thinks his horse can get the job done in the Goulburn Qualifier for the Country Championships this Saturday. The son of Bon Hoffa is 4/4 to start his career, with his last… Read More »
The nominations for Saturday’s Group One Chipping Norton Stakes have been announced with nine horses nominated to take on Champion mare Winx who will start as the long odds on favourite in the race. Winx will be out to make it thirty one wins in a row in the Group… Read More »
The conditions of the Stella Artois Caulfield Cup will be subject to amendments this year, following an annual review by the Melbourne Racing Club (MRC). The updates to race conditions address deadlocks in the order of entry, penalties, and preliminary races granting exemption from ballot from the $5 million Group… Read More »
Kim Waugh has qualified two runners for the Provincial Championship final with Safada and Spring Charlie running the quinella in the first heat at Hawkesbury. The first three in any of the provincial heats get into the $500,000 final on April 13 with the Greg McFarlane-trained It’s So Obvious claiming… Read More »
Jockey Dylan Dunn was rushed to Sale Hospital following a fall at Sale races today. Dunn fell aboard Maldestro in Race 3 at Sale on Sunday afternoon and was rushed to Sale Hospital although it was good news with scans showing no fractures. Dunn will undergo surgery to stitch a… Read More »
Chris Waller says what you see with Winx is what you get and he expects to see the same in the Chipping Norton Stakes as he has the past 30 times she has been to the races. The champion will be out to win Saturday’s Group One Chipping Norton (1600m)… Read More »
The Newmarket Handicap looms as a launching pad for multiple Group One winner Santa Ana Lane’s latest campaign which could feature international targets. The Anthony Freedman-trained Santa Ana Lane capped his spring preparation last year with victory in the VRC Sprint Classic (1200m) at Flemington, his fourth Group One success…. Read More »
Fiesta has already begun her campaign with a confidence-boosting win and her trainer is hoping she can transfer her form to the highest level in the Surround Stakes. The filly won the $1 million Inglis Sprint (1100m) at Warwick Farm on February 16 and steps up to 1400m in Saturday’s… Read More »
Promising two-year-old Sugar Boom will make her debut at Doomben but trainer Tony Gollan has yet to decide which of this week’s two meetings to target. Gollan has entered Sugar Boom for a 2YO maiden (1200m) on Wednesday and expects to also nominate her for the $1250,000 Fillies Jewel Prelude… Read More »
Lindsay Park will have a three-pronged attack on the Group One Australian Guineas as it looks to break a losing streak in the Group One race. Amphitrite, Hawkshot and Long Leaf will represent the stable in the 1600m-race for three-year-olds at Flemington on Saturday. Senior trainer David Hayes’ only win… Read More »
Queensland’s Grandview Stud has completed its first shipment of horses from Toowoomba Airport to Asia. Grandwiew has sent 21 horses to Korea with Equine International Air Freight after they spent three weeks in quarantine at the complex. Grandview is a registered quarantine facility approved by the Australian government and provides… Read More »
Racing Queensland’s official track walker Allan Reardon will inspect the Ipswich track before racing goes ahead after the last meeting was controversially called off. For the third time in five months an Ipswich meeting had to be abandoned on Friday because of the track condition despite there being little or… Read More »
The All Star Mile stirred up the racing industry once again, The Autumn Sun is back and Alizee stamped herself as a top class mare. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: All Star Mile Field Revealed It’s caused… Read More »
Ten races will be run and won at Sha Tin this Sunday, where the feature race is the Yan Oi Tong Cup, a Class Four event over the mile on the dirt. Race One: 12 Bonito Race Two: 3 Superich Race Three: 12 Voyage Star Race Four: 3 Chairman Lo… Read More »
