Talented 2YO colt Deep Chill has sadly died following an injury incurred at track work on Thursday morning. The last start Warwick Farm winner was set to run in Saturday’s VRC Sires Produce Stakes at Flemington before the incident. Deep Chill who was trained by David Payne was Group Three… Read More »
Santa Anita Park has cancelled horse racing indefinitely after the latest in a series of horse fatalities at the renowned track. The track has now suffered 21 fatalities in racing and training since the winter meeting began on December 26. Santa Anita also announced it had hired Dennis Moore, the… Read More »
Flags will fly at half-mast at Melbourne’s feature autumn race meeting at Flemington as part of a tribute to renowned journalist, author and historian Les Carlyon who has died aged 76. Carlyon had a passion for racing and was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame in 2016 for… Read More »
Trainer Chris Munce is putting the final touches to Urban Ruler’s tilt at the $5 million All- Star Mile while at the same time trying to solve a conundrum with promising filly Zoucara. Urban Ruler made the field for the All-Star Mile after finishing second on the popular vote but… Read More »
Mick Price sees his working hours getting longer despite being about to take on a training partner. Mick Kent jr, son of respected Cranbourne trainer Mick Kent, is set to join the Caulfield-based Price in coming weeks. “I love doing what I’m doing and have no intentions of stepping back,”… Read More »
Injury has cast doubt over Tassort’s Golden Slipper campaign but such is the depth in Godolphin’s two-year-old stocks they are poised to strengthen their grip on the $3.5 million race in spite of the star colt’s absence at Randwick. Tassort is an easing Slipper favourite after being ruled out of… Read More »
Trainer Toby Edmonds has continued to build his association with some of Australia’s biggest stud operations with Music’s win at Doomben. Music’s jockey Jeff Lloyd had to survive a protest from runner-up Tickettome’s rider, apprentice Michael Murphy, to register her first win at her fourth race start. Murphy protested on… Read More »
Jockey Skye Bogenhuber has been cleared of serious brain damage after a fall in a jump-out at Toowoomba. Bogenhuber was taken to the Toowoomba Hospital after Tuesday’s fall and tests showed she had a small bleed on the brain. Specialists from Brisbane examined Bogenhuber on Wednesday after further CT scans…. Read More »
Multiple Group One winner Le Romain remains stabled in Melbourne with the possibility he could sneak into the All-Star Mile as an emergency. Le Romain failed to gain enough votes to make the top 10 to secure an All-Star Mile spot and then was snubbed by the selection panel for… Read More »
An upcoming Seymour meeting has been transferred to Echuca to allow additional recovery time following a recent track renovation. The Seymour track was reconstructed in 2016 and after returning later that year has been periodically rested to allow for consolidation, most recently in May last year. Following four meetings last… Read More »
Two fast-finishing wins in Adelaide over distances expected to be short of his best have earned unbeaten two-year-old colt Dalasan an interstate trip for the Group Two VRC Sires’ Produce Stakes at Flemington. Trained by Leon Macdonald and Andrew Gluyas at Morphettville, Dalasan won over 1000m on debut last month… Read More »
Racing Victoria has released the list of ambassadors for next weekends $5m All Star Mile. Ambassadors can win up to $250,000 if their horse is successful in the race. Market 💰: View the All Star Mile odds The list of Owner Ambassadors and the All-Star Mile runners they will represent… Read More »
Mark Newnham has done the research and he is convinced Nakeeta Jane deserves a shot at a feat only one other filly has managed in the past 15 years. The Surround Stakes winner is one of three fillies backing up from last weekend’s Group One race to take on their… Read More »
Kris Lees has two dual Group One winners in the Newmarket Handicap but it’s a colt he considers a Group One winner in-waiting he believes could be best-placed at the weights in the time-honoured Flemington sprint. Lees has last-start Lightning Stakes winner In Her Time, dual weight-for-age Group One winner… Read More »
The studs are starting to circle around Pierata as he prepares to kick off a Group One campaign geared towards the two biggest sprint races of the Sydney autumn carnival. The four-year-old resumes in the Canterbury Stakes (1300m) at Randwick on Saturday against a classy field which includes multiple Group… Read More »
A long trip to a new stable will be the least of gypsy Zahspeed’s problems when he takes the first steps to another Darwin campaign at Eagle Farm. Zahspeed has seen more of Australia than the average grey nomad having raced in Victoria, South Australia, NSW, Queensland and the Northern… Read More »
Trainer Mike Moroney will learn a little more about German import Sound when he makes his autumn return in the Australian Cup. Sound, who came to Australia last spring as Sound Check and was unplaced in the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, runs first-up in Saturday’s Group One weight-for-age Australian Cup… Read More »
A controversial $400 fine imposed on Cairns trainer Trevor Rowe for using a twitch on race day has been overturned by the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission. The Queensland branch of the Australian Trainers Association had vowed to fight the fine which they said was unfair and a dangerous precedent. QRIC… Read More »
Leading trainer Ciaron Maher will take time from his busy autumn schedule to attend Friday’s launch of the 2019 Albury Gold Cup Carnival. Maher will be the guest speaker at the traditional luncheon that launches the rich carnival at Albury’s Commercial Club, major sponsor of the Albury Gold Cup. Maher,… Read More »
Jockey Skye Bogenhuber will undergo further tests after suffering a head injury in a fall in a jump-out at Toowoomba. After the fall on Tuesday, Bogenhuber was taken to the Toowoomba Hospital where she was found to have a small bleed on her brain. A Racing Queensland spokesman said specialists… Read More »
