The wife of a key “Aquanita eight’ member was worried about the risks her husband was taking to administer illegal race day treatments to horses. Float driver Greg Nelligan has admitted giving racehorses top-ups for trainer Robert Smerdon and implicated the other people banned over Australia’s biggest racing scandal. His… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy will calm down before deciding whether to continue expensive filly Just Zerene’s Queensland campaign after she was made an emergency at Eagle Farm. Just Zerene is an $800,000 filly who was aiming to qualify for the $2 million Magic Millions 2YO Classic by winning Saturday’s Basil Nolan… Read More »
A different training routine has resulted in Saint Valorem recapturing the form he showed as a younger horse with his trainer hoping it will lead to success at Flemington. Saint Valorem has finished second in his two starts this campaign with trainer Cameron Templeton claiming the gelding was unlucky at… Read More »
Chris Munce is using his experience riding in some of Australia’s biggest staying races to help win the inaugural Eagle Way Stayers Series Final. He has talented filly Ceol Na Mara in the final to be run over 2200m at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Munce, who is now a leading… Read More »
Last years Golden Slipper winner Estijaab is set to make a long awaited return to the Team Hawkes stable next week. Estijaab who is currently at the pre trainers will return to the Hawkes Sydney stable next week in preparation for an Autumn campaign. The star filly suffered a set… Read More »
The $5 million purse for The All-Star Mile has attracted the attention of connections popular Sydney racehorse Happy Clapper. Happy Clapper has been entered for the inaugural running of the 1600m All Star Mile at Flemington on March 16. The three-time Group One winner has returned to training two weeks… Read More »
We’ve seen Chris Waller, OTI, Gai and Adrian, David Hayes and a host of other trainers benefit greatly from the mass influx of European horses down here: and it’s all to do with our prize money levels which are the envy of the rest of the world. Well, leading British owner… Read More »
Joe Cleary is favouring a start in Sydney for speedy mare Lucy Rose and if she returns to form as expected, the controversial issue of Regumate is again set to be a talking point. Lucy Rose earned a spring carnival trip to Melbourne after she followed a third at Randwick… Read More »
Eight races will be run and won on the Sha Tin dirt this Wednesday night, and while there are no feature races, the depth is very strong, especially in the quaddie legs. Race One: 1 Flying Noble Race Two: 1 Rumba Delago Race Three: 10 Superior Boy Race Four: 10… Read More »
The owners of star Brisbane three-year-old Zoustyle will pass up the chance to collect a $500,000 bonus with the gelding to be spelled ahead of a likely winter campaign. Zoustyle made it five wins from five starts when he won the Listed Gold Edition Plate at Doomben on Saturday. It… Read More »
Stablehand Greg Nelligan “foolishly” thought he would get away with giving a horse an illegal top-up when champion Winx was racing at Flemington, but considered Melbourne Cup day too sacred and risky to try it. The key ‘Aquanita eight’ member has admitted administering race day treatments for trainer Robert Smerdon… Read More »
Dual Group Three winner Pecans is proven on a quick back-up and her trainer Joe Pride is not about to change what works. The mare runs in Saturday’s December Handicap (1400m) at Warwick Farm, six days before her defence of the Belle Of The Turf Stakes (1600m) at Gosford. A… Read More »
Prolific stakes performer and stable favourite Red Excitement has been retired after suffering an injury to a joint. Trainer Gerald Ryan said on Tuesday the nine-year-old was found to have filling in his offside front leg and he and the owners decided he would be retired. The winner of 14… Read More »
Exceedingly Easy has the distinction of being the first winner from Grahame Begg’s new second training base and he is hoping the filly can now step up to metropolitan class. Since moving to Victoria in 2016, the former Sydney trainer has operated out of Pinecliff, a private facility at Mt… Read More »
A key member of the ‘Aquanita eight’ who admits giving horses illegal top-ups says it never happened on Melbourne Cup day as it would be too risky. Float driver Greg Nelligan has admitted administering race day treatments for trainer Robert Smerdon and implicated the other people banned over Australia’s biggest… Read More »
The Australian Turf Club will again be offering bonuses to the winner and placegetters of the Sydney Cup. Owners and trainers of the winner, second and third placed horses in several key staying races across Australia and New Zealand will be eligible for bonuses on the $2 million Sydney Cup… Read More »
After beginning awkwardly in his two most recent starts, Vainstream will be fitted with blinkers in a bid to get back to form. Trained by John Pascoe at Moe, Vainstream will have his first Flemington start when he runs in a 1200m benchmark 78 race on Saturday. Pascoe said Vainstream… Read More »
We race at Eagle Farm this Saturday. Yeah, doesn’t look right does it – but it’s true. Doomben is rested as Eagle Farm comes out of cobwebs gathered from 18 months out of action. Queenslanders are rejoicing, and so they should be but what are we to expect of the… Read More »
A key member of the ‘Aquanita eight’ has admitted he bet on horses after giving them illegal race day treatments. Stablehand Greg Nelligan said he gave racehorses top-ups of sodium bicarbonate and Tripart paste because trainer Robert Smerdon asked him to do it. “A friend asked me to do it… Read More »
The Regumate saga is set to drag on as a population study is undertaken on female horses in a racing or training environment to determine its effects. Regumate contains altrenogest which was responsible for horses trained in Victoria by Robbie Laing and father-and-son training team Russell and Scott Cameron returning… Read More »
