Two-year-old colt Nostradamus is related to a Blue Diamond winner and could stamp himself as a genuine contender for next month’s $1 million feature when he makes his debut at Flemington on Saturday. Trained by the Hawkes family partnership, Nostradamus is a half-brother to 2010 Blue Diamond winner Star Witness… Read More »
Katelyn Mallyon has made a perfect start to a new phase of her career and will be out to continue building on her momentum at Flemington on Saturday. Mallyon rode a winning double at Flemington last Saturday for the training partnership of Mat Ellerton and Simon Zahra, having joined their… Read More »
The Bathurst race club has been stripped of its licence pending an investigation into over watering of the track which caused Friday’s race meeting to be abandoned. Surface water on the track in the drought-ridden city 200km west of Sydney made the prospect of racing unsafe. Racing NSW chief executive… Read More »
More than one milestone awaits classy sprinter First Command if he can return a winner in Saturday’s Listed Kensington Stakes at Flemington. The eight-year-old is striving to win the $120,000 Listed race for the third straight year and has been a firmer in early betting, tightening from an opening quote… Read More »
When it comes to training racehorses, Chris Calthorpe is a relative newcomer. But as the proprietor of Air Horse Transport he is well acquainted with some of the best of recent times having flown them from one side of the country to the other. Ironically, his Inglis Classic contender Armageddon… Read More »
Stakes winner Maules Creek is showing new trainers Peter Morgan and Craig Widdison he still has a zest for racing ahead of his second run for the pair at Flemington on Saturday. The duo bought the former John Thompson-trained six-year-old at a Patinack Farm dispersal sale for $70,000 and he’ll… Read More »
BRISBANE Jan 17 AAP – Toowoomba trainer Paul Nolan is hoping big race plans for promising stayer Secret Garden go smoother than the final stages of his recent holiday in the United States. Nolan, who mixes training with work as a tax accountant, was in New York when Secret Garden… Read More »
Trainer Kelly Schweida has resisted the temptation to use a claiming apprentice on boom galloper Secret Harmony at Doomben on Saturday. Secret Harmony, who scored a barnstorming win first up at Eagle Farm on New Year’s Day, is topweight with 59kgs in the Mittys Handicap (1200m). Schweida said Secret Harmony… Read More »
Trainer Andrew Campbell admits he is on edge as exciting three-year-old Cauthen resumes in the Group One Telegraph Handicap at Trentham. Injury curtailed Cauthen’s spring campaign in Melbourne but not before he won the McKenzie Stakes at Moonee Valley, beating subsequent Cox Plate winner Shamus Award and Caulfield Guineas winner… Read More »
Black Caviar’s farewell campaign has earned the Australian champion equal top billing alongside French mare Treve in the 2013 world rankings. Second in 2011 and 2012 on the list of the world’s best, Black Caviar is the first southern hemisphere horse to achieve the honour decided by the International Federation… Read More »
Popular Sydney jockey Peter Robl has been cleared of spinal injury and released from hospital after a race fall at Scone. Robl fell when the horse he was riding buck jumped shortly after the start of the first race on Thursday. He told trackside paramedics he had no feeling from… Read More »
Melbourne Racing Club’s chief executive has admitted they “got it wrong” with the track surface presented at Caulfield on Wednesday. The eight-race card was conducted with the rail out 14 metres in hot conditions and jockeys steered their mounts well off the inside section and towards the outside rail in… Read More »
Trainer Tony Pike is banking on Vinnie Eagle’s greatest asset to help him overcome a wide draw in Saturday’s $250,000 Inglis Classic at Randwick. The second favourite behind Victorian youngster Boomwaa, Vinnie Eagle has drawn the outside gate in the field of 13. “It is definitely a negative. It’s always… Read More »
Chris Waller is taking a conservative approach to the autumn with import Bayrir, the best credentialled horse racing at Randwick on Saturday. Bayrir is an American Group One winner of the 2012 Secretariat Stakes and also contested that year’s Prix de l`Arc de Triomphe and Hong Kong Vase. He returns… Read More »
Chile Express is backing up after a fourth placing at Flemington last week with trainer Robbie Griffiths hoping a drop in weight will compensate for the lift in grade on Saturday. The five-year-old will take on the Craftsman Handicap (1720m) at Flemington carrying 54kgs, 1.5kg less than last week, and… Read More »
Tony McEvoy has the Oakleigh Plate in the back of his mind for Pocket Rockets but admits the sprinter needs to earn his chance with a strong showing in the Listed Kensington Stakes. Pocket Rockets returns from a spell in Saturday’s Kensington Stakes (1000m) at Flemington chasing a first stakes… Read More »
Jockey Peter Robl has been airlifted to Newcastle’s John Hunter Hospital after he was thrown from his horse when it buck-jumped shortly after the start of the opening race at Scone on Thursday. Robl was aboard the David Vandyke-trained In My Image which began bucking about 100 metres after the… Read More »
The Stawell race meeting on Friday has been cancelled because of the Victorian heatwave. Racing Victoria (RV) said the welfare of horses and jockeys had to come first in the current extreme hot weather. “This is a decision that has not been made lightly, however, we feel is necessary to… Read More »
Jamie Kah has put any ambitions of back-to-back Adelaide premierships to one side to try her luck in Melbourne. The talented 18-year-old apprentice is hoping to make an impact at Flemington on Saturday having embarked on a month-long loan stint with prominent Caulfield trainer Mick Price. Kah has made a… Read More »
Perplexing mare Miss Imagica takes her first step towards writing herself into the history books at Doomben on Saturday. Miss Imagica will start her summer-autumn campaign in the Sita Australia Hcp (1200m) against a small but smart field of sprinters. The mare has won 10 races and $561,000 prize money… Read More »
