The progeny of Snitzel and trainer Gerald Ryan are a formidable combination with Centrepet the latest to claim a metropolitan victory. The filly, a $5 chance, ran out a decisive winner of the 1100m Benchmark 75 for three-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday, beating Darley colt Chiaramonte by 1-1/4 lengths. Ryan,… Read More »
He stretched his trainer’s budget as a yearling and he’s stretched his patience ever since, but the talented gelding Red Inca has begun to make it all worthwhile. Trainer Ray Besanko will set Red Inca for the Group One Australian Guineas (1600m) following his win in Saturday’s Seascay Handicap (1410m)… Read More »
A last-to-first win at Rosehill by Campania has reinforced trainer Garry Frazer’s belief he has a genuine Oaks filly on his hands. A betting drifter from $8 to $15 in Saturday’s Inglis 3YO Bonus (1500m) despite her last-start win, Campania dropped out to the tail of the field early but… Read More »
Dalton gave the Hawkes Racing team some consolation for missing a Magic Millions start when he scored a comfortable win in the Bollinger Handicap at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The colt was beaten by subsequent Magic Millions winner Real Surreal at his previous start at Eagle Farm and didn’t earn… Read More »
A lack of suitable Sydney races for Saturday’s Rosehill winner She’s Clean means she is likely to be aimed at the Brisbane winter carnival. Trainer Chris Waller said the mare was still learning her craft and the next step up from Saturday’s 1300m Benchmark 80 was a bridge too far… Read More »
A mare who has had three different trainers and won for all of them, scored for her latest handler at Flemington on Saturday, staking a claim for a permanent address. Goldslick was having her fourth start for trainer Mick Kent in the Dover Handicap (1610m) and showed both adaptability and… Read More »
The progeny of Snitzel and trainer Gerald Ryan are a formidable combination with Centrepet the latest to claim a metropolitan victory. The filly, a $5 chance, ran out a decisive winner of the 1100m Benchmark 75 for three-year-olds at Rosehill on Saturday, beating Darley colt Chiaramonte by 1-1/4 lengths. Ryan,… Read More »
The Darley stable provided yet another demonstration of its undeniable power and added yet a new name to the Blue Diamond Stakes mix when Metastasio scored a comfortable win in the Nursery Handicap at Flemington on Saturday. Metastasio’s win put her in the running for a start in Melbourne’s richest… Read More »
Racing is facing a second successive whiteout after widespread snow led to a blank afternoon of racing in Britain on Friday. While Chepstow’s jumps card was an early casualty on Friday morning, even the all-weather meetings at Wolverhampton and Lingfield were unable to cope. All three of Saturday’s jumping fixtures… Read More »
Former Australian-based jockey Andrew Heffernan and eight unlicensed individuals will have to wait until next Friday to know their fate following a British Horseracing Authority disciplinary panel hearing over breaches of the rules of racing. Ten days had been set aside for the hearing which began on Monday at the… Read More »
Excessive heat forced officials to call off a NSW provincial thoroughbred race meeting on Friday. As the temperature reached 43.5C at Gosford racecourse at 2pm, stewards decided it was too dangerous to start the twilight meeting. The meeting, held to attract central coast holidaymakers, was due to start at 2.53pm… Read More »
Three of the biggest names from the Gai Waterhouse stable dominate the top of the first Doncaster Mile market but it is a stablemate making a comeback who has attracted immediate support. Triple crown winner Pierro shares the top line of betting with his Caulfield Guineas conqueror All Too Hard… Read More »
As a three-year-old Red Colossus was a Derby horse and at four he was running in some of the best races in the country. By the end of his five-year-old season the sights had been dropped to the Darwin Cup and then, at his most recent start, to the Koroit… Read More »
One of the central figures in the Damien Oliver betting scandal has escaped being charged. Mark Hunter, the professional punter and former AFL player who Oliver phoned to place a $10,000 bet on Miss Octopussy in a race at Moonee Valley in October 2010, was investigated racing Victoria stewards over… Read More »
Tactics used with success on Direct Charge in the most prestigious two-year-old race of the Melbourne spring carnival will be the key to the colt’s chances in the $250,000 Inglis Classic on Saturday. Direct Charge blotted an otherwise promising start to his racing career when he finished unplaced at his… Read More »
It will be hard to find a jockey with more incentive to ride a winner at Rosehill than Glyn Schofield. Schofield is chasing back-to-back Inglis Classic wins on Saturday when he partners the Melbourne colt Direct Charge. His booking comes at the expense of leading Victorian jockey Steven Arnold who… Read More »
Trainer Mark Loft received a pleasant surprise when the bookies offered him $26 about his horse King’s A Star when it won the Latrobe Cup at Traralgon last month. And he’s similarly impressed by the generous price on offer in Saturday’s Piping Lane Handicap (2000m) at Flemington. “I couldn’t believe… Read More »
Matamata trainer Ken Kelso hopes the Telegraph Handicap at Trentham will be the springboard to a Sydney campaign in autumn for his class mare Xanadu. The Group One 1200m sprint will be the first race for the Elusive City four-year-old since October, when she finished fourth in the Hastings Spring… Read More »
New Zealand galloper Ocean Park is set to make his first public appearance at the start of an ambitious international campaign in Auckland on the day of New Zealand’s richest race. Ocean Park, winner of the Cox Plate, will have an exhibition gallop between races at Ellerslie on January 27,… Read More »
It’s not surprising James Lyons has found his niche in racing given a rich family heritage. Lyons is the grandson of riding legend Billy Cook, who won two Melbourne Cups aboard Skipton and Rainbird and was buried wearing the racing silks of Carioca, who won a Sydney Cup in 1953…. Read More »
