Star filly Mystic Journey is ticking along nicely as the countdown continues to her return to the races for a campaign aimed at the Cox Plate. The Australian Guineas and All-Star Mile winner has been back in work in Tasmania for almost seven weeks, with trainer Adam Trinder planning to… Read More »
Mark Newnham’s stellar run of late-season success with his two-year-olds has prompted the emerging trainer to make serious spring carnival plans for his young team. A long-time deputy to Gai Waterhouse, Newnham only took up training in his own right three years ago and has already celebrated Group One wins… Read More »
Victorian trainer Jarrod McLean is expected to fight racing charges for possessing a banned electric-shock device, found during the police raids that led to top trainer Darren Weir’s disqualification. McLean, who was Weir’s assistant and ran his stable at Warrnambool, will front a Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board hearing in… Read More »
Paul Preusker is still ruing the nose defeat of Surprise Baby in The Andrew Ramsden Stakes which cost the stayer a guaranteed start in the Melbourne Cup. Surprise Baby and eventual winner Steel Prince staged a two-horse war up the Flemington straight on May 25 with the Anthony Freedman-trained gelding… Read More »
Queensland owners and trainers have been reminded to make sure their horses are vaccinated against the Hendra virus after a confirmed case in NSW. A spokesperson for the Queensland Racing Integrity Commission said the NSW Department of Primary Industries had advised the deadly Hendra virus was confirmed in a horse… Read More »
Stewards hope to have the remaining charges against trainer Ben Currie heard within the next month. Currie is serving a 7-1/2 year disqualification after a further three years was added to his sentence on Friday. He has been found guilty of charges including race day treatment, positive swabs and sending… Read More »
Gold Mount is to be aimed at the Melbourne Cup after making a winning return to English racing at York. A winner at Royal Ascot as Primitivo in 2016, Gold Mount was renamed when he was sent to Hong Kong. Having competed with credit at the highest level in Hong… Read More »
There was racing this week, but the news was dominated by the ongoing battle between NSW and Victoria as to who is numero uno in Australian racing. All that and more in this weeks edition of ‘The Good, The Bad and The Ugly’. KEY NEWS: RSW v Vic Continues In… Read More »
A massive eleven race card will be run and won at Sha Tin this Sunday, where the feature race is the Sports Club Diamond Jubilee Cup, Class Three event over 1200m. Race One: 3 Winning Method Race Two: 2 Indigenous Star Race Three: 4 Acquila Race Four: 2 Sunny Power… Read More »
Trainer Mike Moroney admits Mr Marathon Man and Buffalo River are still works in progress but he has loftier ambitions for the pair after they raced to strong wins at Sandown. Five-year-old Mr Marathon Man, a Listed winner in France, notched his first Australian victory at his third local appearance… Read More »
Jockey Michael Cahill has continued his wonderful winter run with Ready To Prophet, winning the race named for her trainer, the Gai Waterhouse Classic (1350m) at Ipswich. Cahill has been the undoubted star of the Queensland winter, winning six stakes races including the Group Ones Doomben 10,000 and Kingsford Smith… Read More »
Jenny Duggan and Samantha Clenton have created history at Rosehill, the pair becoming the first mothers to win Saturday metropolitan races on the same program in Sydney. Both are mature-age apprentices whose careers have been interrupted firstly by injury, then by parenthood. Duggan won on the Jason Coyle-trained River Bird… Read More »
Man Booker has scored a consolation win, with things finally going his way in the $175,000 Eye Liner Stakes (1350m). The Perth galloper has form around some of the best horses in West Australia and was considered a genuine chance in three Group One sprints: the Doomben 10,000, Kingsford Smith… Read More »
Jockey Craig Newitt believes there is plenty to like about Irish import Mawaany Machine who has landed his first Australian victory at Sandown. Forming the first leg of a race-to-race winning double for trainer Chris Waller on Saturday’s program, six-year-old gelding Mawaany Machine dug in for a fight in the… Read More »
