I Am Me is likely to have an exclusive Sydney spring campaign which is set to kick-off in the Missile Stakes at Rosehill. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained five-year-old is also an entrant in the Group 3 Aurie’s Star Handicap (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday. However, Eustace said the Group 2 race… Read More »
The announcement last week of the formation of a training partnership between Gillian Heinrich and Renita Beaton at the Gold Coast is believed to have formalised the first all-female training partnership in the country. Heinrich, of course, brings lifelong training experience to the partnership … who can forget her famous… Read More »
Ten successive Metropolitan Premierships! Where has the time gone since Tony Gollan made the move from Toowoomba to Brisbane? Certainly, Gollan has never taken a backward step since his arrival in town and his on-going total dominance of the training scene in Brisbane underlines his unwavering focus on striving for… Read More »
Trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr are eyeing an ambitious program with unbeaten sprinter What You Need. High on the agenda is the $20 million The Everest (1200m) at Randwick in October and already there has been some discussions on gaining a slot in Australia’s richest race. What You Need has… Read More »
Ersa won’t be carrying colours identifiable with most of the high-achieving members of her family when she makes her debut at Sale on Wednesday, but connections are confident she too can make a racetrack impression. The three-year-old is a daughter of Lonhro and Erato, which makes her a sister to… Read More »
New Zealand’s newly-crowned champion apprentice jockey, Tayla Mitchell, is bidding farewell to the local racing industry to pursue a promising career in Australia. Mitchell secured the title with a slender one-win lead over her closest rival, Kelsey Hannan, but had already set her sights on Melbourne before her triumph. She… Read More »
Ciaron Maher Racing is set to strengthen its spring racing prospects with the addition of eight horses currently based in Newmarket, UK, which are scheduled to fly to Australia in September. After a successful season, Ciaron Maher and Dave Eustace, the training partners, are preparing to introduce a mix of… Read More »
Glorious Goodwood for 2023 kicks off on Tuesday night, headlined by the Group l Goodwood Cup (3219m), with the race having potential ramifications from a Melbourne Cup perspective. swiftbet 💰 👉 Download the hottest new betting app Goodwood Cup 🏆: View the Field and Odds for the Goodwood Cup
Talented jockey Alana Kelly is set to make her highly anticipated comeback to racing after enduring a harrowing fall in April. The accident occurred during a maiden race at Donald, tragically claiming the life of fellow rider Dean Holland. Following extensive rehabilitation both mentally and physically, Kelly is ready to… Read More »
Chris Waller will unleash a big team of quality horses at Tuesday morning’s Canterbury trials, including two colts many expect to be spring stars. Shinzo and Militarize, who between them shared the Sydney 2YO Group 1 Triple Crown earlier this year, will make their first public appearances for their three-year-old campaign in… Read More »
Neville Parnham claimed a record-extending 14th Trainers’ Premiership and his first title since the 2010-11 season. Parnham, a WA Racing Hall Of Fame inductee, prepared 59 city wins, 13 clear of runner-up, Simon Miller. Adam Durrant finished third with 43 wins with Dan Morton next on 39 and Albany-based trainer Steve… Read More »
The G2 Missile Stakes (1200m) is the first group race of the Sydney racing season and plenty of Group 1 horses have contested it in recent years. In 2023, we see Caulfield Guineas winner Golden Mile ($5) back to the races. He could face off with talented stablemate and Everest runner… Read More »
Often the G3 Aurie’s Star Handicap down the straight has been a kick off point for many a good horse for the Melbourne Spring. Bart Cummings would use it as his starting point for many a Cups or Cox Plate contender. Even just look back to Fields Of Omagh winning… Read More »
Trainer David Pfieffer is hoping to capitalise on the absence of the top-class sprinters by aiming Group 3 winner Rocketing By at the first stakes race of the new season. Keen to strike an early blow with the rising six-year-old, Pfieffer has readied Rocketing By for a first-up assault at next weekend’s… Read More »
Trainer Mick Price has ambitious plans for his promising unbeaten galloper, Globe, aiming for a coveted start in the prestigious Cox Plate at The Valley this spring. The goal is to secure a place in the Cox Plate on October 28 by targeting the Feehan Stakes (1600m) at The Valley… Read More »
Trainer Annabel Neasham is setting her sights on the prestigious races at Flemington’s final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival, with her elite trio of gallopers. Leading the charge is Zaaki, the dominant force in the 2000m weight-for-age Champions Stakes, aiming for an unprecedented hat-trick of victories. The British import… Read More »
Pony Racing is up and going across the nation with the first of the National Pony Racing Series to be conducted at Brisbane’s Eagle Farm Racecourse on Saturday 12 August. Staged under the banner of the Thoroughbred Industry Careers (TIC) and Pony Club Australia (PCA), its TIC Chief Executive Officer… Read More »
There was huge hype surrounding Ascot’s King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes ahead of the race and while some of the anticipated fireworks fizzled out when the favourite, Derby winner Auguste Rodin, fell tamely away the finish more than lived up to expectations in the end with a… Read More »
Katherine Coleman will have family support on hand when she saddles her first runners at Flemington. The former Perth girl officially joins Peter Moody in a training partnership as of Tuesday and could have a handful of runners at the opening metropolitan meeting of the season at Flemington on Saturday. Parents Rob and Heather… Read More »
Imported galloper Bear Story is only weeks away from commencing his spring campaign after having a jump-out at Cranbourne last Monday. An official 1000m trial at Cranbourne on August 7 will be the pre-cursor to Bear Story resuming in the Group 2 P B Lawrence Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on August 19. After… Read More »
