The Lindsay Park training partnership of Tom Dabernig and Ben Hayes will come to an end with their final runner at Bendigo on Sunday. From Monday, Hayes’ younger JD joins the Ben in a training partnership where they will hope to hit the ground running with five runners at Wangaratta. JD was granted… Read More »
The 2000 metre journey of the McKell Cup will present different challenges for a pair of stablemates, but their trainer remains hopeful one of them can come away with a win. Pre-race favourite Stockman will have to handle a significant distance drop while for stablemate Brutality, it is a rise in… Read More »
Nick Williams believes pre-travel scintigraphy scans on overseas horses ahead of the Melbourne Cup will disrupt their preparations. Multiple Melbourne Cup winning owner Nick Williams doubts there will be a large number of overseas contenders at the Spring Racing Carnival if Racing Victoria goes ahead with one its mandatory pre-travel… Read More »
A small field and the chance to land a confidence-boosting win have convinced Robert and Luke Price to give Spring Champion Stakes hopeful Verbek one more run before tipping him out for a winter break. The two-year-old has finished runner-up at his past three starts, the latest when placed behind Volcanic… Read More »
All eyes at Royal Ascot on Thursday were on Stradivarius as the John Gosden trained horse attempted to match Yeats’s record of four Gold Cups but he could only finish fourth behind Mark Johnston’s Subjectivist. Procession in the Gold Cup, but it's Subjectivist rather than Stradivarius who is awesome in… Read More »
Victorian trainer Adrian McGregor will be chasing his first stakes success with Approach Discreet in the McKell Cup. Adrian Mcgregor has been one of racing’s journeymen but his latest chapter as a trainer might yield his biggest achievement to date when Approach Discreet lines up in the Listed McKell Cup. An all-round… Read More »
For Albukhturi, the time has come to make a stand and turn potential into performance in the Listed WAROA-Belmont Guineas (1600m) on Saturday. Michael Gangemi, who trains in partnership with his brother Chris, is optimistic the Iffraaj gelding can make an impact, despite his market status and form. The former… Read More »
The 2021 Royal Ascot Carnival continues on Thursday, with the feature race being the Gold Cup (4000m), featuring world class stayer Stradivarius. Ascot Gold Cup 🏆: View the Field and Odds for the Ascot Gold Cup
Racing NSW stewards have fined trainer Annabel Neasham after Zaaki returned a positive pre-race sample during the Sydney autumn carnival. Annabel Neasham has vowed to reassess her stable’s procedures after her star galloper Zaaki returned a positive swab to an anti-inflammatory medication. The Doomben Cup and Q22 winner tested positive to meloxicam… Read More »
Champion trainer Peter Moody has reiterated the call of fellow trainer Mick Kent for the Melbourne Racing Club not to sell off Sandown. Kent came out last weekend saying Sandown was possibly the best racetrack in Australia and adding the track was an important asset to the industry. The MRC has… Read More »
Hall Of Fame trainer Lee Freedman is set to have his first Australian runner since his return from Singapore when Intrepidacious contests the Gai Waterhouse Classic at Ipswich. A five-time Melbourne Cup winner, Freedman spent more than three years in Singapore where he captured the 2018 trainers’ premiership before deciding to head… Read More »
An accident at Morphettville trackwork has resulted in trainer Leon Macdonald being hospitalised. Australian Racing Hall of Fame trainer Leon Macdonald has been taken to an Adelaide hospital following an incident at Morphettville trackwork. Macdonald, 79, was taken to the Royal Adelaide Hospital on Thursday for x-rays after he was knocked… Read More »
Trainer Peter Moody has his eyes on another Flemington prize with Snickerdoodledandy but would enjoy nothing more than to pick up a stakes race along the way. Moody has the filly engaged in Saturday’s Listed A R Creswick Stakes (1200m) and is using the race to keep Snickerdoodledandy in top order for the Silver Bowl Series Final… Read More »
Aidan O’Brien says he is unlikely to have a runner during this year’s Melbourne spring carnival due to new rules imposed by Racing Victoria. A Melbourne Cup win still eludes Aidan O’Brien and that looks unlikely to change this year after the champion Irish trainer declared he was an unlikely participant… Read More »
Three-year-old filly Sunborn will bid to put her career back on track when she resumes at Rosehill. An unfortunate race day incident interrupted the career of Sunborn and trainer Edward Cummings is hoping the filly can make up for lost time. Sunborn will resume in The Agency Real Estate Handicap… Read More »
Entered for two races at Flemington, Lindsay Park has been able to split stablemates Think ‘N’ Fly and Biometric into separate races. In their wisdom of not trying to deny themselves success, Lindsay Park has decided to separate Biometric and Think ‘N’ Fly at Flemington. Both horses were nominated for… Read More »
Top New Zealand jockey Jason Waddell has been banned from racing for 10 years for threatening to kill a racing official. Jason Waddell has received a ten year disqualification for threatening to kill a racing official as well as posting an insulting social media message about another leading racing figure… Read More »
Superstar trainer Charlie Appleby confirmed after his exciting young stayer KEMARI (Dubawi) – who was bred by Luca Cumani -may well come to Melbourne this year for the Melbourne Cup. And after he won the Queen’s Vase at Royal Ascot last night showing a stunning turn of foot late in… Read More »
She’d been off the racecourse for 300 days but that lack of action didn’t stop Aidan O’Brien’s star filly Love in the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes as she battled on through the last furlong to beat last year’s Breeders cup Filly and Mare Turf winner Audarya. In addition to her… Read More »
Lost And Running has been announced as the TAB’s representative in The Everest. Another piece in The Everest jigsaw puzzle has been completed with TAB securing Lost And Running as its representative in this year’s $15 million race at Randwick. The rising five-year-old son of Per Incanto trained by John O’Shea at Randwick,… Read More »
