From the picnic races at Mudgee last Saturday to saddling up his first Group One runner, Luke Pepper has experienced racing’s full gamut this week. The Scone horseman has Opal Ridge poised to contest Saturday’s $700,000 Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm, the exciting filly backed into $3.30 favouritism after drawing ideally… Read More »
Racing Victoria’s Executive General Manager of Integrity Services, Jamie Stier, has provided clarification on the recently issued show-cause notices concerning the rides of apprentice Wiremu Pinn. The notices were sent to the connections of 29 horses ridden by Pinn over a 17-day period in late May and early June, where… Read More »
Owner Rich Ricci and trainer Willie Mullins have some unfinished business in Australia’s most iconic race, the Melbourne Cup. The pair have finished second and third with Max Dynamite in the Melbourne Cup and sixth with Thomas Hobson and hope to return later this year with impressive Royal Ascot winner Vauban. Taking out the Copper Horse Handicap… Read More »
Royal Ascot 2023 continues this Wednesday night, headlined by the Prince Of Wales’s Stakes (2004m), where it has attracted a small but select field of high class animals. Watch đź“ş – Watch the Royal Ascot races live at swiftbet Prince Of Wales’s Stakes 🏆: View the Field and Odds for… Read More »
Royal Ascot 2023 kicked off in familiar fashion with Aidan O’Brien’s all-conquering team notching up a first day double, following up River Tiber’s win in the Coventry Stakes by taking the day’s feature event, the St James’s Palace Stakes. The Group 1 St James’s Palace Stakes was billed as the… Read More »
The Australian duo of Coolangatta and Cannonball have each performed below their best with unplaced efforts in the Group 1 King’s Stand Stakes on Day 1 of Royal Ascot. Coolangatta and Cannonball have finished 11th and last respectively in the Group 1 sprint on Tuesday won by the Archie Watson-trained… Read More »
She was ‘only’ a $170,000 purchase at the yearling sales last year but the Tony Gollan-trained filly Skirt The Law more than repaid connections in just her first preparation. The daughter of Better Than Ready won with consummate ease at Doomben on debut in November before a dominant five length romp… Read More »
Australian interest will be high in the King’s Stand Stakes with two Aussie-bred representatives in the Group 1 sprint on Tuesday’s opening day of the Royal Ascot carnival. Coolangatta, a daughter of Written Tycoon, is second favourite to land a third career 1000m Group 1 with Cannonball, whose sire Capitalist is… Read More »
One person, who has previously been a standard fixture as a participant at the Queensland Winter Carnival, has been notably absentee from the 2023 edition of the event … and missing the prime time months of racing in his home state has been a painful experience for Jim Byrne in… Read More »
The news that Racing Victoria stewards have issued show-cause notices to connections of twenty-nine horses ridden by apprentice Wiremu Pinn with an incorrect apprentice allowance claim is sure to be a real conversation starter. It was only discovered after the fact that Pinn, who is in Australia on a three-month… Read More »
What a magnificent record the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes has, with Coolangatta to the sixth race winner that can go onto claim the King’s Stand Stakes of 5 furlongs at Royal Ascot. In coming off a last start victory in the Black Caviar Lightning of 1000m at Flemington, she is… Read More »
A driving two-horse finish featuring Coolmore and Godolphin runners … that is a description of a race that could have taken place anywhere around the world but, in this particular instance, it was all about the battle between the Coolmore owned Lady Of Honour and Gravina from the Royal Blue… Read More »
“It’s clear the industry doesn’t want me – so I just have to move on now.” As reported on Punters.com, that was Ben Currie’s response to the news that his eighteen-month disqualification, handed down by stewards, had being reduced to a nine-month disqualification by the Queensland’s Racing Appeals Panel. Currie… Read More »
Trainer Peter Moody wants a dry track to start Invincible Caviar, the best performed off-spring of unbeaten champion Black Caviar. Invincible Caviar has been entered for a benchmark 84 race over 1200m and a benchmark 84 for fillies and mares (1100m) at Caulfield on Saturday with Moody the latter, but the track condition will… Read More »
The iconic Royal Ascot Carnival for 2023 kicks off this Tuesday night Australian time, headlined by the Aussie duo of Coolangatta and Cannonball looking to continue the Australian domination of the King’s Stand Stakes (1000m). Watch đź“ş – Watch the Royal Ascot races live at swiftbet Queen Anne Stakes 🏆:… Read More »
The Listed Belmont Oaks (2000m) is Rusty Dreams’ next target, an exciting proposition after she swayed the opinion of trainer, Michael Lane. Michael Lane had fears Rusty Dreams would not run out a strong mile in Saturday’s Listed Belmont Guineas, but that view was cast aside in breathtaking fashion. Aided by a… Read More »
Racing Victoria Stewards have today continued their inquiry into the reason for Headingley, ridden by Dean Holland, falling during Race 1 at Donald and District Racing Club on Monday, 24 April 2023. Headingley fell near the 300m mark in the 3YO Maiden Plate (1000m) and Time To Rumble (Alana Kelly),… Read More »
With his experience and capability in the saddle, the chances were always good that Damien Thornton was going to enjoy a successful stint riding in the Sunshine State in the lead-up to, and for the duration of the Queensland Racing Carnival. The broad smile on the usually poker-faced Thornton when… Read More »
Ben Thompson advanced his stellar season along another step down the line of success on Ipswich Cup day where he landed two winners (including a win in the Ipswich Cup) and three second placings on the city’s biggest race-day. “It was a great day … a winner and two seconds… Read More »
A relaxed Robert Heathcote powered a golf drive far enough down the fairway to be able to have time in-between shots to talk about Rothfire, his stable star who finished second in the 2023 Stradbroke Handicap … and, while enjoying some, brief, well-deserved down-time away from big race pressure, he… Read More »
