Racing Victoria has officially confirmed that Saturday’s new 10-race cards will only extend the race day by 20 minutes. Last month, Racing Victoria had announced its plans to trial an extension to the Saturday metropolitan race day, expanding the meetings from nine to 10 races during the 2023/24 racing season…. Read More »
Right You Are has kicked off his Caulfield Cup program with a jump-out at Cranbourne with the effort surprising one of his co-trainers. The Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained galloper is assured of a start in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) in October, courtesy of his win in the Listed Mornington Cup… Read More »
The Hayes family will have another member operate under the Lindsay Park banner from the start of the 2023/24 racing season with Will Hayes to join his brothers in a training partnership. Lindsay Park announced the appointment on Monday morning with the 28-year-old will join his twin JD and their… Read More »
Ken Keys would have liked to have given Scheelite more time in the spelling paddock, but the Cranbourne trainer is happy with the way the most exciting member of his stable is tracking as his return to racing nears. The unbeaten colt will trial at Cranbourne on August 7 ahead of a… Read More »
Champion trainer Peter Moody is facing an investigation by Racing Victoria stewards after one of his runners, Brereton, tested positive for banned substances in a pre-race blood sample taken at Flemington on May 13. The substances detected in the sample were Phenylbutazone and Oxyphenbutazone, which are non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and… Read More »
Jockey Blaike McDougall has received a clean bill of health from his doctors and is set to make a return to trackwork this week. The 29-year-old jockey had been sidelined for the past four months following a race fall at Geelong in late March, where he sustained a C7 vertebrae… Read More »
Moonee Valley is gearing up for a bustling schedule, commencing with its return on Saturday. To ensure optimal track conditions for upcoming race meetings, track manager Martin Synan has implemented a new policy. With three meetings in a month and an additional August race, Synan plans to restrict the number… Read More »
Kyneton trainer Neil Dyer is eagerly anticipating the upcoming Darwin Cup (2000m) on August 8, an event that holds immense sentimental value to him, having secured victory three times in the past. However, this year, uncertainty clouds his participation with one or possibly two runners. Among his hopefuls, Mohican Heights,… Read More »
Having put the disappointment of Fireburn’s controversial Queensland Oaks scratching behind him, Gary Portelli is looking to the spring with renewed enthusiasm. The filly was a short-priced favourite for the Oaks after sweeping to victory in The Roses, but two days out from her grand final, Queensland Racing Integrity Commission veterinarians… Read More »
A jump-out at Casterton will determine whether Flying Mascot will have the addition of blinkers when she has her next race start at Flemington. Trainer Tom Dabernig was disheartened with Flying Mascot’s first-up performance in the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on July 8 and has called for a jump-out in headgear on… Read More »
Class rose to the top in Melbourne’s final Stakes race of the 2022-23 season with Godolphin galloper Ingratiating scoring at Caulfield. Showing considerable improvement from his first-up in the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield a fortnight earlier, Ingratiating stamped his authority in the straight. Ridden by Blake Shinn, Ingratiating… Read More »
Zac Lloyd has shot to the front in the race for the Sydney apprentices’ title, booting home a trio of winners at Rosehill to overtake rival Dylan Gibbons with just two meetings of the season remaining. Gibbons went into Saturday’s 10-race card with a two-win lead but after two of his mounts… Read More »
Zac Lloyd has played a starring role at the penultimate Sydney Saturday meeting of the season, taking out the feature race on Victorian Barbie’s Fox as part of a winning treble that has vaulted him to the lead in the apprentices’ premiership. The young rider was relieved to get the verdict on… Read More »
Trainer Peter Moody may have to go and raise the bar with Mollynickers after the filly registered a comfortable win at Caulfield. Mollynickers took out the VOBIS Gold Ingot (1400m) on Saturday to give Moody successive wins in the race for two-year-olds. Boogie Dancer won the corresponding race last year and later in the Spring… Read More »
Tim Clark has celebrated a significant career milestone with his 1500th winner and fittingly he has achieved the feat aboard the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Taormina. Clark has a long record of success for Tulloch Lodge and is their go-to rider in Sydney, but says he only became mindful he… Read More »
Ourbooros may have saved himself from a gelding operation with his hard-fought win at Caulfield. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained two-year-old landed his first win at career start number four when successful in the Quayclean Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. Price spoke pre-race of the possibility of sending Ouroboros to be gelded if again beaten… Read More »
$1.3 Million purchase Vandeek, trained by Simon & Ed Crisford, started off his career in spectacular fashion at Nottingham in the UK overnight in a 1223m maiden. The son of Havana Grey got upset pre race and then in the stalls. He missed the kick by several lengths, far from… Read More »
It was a dream start in the riding career of Sarah Field, with her first ride resulting in a winner. The win came at Donald over 1002m on Friday, leading throughout on the Ciaron Maher/David Eustace trained Field Of Flutes, with the gelding living up to his name, running the… Read More »
Trainer Archie Alexander is looking to Teewaters repeating the victory he recorded in a staying race at Caulfield a year ago. Teewaters is back for a second shot at the VOBIS Gold Stayers (2400m) on Saturday, a race he won last year with Craig Williams in the saddle. This year Declan Bates takes over, and while he… Read More »
Racing geldings doesn’t exactly fit the brief for Newgate’s stallions syndicate, but the in-form Resonator is at least providing his high-profile connections with a lively winter sidebar. The son of Brazen Beau was cut midway through his two-year-old season and no longer a stud prospect, he was offered for sale on… Read More »
