There was no shortage of connections who winced after drawing double-digit gates in Saturday’s Group 1 Railway Stakes (1600m) at Ascot, but Dan Morton wasn’t one of them. The man who trains favourite Alaskan God was content to see him allocated barrier 14, which will become 12 if the two emergencies drawn… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Happy Valley on Wednesday night, with solid depth across the program. Race One: 11 Raging Blaze Race Two: 1 Jazz Steed Race Three: 4 Hero Star Race Four: 9 Chater Pins Race Five: 2 Gold Gold Baby Race Six: 2 Adios Race… Read More »
Startrade started a new campaign of racing on home soil in Geraldton last April, running a short-head second to Corn Cob in a 1100m handicap. Fast forward seven months and 10 races later and the chestnut gelding finds himself in G1 Railway Stakes (1600m) field for Ascot on Saturday. Startrade enjoyed a… Read More »
Five years on from Great Shot’s win in the Furphy-Railway Stakes (1600m), trainer Rhys Radford is hoping to cause a similar upset in this year’s edition of the famous Ascot mile. Rhys Radford has pinned his hopes on Comfort Me delivering him a second win in the Group 1 event, after the… Read More »
It seems you just cannot keep owner Brae Sokolski out of the headlines. Whether it is the crowning success with his Melbourne Cup winner Verry Elleegant ⊠or his trials and tribulations with the same mare during her European campaign ⊠or his success stories with the likes of Incentivise… Read More »
With the Longines Hong Kong International Races on December 11 just twenty-six days away, it will be interesting to see how the current and on-going Covid situation in this prime racing precinct impacts, if at all, on Hong Kongâs biggest race-day. As things stand at the moment, two of the… Read More »
Trainer Andrew Noblet says he has to trust Foxy Frida ahead of the mare’s planned start in the Listed Ballarat Cup. Foxy Frida ran fifth in the race last year at her first attempt at 2000m, but the then four-year-old entered that contest off a Flemington win. Move forward 12 months later and Foxy Frida… Read More »
An unseasonal winter snap will have a bearing on whether Carlo Vidotto and grandson Clay Beasy have dual representation at Sandown. The pair has Morpheus Bragi in the Thoroughbred Club Australia Handicap (1300m) and Bella Nights in the Ladbrokes Blended Bets Handicap (1300m) entered on Wednesday. Beasy said Morpheus Bragi, a horse he considers may… Read More »
There has been a sequel to the disturbing situation raised by a photograph taken at track work on August 30 during the build-up to the iconic Birdsville race meeting in September with jockey Ric McMahon pleading guilty to a charge related to the possession of a banned device. Police alleged… Read More »
Alaskan God has scraped into Saturday’s field for the Railway Stakes (1600m) to give trainer Dan Morton two runners in the $1.5 million Group 1 event. With his rating of 92, Alaskan God was right on the borderline of squeezing into the Railway with the final 20 horse field announced… Read More »
There has been a new twist in the case of champion jockey Christophe Soumillon who now faces the prospect of having the current two-month suspension he is serving extended for an, as yet, undetermined period of time or even revoked. Soumillon was handed the two-month suspension after seemingly unceremoniously elbowing… Read More »
It doesnât matter what your starting point is ⊠a seventy-six percent increase in prize-money for a particular feature race is a huge boost ⊠and when it comes in what is already Regional Queenslandâs richest race it is a really big deal for that racing region. The Archer, held… Read More »
Good old Peter Moody ⊠a salt of the earth, tell it like it is character if ever there was one ⊠but, then again, there still remains a line you cross at your peril as Moody found to his cost when his comments regarding the performance in the saddle… Read More »
Fresh from dominating their hometown Cup program, Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young have readjusted their sights across town to Ballarat’s biggest day of the year. The Cranbourne partners, who won three races including the $500,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m) with Uncle Bryn, have seven horses nominated across six races including Cranbourne… Read More »
When his top-line galloper Think It Over tore a tendon earlier in the year, you would’ve been forgiven to believe that trainer Kerry Parker would be having a quieter time at this stage of the racing calendar. But his Dundeel mare Hope In Your Heart has taken over the reins and continues to… Read More »
Will Clarken admits it is a ‘bold’ play, but the South Australian horseman thinks if ever there is a time to back-up Ironclad on opposite sides of the country it is now. The imported gelding today flew out with a host of eastern states horses bound for Perth and the… Read More »
Read the latest racing updates and information out of Western Australia for their race meetings on Saturday, November 11th, 2022. 1 – LUCY WARWICK What a way to launch the Ascot Pinnacles Carnival for Lucy Warwick! The top jockey produced two gem rides on Admiration Express and This’ll Testya to… Read More »
A Perth local, Oliver has ridden 127 Group 1 winners but just three have come in his home state, with wins in the 1992 WA Derby (now a Group 2), the 2009 Kingston Town Classic (now The Northerly) and more recently aboard Voodoo Lad in the 2018 Winterbottom Stakes. The… Read More »
âFlightline, 139, who closed out his undefeated career in the Longines Breedersâ Cup Classic, maintains his commanding lead in the ninth Longines Worldâs Best Racehorse Rankings.â In being the Worldâs Best Dirt Horse on 139 for his 19ÂŒ length victory in the TVG Pacific Classic, he scored by a record… Read More »
Another big weekend of Group 1 racing in Japan and we head to Hanshin for the QEII over 2200m for fillies and mares. Originally the third leg of the fillies’ triple crown, the Japanese variant of the QEII became what it is today in 1996, with some well-known globetrotters on… Read More »
