For training duo Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, Saturday’s meeting on the Kensington track will outline what their team will look like at the Magic Millions raceday come January 15. The prolific partnership are hoping impressive two-year-old Pantonario and last-start placegetter Snitzonfire can book their tickets to the Gold Coast… Read More »
Passion is a most powerful force. In the thoroughbred industry itâs a necessity â it whatâs makes us strive to be the best – to breed the toughest horses â to create the richest racing carnivals.â Aushorse have released their Investorsâ Guide for 2022, boasting that â1 in 254 Australians… Read More »
He was a galloper who won eight races and over $2.4 million in prize money for trainer Gary Portelli, and Rebel Dane is continuing to provide the Warwick Farm conditioner with on-track success with progeny such as Fireburn and Rebel Shadow now representing the stallion. A winner of the Group… Read More »
Sydney’s spate of wet weather has seen trainer Jarrod Austin head to Melbourne again chasing victory with Looks Like Elvis. After winning the VOBIS Gold Bullion at Pakenham on December 4, Looks Like Elvis is set to run at Flemington on Saturday in the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m). To make the… Read More »
Leading Perth owner Bob Peters has two of the leading chances as he shoots for a record tenth victory in the Perth Cup. Grant and Alana Williams will saddle up TAB’s $3.60 favourite Midnight Blue along with $4.60 second elect Pure Devotion in the Group 2 race over 2400m at Ascot on Saturday. Market đ°: View… Read More »
Racing Victoria has announced that the ârace free week,â which was trialled in July, will be discontinued and, as such, will not form part of the Racing Victoria calendar in 2022. Towards the end of July this year, Racing Victoria trialled a five day race-free period which was met with… Read More »
To avoid the hottest part of the day, Racing Victoria has brought forward the start of the race meeting at Echuca on Friday. With temperatures expected to peak at 41 degrees on Friday afternoon, RV has brought forward the start of the meeting to 11.10am with the final race to be… Read More »
Champion Perth jockey William Pike has been replaced aboard Midnight Blue in the Perth Cup after a change in COVID protocols. A change in West Australia’s COVID protocols will see champion jockey William Pike miss the Perth Cup. Pike had been booked to ride the Bob Peters-owned Cup favourite Midnight Blue in… Read More »
A menacing force on the surface Kings Shield is looking to stamp his authority as Hong Kong’s unofficial dirt course kingpin in Wednesday night’s (29 December) lucrative Class 1 Fo Tan Handicap (1650m, dirt) at Sha Tin the second race of the midweek fixture’s no-nonsense all-dirt programme. Eyeing a fifth… Read More »
Having broken through for his first win in Victoria, Nick Ryan is now looking at a ‘black type’ race with Not To Be Mist. The former Perth galloper is among nominations for the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m) at Flemington on Saturday. Not To Be Mist scored in the Furphy Festive Season Sprint (1200m)… Read More »
Senor Toba’s emergence as a legitimate BMW Hong Kong Derby (2000m) contender continued at Sha Tin on Monday (27 December) with the grey’s stout victory in the Class 2 Hong Kong Sports Institute 30th Anniversary Cup Handicap (2000m), fuelling Caspar Fownes and Joao Moreira’s hopes of successive triumphs in the… Read More »
Champion Western Australian jockey Willie Pike will miss this weekends Group Two Perth Cup meeting at Ascot due to the local government implementing a vaccination rule. The WA government this week announced all people must be double vaccinated against Covid-19 before they are allowed to attend the stateâs racecourses on… Read More »
Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young are leaving no stone unturned in their bid to claim victory in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic on the Gold Coast. They have had their two-year-old Cusack on the Gold Coast for almost a fortnight preparing for the $2 million race on January 15. Cusack… Read More »
He’s been unlucky not to crack it for a win this preparation, but the David Payne-trained Dream Circle will get his chance to get back into the winners’ circle when he contests the Maroubra Mile at Kensington this Saturday. All three of the Dream Ahead gelding’s runs have been full of… Read More »
A fourth Victorian jockey has tested positive to COVID and faces an automatic 10 days out of the saddle. The latest COVID positive comes after a group of jockeys were stood down at Caulfield and Geelong on Sunday after attending the funeral of Chris Caserta on December 20 and a function last Thursday…. Read More »
Back in 2006 rising star Victorian apprentice Brenton Primmer had an horrific fall at Warracknabeal. In the crash he smashed two vertebra in his neck and his brain bled. Some doctors didnât think heâd make it. He lay in hospital for two months in an induced coma. Others, when he… Read More »
Phillip Stokes may have a smart young stayer on his hands after Daqiansweet Junior completed a hat-trick at Caulfield on Boxing Day. A former New Zealand galloper, Daqiansweet Junior has only had five starts for Stokes and has won his last two starts over 2000m. Despite his win in Benchmark 84 grade in the Take… Read More »
While the focus is on obtaining the next stable star with inspections on the Gold Coast for the Magic Millions Sale, the realisation for trainers is there that the autumn carnival is not far away. The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable is beginning to get their big names back to prepare for the Group 1 races which kick off… Read More »
Racing Victoria and the Victorian Jockeys’ Association will look at ways to overcome the chaos created by COVID that saw jockeys stood down from riding on Boxing Day. Jockeys were forced to miss riding at Caulfield and Geelong on Sunday after being potentially exposed to COVID at the funeral of Chris Caserta last Monday or… Read More »
Ten races will be run and won at Sha Tin this Monday, with good depth across the meeting. Race One: 7 Zacian Race Two: 4 Sunny Baby Race Three: 5 Senor Toba Race Four: 2 En Pointe Race Five: 4 Galaxy Witness Race Six: 1 Pins Prince Race Seven: 3… Read More »
