When it comes to winning rides, Jamie Kah has had the most success with Adelaide’s John Macmillan than any other trainer. Jamie Kah will reunite with her old boss at Sandown when Arkham Knight makes the journey over from Adelaide. Kah did her apprenticeship with Arkham Knight’s trainer John Macmillan who has… Read More »
Tommy Berry hopes to get another chance to jump aboard Zaaki in the future after turning down the ride on him three starts ago. Tommy Berry will reunite with Nettoyer in the $1.2 million Q22 but in a sliding doors moment, he could easily have found himself partnering rising star… Read More »
Mark Newnham believes Gone Bye will continue to improve as he gets deeper into his winter preparation. A record which suggests handy campaigner Gone Bye improves rapidly at his second start from a spell is being treated with caution by his trainer, who believes he may be a run behind schedule…. Read More »
‘The Big H’ … The Harrovian … is steady on the third line of betting for Saturday’s $1.5 million Stradbroke Handicap and there wouldn’t be a more popular winner with the Queensland crowd if the son of Fastnet Rock was to give the training partnership of Toby and Trent Edmonds… Read More »
Mimosas will be out to remain unbeaten when he heads to Sandown for his second race start. Clayton Douglas says it was good to get in the good books of his future mother-in-law with the debut win of Mimosas at Flemington. Mimosas is owned by Karen Kah, the mother of Douglas’ fiancee and Melbourne’s… Read More »
The task facing King Magnus in his bid to remain unbeaten fresh has not been lost on his co-trainer Robbie Griffiths & Mathew De Kock. King Magnus is yet to be beaten in his first-up appearances and makes his return in the Ladbroke It! Handicap (1300m) at Sandown on Saturday. The rising… Read More »
A missed barrier trial proved to be more crucial than John Thompson had hoped but he is confident he has smart mare Fituese ready to atone in the Listed Bob Charley AO Stakes at Randwick. Thompson had wanted to give Fituese two trials leading into her first-up run in the… Read More »
The early scratching from the Stradbroke of last years’ big race runner-up, Madam Rouge opens the door for the first emergency Outback Barbie to come into the race … meaning that ace Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan, who already has the favourite Vega One in the race will now have a… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote has run second … not once but twice … in his biggest hometown feature, the Stradbroke Handicap, and he will have another bite at the cherry when Emerald Kingdom, who qualified for the race with a golden, ballot free ticket by winning the BRC Sprint last time… Read More »
If Zaaki has any chinks in his armour, Mark Newnham is hoping Spirit Ridge is the horse to expose them. Rival trainer Mark Newnham is not running scared of boom horse Zaaki, who he believes has two hurdles to overcome if he is to justify his odds-on quote in the $1.2… Read More »
Adelaide-based Stuart Gower has sent his promising middle-distance galloper Mongolian Marshal to Melbourne for a race at Sandown but is reluctant to follow suit. Gower fears he will be forced to undergo a 14-day quarantine when he returns home if he came to Melbourne to saddle Mongolian Marshal in the Ladbrokes Bet… Read More »
The Stradbroke Handicap means different things to different people. The race is filled with a big-name line-up with trainers like Chris Waller, the Snowdens, the Hawkes training partnership, Tony Gollan and other high-profile identities all being able to have another go at another Group 1 … and good on them… Read More »
Master jockey Craig Williams kept his eye in with a winning ride at the Sunshine Coast yesterday as he lines up yet another big day of feature race rides at Eagle Farm on Stradbroke Day. As usual, as is the case with any conversation with Williams, his opinions provide keen… Read More »
Jockey Jim Byrne is making good on his promise to get his weight down to 50.5kg in order to ride Red Chase for the Desleigh Forster stable in the Stradbroke Handicap. Apache Chase is actually set to carry 49.5kg, but connections have given the all clear for Apache Chase to… Read More »
It’s the Godolphin Blue month of June, and already the home-bred blue bloods of World Champion Bivouac and Cartier Horse of The Year Ghaiyyath are arriving at Darley Kelvinside. In being the World Champion Sprinter of 2020 at four in winning the VRC Sprint Classic of 1200m, Bivouac is a… Read More »
Apprentice Holly Watson celebrated her first city win when How’s The Serenity scored in the opening race at Belmont on Wednesday. After she commenced riding last October, the 20-year-old made the most of her opportunity in town for host trainer Simon Miller. Sent out the odds on favourite ($1.90), Holly… Read More »
Ballarat meeting switched from turf to the synthetic. A forecast for more rain in the central districts of Victoria has forced the Ballarat meeting to be transferred from the turf to the synthetic track. The turf track for Thursday’s meeting was rated a heavy 10 with a further 15mm of… Read More »
Team Hawkes and Tommy Berry have combined for an early double, with two exciting maiden winners at Canterbury on Wednesday. Almighty Rising kicked off the day with a win in the Blue Point @ Darley Handicap, an 1100m maiden for two-year-olds. It was the son of Flying Artie’s second race… Read More »
Sharp Response has handled the soft track conditions at Sale to record a debut victory. Cranbourne-trained Sharp Response defied his starting price to record an impressive debut win at Sale. A two-year-old son of Maurice, Sharp Response took out the David Wilson/Tony Hart Two-Year-Old Maiden Plate (1108m) on Wednesday. Sharp Response… Read More »
Paige Kenney always believed Vane Tempest would get better with time. Although the Snippetson three-year-old has built an impressive strike rate in her short career, she showed signs of immaturity. But after coming back from a rare failure and scoring consecutive wins at Pinjarra, Paige Kenney believes there has been enough… Read More »
