Chris Symons has tried to make the best of a frustrating few months but he can’t wait to be back race riding on Saturday. The popular jockey returns from a broken foot with three rides in Adelaide for trainer Tony McEvoy, an opportunity he hopes to capitalise on as he… Read More »
Corey Brown has been reminded of his professional responsibilities after weighing in 1.2kg overweight on Kristy Lee who finished in a dead-heat for third at Warwick Farm. Stewards told Brown it was the difference between the filly claiming third prize outright in her 1200m race. Instead she shared the purse… Read More »
Sydney’s best mare More Joyous will make her first public appearance since the Cox Plate in a Randwick barrier trial next week. The prolific winner has been nominated for a 1050m heat on Tuesday which also includes exciting Gai Waterhouse-trained stablemate Proisir. Another horse who hasn’t been seen publicly since… Read More »
Apprentice Blake Spriggs was lucky to escape injury when his mount Circle Of Power collapsed and died in the final race at Rosehill on Saturday. Spriggs sensed something was wrong with the Rod Craig-trained gelding at the top of the straight and tried to ease him out of the race…. Read More »
Damian Browne’s narrow defeat on Buakaw at Doomben on Wednesday had a costly sequel in the stewards’ room. Stewards fined Browne $1000 for failing to ride Buakaw out to the finish of the Ambassador Travel Maiden Handicap when the gelding was beaten a head by Pintuck. Browne, who won last… Read More »
Champion Frankel has controversially been rated the greatest horse to ever race with Black Caviar also high on the list following the release of the World Thoroughbred Rankings. The British superstar was given a mark of 140, 10 ranking points more than Black Caviar. The latest assessment places Frankel as… Read More »
The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) today announced a new five year broadcast agreement with the Seven Network, ensuring Australia’s premier racing event, the Melbourne Cup Carnival, will continue to be shown live on free to air television throughout Australia until at least 2018. The agreement, which extends the VRC’s longstanding… Read More »
Clarry Conners trained filly ‘Assail’ has been scratched from today’s $1.6million dollar Magic Millions Classic due to a foot abscess. Assail was the $3.20 favourite for the race before the scratching and with daughter of Charge Forward being removed from the market the new favourite will be Clevadude. Assail joins Purrific… Read More »
Blake Shinn will undergo a full medical assessment before he can return to race riding after ruling himself out of Saturday’s Magic Millions meeting. Shinn needed attention from ambulance officers in the stewards’ room at Gosford on Thursday soon after winning the Belle Of The Turf Stakes on Cathay Lady…. Read More »
Singapore apprentice Wong Wei Xiang has died from injuries received in a trackwork fall at Kranji. The 25-year-old was taken to hospital after the fall on Thursday morning but was pronounced dead on arrival. Wong was riding a horse for his master Stephen Gray when the accident occurred. A graduate… Read More »
Sydney’s premier jockey Hugh Bowman was hit with a careless riding suspension at Warwick Farm on Saturday but his ban won’t start until after next weekend’s Magic Millions meeting. Bowman was suspended for five meetings for shifting in near the 800m mark aboard Nuptse in the Bowermans Office Furniture Handicap… Read More »
Craig Williams was quick to find out why unbeaten filly Assail is at the top of the Magic Millions Classic market when he partnered her in an exhibition gallop at Warwick Farm on Saturday. Williams picked up the ride on Assail for the $2 million Magic Millions next Saturday after… Read More »
Two of Australia’s leading female jockeys are set to return to racing within the next month. Katelyn Mallyon, last year’s Victorian apprentice of the year, and Michelle Payne have both been sidelined with injuries. Mallyon suffered a broken back in a fall at Flemington last May while Payne’s injury run… Read More »
One-time Melbourne Cup favourite and 2011 Cup placegetter Lucas Cranach has been retired from racing due to persistent injuries. The classy German entire raced three times in Australia finishing fifth in the 2011 Caulfield Cup and third to Dunaden and Red Cadeaux in that year’s Melbourne Cup. He resumed in… Read More »
Gold Coast-based New Zealand jockey Ashlee Mundy has died after a fall at Sunday’s Kurow races. A freelance jockey, former Cantabrian Mundy returned from Queensland in mid-December to ride on the South Island’s summer circuit. Her mount Elleaye fell with 600m to run in the seventh race at Kurow in… Read More »
Apprentice Alysha Collett has escaped suspension for her ride on Silk Pins at Canterbury and has instead been sent back to school. She has been ordered to attend Racing NSW’s riding skills panel consisting of former jockeys Maurice Logue and Ron Quinton after attempting to take a run on Silk… Read More »
The Queen’s horse Carlton House is due in Australia from Hong Kong on Monday afternoon to begin his new life. A Group winner in England in the care of Sir Michael Stoute, Carlton House will be trained by Gai Waterhouse in Sydney. He finished sixth in the Hong Kong Cup… Read More »
Peter Robl will miss the prized ride on Magic Millions Classic favourite Assail after being handed his second suspension in a week at Warwick Farm on Saturday. Robl, who changed the start date of a ban incurred at Rosehill a week ago so he could ride at the Villiers Stakes… Read More »
Jockeys Nash Rawiller and Peter Robl will be able to eat a little more than they usually do this Christmas after being sidelined by stewards at Rosehill on Saturday. Rawiller was outed for shifting in aboard Passarli at the 700m on to eventual winner Regimental Pride in the two-year-old race… Read More »
The Australian Turf Club will throw the gates open for the summer’s feature race day at Warwick Farm to attract families to the track for the Villiers Stakes. The free entry on December 22 has been supported by Liverpool City Council with Mayor Ned Mannoun saying he hoped the locals… Read More »
