The Group One Kingston Town Classic is the feature race at Ascot this weekend although another horse on the card could get more attention. The Adam Durrant trained This’ll Testya steps out in the second race on the card and she could be Australia’s best sprinter if she is able… Read More »
The owners of champion Winx are expected to confirm she is successfully in-foal to super sire I Am Invincible in the coming days. With protocols akin to a Royal announcement, connections will wait until the results of the 45-day scan before confirming her pregnancy on Monday. A report in The… Read More »
Horse racing photographer Patrick McCann has released a set of photos prior to being hit by a horse at Cheltenham last week. Patrick McCann was taking photos after the post on the inside rail when a horse veered left and hit him. McCann has now released the photos he took… Read More »
A photo has captured a freak accident on during a jumps race in the UK with a large shard of wood embedded in a top hurdlers hoof. The photo shows a shard of wood from a wooden hurdle piercing Top hurdler Buveur D’Air during the G1 Fighting Fifth Hurdle where… Read More »
Races at Turffontein on Saturday night were delayed as scary scenes broke out across the racecourse after police opened fire on protesting stablehands. Police opened fire with rubber bullets on Grooms (stablehands) who organised a protest during South Africa’s Turffontein races on Saturday night AEDT time. Stablehands were protesting over… Read More »
The training career of Robbie Laing is in limbo after a Racing Victoria move to reject nominations from his Cranbourne stable. Laing, 60, has blamed a loss of owners and cash flow issues for falling behind in rent payments on his stables, resulting in RV officials taking its action. A… Read More »
On Tuesday afternoon, at Royal Randwick Racecourse a modest number, all horse racing related folk and media, gathered to launch the life story of popular racehorse trainer Pat Webster. The Randwick-based one, not the trainer of the same name who mentors a small team up at Dalby in Queensland. This… Read More »
A photographer has been taken to hospital after a horse broke through the running rail at an Irish meeting overnight. Photographer Pat Healy was taken to hospital after a horse broke through the running rail after the finishing post in Ireland at Navan. Pat is stable and he should make… Read More »
The Spring Carnival is officially over this weekend and as is the case every year, there were intense highs, and crushing lows, for owners, trainers and punters alike. In this list we take a look at five of the most disappointing horses – in no particular order – that hit… Read More »
It was only a maiden hurdle at Fairyhouse but it was one of the most unbelievable come from behind wins you will see all year. The horse was Larquebuse who came from no where to dead heat with Lunch In Adare who looked all out the winner at the 50m… Read More »
We hear constantly, and understandably so, stories about rags to riches horses. You know the ones – they cost virtually nothing yet go out and make squillions. Old Takeover Target is one of the best and most famous of them – cost $1250 and won over $7million. But every now… Read More »
A horse at Terang today has seen a massive form reversal to win at triple figure odds. The David Londregan trained Hierarchal scored a surprise win in the second race at Terang today winning at $101/1 odds after having been beaten by a combined 45Lengths at his last five starts…. Read More »
Hong Kong’s reigning champion Beauty Generation has suffered back to back losses this time in the G2 Jockey Club Mile at Sha Tin. Beauty Generation was coming off an upset loss last start having won his ten starts prior and she was sent out as the $1.28 favourite to bounce… Read More »
A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit by the owners of Maximum Security seeking to challenge the decision to disqualify their horse as the winner of the Kentucky Derby. Owners Gary and Mary West wanted the U S District Court in the Eastern District of Kentucky to reverse the stewards’… Read More »
A narrow victory in the Group Three Sandown Stakes on Gold Fields has given jockey Stephen Baster a memorable finish to his career. Baster was riding at his final meeting on Saturday before retiring to begin a new career as a real estate agent on the Mornington Peninsula from Monday…. Read More »
A rugby league TV show a couple of months ago, showcased the singing talents of representative rugby league footballer, Dale Finucane. And with guitar in hand, he was outstanding. This year he was named Melbourne Storm Player Of The Year also. When he performed Lewis Capaldi’s, Someone You Loved on… Read More »
Only in America this one. On 1 November, champion British jockey William Buick went to Santa Anita to have a ride in the Breeders’ Cup meet. Remember that. Buick went there, to Santa Anita where 31 horses have died over the past year. Where another broke down as they turned… Read More »
This year, the wonder race mare MAKYBE DIVA, turned 20 years of age. And to celebrate, overnight she had a baby. This one, a handsome filly by More Than Ready, is the 10th for the former two-time Australian Racehorse Of The Year. Delighted to introduce the Makybe Diva x More… Read More »
Yesterday, social media all over the world reacted positively when a video taken at Team Snowden’s yard in Sydney revealed that stable favourite Dothraki had been retired and was magnanimously given to his strapper to have as a gift for ever more. That touched so many people and global giant… Read More »
Outstanding Sydney warrior DOTHRAKI has been retired. Not to stud because he is a gelding, but his retirement has given one lady the happiest moment of her life. Dothraki (Mossman-Volantis), who won $1,654,785 in prizemoney, after costing Tripe Crown Syndicate just $45,000 to buy as a yearling…..8 years ago. He… Read More »
