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 »
A video posted by Vow And Declare’s trainer and now a Melbourne Cup winner Danny O’Brien after the Caulfield Cup has showed Craig Williams basically give use the Melbourne Cup winner weeks ago. The video shared by Danny O’Brien recorded Melbourne Cup winning jockey Craig Williams discuss Vow And Declare’s… Read More »
Australian-bred and trained Vow And Declare has held off the international challenge to win the Melbourne Cup, giving jockey Craig Williams his first success in Australia’s greatest race. The win was also a first for trainer Danny O’Brien with Vow And Declare crossing the line ahead of Master Of Reality,… Read More »
For once-a-year punters, the form guide is not the essential tool in looking to find the Melbourne Cup. It’s the saddlecloth number, the name, the colours, and just about every other little detail like that which frustrates punters who actually do the form and come up with nothing while the novice collects because he/she likes… Read More »
Trainer Chris Waller and jockey Glen Boss have combined to win Sydney’s second richest race two weeks after claiming the biggest cheque on offer. Under the kind of ride it seems only Boss can deliver, Kolding has come through the pack to win Saturday’s $7.5 million Golden Eagle (1500m) for… Read More »
Mer De Glace has overtaken Constantinople as Melbourne Cup favourite after the barrier draw for the $8 million race. The Caulfield Cup winner is now the $7 top pick after drawing barrier two in a field of 24 for 3200m test at Flemington on Tuesday. Constantinople has also drawn a… Read More »
Within the space of a few days, racehorse owner John O’Neill’s life went from agony to ecstasy. The agony came with the controversial scratching of his Melbourne Cup hope Marmelo, runner-up in Australia’s most famous race last year. The ecstasy came from winning the $2 million Victoria Derby at Flemington on Saturday. The Anthony… Read More »
