It was a pretty low rated maiden over the mile but the sixth event at Stawell through up a pretty impressive last to first winner in the way of Flirting Wolf. Flirting Wolf who was the heavily backed $2.70 favourite with Ladbrokes in the race was dead last at the… Read More »
Boom WA filly This’ll Testya has been well beaten at Ascot where she started as the long odds on favourite. This’ll Testya was sent out as the $1.30 favourite with Ladbrokes in the Western Racepix Handicap at Ascot on Saturday but she never gave her backers a sight sitting outside… Read More »
Australia’s biggest bookmaker Tabcorp are set to roll out a nation wide installation of artificial intelligence-powered video cameras in their TAB betting outlets to prevent underage gamblers. The TAB has been trialling the cameras in outlets across Melbourne over the past three months and have been satisfied with the results…. Read More »
Leading English vet, Pete Ramzan, has absolutely slammed the Racing Victoria stewards who scratched MARMELO from the Melbourne Cup, last month. You may recall, last year’s runner up was sensationally withdrawn a few days prior to this year’s race, and it created a firestorm, with Marmelo’s connections, particularly his trainer… Read More »
Cox Plate winner Lys Gracieux has destroyed a quality packed Arima Kinen field in Japan. Lys Gracieux the winner of this years Cox Plate was sent out as the $6.50 favourite behind the short priced Almond Eye who failed to run a placing in the race. Australia’s Damian Lane partnered… Read More »
Could there possibly be a more timely story? Right now, you can go online and look over the yearlings that will go on sale at Inglis in February during the Classic Sale. Go on, do it. www.inglis.com.au. Flick through to Lot 541. It is for a bay colt offered by… Read More »
Yesterday, racing ended in Canada for the season. Snow has a way of stopping things over there. But not before the most amazing confessional ever heard was announced. And it came from Woodbine’s champion jockey for the past decade, Eurico da silva, whose on and off the track persona has… Read More »
The Pegasus World Cup at Gulfstream Park in Florida will have substantially reduced prize money from the previous three editions of the event with horses at the meeting to race free of medication. The Stronach Group, which operates Gulfstream, announced the significant changes on Sunday. Entry fees, which had been… Read More »
In one of the most unusual occurrences we have seen during a race a jockey has borrowed another jockeys whip mid race. In the sixth race at Golden Gate Fields on Thursday (local time) jockey Silvio Amador who was aboard the weakening Belle Magie leant his whip to rival jockey… Read More »
Japanese jockey Yuta Onodera can count his lucky stars after walking away uninjured from a spectactular fall during a jumps race in Japan. Onodera was aboard Portolano in the maiden jumps race at Chukyo on Sunday when his mount swerved sharpy before one of the jumps, dislodging him as they… Read More »
Boom Hong Kong sprinter Aethero has been beaten as the short priced favourite in the Hong Kong Sprint. Aethero was sent out as the $1.50 favourite with BetEasy in today’s Hong Kong Sprint at Sha Tin but was run down late by Beat The Clock despite carrying the top weight…. Read More »
Boom mare This’ll Testya was sent out as the short priced favourite at Ascot and she lived up to her hype. This’ll Testya was having just her second career start and she made easy work of her more experienced rivals by winning with absolute easy under William Pike. This’ll Testya… Read More »
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 »
