Lady Of Honour has continued her winning sequence and claimed a first stakes victory by leading throughout at Caulfield. The Ben and JD Hayes-trained filly took out the Listed Twilight Glow Stakes (1400m) on Saturday to follow wins at Ballarat and Sandown. Ridden by Jake Noonan, Lady Of Honour ($5.50) held on to score a half-length… Read More »
Polly Grey has been keeping the finest of company at home and it appears to have rubbed off with the mare lumping a big weight to victory in the Listed ATC Cup at Rosehill. A steep distance rise from 1400 metre to 2000 metres proved no issue for the seven-year-old, with… Read More »
We take a look at the big bets the online bookmakers have taken on Saturday’s horse racing around the country with most of the big money being placed at Caulfield, Rosehill, Gold Coast, Ascot and Morphettville. Winterbottom Stakes 🏆: View the Field and Odds for the Winterbottom Stakes Zipping Classic… Read More »
Trainer Matt Laurie will find out a bit more about his lightly raced galloper Chartres when the three-year-old runs in the Sandown Guineas. The Group 2 race over 1600m at Caulfield on Saturday was an afterthought for Laurie and the connections of the son of Toronado. With all four career runs being over 1200m, Laurie… Read More »
German-bred import Sound has been a mainstay of staying races in Melbourne since his arrival in Australia for the Spring Carnival of 2018. He has competed in two Melbourne Cups, two Caulfield Cups, two Sydney Cups and even travelled to New Zealand for their feature staying races. But while his form has justified him running those races, Sound has… Read More »
Australia’s longest flat race, the 4600m Jericho Cup, which will take place at Warrnambool this Sunday, has attracted a full field of fourteen runners (with four emergency acceptors). The race is a BM90, high weight race with a minimum weight of 65kg … which is the weight that will be… Read More »
Surprise Baby only needs to get through the remainder of the week to have his first start since last year’s Melbourne Cup. Now in the care of Gavin Bedggood at Cranbourne, Surprise Baby is entered for the Group 3 Kevin Heffernan Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield on Saturday. A hock injury has prevented Surprise… Read More »
It has been twenty-one months since Alligator Blood, at the time one of the stars of the turf, won the Group 1 Australian Guineas. Alligator Blood had another four starts subsequent to that win for trainer David Vandyke, who had blazed a dominant trail with the son of All Too… Read More »
Jockey Chad Schofield will return to Australia after the Hong Kong International Races in December. Schofield’s original three-month riding contract in Hong Kong turned into a very extended stay with the rider currently competing in his seventh successive season in Hong Kong but now, with a baby boy due in… Read More »
Australia’s leading bookmaker the TAB gives an overview of today’s betting markets from the feature races and race meetings from around the country. See which races punters cleaned up on and lost on. KEMBLA GRANGE RACE 1 The Gong race meeting started with a double-figure odds winner, but The Guru was not… Read More »
Tears have turned to triumph for the connections of Count De Rupee, who has scored an emotionally charged win for local trainers Robert and Luke Price and their stable apprentice Brock Ryan in the $1 million The Gong. Three weeks ago, the trio had to endure the heart break of finishing a… Read More »
Zayydani is the pin-up horse for the new look Lindsay Park after taking out the Listed Ballarat Cup. The daughter of Savabeel provided trainers Ben and JD Hayes with their first winner not long after taking over at the helm of Lindsay Park in June. That was a Listed race in Brisbane and on the… Read More »
Young apprentice Tyler Schiller has celebrated his first Saturday metropolitan double with a barnstorming victory aboard Eleven Eleven in the inaugural running of The Warra. Schiller, who posted an earlier win for his boss Mark Newnham on Dragonstone, appeared a forlorn chance to grab another when he found himself a long way back… Read More »
Ocean Beyond has capped off a big week for jockey Harry Coffey coming with a well-timed run to score at Ballarat. Coffey married Tayla in Swan Hill last weekend and returned to the saddle at The Valley on Friday night before heading to Ballarat on Saturday to claim the $150,000 Tonks Plate (1200m). A well-judged… Read More »
Cusack has earned himself a trip to Queensland for next year’s Magic Millions Carnival with a debut victory at Ballarat. The Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young – trained son of Not A Single Doubt took out the $250,000 Magic Millions Ballarat 2YO Classic (1000m) on Saturday to book his place in the Magic Millions 2YO Classic… Read More »
Hall Of Fame trainer Neville Parnham is unsure if Kay Cee can overcome hot favourite Western Empire in the Group 1 Heineken 3 Railway Stakes (1600m) on Saturday, but he is confident the Playing God mare enters the $1 million race in top shape. Parnham is under no illusion about… Read More »
Mark Newnham might call Quackerjack the “old boy” of the stable, but he is adamant the gelding can wind back the clock in the $1 million The Gong. The six-year-old has been the longest serving member of Newnham’s young team and has the distinction of being the first yearling he… Read More »
After two false starts, quirky gelding Berdibek is poised to finally race at Kembla Grange’s feature meeting of the spring and his trainer says he is not without a chance. The eight-year-old has been scheduled to contest races on The Gong program for the past two years but hasn’t made… Read More »
Les Bridge has revealed Classique Legend is out of the autumn with a leg injury but the Hall Of Fame trainer is confident the star sprinter will be back to chase another Everest title. The gelding sprained a suspensory ligament during the running of this year’s $15 million race in… Read More »
Jockey Jamie Kah could be back riding on Zipping Classic Day after having some success in her appeal at the Supreme Court over a two-month suspension handed down by the Victorian Racing Tribunal. Kah was suspended for three months over the Mornington Airbnb gathering in August and suspended for a… Read More »
