A sizzling display of speed by two-year-old colt Profiteer to win his debut didn’t come as a surprise for trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Junior, who had assessed him as one of their best youngsters. Profiteer showed great speed to lead from the outset in the #Lovethehorse Handicap and… Read More »
Connections of Champion mare Winx have opted to play things safe and skip this years breading season after she lost her first foal in October. A person close to the mare who does not wish to be named told racing.com she is to be given plenty of time to recover… Read More »
The countdown to the Magic Millions carnival will begin in earnest at Eagle Farm where trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace start one of their leading juvenile contenders. I Am Invincible filly Fake Love will make her Queensland debut in Saturday’s Calaway Gal Stakes (1000m), which the stable took out… Read More »
Champion trainer Chris Waller is among a group of industry experts offering their input as part of a wide-ranging review into the large number of international horse deaths during the Melbourne spring carnival. Racing Victoria’s investigation was sparked following the fatal injury suffered by Irish raider Anthony Van Dyck during… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Danny O’Brien has some valid reasons why he will set Russian Camelot for the All-Star Mile first up at Moonee Valley. O’Brien pointed out that Russian Camelot raced well fresh in the spring when second in the Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington over 1600 metres, the same… Read More »
High-class New Zealanders The Chosen One, Quick Thinker and Aegon are set to campaign in Australia during the autumn with their trainers targeting feature races in Sydney and Melbourne. The trio returned to the stables of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman this week and were reported to be in top… Read More »
Godolphin has sold yet another one of its talented three-year-olds to overseas buyers in Hong Kong. Endanger who won the Listed Gothic Stakes before placing at Group Three in the Carbine Club Stakes will join the Caspar Fownes stable after a seven-figure deal was finalised last week. The deal will… Read More »
He broke the toe of one staff member and almost squashed another but all was forgiven when Significance posted his first city win for trainer Claire Cunningham. Cunningham took over the training of the Frankel entire at the start of his current campaign and it has been an interesting ride…. Read More »
There was no fairytale finish but Pat Webster can look forward to the next stage of his life after saddling up his final runner at Newcastle. The popular trainer announced his retirement from training earlier this week and had his last runner, Kosciusko, at Broadmeadow on Saturday. Ridden by his… Read More »
Astute Caulfield trainer Mick Price can start making bigger plans for his promising galloper Tavidance after his easy win in the David Bourke Memorial Handicap at Pakenham. Jockey Damien Oliver took bad luck out of the equation as he steered the $2.10 favourite to the front with 300 metres to… Read More »
An all-the-way win by brilliant filly Written Miss in the opening race at Pakenham has brought together a new trainer launching her career with aplomb and a veteran jockey relaunching his. The trainer is Caroline Jennings and the jockey is Jason Benbow, the pair combining to score with Written Miss… Read More »
Hall Of Fame jockey Glen Boss is known for his animated celebratory gestures but the champion hoop will have another reason to cheer when he marks 35 years in the saddle at Rosehill. Boss had his first race ride at Gympie on December 6, 1985. The three-time Melbourne Cup-winning rider… Read More »
Tony Gollan has sounded an ominous warning to the rivals of Jonker ahead of the Group Three George Moore Stakes at Doomben. Jonker was having his first start for Gollan when he demolished a classy line up of sprinters to win the Keith Noud Quality (1200m) at Doomben on November… Read More »
When Happy Clapper was retired earlier this year, his trainer was never going to be far behind. One of racing’s most popular characters, Pat Webster announced he was calling time on his training career earlier this week, 42 years after taking out his licence. Best known as the trainer of… Read More »
Victorian racing officials have been given the green light to allow crowds back at Flemington racecourse in the lead up to Christmas. The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) confirmed 500 members and owners would be permitted on track for its next meeting on Saturday week. The club is hoping to increase… Read More »
To say the jockey Luke Williams has a colourful background would be an understatement … but the rider who has seen quite a bit of the dark side of life owns his past and that acceptance of some ‘bad decision making,’ to use his own words, has help turn his… Read More »
The All-Star Mile will be held at The Valley for the first time with nominations for the $5 million race opening this week. Connections can enter qualified horses from Wednesday until January 11 before the general public votes on who they want to run. The 10 most popular horses will… Read More »
The Jericho Cup put on a spectacle that many had anticipated but it was won by a horse that most did not expect. The Simon Wilde trained Count Zero has out jumped and out stayed his rivals in the 4600m Jericho Cup to win easily on the line from the… Read More »
Brad Rawiller has given the Daniel Morton trained Elite Street a ten out of ten ride to win the Group One Winterbottom Stakes. The lightly race four-year-old gelding was having just his ninth start in the Winterbottom Stakes but with the aid of a near perfect ride by jockey Brad… Read More »
Pregnancy certainly agrees with this increasingly improving mare INVICTUS SALUTE (Exceed and Excel-Acquired) after she carried her rather valuable cargo to victory in the Listed Starlight Stakes over 1100m at Rosehill. The $140,000 race proved a repeat of the recent Bm100 race where SPACE BOY (Deep Field-Miatoko) with Kathy O’Hara… Read More »
