The first Group One race of the 2020-21 Australian racing season is in trainer John Thompson’s sights with stable stalwart Dreamforce. Dreamforce broke through for a deserved Group One win during the Sydney autumn carnival in the George Ryder Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill in March before failing in his final… Read More »
Injuries and ailments have been a recurring theme in the Anthony Cummings yard this year, hindering several of his star performers. Prince Fawaz hurt his leg after finishing down the track in the Doncaster Mile, Libertini had a brief and underwhelming two-start autumn campaign before it was discovered she had… Read More »
Racing on a seven-day back-up and dropping in distance, Sircconi has demolished his rivals in the Listed Winter Championship Series Final at Flemington to deliver Nick Ryan his first stakes victory as a trainer. Ridden by Daniel Stackhouse, who continued his successful season in Victoria in which he leads the… Read More »
Kathy O’Hara has made a triumphant return to Saturday metropolitan racing with a bold frontrunning display aboard Spaceboy and some sage advice to his trainer. The popular jockey has been riding at weekend provincial meetings after choosing to base herself outside the Sydney zone during the COVID-19 pandemic. She has… Read More »
Lord Von Costa has done his chances no harm of snaring a slot in The Kosciuszko at Randwick this spring after storming to victory in the Listed All-Victorian Sprint Series Final at Flemington. Four years after winning the Creswick Stakes when it was run on the corresponding program during a… Read More »
Trainer Chris Anderson has been saying for months the day his filly Plutocrat drew a decent barrier she would win a good race. He was proved correct on Saturday when Plutocrat ($9.50) beat Sydney filly Zero To Hundred ($5.50) by a nose in the Listed Tattersall’s Club Stakes (1400m). Tumbler… Read More »
A nondescript barrier trial at Hawkesbury has proven to be an outstanding winter form reference for Godolphin with unbeaten filly Tailleur putting the icing on the cake. Tailleur split stablemates Varda and Roheryn in the June 15 heat and all three have now resumed with impressive wins after Tailleur added… Read More »
Exciting prospect Cherry Tortoni has capped an unbeaten first campaign in the Taj Rossi Series Final while two-time AFL premiership-winning coach Denis Pagan has kicked off his thoroughbred training career with his first runner placing at stakes level. The Patrick Payne-trained Cherry Tortoni made it three wins from as many… Read More »
Trainer Mick Price will turn his attention to the spring carnival with promising filly Sense Of Honour who has again highlighted her potential with victory in the Next Generation Sprinters Series Final at Flemington. Sense Of Honour made it two city wins from her first three starts in Saturday’s 1200m… Read More »
Three-time Melbourne Cup winning jockey Glen Boss has labelled Randwick as one of the wettest tracks he has ridden on after guiding Edison through the mud in the opening race. The surface was officially put up as a heavy 9 on Saturday but Boss was adamant it was further along… Read More »
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Outside The Autumn and Spring Carnivals, one of the better meetings Flemington hosts is Finals Day and the 2020 edition rolls around this Saturday with a very strong nine race program. The weather forecast is for showers, the track is soft (7) and the rail is in the true position… Read More »
Nine races will be run and won at Randwick on Saturday. The weather is fine, the track is heavy (9) and the rail is out four metres for the entire circuit.
The Brisbane Winter Carnival is officially over but the feature racing doesn’t stop with the Listed Bright Shadow (1200m) the drawcard on the nine event Eagle Farm meeting on Saturday. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out eight metres for the entire circuit.
Disqualified Toowoomba trainer Ben Currie had some of his penalties for presenting horses to race with prohibited substances reduced on appeal. Currie, who was the leading trainer in Queensland on winners, has been on the sidelines for more than a year after a series of inquiries. His nominations have also… Read More »
A nervous Ben Hayes wanted to see Aysar produce on race day the kind of performance that he knew was hidden within the two-year-old. Hayes, who trains in partnership with his father David and cousin Tom Dabernig, was relieved after Aysar raced to a comfortable three length win in the… Read More »
Two-time AFL premiership winning coach Denis Pagan had hoped for a low-key start to his racehorse training career. Pagan was granted a restricted licence earlier in the week and wanted to run Johnny Get Angry in a maiden race at Bendigo on Friday. But when balloted from that race Pagan… Read More »
Melbourne’s flagship spring races including the Melbourne Cup will retain their rich purses while minimum prize money in Victoria will return to pre-COVID levels from the start of the new season. But 12 stakes races during this year’s Victorian spring carnival, including three Group Ones, will have a prize money… Read More »
Country-based Victorian trainer Noel Richards has made a long overdue return to the winners enclosure with the win of Niamh Chinn Oir at Ballarat. The victory on Tuesday was Richards’ first since Captain Shillalae won at Dunkeld in November 1996. Jockey Christine Puls had the ride on Niamh Chinn Oir… Read More »
Moonee Valley Racing Club chief executive Michael Browell has not given up hope of having some form of crowd on course for the 100th running of the Cox Plate. Browell was upbeat with how coronavirus numbers had been tracking in Melbourne earlier this month before a dramatic turnaround in recent… Read More »
