Suspended trainer Ben Smith will face a further 10 charges following two Racing NSW inquiries into the use and supply of prohibitive substances. The charges follow a protracted stewards’ investigation that opened following the discovery of a brown bottle in Smith’s car near the Newcastle racetrack in September. Stewards initially… Read More »
Having come agonisingly close to winning a Group One race with Pierata this autumn, trainer Greg Hickman and his fellow owners have picked themselves up to try again in the All Aged Stakes. The four-year-old flashed home in The Galaxy (1100m) last month with many believing he had won until… Read More »
Trainer Tony McEvoy is hoping to end the clean sweep by Godolphin two-year-olds when he runs Vinco in a Group One race at Randwick. Godolphin has won three of the five Group One two-year-old races run in Australia, starting with the Blue Diamond Stakes with Lyre, progressing to the Golden… Read More »
Champion jockey Glen Boss has indicated he wants to see out his riding days back where it all started in Queensland. Singapore-based Boss and retired jockey Brian York were the special guests at the Queensland winter carnival launch at Eagle Farm racecourse on Tuesday. The winner of three Melbourne Cups… Read More »
Jockey Nick Souquet has been suspended for nine weeks for betting on thoroughbred races. Racing Victoria stewards charged Souquet with making, or having an interest in, 10 bets on thoroughbred races on November 10 last year, with those bets totalling $125. Souquet pleaded guilty to the charge, with the Racing… Read More »
Lindsay Park will not run any horses in Queensland during the winter carnival because of concerns over the integrity of the state’s racing industry. Hall of Fame trainer David Hayes who heads Lindsay Park, has come out in support of Aquis Farm which released a statement last week saying it… Read More »
Last-start Caulfield winner Our Libretto is already in Sydney to prepare for her next assignment in the Group Three JRA Plate at Randwick. Our Libretto won over 2000m at Caulfield second-up last Saturday week and is also among nominations for Saturday’s Group Three Easter Cup at the same Melbourne venue,… Read More »
A day after her history making final race, Winx has fronted the cameras again with her support team as they all wind down from the most incredible ride in Australian racing. The mare will spend the next few days in Chris Waller’s stable with a routine that includes exercise and… Read More »
Star sprinter Santa Ana Lane is on track for his first overseas appearance in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize in Hong Kong but will need a new jockey with Mark Zahra suspended. The Anthony Freedman-trained gelding claimed his fifth Group One win when he dominated a field of Australia’s top sprinters… Read More »
The four major race days of the Brisbane winter carnival will be shown live on free to air television after a deal between Channel Seven and the Brisbane Racing Club. Seven has agreed to cover the Doomben 10,000 (May 11), Kirin Stakes (May 25) Queensland Oaks (June 1) and the… Read More »
No, Hughie, she’s not just a horse. After Winx put on a typical show to close perhaps the greatest career in Australian horseracing by storming home to her 33rd consecutive win, jockey Hugh Bowman for once got it wrong. “At the end of the day, she’s just a horse, she’s… Read More »
White Moss has claimed her second Group Two win this preparation and jockey Kathy O’Hara is hoping the mare can go to the next level. With Quilista setting a strong tempo in Saturday’s Sapphire Stakes, O’Hara was content to stalk the speed on White Moss and the Jason Coyle-trained mare… Read More »
Trainer Shaun Dwyer’s faith in sprinter Miss Leonidas has been rewarded with the mare racing to her first stakes victory at Caulfield. Sent out a $19 chance in Saturday’s Listed Bel Esprit Stakes (1100m), four-year-old Miss Leonidas showed her natural speed early to cross and lead from barrier nine in… Read More »
Winx has shown her appreciation for the jockey who has guided her to 25 Group One wins by giving him a split lip. After Hugh Bowman unsaddled the mare following her final race and final win in Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick, she threw her head up and collected… Read More »
Kenedna has finally nabbed an overdue Group One in winning the Coolmore Legacy Stakes at Randwick. The five-year-old mare came from behind to snatch victory in the $1 million race. “She has been knocking on the door for a while, G1 placed. We thought we’d bring her in here, fresh… Read More »
And so it ends. Amid tears of joy and sadness, celebration and palpable relief, Winx has run and won her final race. In front of the biggest crowd at Randwick this century, Winx has charged home to win the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m), her 25th Group One victory and 33rd… Read More »
European import Shraaoh has continued a glory day for Chris Waller and broken an extended Group One drought for jockey Jay Ford with a tough win in the Sydney Cup at Randwick. Waller made it a Group One hat-trick after earlier winning the Australian Oaks with Verry Elleegant and Queen… Read More »
Australian turf legend Winx has won the Queen Elizabeth Stakes in front of a sell-out crowd for the champion mare’s swan song race. Taking her streak to 33 wins, Winx strolled away to beat Japanese runner Kluger and Hartnell in the $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes that she has now… Read More »
Three-year-old Secret Blaze has outclassed stayers of the same age to win the Listed Galiee Series Final at Caulfield with the Tony McEvoy stable now eyeing a bigger prize. McEvoy’s Melbourne-based foreman Michael Shepherdson said the South Australian-based trainer has his eyes set on a hometown win in the Group… Read More »
Chris Waller believes the best is still to come for Verry Elleegant after she stamped her class on the Group One Australian Oaks with another dominant win. The filly hasn’t been straightforward to train and at times has struggled to settle in her races but the time and effort invested… Read More »
