Tomorrow’s Randwick meeting shapes as a competitive card with strong depth through the middle races, several promising progressive types on the program, and key form lines that should hold through the summer. Rail out 4 metres the entire circuit and the track rated a Good 4 with drying conditions given… Read More »
Racing on Friday Night is at Southside Racing’s Cranbourne and with hot conditions and the rail out 9 metres the entire course it’s expected that those on speed should be at an advantage. The meeting sees a host of very short priced favourites including Race 1- Vineux, Race 3- Good… Read More »
Te Akau Racing will line up promising two-year-old filly Kiss Me In Paris in Saturday’s Magic Millions VIC 2YO Classic (Race 5) at Caulfield Heath, confident the Capitalist youngster has the education and professionalism to measure up on race day. Assistant trainer Ben Gleeson said the filly had shown natural… Read More »
Adrian Bott is much happier with Shiki than he was when she won the Gimcrack Stakes as he prepares to launch the filly’s Magic Millions campaign at Randwick. Shiki will resume in the TAB Plate (1000m) on Saturday having enjoyed a couple of weeks in the paddock following her debut… Read More »
Comeback jockey Dylan Dunn, son of Champion rider Dwayne, has been stood down from riding after entering concussion protols, following a fall in the Mounting Yard at Mornington yesterday. Dunn was riding the Brett Scott trained Foxtrot Charlie in the 3rd race, who reared up on Dunn when he was… Read More »
Wednesday racing heads to Mornington with the running of a 7 race meeting twilight fixture. Plenty of the local trainers are deemed to be hard to stop at Mornington but one trainer or should I say trianers’ in particular with a strong profile is that of the Malua Racing trio… Read More »
Popular Western Australian galloper Comfort Me has been retired from racing at the age of nine, bringing to a close a long and successful career at the top level of local racing. Trained by Rhys Radford, Comfort Me retires with a record of 53 starts for eight wins, nine seconds… Read More »
Pakenham raced fast on Saturday with the track rated a Soft 5 but upgraded after Race 3 to a Good 4. Plenty of track records were pushed on Saturday with some top-class performances for this time of year on the clock. Below is our look at a few horses worth… Read More »
Sydney’s lone metropolitan racing club, the Australian Turf Club, has been placed into administration. Racing New South Wales announced on Monday morning that it had taken the extreme step after not being satisfied during a Show Cause process that the ATC Board would be able to improve the club’s ‘serious’… Read More »
Trainer Robbie Griffiths has hinted at more Western Australian targets to come after his in-form sprinter Rey Magnerio claimed Saturday’s Group 3 The Gold Rush (1400m) at Ascot. The six-year-old son of Magnus was initially aimed at the recent G1 Winterbottom Stakes, where he finished a close third behind Libertad… Read More »
Joe Pride had six horses in action across the country on Saturday and came away with two wins, three seconds and a third, including the quinella in the Listed Razor Sharp Handicap at Randwick. Weeping Woman ($2.60 fav) wore down barn mate Coal Crusher ($6) in the Sydney sprint to… Read More »
Tom Charlton was five years old when John O’Shea landed his first Group win in the 2000 Villiers Stakes, but the training partners were celebrating together when Yorkshire took out the corresponding race at Randwick on Saturday. It was O’Shea’s fourth success in the summer feature, now known as The… Read More »
Thomas Stockdale has channelled his inner Mark Zahra to guide Warnie to his biggest success in his career as a jockey. Stockdale produced a cool and calculated ride aboard the Ciaron Maher-trained galloper to claim the The Supernova (1400m) at Pakenham on Saturday. The Supernova was the second of two… Read More »
Jean Van Overmeire’s decision to relinquish a book of rides at Newcastle for just one mount at Randwick has paid the ultimate dividend with Where’s The Circus scoring a boilover victory in the Inglis Nursery. Van Overmeire had partnered the filly, a $1250 online buy, to a recent barrier trial… Read More »
Luke Currie has surged into some of the best form of his career, and the numbers behind his recent run paint the picture of a jockey operating at a seriously high level. LUKE CURRIE — Last 100 Rides 20 wins Win %: 20 Producing 1.4 wins vs expected 1.0 (market… Read More »
Roll The Dice Racing’s promising two-year-old Guest House made an immediate impression at the Caulfield Heath trials on Thursday, producing a composed and classy performance that marked him as one of the more interesting juveniles in Victoria heading into summer. A son of Home Affairs, Guest House has been given… Read More »
Jenni The Fox may only be the winner of a maiden, but trainer Lucy Yeomans believes there is a big race success in the mare. However, Yeomans is realistic enough to know that is unlikely to come in The Supernova (1400m) at Pakenham on Saturday, but the trainer says the mare will not disgrace… Read More »
Trainers Emma-Lee and David Browne have decided to roll the dice one more time with Statuario in a bid to win their local Cup at Pakenham. The New Zealanders who have been in Victoria since April 2022, initially setting-up base at Cranbourne, have been at Pakenham since the start of the 2023-24 season…. Read More »
The feature race day of the Sydney summer has often proven a successful target for Kris Lees, and he will again be well represented with runners in three of the four stakes races at Randwick. In the past decade, the Newcastle trainer has won The Ingham (1600m) twice with Loch… Read More »
Twenty-five years ago, a youthful John O’Shea celebrated his first Group win as a trainer in his own right when Grey And Gold triumphed in the Villiers Stakes. He went on to win it again three years later with On A High, before taking out its first incarnation as The… Read More »
