The Ballarat Cup has been a late spring target for Antonio Giuseppe who will be out to give Sydney’s premier trainer Chris Waller a second win in the race in three years. Waller won the $300,000 Listed Ballarat Cup two years ago when Junoob carried top weight of 60kg. Antonio… Read More »
For more than 40 years, dating back to the Colin Hayes era, Lindsay Park has been a regular visitor to the Perth summer carnival. Now in the care of David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, Lindsay Park is back again with a small team for 2017. Sovereign Nation kicks… Read More »
Azkadellia will retain her Group One win in the Queen Of The Turf despite the wrangle over her ownership. The board of Racing NSW has decided the mare will keep her status and prize money from her three starts in NSW in 2016. Trained by Ciaron Maher, Azkadellia also ran… Read More »
Black Heart Bart will be back where it all began when the multiple Group One winner bids to snap an uncharacteristic winless streak in the Railway Stakes. The seven-year-old has returned to his former stamping ground for Saturday’s $1 million handicap at Ascot. Black Heart Bart made his debut at… Read More »
Regan Bayliss is hoping another Lindsay Park-trained outsider can give him successive wins in the Ballarat Cup. As an apprentice last year Bayliss guided $16 chance Pilote D’Essai to an all-the-way victory while on Saturday he partners veteran Extra Zero in the 2200m-Listed Ballarat Cup. Extra Zero , who is… Read More »
An imported galloper makes his debut for the Weir camp in the Ballarat Cup (2200m) this Saturday and the market has him as the horse to beat. Mr Garcia had his last run for the Andreas Wohler team on Oaks Day over 1800m and he was quite impressive in getting… Read More »
Mr Garcia is a new addition to Darren Weir’s stable and the favourite to give Victoria’s premier trainer his second Ballarat Cup and apprentice Ben Allen his first. The imported gelding made an immediate impression in Australia, winning an 1800m benchmark race at Flemington during the recent Melbourne Cup carnival… Read More »
More than 700 juveniles remain paid up for this season’s Group One Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield after first acceptances for Victoria’s biggest two-year-old race. The $1.5 million Blue Diamond in February attracted 1470 nominations in July and 706 horses remain for the 1200m race. The number of entries is… Read More »
The home of the Cox Plate is set for a revamp after the 100th running of the famous race. The Moonee Valley track will be rebuilt and reoriented and a new grandstand will be constructed following the 2020 Group One event. The plans are part of a $2 billion vision… Read More »
Australian horse Boom Time continues to please his connections as he prepares to compete on the international stage in the Japan Cup. The Caulfield Cup winner, who is trained by David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig, had a serious hit-out on Tuesday morning on the turf at Tokyo Racecourse…. Read More »
Grey Lion has been getting closer to his first Australian win in recent starts and trainer Matt Cumani is hoping the imported stayer can achieve it on his home track in the Ballarat Cup. Cumani believes Grey Lion has continued to improve this spring as he prepares for his seventh… Read More »
The team behind champion racehorse Winx is open to the mare going for a record fourth Cox Plate, but also concerned how racing overseas could affect her preparation. Part-owner Peter Tighe says running in the Cox Plate in October depends on whether or not Winx races overseas at Royal Ascot… Read More »
The breeding barn is still fair way off for Winx, and a decision is yet to be made whether she will head to England or chase an historic fourth Cox Plate win. Online bookmaker sportsbet has priced the superstar mare at the “lucrative” odds of $3.50 to win at Royal Ascot next… Read More »
The quarantine order on two of Victorian trainer George Osborne stables has been lifted but a third remains classified as an infected place following a strangles case. The confirmed case was in a horse at Glenfern Park, Osborne’s pre-training facility at Romsey north of Melbourne. Osborne’s two Kyneton stables, one… Read More »
Leviathan owner Lloyd Williams will be interviewed by Victorian racing authorities over comments he made indicating he is the head trainer at Macedon Lodge. Williams, who won his sixth Melbourne Cup with Rekindling earlier this month, said in an interview with Sydney’s Sky Sports Radio he was in charge of… Read More »
Former Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie wants a judge to quash a finding that he leaked information during cobalt investigations. Victorian Supreme Court Justice Kevin Bell will hand down his decision in the racehorse owner and breeder’s judicial review on Tuesday. Moodie wants the judge to overturn Victorian racing integrity… Read More »
Seven horses trained in the eastern states of Australia feature among a full field of 16 plus four emergencies for the $1 million Group One Railway Stakes in Perth. Field 🏇: View the Railway Stakes Field Multiple Group One winner Black Heart Bart, who began his career in Western Australia… Read More »
Viddora has been knocking on the door of a Group One win and gets her next chance in the $1 million Winterbottom Stakes in Perth. The Lloyd Kennewell-trained Viddora was among a host of horses who arrived in Perth on a flight from Melbourne on Monday morning ahead of Group… Read More »
A new look Too Good To Refuse will make his return to racing in the Listed Recognition Stakes at Doomben. Trainer and part-owner Desleigh Forster has finally made the decision to have Too Good To Refuse gelded after tossing it about for months. “I have felt for some time that… Read More »
John Sadler is adamant Observational has never been treated outside the rules of racing despite an inquiry into the horse’s elevated bicarb level and the trainer has sent him to Perth as scheduled for Group One races. Sadler is facing two inquiries stemming from Observational’s scratching by Racing Victoria stewards… Read More »
