Toowoomba filly Sold For A Song is receiving strong support for Saturday’s Fred Best Classic at Doomben. The lightly raced three-year-old is $9.00 and the best backed runner with online bookmaker sportsbet.com.au. Victorian colt Rageese is the $3.50 favourite, but he is finding it hard to attract admirers, with Sir Bachus… Read More »
Alpine Eagle has been touted as a potential star, and Sportsbet.com.au punters are confident the Tony McEvoy trained galloper can kick off 2016 on a winning note when he lines up in the R A Lee Stakes (1600m) this Saturday at Morphettville. The four year old hasn’t raced since finishing… Read More »
Matt Cumani has already won with two of the three European horses he pinpointed to help him hit the ground running in his training career in Australia. The other steps out at Flemington on Saturday for the first time as Cumani, son of prominent UK-based trainer Luca Cumani, looks to… Read More »
Black Heart Bart is favoured to give Australia’s leading trainer a sixth Group One success for the season. Darren Weir, who has prepared 275 winners Australia-wide in 2015/16, will saddle Black Heart Bart and Sooboog in the Group One Goodwood at Morphettville on Saturday. Weir’s five Group One winners include… Read More »
Former top apprentice Luke Tarrant is facing charges by the Queensland police in relation to theft and drug offences. Tarrant who was suspended from riding for six months after testing positive to cocaine has now been charged with two counts of possess tainted property and one count each of stealing,… Read More »
Premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan has been fined $1000 after being found guilty of verbally abusing a staff member of fellow trainer Rob Heathcote. It followed a verbal altercation between Gollan and Heathcote’s employee Leanne Pollard at the Eagle Farm stabling complex on Sunday. Stewards heard in-camera evidence from three… Read More »
The return of Melbourne Cup winner Prince Of Penzance is sure to create plenty of interest on one of South Australian racing’s biggest days. Saturday’s meeting at Morphettville features the Group One Goodwood (1200m), but the Cup winner will be stepping out in the Group Three R A Lee Stakes… Read More »
David Hayes and Tom Dabernig will have numbers on their side as they try to snap a long drought for the famous racing family in South Australia’s premier sprint. The Lindsay Park co-trainers are set to have five runners in Saturday’s Group One The Goodwood at Morphettville. Neither Hayes nor… Read More »
Darren Weir says he is not superstitious. But at the same time Australia’s leading trainer is quick to deflect any talk of creating new training records this season. Weir has trained 274 winners winners Australia wide including Howard Be Thy Name in Saturday’s South Australian Derby, and leads Chris Waller… Read More »
Chris Waller-trained stablemates Counterattack and Sir Bacchus will compete against each for a guaranteed spot in the Stradbroke Handicap. Trainer Chris Waller decided against running Counterattack in Saturday’s Group One BTC Cup at Doomben in favour of the Fred Best Classic a week later. The winner of the Fred Best… Read More »
Group One performer Alpine Eagle will make an autumn cameo appearance in Adelaide where he will take on Melbourne Cup winner Prince Of Penzance. After two runs in the spring, Alpine Eagle suffered a crack in a pedal bone and trainer Tony McEvoy gave him a lengthy break to recover…. Read More »
G1 winning mare Peeping has died of a colic attack. Peeping who won the G1 Coolmore Classic last start has been reported to have died from a colic attack. The Ron Quinton trained mare had amassed over $870,000 in her short racing career including wins in the G1 Coolmore Classic… Read More »
Lee Freedman is back in business as a Group One trainer after Malaguerra scored a heart-stopping win in the BTC Cup at Doomben. An Australian Hall of Famer, Freedman operates a stable with his brother Anthony out of Flemington and Malaguerra’s win on Saturday is their biggest since their training… Read More »
Kris Lees has his sights on more black type with Danish Twist after she overcame a tough run to win the Group Three Dark Jewel Classic at Scone. Lees finished with the quinella with Onemorezeta ranging up to her stablemate before weakening slightly to run second. For jockey Tim Clark,… Read More »
Rudy and Jumbo Prince will take divergent paths for the remainder of the winter carnival after sharing the Singapore Turf Club Trophy at Doomben. Jumbo Prince, the heavily backed $3.30 favourite, appeared set for victory when he hit the front with 100m to go but Rudy ($6) made a late… Read More »
Matt Cumani has wasted little time in starting to make an impression in Melbourne racing, celebrating his first city winner as a trainer. Cumani had his first runner on April 1 after setting up at Ballarat in Victoria, and Show A Star’s victory in Saturday’s Peter Jackson Handicap at Caulfield… Read More »
Serene Majesty has added to a profitable homecoming for Peter and Paul Snowden in winning the Inglis 3YO Guineas at Scone. The father-and-son training team won the Scone Cup on Friday with Pajaro and the stable parlayed its success into a another significant result in Saturday’s $400,000 Guineas. It was… Read More »
Winning Rupert is unlikely to have another start in the winter despite continuing trainer Bjorn Baker’s great recent run of success at Doomben. Heavily backed from $7.50 into $5, Winning Rupert made it two wins from as many starts in the Group Two Champagne Classic (1200m) on Saturday. Ridden near… Read More »
Real Love has dispelled any doubts about her ability to cope with a long campaign with a record-breaking win in the Group Three JRA Cup at Doomben. Real Love, the $2.60 favourite, held off the unlucky Sir John Hawkwood ($4.20) to win by three quarters of a length. In the… Read More »
A lean couple of weeks for Sydney’s leading jockey has ended with James McDonald getting Alucinari home in a photo-finish to the Listed Denise’s Joy Stakes at Scone. Saturday’s win was McDonald’s first since he steered Furnaces to success at the Hawkesbury meeting on April 30 and he had five… Read More »
