A really good program has been assembled for Rosehill on Saturday where it is Civic Stakes Day. The weather is fine, the track is soft (6) and the rail is out three metres for the entire circuit. [crownbetoffer]
Sunny Coast will host their biggest race day on Saturday where it is Caloundra Cup Day. The weather is fine, the track is soft (5) and the rail is out two metres for the entire circuit. [crownbetoffer]
A lack of forecast rain in Queensland means The Monstar will head to Rosehill rather than the Sunshine Coast to try to make it back-to-back stakes wins. Trained at Scone by Brett Cavanough, The Monstar was devastating in the June Stakes on a heavy Randwick track three weeks ago, winning… Read More »
Jockey Larry Cassidy couldn’t have a more aptly named mount than War Baby to help him break the record for the number of wins in the Listed Caloundra Cup. The mare will be having her 36th start since she returned from a 10-week break in June 2016 when she lines… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne is sorry and embarrassed over the mistake that led to her four-week suspension for taking a banned appetite suppressant. Payne says she should have sought more information after her doctor prescribed Phentermine to help deal with gastrointestinal problems connected to injuries she sustained in a… Read More »
The Ipswich Cup winner Self Sense has been the subject of good support with Sportsbet.com.au punters in early betting to take out the Caloundra Cup (2400m) this Saturday at the Sunny Coast. The David Briedoake was nearly 1000 days since his last win prior to going to Ipswich where he… Read More »
Trainer Matt Dunn won’t be getting too ambitious with Zamex no matter how well the gelding performs in the Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas. Zamex goes to Saturday’s 1600m-race off the back of two consecutive Sydney wins in Highway races which are restricted to country-trained horses. At his most recent… Read More »
Popular NSW jockey Bobby El-issa has successfully appealed his four month riding ban. Bobby was given a heft four month ban for his handling of Soul Testa in a Goulburn race in March. El-issa was quick to object the ban which to many looked very harsh and today was cleared… Read More »
Trainer John McArdle has suffered a blow with boom colt Doubt I’m Dreaming collapsing and dying at trackwork. The Mornington trainer rated Doubt I’m Dreaming potentially the best horse he has trained, with the colt a dominant winner of a Listed race at Moonee Valley on debut before being beaten… Read More »
The Peter and Paul Snowden partnership can put the icing on a million dollar winter with Acatour at the Sunshine Coast. Acatour will be having the second run of a short Queensland campaign in Saturday’s Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m). The Snowdens have already won $1,066,000 prize money since… Read More »
Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller has confirmed his Queensland satellite stable will be on the Gold Coast. The facility will be managed by Paul Shailer who spent many years as Waller’s assistant in Sydney before returning to New Zealand where he trained in his own right for several years. Waller… Read More »
Barriers will decide whether Group One placegetter Faraway Town heads to Queensland for a stakes race or stays at home in Sydney. The Matthew Smith-trained filly is among the entries for Saturday’s Group Three Sunshine Coast Guineas (1600m) and a benchmark race over 1500 metres at Rosehill. Although she has… Read More »
A former Adelaide mare who has recently gone through the sale ring and changed stables is in line to make her Sydney debut for Canberra trainer Matthew Dale. Stakes-placed I Am Gypsy is nominated for Saturday’s 1100m Benchmark-93 Handicap at Rosehill with the mare in what is expected to be… Read More »
Brendan McCarthy believes Divine Mr Artie could be in for his best preparation as the trainer readies the gelding for his return to racing. Divine Mr Artie, winner of four of his 22 starts, is nominated in Saturday’s 1200m-benchmark-84 handicap on his home track at Caulfield for his first start… Read More »
The $1 million Memsie Stakes has been pencilled in as the likely spring kick-off for Group One-winning stablemates Bonneval and Jon Snow. The two gave the New Zealand partnership of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman a rare achievement as the trainers of the winners of the Australian Derby (Jon Snow)… Read More »
Girl Sunday will get a belated chance for black-type when she lines up in the Civic Stakes at Rosehill. The Gerald Ryan-trained mare missed a start in Saturday’s Group One Tattersall’s Tiara in Brisbane as an emergency. She was also nominated for a benchmark race at Randwick on the same… Read More »
An astute Punter turned $100 into $30,250 on a 4-leg racing multi at Flemington on Saturday with CrownBet. A solid bank-boost as we move through Winter towards the Spring Carnival! [crownbetoffer] Leg 1: Flemington Race 1 – 2. Royal Symphony to Win $2.20 The Tony McEvoy-trained Royal Symphony ran a… Read More »
Having already made her mark in a couple of Highway Handicaps in Sydney this preparation, Canberra filly Clipper is set to hit the road in the opposite direction for her first crack at Melbourne racing. Trainer Matthew Dale, who later this week will welcome stable star Fell Swoop back into… Read More »
Apprentice Beau Mertens is entrenched in a battle for the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership but the top young rider is fast closing in on another milestone. Mertens needs only four more city wins to outride his claim. It raises the prospect of the teenager competing with premiership rival Craig Williams in… Read More »
The Tatts Tiara (1350m) is done and dusted, and so is Australian Group l racing for the 2016/17 season. There have been 72 majors during that time, and while we do have too many, they were still and run and won. Here are the leading horsemen for the year: Hugh… Read More »
