Trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott will answer charges next week relating to the substitution of horses in televised track gallops. Waterhouse and Bott were charged with conduct prejudicial to the image and/or interests of racing – after they replaced three horses scheduled to work at Randwick on April 4… Read More »
Crystal Dreamer has built a good winning record and will now get his chance to add a black-type success at Caulfield in the Listed Bel Esprit Stakes. A first-up victory in a 1000m open handicap at Caulfield earlier this month took Crystal Dreamer’s record to seven wins from 14 starts… Read More »
Jockey Cory Parish considers the Sydney Cup ride on Boom Time in the $2 million race at Randwick the greatest opportunity of his career. Parish is a regular track rider for the powerful Lindsay Park establishment at David Hayes’ Euroa property in country Victoria and 20 of his 30 winners… Read More »
The bigger purse on offer in the VOBIS Gold Sprint has lured trainer Michael Mehegan away from a stakes race at Caulfield. Mehegan had the option to run Prussian Vixen in the Listed Bel Esprit Stakes on Saturday but with the extra $130,000 prize money, he settled on the VOBIS… Read More »
Three-time Sydney premiership winner Nash Rawiller hopes to be back in the saddle in June after dislocating his shoulder and fracturing his back in a fall in Hong Kong. Rawiller, who left Australia in 2014, is being released from hospital on Thursday after falling when his mount broke down during… Read More »
Trainer Matt Cumani is facing charges for failing to notify stewards of a strangles infection at his Ballarat stables for almost a month. Racing Victoria stewards on Wednesday issued Cumani with two charges, one of conduct prejudicial to the image, interests, or welfare of racing and the other for failing… Read More »
The track condition will determine whether talented sprinter O’Malley has his first-up run in a stakes race at Caulfield. O’Malley is set to line up in the Listed Bel Esprit Stakes (1100m) on Saturday, his first run since finishing out of the placings at Sandown last November. Enver Jusufovic is… Read More »
Jamie Richards saw a lot to like about Chance To Dance in his first run under a new training regime. He just hopes that inconsequential exertion in the abandoned Sydney Cup won’t count against the gelding when the Group One $2 million staying feature is re-run at Randwick on Saturday…. Read More »
Glen Boss will fly in from Singapore to replace the suspended Craig Williams on Big Duke in the upcoming Sydney Cup. Williams failed in his bid to have his 8 meeting suspension reduced at an appeal on Wednesday morning and as a result will miss Saturday’s meeting at Randwick. Big… Read More »
A track gallop at Caulfield has convinced trainer Stuart Webb to run Annus Mirabilis in the rescheduled Sydney Cup at Randwick. Annus Mirabilis contested the abandoned race at Randwick on April 8 and the gelding has pleased his trainer since returning to his Caulfield base. But he will need a… Read More »
Miss Promiscuity will be out to snap a year-long absence from the winner’s circle when she returns to Caulfield for a defence of the lucrative VOBIS Gold Sprint. Nominations for Saturday’s Caulfield meeting, which features a host of VOBIS Gold races, will be released on Tuesday with Miss Promiscuity and… Read More »
Multiple stakes winner Hopfgarten’s winter carnival program will be decided after he runs in a barrier trial at Deagon. He will be one of several carnival aspirants going around in a set of 14 trials on Tuesday. Hopfgarten has been one of the best performed horses in Queensland in recent… Read More »
Big Duke already has a unique place in the Darren Weir stable as the premier Melbourne trainer’s first Sydney winner. He gets a second chance to give Weir a first Group One win in Sydney in take two of the $2 million Sydney Cup (3200m) at Randwick on Saturday. His… Read More »
The new Kelso Wood-Patricia Gesler training partnership is up and running and aiming high with two-year-old Snitzkraft. Wood and Gesler had their first runner as a team with Charcuterie who was third at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Gesler has worked for Wood, a multiple Group One winning trainer, for… Read More »
After almost four decades broadcasting thoroughbred racing in Victoria, Greg Miles has signed off as a race caller. Miles called home 22-year-old jockey Tom Sadler winning his first stakes race aboard Observational in Saturday’s feature race at Caulfield, the Group Three Easter Cup. His final race description came in the… Read More »
John Sadler has described combining with his son to win the Easter Cup with Observational as one of the bigger thrills he has had in racing. Observational gave 22-year-old jockey Tom Sadler the first stakes win of his career when he surged clear in the straight in Saturday’s Group Three… Read More »
It’s a parting gift that’s hard to beat. Stud-bound Tivaci snapped his Group One duck to win All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. In possibly his last start, the Mike Moroney-trained Tivaci surged from near last to snatch the weight-for-age feature from Le Romain by a neck. He defied… Read More »
Hooked has snapped a 19-month absence from the winner’s circle in the Victoria Handicap at Caulfield. Trained for the majority of his career by John Thompson in Sydney, Hooked is now in the care of trainer Robert Smerdon at Caulfield. And Saturday’s hard-fought victory over a gallant Charmed Harmony came… Read More »
The man who took Choisir to the world has claimed a Group One win with one of his sons in the Champagne Stakes at Randwick. The Mission ($9), trained by Paul Perry, led for all of the 1600m to keep the $1.85 Luxbet favourite Invader at bay by 2-1/4 lengths…. Read More »
Boom Time could have earned himself a crack at the rescheduled Sydney Cup with a front-running win in a staying race at Caulfield. The David and Ben Hayes and Tom Dabernig-trained stayer led for most of Saturday’s Robert Taranto Handicap (2425m). Boom Time ($6) was full of running rounding the… Read More »
