One of horse racing’s most revered jumpers will be banned from competition in Australia at the end of the 2015-2016 season. Steeplechaser Bashboy will have to be retired at the end of July – or be sent overseas to race – under a new Australian rule that says thoroughbreds cannot… Read More »
Star filly Yankee Rose who was a bargain buy $10,000 yearling has received multi million dollar offers to buy, however owners have refused these offers. Yankee Rose who won the G1 Sires Produce Stakes on the weekend will line-up in the Champagne Stakes Saturday week where she is likely to… Read More »
Three time Grand National Steeplechase winner Bashboy may be retired immediately after owner Ian Macdonald was told his horse would not be allowed to race as a 13yo. The rule is in place to reduce the safety risks of the horse, their rider and other participants despite the horse being… Read More »
Late entry The United States is the $4.20 favourite for the $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick which will be run without star mare Winx. Owner Lloyd Williams paid $65,000 to put The United States in Saturday’s 2000m race after he won the Group One Ranvet Stakes last month…. Read More »
Star sprinter Buffering is fit and ready ahead of his trip to Hong Kong from Dubai but is not 100 per cent certain to complete his international campaign at Royal Ascot. Buffering won the Group One Al Quoz Sprint in Dubai two weeks ago and is now headed to Hong… Read More »
Winx has sealed her reputation as Australia’s best racehorse while earning the ultimate accolade from her trainer in winning the $3 million Doncaster Mile. “I’ll call her a champion while I can speak,” trainer Chris Waller. “I thought she was beaten at the half-mile. She must have an amazing will… Read More »
Darren Weir admitted that he couldn’t take too much credit for Thermal Current’s Mornington win. The gelding arrived at Weir’s stables after the suspension and subsequent closure of Peter Moody’s training business. Thermal Current is part-owned by Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie and is the first horse he has raced… Read More »
For the second time in a decorated career, Chautauqua has come from an almost impossible position to win the Group One TJ Smith Stakes. Chautauqua gave away 12 lengths to the leaders as he settled last in the $2.5 million weight-for-age sprint at Randwick. In a replica of his 2015… Read More »
New Zealand three-year-old Tavago has produced a Group One shock in winning the ATC Australian Derby at Randwick. Leaving the odds-on favourite Tarzino in his wake, Tavago ($31) romped away to score one of the most emphatic modern-day wins in the time-honoured Classic. In a moderately run Derby, Tommy Berry… Read More »
They said he couldn’t do it. They were wrong. Clearly Innocent defied an injury scare and a betting drift to win the Country Championships Final at Randwick on Saturday. Scone trainer Greg Bennett admitted he was “pretty down” when Clearly Innocent pulled up lame from track work on Friday morning…. Read More »
Tempt Me Not has given the extended Cummings family a Group Three win on a big day at Randwick in the PJ Bell Stakes. Trained by James Cummings for Goree, the operation managed by his wife Monica for her grandfather Eduardo Cojuangco, Tempt Me Not was ridden by Glyn Schofield… Read More »
Yankee Rose has made up for her second placing in the Golden Slipper with a dominant win in the $1 million Sires’ Produce Stakes at Randwick. Coming from midfield for jockey Zac Purton, Yankee Rose joined in at the 200m and put the race beyond doubt to give trainer David… Read More »
Trainer Robbie Laing may be forced to raise the bar after the strong win of Jaws Of Steel at Mornington. Laing was hoping to win a country race with the son of Sharkbite but may now look interstate for a black-type race with the colt. Ridden by Brad Rawiller, Jaws… Read More »
He’s Our Rokkii’s win over a mile on Doncaster day has co-trainer David Hayes excited about his prospects in the main race next year. The gelding tasted Group Three success in the Carbine Club Stakes winning by a half length from Odyssey Moon at Randwick on Saturday. He’s Our Rokkii,… Read More »
Except for Winx turning up as an odds-on favourite, Doncaster Mile planning for Happy Clapper and his rider couldn’t have been smoother. “I’m disappointed to have Winx in the race,” jockey Brenton Avdulla said. “I was hoping she wouldn’t be there and if that was the case Happy Clapper would… Read More »
It has been a case of near misses in recent years for horses carrying the colours of Sheikh Mohammed in Derbys around Australia. But that could change at Randwick on Saturday when Tally and Etymology attempt to give Godolphin its first ATC Australian Derby victory. Since taking over as head… Read More »
We caught up with seven of the top jockeys riding at Royal Randwick to get their thoughts on the horses they will be riding in the four Group Ones. More: View our 2016 Doncaster Mile day TIPS James McDonald Telperion (Sires Produce): 1400 metres is perfect. Obviously we would like… Read More »
Frustrated jockey Tommy Berry claims racing’s controversial whip rules are making him look like a “bloke who bashes horses”. Berry fronted stewards at Hawkesbury on Thursday for breaking a rule that says jockeys cannot hit their mounts more than five times before the 100-metre mark in a race. He was… Read More »
Cambridge Stud boss Sir Patrick Hogan is keeping Tavistock’s 2016 service fee under wraps but it’s likely after Day One of The Championships at Randwick, he will revise it upwards. Triple Group One winner Volkstok’n’barrel runs in Saturday’s Doncaster Mile but more attention will be on Tavistock’s three-year-old son Tarzino… Read More »
Give Famous Seamus an inside barrier and a firm racing surface and his bona fides as a Group One sprinter are rarely in doubt. In the $2.5 million TJ Smith Stakes at Randwick on Saturday, Famous Seamus has one but not the other and trainer Noel Mayfield-Smith can’t believe his… Read More »
