Peter Moody will be honoured with one of racing’s top accolades, joining jockey Zac Purton and broadcaster Johnny Tapp as 2024 Australian Racing Hall of Fame inductees. The trio will be celebrated at a ceremony in Queensland on August 31, which will also feature the Australian Racehorse of the Year… Read More »
Veteran Queensland jockey Jim Byrne, a multiple premiership winner in Brisbane, has confirmed he plans to renew his jockey licence for the upcoming season. The 53-year-old, who last rode competitively in mid-April, hasn’t yet confirmed a return date to racing but made it clear he’s not ready to retire from… Read More »
The carnival campaign of Red Wave didn’t get off to a perfect start but co-trainer Maddysen Sears is confident the horse is where he needs to be ahead of his quest for back-to-back Ipswich Cup wins. The six-year-old was scheduled to resume in the middle of May but a bruised… Read More »
To borrow a phrase from the trainer and jockey, ‘he’s ready to explode’. They were the words from Will Bourne as he discussed Carl Speckler ahead of the Group 1 Queen Anne Stakes over a mile at Royal Ascot on Tuesday night (Australian time). Bourne, who is trainer Ciaron Maher’s… Read More »
Kelly Schweida will be aiming to equal his record for black type wins in a Queensland carnival when Metalart lines up in the Listed Eye Liner Stakes (1350m) at Ipswich on Saturday. With three wins at black type level over the recent months, only his 2022 carnival with four winners has been… Read More »
Jockey Martin Harley will board a flight to England happy in the knowledge he is now a Group 1 winning jockey in Australia. Harley guided Cool Archie home in the J J Atkins (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday to go with previous Group 1 victories in France, the UK and Ireland…. Read More »
War Machine has cemented his status as one of the country’s rising sprint stars with an emphatic Group 1 victory in the Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm, paving the way for a potential Hayes family showdown in The Everest. Formally in the care of the late Mike Moroney, War Machine has… Read More »
A drop back to 1600m or a rise to 2000m is the question Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman face after the win of Saban at Sandown. Saban made it back-to-back victories at the track when he took out the Sportsbet More Places Handicap (1800m) on Saturday having been successful over the same… Read More »
It has been a case of rinse and repeat for Tulloch Lodge stayer Sir Lucan, who has become just the third horse in almost 70 years to win the Winter Cup twice. Rebounding from an indifferent first-up performance last month when he settled with the tailenders and never threatened, the… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes has taken advantage of a winter contest at Sandown to add to their haul of two-year-old winners. Success by Hello Romeo in the Sportsbet Jockey Watch Handicap (1000m) on Saturday was the Lindsay Park stable’s 25th juvenile winner for the season…. Read More »
A difficult week has ended on a high for trainer Gary Portelli with juvenile Queen Of Clubs delivering a promising win at Rosehill just a day after injury cut short the racing career of stable star Kimochi. Kimochi was due to contest Saturday’s Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) in Brisbane but was ruled… Read More »
The Stradbroke Handicap lost one of its leading contenders on the eve of the $3 million Group 1 following the scratching of Kimochi. Retirement is now likely for the Gary Portelli-trained mare, who suffered a tendon injury after a freak mishap following light exercise at trackwork on Friday morning. The… Read More »
Rod Lyons does not have a share in either The Inflictor or Call Da Vinci, but the prominent owner will be chuffed should either log a Group 1 win this Saturday at Eagle Farm. The geldings are both sons of Under The Louvre, who carried Lyons’ colours to victory in the… Read More »
It is not often a horse gets a second chance at running in one of Australia’s feature handicaps. Father-and-daughter training combination Tony and Maddysen Sears were left devastated when Yellow Brick missed gaining a start in the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap (1400m) at Eagle Farm 12 months ago. Move forward a year… Read More »
Chris Waller is renowned for sticking with established templates and in two-year-old Hidden Achievement, he has a colt boasting a disarmingly similar profile to his past two J J Atkins winners. The top trainer has claimed the juvenile feature three times, most recently with The Autumn Sun in 2018 and Press… Read More »
A difficult draw in the Stradbroke Handicap has Chris Waller leaning towards running dual acceptor Firestorm in the Dane Ripper Stakes, paving the way for first emergency and barn mate Coleman to take his place in the Group One. Waller had initially hoped to run the mare in the day’s main feature but… Read More »
Arrowfield Stud has announced the death of one of Australia’s great stallions with Snitzel euthanised at the Hunter Valley stud on Wednesday morning. The son of Redoute’s Choice, a four-time winner of the Australian Champion Stallion award, succumbed to age-related issues less just over two months short of his 23rd… Read More »
The Lindsay Park team of Ben, Will and J D Hayes has two excellent chances of breaking a long running hoodoo in one of Australia’s biggest races. Stretching back to ‘the boys’ grandfather Colin Hayes, their father David Hayes, uncle Peter Hayes and in his stint at the helm of… Read More »
Cool Archie will chase Queensland biggest two-year-old prize as he looks to extend a four-run winning streak in the Group 1 JJ Atkins Stakes (1600m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Corey only joined father Chris, who trained Palaisipan to win the Group 1 Tatt’s Tiara (1400m) in 2023, as an official… Read More »
Four time Group 1 winning trainer Robbie Laing has sadly passed away overnight. Described by colleague Gavin Bedggood as “an unconventional man”, Laing seemed to be just that but, overall, a racing man through and through. Laing followed his father Eddie into training after a short career in the saddle… Read More »
