A filly trainer Mat Ellerton once feared would never get to the races because of her barrier manners has won back her purchase price and plenty more with a city win at Flemington. Two-year-old Menage A Charge, a $27,500 yearling, produced a tough on-pace effort in Saturday’s $80,000 Victorian Carbine… Read More »
Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller was left to play a rare supporting role in a metropolitan-class staying race when veteran Queenslander Trajet scored a surprise win at Scone on Saturday. Much of Waller’s success in recent seasons has been built on winning races with imported horses over extended distances but… Read More »
Victorian galloper Speediness overcame a pre-race tantrum to save his best run for what will be the last of his autumn campaign when he scored a heart-stopping win in the $200,000 Scone Cup on Friday. Giving trainer Colin Scott the impression he wanted to be anywhere else but on a… Read More »
Chris Waller is hoping for a better outcome with Foreteller in Saturday’s Group One Doomben Cup than he experienced in the race last year. Foreteller emerged from last year’s Cup as collateral damage after a roughhouse renewal won by Mawingo. “He broke his leg in this race last year and… Read More »
Colin Scott has put his faith in a gear experiment on Speediness in the Scone Cup to help launch the horse on a path to the first proper spring campaign of his career. Scott has resorted to making two gear changes on the horse he has always believed to be… Read More »
David Vandyke has promised the simplest of race plans will be employed to help Lamasery in his bid for Doomben Cup success on Saturday. After Lamasery drew the outside barrier in the 14-horse field for the Group One race, Vandyke said the gelding will have to be ridden conservatively by… Read More »
The Group One BTC Cup winner Your Song will be retired from racing after he runs in next month’s Stradbroke Handicap. A clear-cut winner of the weight-for-age sprint in the wet at Eagle Farm on Saturday, Your Song will join Widden Stud’s stallion roster in the NSW Hunter Valley. Your… Read More »
His bad behaviour has cost John Singleton $15,000, but much more in terms of friendship and trust between himself and his former trainer Gai Waterhouse. After two weeks of publicity over the performance of his mare More Joyous in the All Aged Stakes at Randwick on April 27, Racing NSW… Read More »
NSW Racing chief steward Ray Murrihy warned witnesses to leave their egos behind when the More Joyous inquiry resumed on Monday. Rugby league legend Andrew Johns is first to give evidence on Monday, while former jockey Allan Robinson and brothel owner Eddie Hayson are also due to front the inquiry… Read More »
NSW Racing chief steward Ray Murrihy warned witnesses to leave their egos behind when the More Joyous inquiry resumed on Monday. Rugby league legend Andrew Johns is first to give evidence on Monday, while former jockey Alan Robinson and brothel owner Eddie Hayson are also due to front the inquiry… Read More »
Meticulous planning, the right horses and a little bit of luck are the key passages in the Chris Waller training manual. As proof it is working, Sydney’s premier trainer produced his first five-timer at Rosehill on Saturday including Moriarty in the Listed Lord Mayors Cup. For good measure he added… Read More »
Pago Rock built on an already impressive fresh record and did enough to confirm spring carnival aspirations with a strong win at Caulfield on Saturday. The five-year-old gelding, owned and trained by David Hayes, took his first-up record to five wins from six attempts with a long-neck success in the… Read More »
Jockey Damien Browne was rewarded for some pre-race study when New Zealand mare Quintessential scored her first win in nearly a year at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Quintessential was one of the stars of the winter carnival in 2012 but had not won since the Group One Queensland Oaks (2400m)…. Read More »
Sydney three-year-old Your Song gave his older rivals a true galloping lesson with a commanding Group One BTC Cup win at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Having his first start since mixing it with the best of his age during the Sydney spring carnival, Your Song cleared away on a rain-affected… Read More »
Lightly raced three-year-old Richie’s Bickies has kept himself in the mix for the Queensland Derby with victory in a benchmark race at Rosehill. The Chris Waller-trained, Ingham family-owned gelding came out of the pack to land a concerted betting plunge with a narrow win in Saturday’s Sportingbet Handicap (1900m) at… Read More »
Imported stayer Less Is More is on the Brisbane Cup trail after he scored his first Australian win at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Ridden by Peter Robl and starting favourite, Less Is More ($4.60) won the Channel Seven Handicap (1600m) by a neck from Black Cash ($6.50) with Vacallo ($7)… Read More »
Sunshine Coast trainer Darryl Hansen rated Vo Heart the best horse he has trained after he won the Group Two Champagne Classic at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Vo Heart ($13) held off a determined challenge from runner-up Vilanova ($9.50) to win by a half neck with Global Dream ($12) 1-1/2… Read More »
The spring Classics await Drago who gave a sign of his staying potential at Rosehill on Saturday, posting a victory that reinforced trainer Anthony Cummings’s belief in where the colt’s future lies. Cummings thought enough of Drago to begin his career in the Group Two Pago Pago Stakes in March… Read More »
Faith in his own judgment and a piece of dubious racing wisdom led trainer Robbie Laing to spend $4500 on a horse he now regards as a Derby prospect. Polanski, a son of the ill-fated stallion Rakti, scored an upset win in Saturday’s Routley’s Handicap (1440m) at Caulfield, earning himself… Read More »
Eddie Hayson has agreed to attend the next episode of the More Joyous inquiry on Monday along with ex-footballer Andrew Johns and former jockey Allan Robinson, who have also had a change of heart about appearing. The controversial Hayson, a Sydney businessman and at times a big punter, had said… Read More »
