Jockey Chad Schofield is expected to be back in action on Australian soil, for the first time since returning from Hong Kong, at the Gosford meeting on Thursday. Schofield spent the better part of seven seasons in Hong Kong but, with a baby due in February, he thought it was… Read More »
The fairy-tale story of Incentivise … the horse who took the racing world by storm throughout 2021 … appears to be very much slipping into neutral, just as the year that placed him into prominence also winds down. Or that least that is the current status. Incentivise, the ever so… Read More »
Australia’s leading bookmaker the TAB gives an overview of today’s betting markets from the feature races and race meetings from around the country. See which races punters cleaned up on and lost on. RANDWICK RACE ONE The big push for Himalaism came unstuck in the TAB Supports National Jockeys Trust Handicap (1200… Read More »
Traditionally run in June as a lead-up to the wintertime Group 1 Queensland Derby, bringing forward the Group 3 Grand Prix Stakes (2100m) by six months to December has suited trainer David Vandyke to springboard Gypsy Goddess towards the fillies version, the Group 1 Queensland Oaks over 2400 metres. Ridden by Stephanie… Read More »
Second Slip has proven a profitable acquisition for his connections landing his sixth win of the year with a fighting victory at Flemington. Prepared at Morphettville by Will Clarken, Second Slip arrived in Adelaide late last year after 12 starts in New Zealand, for two wins, and after Saturday’s win in the Kennedy Handicap (1400m) he has… Read More »
The humid Sydney weather might have been a new experience for European import Huetor, but it had no impact on his performance with the exciting stayer posting another win. The Peter and Paul Snowden-trained gelding remains undefeated in three Australian starts after digging deep to chase down Lord Ardmore in Saturday’s… Read More »
Rebel Dane was a success story for Gary Portelli as a racehorse, and he is proving just as handy an influence on the stable as a stallion. Portelli has had two runners by the dual Group 1 victor and both are winners – Rebel Shadow, who scored at Canterbury in… Read More »
The Hong Kong Jockey Club’s has announced that top New Zealand trainer Jamie Richards will move to Hong Kong for the 2022/23 season. The move will bring to an end the highly successful association between Richards and Te Akau Racing which has achieved an incredible run of results in recent… Read More »
The jury is still out on just how much Alligator Blood can achieve in his comeback and more evidence will be submitted for consideration after the All Too Hard gelding’s run in the Listed Lough Neagh Stakes over 1400m at Eagle Farm on Saturday. There was a time when Alligator… Read More »
Imported galloper Zaaki is being set for the world’s richest mile race which returns to Flemington. The fourth edition of the $5 million The All-Star Mile will be run at Flemington on March 19 and the Annabel Neasham-trained galloper is now among the entries. A three-time Group 1 winner, Zaaki is currently spelling having taken out the Mackinnon… Read More »
Patient ride by jockey Rachel King steers the Annabel Neasham-trained Wisdom of Water to victory in the 3&4YO Stakes at Wyong on Wednesday. In what has been a frustrating campaign thus far for trainer Annabel Neasham and four-year-old Wisdom Of Water, jockey Rachel King gave her mount a patient ride before pinching… Read More »
Debutante Soaring Ambition has rocketed into Magic Millions calculations with an against-the-odds win at Wyong. “Bring on the Magic Millions.” That was the declaration from trainer Annabel Neasham after Soaring Ambition overcame a significant bump on the home turn to lift herself off the canvas and claim a crucial lead-up race… Read More »
Trainer Symon Wilde may give his first Melbourne Cup runner a cameo appearance in late autumn after her recovery from injury. Tralee Rose finished ninth behind Verry Elleegant in the Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on November 2 after being galloped on. After treatment at the Werribee Equine Hospital, Tralee Rose was boxed early in… Read More »
Two Coolmore-owned sprinting three-year-olds could be set to clash on Australian soil in the autumn. While not nominating in which races local three-year-old Home Affairs and US-bred Golden Pal could face off in, it promises to be an enticing contest should it eventuate. Home Affairs, by I Am Invincible, blitzed his rivals… Read More »
Australia’s leading bookmaker the TAB gives an overview of today’s betting markets from the feature races and race meetings from around the country. See which races punters cleaned up on and lost on. RANDWICK RACE 1 Miss Ostend ($2.30) started favourite with several big bets and over 40 percent of the hold…. Read More »
He wasn’t the most expensive yearling purchase, but Shamus Award gelding Brutality ($5) has matched it with some better bred campaigners by taking out the $750,000 Villiers Stakes at Royal Randwick. The five-year-old prevailed over Ellsberg ($6) by a short neck, with Criaderas ($11) a fast finishing third a further half length back. A… Read More »
When the Victoria Racing Club moved the Listed Kensington Stakes (1000m) from mid-January to mid-December, it suited Phillip Stokes in setting four-year-old mare Mileva on a path to Group 1 aims in 2022. Mileva ($4.80) won the Kensington at Flemington by a length with Parsifal ($15) second and Halvorsen ($6) a… Read More »
Brisbane trainer Desleigh Forster isn’t usually one to say more that she needs to, nor makes outlandish statements, but she had no hesitation in declaring her admiration for Apache Chase after the four-year-old gelding won $250,000 The Gateway (1400m) at Eagle Farm and secured the ‘win-and-you’re-in’ ticket into the Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap… Read More »
He was the second-longest priced runner in the $140,000 Listed Razor Sharp field, but the Kris Lees-trained Special Reward ($26) has paid no attention to the market and saluted handsomely beating favourite Snap Dancer ($3.50F) by half a length with the unlucky Southern Lad ($7) a further two lengths away in third…. Read More »
Co-trainers Ciaron Maher & David Eustace set a strategy for American import Lighthouse which appears to be coming together with the Listed Chester Manifold Stakes (1400m) on New Year’s Day the main aim. Lighthouse notched a third victory in as many starts in Australia in winning The Des Gleeson (1400m) at Flemington,… Read More »
