Trainer Con Karakatsanis has been charged with having unregistered substances at his stable and giving false evidence in a stewards’ inquiry. Karakatsanis’ trainer’s licence was suspended on Tuesday after Racing NSW handed down the charges over Howmuchdoyouloveme’s withdrawal from the Group Two Shorts at Randwick on Saturday. Stewards scratched the… Read More »
Watch the full race replay of the Yellowglen Stakes 2014 raced at Flemington racecourse on Derby Day.
Race 3 – 12:50PM Yellowglen Stakes (1400 METRES) Of $200,000.1st $120,000, 2nd $36,000, 3rd $18,000, 4th $9,000, 5th $5,000, 6th $4,000, 7th $4,000, 8th $4,000 GROUP 3 Handicap, Minimum Weight 54kg, Maidens at time of entry are ineligible, Apprentices cannot claim. Field Limit: 16 + 4 EM SPECIAL OFFER: Sign-up… Read More »
Race 7 – Yellowglen Stakes (1400 METRES) Of $200,000.1st $120,000, 2nd $36,000, 3rd $18,000, 4th $9,000, 5th $5,000, 6th $4,000, 7th $4,000, 8th $4,000 GROUP 3 Handicap, Maidens at time of entry are ineligible, Apprentices cannot claim. Field Limit: 16 + 4 EM BONUS BET: Sign-up to Sportsbet.com.au via this… Read More »
Time is running out for well-travelled Spirit Of Boom to claim a Group One win but the sprinter gets another chance in Saturday’s Newmarket Handicap at Flemington. The Tony Gollan-trained entire is in his final season of racing and after a first-up Oakleigh Plate second, Gollan says the six-year-old enters… Read More »
Morphettville trainer Richard Jolly says it was always his intention to run handy sprinter Karacatis in the Listed Christmas Stakes at Caulfield rather than an assignment on his home track. Jolly also accepted to run Karacatis in a $50,000 race in Adelaide on Boxing Day but drawing barrier two in… Read More »
Anthony Cummings’s Melbourne Cup carnival ended with two stakes wins, a Victoria Derby placing and one missed opportunity. From 12 runners over the four days at Flemington, Cummings prepared Fontelina for his second Yellowglen Stakes victory and Surge Ahead to win a VRC Oaks day support race. The Randwick trainer… Read More »
Race 8 – 4:30PM Yellowglen Stakes (1200 METRES) Of $300,000.1st $180,000, 2nd $54,000, 3rd $27,000, 4th $13,500, 5th $7,500, 6th $6,000, 7th $6,000, 8th $6,000 GROUP 2 Handicap, Minimum Weight 53kg, Maidens at time of entry are ineligible, Apprentices cannot claim.Track Condition: Good 3 Time: 1:09.01 Last 600m: 0:33.28 INTERIM… Read More »
The Yellowglen Stakes is one of the feature races at Flemington racecourse on Saturday in which we see Shamal Wind as the current favourite for the race. Punters can get the best odds on Shamal Wind at Sportsbet and IASbet where she is currently $6.50 in betting. On the second… Read More »
Race 6 – Yellowglen Stakes (1200 METRES) Of $300,000.1st $180,000, 2nd $54,000, 3rd $27,000, 4th $13,500, 5th $7,500, 6th $6,000, 7th $6,000, 8th $6,000 GROUP 2 Handicap, Maidens at time of entry are ineligible, Apprentices cannot claim.Field Limit: 20 + 4 EM Form Guide [include file=”inpost_adrotator.php”] Horse Trainer Hcp… Read More »
A horse Tony Gollan believes is over the odds will attempt to land the Queensland trainer a Flemington Group One win he craves in Saturday’s Newmarket Handicap. Gollan will start Spirit Of Boom in the famous 1200m sprint on the back of a fast-finishing first-up third in the Oakleigh Plate…. Read More »
Anthony Cummings spread himself and his horses across three different tracks in two states for the their final gallops ahead of Flemington’s Super Saturday meeting – and came away with positive results all round. Cummings began the morning with his Victoria Derby winner Fiveandahalfstar at Caulfield where the horse rounded… Read More »
Three-year-old Shamal Wind seems certain to be saved for a race in Adelaide, leaving Lone Rock as trainer Robert Smerdon’s only Newmarket Handicap runner on Saturday. Both Lone Rock and Shamal Wind went to Flemington on Tuesday morning to compete in jumpouts down the straight against other Newmarket hopefuls. They… Read More »
Sydney trainer Con Karakatsanis and his father Tony have been found guilty of planning to administer an illegal raceday treatment to Howmuchdoyouloveme before he raced at Flemington on November 3. Neither Con nor Tony Karakatsanis, a licensed stablehand, attended Tuesday’s verdict in the long-running inquiry. Judge Russell Lewis, chairman of… Read More »
Sydney trainer Con Karakatsanis and his father Tony have been found guilty of breaching raceday protocols during last year’s Melbourne spring carnival. A Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board handed down its finding on Tuesday in their absence after final submissions were heard on Monday. Karakatsanis and his father were charged… Read More »
The case mounted by Melbourne stewards against Sydney trainer Con Karakatsanis and his father Tony “stretched credibility” and should be rejected, their lawyer told Victoria’s Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board on Monday. After a day of legal wrangling in which both sides failed in applications, RAD Board chairman Russell Lewis… Read More »
Sydney trainer Con Karakatsanis has told a hearing it would be “madness” to administer a saline drench to a horse a few hours before it raced. Karakatsanis and his father Tony are charged over the discovery of stomach tubing equipment including a saline and electrolyte mixture belonging to them during… Read More »
Trainer Robert Heathcote has kept faith with Buffering for Saturday’s Group One Patinack Farm Classic at Flemington but bookmakers have taken a more conservative view. Buffering’s quest for an elusive Group One success suffered a setback at Moonee Valley on October 26 when he finished sixth to Sea Siren as… Read More »
Anthony Cummings’ belief in his own judgment rather than form guides was justified on Saturday as Fontelina won the Group Two Yellowglen Stakes (1200m) to cap an impressive day. The four-year-old Testa Rossa gelding iced the meeting for Cummings following his victory with Fiveandahalfstar in the $1.5 million Victoria Derby…. Read More »
Derby Day…without doubt the best raceday of the year in Australia and it kicks off the Melbourne Cup Carnival this Saturday. Nine group races, highlighted by the $1.5 Million Aami Victoria Derby (2500m). Crack kiwi colt It’s A Dundeel, a surprise loser last Saturday, is the clear favourite with the… Read More »
