Reigning Everest winner Think About It might have been back home in the stable, but Joe Pride only had eyes for his Big Dance Wild Card winner King Of The Castle at …
West Wind Blows, who started a $5.50 favourite in the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m), was narrowly denied, by a former stablemate no less, but co-trainer Ed Crisford was upbeat after …
Jockey Ben Melham will be putting his hand up to ride whichever horse Mark Zahra rejects in the Melbourne Cup. Ben Melham rode the Ciaron Maher and David Eustace-trained Gold Trip into third place in …
Mark Zahra’s faith in Without A Fight was vindicated when the imported galloper provided the jockey a second Caulfield Cup in four years. In different scenes from his win aboard Verry Elleegant when there were no crowds on …
With regular jockey Kerrin Mcevoy in Melbourne for the Caulfield Cup, John Sargent had to find a new rider for Palmetto in the Five Diamonds Prelude and his booking of Kathy O’Hara proved a …
The Group 1 Thousand Guineas (1600m) is next on the agenda for the Michael Moroney trained Coeur Volante who remained unbeaten this preparation, taking out the Group 2 Thousand Guineas Prelude (1400m) …
With his wife and children watching on, Damien Oliver guided home a winner at his final Caulfield Cup meeting. Oliver announced his retirement from riding at the start of the Spring …
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have continued their outstanding start to the juvenile season, producing Shangri La Express for a debut win at Randwick to give them three of the first …
Mention to Steve Wolfe that Red Can Man has not won a race for a while and the Albany-based trainer bristles at the remarks. The records show Red Can Man hasn’t …
James Cummings will attempt the rare feat of a running double with siblings at Randwick when products of blueblood mare Memorial step out within 40 minutes of each other this Saturday. Boom …
Trainer Grahame Begg has been denied a start in a feature Cup race for a second time with Nonconformist being scratched from the Caulfield Cup. Nonconformist presented with lameness in his right-hind …
Grahame Begg is banking on an early morning trip being the catalyst for C’Est Magique finding winning form again. A debut winner on the synthetic track at Pakenham in August last year, C’est Magique has raced exclusively …
Racing Victoria and Melbourne’s metropolitan racing clubs all undertake their own international recruiting campaigns, but some perform the role without being on the payroll. Damian Lane is something of an unofficial …
The updates from the Werribee quarantine facility had always been positive, but that didn’t mean Ed Crisford wasn’t without some trepidation when he saw West Wind Blows for the first time in …
Twenty-four hours can be a long time in racing, just ask Newcastle trainer Sam Kavanagh. On Tuesday, Kavanagh was bullish about the chances of his veteran miler Aramayo in the Big …
The trainer-jockey combination of John O’Shea and Tom Sherry has already celebrated a black-type double this spring and at Randwick on Saturday they will chase a $1 million payday. Having combined to …
There are many big races in Australia that all have something a little different about them – think the Melbourne Cup, Cox Plate, Golden Slipper and even The Everest. But for …
The eight-year-old has not saluted in Perth, but has gone close to taking out a feature event with four placings in Group and Listed races since last year. Titan Blinders ran …
