Godolphin head trainer James Cummings has been fined and his mare, Savatiano has had her G1 Canterbury Stakes stripped from her. This decision was made by the NSW Racing Stewards this afternoon following the detection of three banned substances in her urine post winning the Gr 1 Canterbury Stakes this… Read More »
James Cummings the head trainer of Godolphin in Australia faces the NSW stewards on Tuesday afternoon to explain why one of his star racehorses returned a positive. The mare, SAVATIANO (Street Cry – Retsina), tested positive to not one but three prohibited substances after she took out the Gr 1… Read More »
Young Victorian apprentice Matt Chadwick has started his career in the best possible way. Winning. He climbed on board the Gavin Bedggood trained DRONE STRIKE (Smart Missile – Mosoru) at Kilmore in a $25,000 BM 58 hoping for the best. The boy sprang her from the gates, sent her to… Read More »
Racing Victoria’s stewards will make all runner’s in this Saturday’s Gr 1 Blue Diamond Stakes for the babies, undergo a rigorous vet check prior to the race. And they have started their checks this morning. This follows a routine check that found unbeaten 2nd favourite LOFTY STRIKE (Snitzel – Overreach)… Read More »
It’s the end of a 40-year era. Team McEvoy will relocate all the horses to a Ballarat stable ending 40 years at Angaston in South Australia. In that time Tony McEvoy, then later alongside his son Calvin, rose to be the doyen of SA racing. He and his wife Jo… Read More »
What brave races both PARSIFAL (Darci Brahma – Della Lobra) and HE’S A BALTER (Spirit Of Boom – Moxie Doll) just ran at Meydan. After both settling last and 2nd early they picked off runners one by one with Parsifal running an unlucky 3rd and He’s A Balter finishing hard… Read More »
A new era in racing takes place today at Wyong and it may be a winning one at that. Champion rider from West Australia, Willie Pike, takes his first mounts since arriving in NSW where he hopes to establish himself as the best rider in the land. And those rides… Read More »
Many, many punters, and I readily admit to being one of them, are driven by omen tips. The old, ‘back the horse ridden by the first jockey you see’ trick is a beauty. But so too are world events. And at Wyong today, can there be a better, bigger, and… Read More »
Not a great day of race calling for Sydney’s Darren Flindell at Warwick Farm this afternoon. After seeming to completely forget the first two runners in race 3 for a few hundred metres he recovered a bit and got through that race. But his confidence must have been shaken because… Read More »
It’s almost like he needed to get ahead of the hue and cry which may follow, so Chris Waller today released a Press Release saying Jamie Kah will ride NATURE STRIP (Nicconi – Strikeline) and NOT James McDonald. Even though Jay Mac will be in Melbourne. Waller has put Nature… Read More »
Trial form is contentious, I get that. But at Rosehill yesterday the global superstar NATURE STRIP (Nicconi – Strikeline) stepped out over 900m and after leading under restraint, went to the line held together beaten a nose by Gr 1 winner WILD RULER (Snitzel – Gypsy Robin). They both hit… Read More »
If you don’t believe in God, or Heaven, or the power of the great unknown, then you should now. Two days ago Brian Davidson, a part-owner of the mare LARMOUR (Sizzling – Irish Teardrop) passed away. Prayers for his family and the mourners went skyward, and trainer Nick Olive brought… Read More »
Not much is known of the ‘pet’ interest outside of horse racing that former boom apprentice Campbell Rawiller has. But you will now. He trains a few greyhounds on the side. “I’ve got three in work right now, and they help to relieve the stress of race riding,” he said…. Read More »
It was announced in WA today that Willie Pike, that state’s best jockey, will move to Sydney. He, like Novak Djokovic, remains an ardent non-vaccinated advocate, and as such, believes he will be allowed to ride in NSW as an unvaccinated athlete. Bringing that claim into question was a message… Read More »
All Godolphin’s enigmatic Gr 1 winning star KEMENTARI (Lonhro – Yavanna) has to do on Saturday, is run and he will become part of Australian racing folk lore – and history. He’s the toppie for the $1million Magic Millions Cup over 1400m. He is a heavily backed $5 chance and… Read More »
His clients didn’t need much money and in fact only needed his good eye. That’s what trainer Les Ross can appreciate about the horses he landed from the 2021 Magic Millions sale. He saddles three in the big 2YO race and those three yearlings cost the princely sum of $12,000…. Read More »
The pandemic kept the visitors away last Gr 1 Melbourne Cup, meaning a local won. And, Australasian locals are versatile. Way more so than their European counterparts. As such, the Cup winner, wonder mare VERRY ELLEEGANT (Zed – Opulence), is among the 77 nominations for the world’s richest mile race,… Read More »
Oh my, do we have something here you have to listen too. As they crossed the line in a race at Orange Richie Callander who has been around a microphone for many, many years and who has a second job as CEO of the Trainer’s association, decided to start describing… Read More »
Back in 2006 rising star Victorian apprentice Brenton Primmer had an horrific fall at Warracknabeal. In the crash he smashed two vertebra in his neck and his brain bled. Some doctors didn’t think he’d make it. He lay in hospital for two months in an induced coma. Others, when he… Read More »
Officials at the highest level of Victorian racing are sitting back tight-lipped at the moment as fear has swept over the Caulfield meeting for Boxing Day. Late Christmas Eve and again Christmas Day hundreds of people who attended the funeral of popular apprentice Chris Caserta have been ordered to immediately… Read More »
