Group l racing returns to Sha Tin on Sunday with a couple of majors highlighting a bumper eleven race card, the The Centenary Sprint Cup (1200m) and Stewards Cup (1600m). BONUS #1: $501 FREE BET BONUS at Sportsbet.com.au BONUS #2: $500 FREE BET BONUS at Ladbrokes.com.au BIG BONUS #3:… Read More »
Another 17 Hong Kong races will be opened up to international competition in the new season. Fourteen of the newly opened races hold restricted rating bands which will be removed bringing the number of open races in 2016/17 to 31. The Hong Kong Jockey Club made the announcement at the… Read More »
Keen Ice, the only horse to beat Triple Crown winner American Pharoah last year, heads a strong list of American nominations for the $10 million Dubai World Cup. Keen Ice won the Travers Stakes to take his claim for the World Cup on March 26. The son of 2008 World… Read More »
Champion Irish jumps trainer Willie Mullins has dominated two feature meetings with his team gearing up for the Cheltenham festival. With just over seven weeks to Cheltenham, Mullins plundered two big prizes at Ascot on Saturday with Un De Sceaux and Vroum Vroum Mag and then yielded a four-timer at… Read More »
Queensland filly O’Reilly Cyrus has failed to deliver trainer Liam Birchley a third win in the Karaka Million at Ellerslie, finishing seventh behind Xiong Feng. Birchley won the $1 million race in 2010 with Sister Havana and again last year with Hardline. O’Reilly Cyrus was always back around midfield on… Read More »
Richard Johnson has joined the retired Tony McCoy to become just the second jockey to ride 3000 winners over jumps on Britain and Ireland. Johnson brought up the milestone at Ascot aboard the Phillip Hobbs-trained Duke Des Champs on Saturday, his second win of the meeting. Johnson brought up his… Read More »
A bumper eleven race card will be run and won at Sha Tin on Sunday, where the feature race is the Group l Hong Kong Classic Mile (1600m), where all eyes will be on former kiwi Werther, who was awfully impressive at his Hong Kong debut on International Day. Hugh… Read More »
Allan Sharrock sounded an ominous warning at Trentham to future opponents of his stable spearhead Kawi. The Taranaki trainer produced the versatile five-year-old to win Saturday’s Group One Thorndon Mile and he’s confident the handsome son of Savabeel will be even better next time out. “He was fractionally fresh and… Read More »
Five former champion jumps jockeys, including Sir Anthony McCoy and Richard Dunwoody, have enrolled in a ground-breaking research project examining the long-term impact of concussion in sport. The study will investigate the correlation between those in sport susceptible to receiving blows to the head and long-term damage to the brain…. Read More »
Victor Espinoza is upbeat about California Chrome’s chances when he returns to Meydan for a second crack at the Dubai World Cup. Winner of the Kentucky Derby and Preakness in 2014, the five-year-old found only Prince Bishop too good in the world’s richest race last year, going down by just… Read More »
Triple Crown-winning Horse of the Year American Pharoah has been chosen the World’s Best Racehorse by the International Federation of Horseracing Authorities. The award presented on Tuesday is the latest for the champion colt who swept the Kentucky Derby, Preakness and Belmont Stakes before capping his career with a victory… Read More »
A strong eight race card will be run and won under the Happy Valley lights on Wednesday evening, where the feature race is the Class 2 Japan Racing Association Trophy (1200m). BONUS #1: $501 FREE BET BONUS at Sportsbet.com.au BONUS #2: $500 FREE BET BONUS at Ladbrokes.com.au BIG BONUS… Read More »
Attendances at British racecourses has exceeded six million for the first time in four years. The Racecourse Association has announced attendances at the 59 courses rose by 5.3 per cent in 2015 to 6,129,433 last year, 309,463 more than 2014 and just 21,810 short of the 2011 record. Average attendances… Read More »
Trainer Willie Mullins has confirmed his formidable trio of Faugheen, Nichols Canyon and Arctic Fire on course for the Irish Champion Hurdle at Leopardstown. The unbeaten record of last year’s Cheltenham Champion Hurdle winner Faugheen ended when he suffered a shock defeat by Nichols Canyon in the Morgiana Hurdle at… Read More »
American Pharoah has been named the United States Horse of the Year by a knockout, claiming all 261 votes. The Triple Crown and Breeders’ Cup Classic winner was also named the top three-year-old in another unanimous decision. American Pharoah and his connections picked up five Eclipse trophies on US racing’s… Read More »
A bumper ten race card will be run and won at Sha Tin on Sunday, where the feature race is the Lung Kong Handicap (1200m). BONUS #1: $501 FREE BET BONUS at Sportsbet.com.au BONUS #2: $500 FREE BET BONUS at Ladbrokes.com.au BIG BONUS #3: Deposit $400 BET with $1000… Read More »
A strong card of racing has been set down for Happy Valley on Wednesday night, where the feature race is the Class Four Craigengower Challenge Cup (1000m). BONUS #1: $501 FREE BET BONUS at Sportsbet.com.au BONUS #2: $500 FREE BET BONUS at Ladbrokes.com.au BIG BONUS #3: Deposit $400 BET… Read More »
American star California Chrome has made a triumphant return to racing with victory in the Group Two San Pasqual Stakes at Santa Anita. The 2014 Kentucky Derby winner had not been seen on the track since his second in the Dubai World Cup in March last year. The five-year-old stalked… Read More »
A bumper ten race card will be run and won at Sha Tin on Saturday, where the feature race is the Pearce Memorial Challenge Cup (1200m), a race which sees the Hong Kong debut of Merion, a former Mike Moroney galloper. BONUS #1: $501 FREE BET BONUS at Sportsbet.com.au… Read More »
Prize money at England’s famous Cheltenham Jumps Festival will exceed STG4 million ($A8.35 million) for the first time. The four-day festival in March showcases jumps racing with the highlight the Cheltenham Gold Cup which is worth STG575,000. ($A1.20 million). Irishman Willie Mulllins, the trainer of Melbourne Cup runner-up Max Dynamite,… Read More »
