Premier Mike Baird has announced that Greyhound racing will cease in NSW on July 1, next year. Baird announced the government’s decision in a post on his Facebook page. Baird said, In response to widespread illegal and unconscionable activity, including the slaughtering of tens of thousands of dogs, I can today announce that NSW is…
DetailsTrainer Justin Pateman is confident Showy Chloe can overcame a distance query and the threat of inclement weather when she steps up to 2000m for the first time in the Listed Belmont Oaks on Saturday. “We will find out on Saturday I guess, but I don’t have any queries really and I think there are…
DetailsChris Gangemi says there is further improvement to come from recent stable acquisition, Bangalore, in the Westspeed Nominations Closing July 15 Handicap (1000m) at Belmont on Wednesday. The former Hong Kong galloper made an auspicious Western Australian debut, rewarding favourite punters who were not afraid to target the Canny Lad gelding first up. The four-year-old,…
DetailsVega Magic has displayed his wares in brilliant fashion over the short course, but trainer Sean Casey is not convinced his talented gelding will be restricted to a sprinting career. Casey has drawn the curtain on Vega Magic’s winter campaign, spelling the son of Lope De Vega and plotting a path to the Group 1…
DetailsSteve Wolfe is enjoying a dream run that is often hoped for but rarely experienced as a trainer. The Albany horseman claimed his tenth win in the past month after My Greek Boy outgunned favourite, Uptown Funk and Sigil in the Amelia Park Handicap (1200m) at Belmont on Saturday Wolfe said the stable had deserved…
DetailsTrainer Ian Albuino is optimistic Masahiko can improve and be hard to beat in the Skylla Lounge Bar Sprint (1300m) at Broome on Saturday. Albuino and Masahiko formed a successful partnership at Broome last season, combining for two wins and a third from five starts. Masahiko, previously with Gai Waterhouse in Sydney, found a new…
DetailsNew Zealand-born Kyle Stammers had the perfect grounding to launch his training career and picked up the ideal horse to claim his first winner. With his father a trainer in New Zealand and a sister who rides track work for leading horseman, Paul O’Sullivan and Murray Baker, Stammers has racing coursing through his veins. Stammers’…
DetailsHe can’t recall the race, but its impact he will never forget. June 27 marked one year since Edward Creighton was involved in a sickening race fall at Warrnambool. The Irish-born jockey broke his left arm, fractured a vertebrae, broke his ribs, suffered bleeding on the brain and was in an induced coma. The resilient…
DetailsSarah Moody, the wife of suspended trainer Peter Moody, became the latest to be fined for making disparaging comments about Racing Victoria’s integrity department on social media. Sarah Moody (rear) after her husband Peter won a Group I on his last night of training. Photo: Darryl Sherer Stewards charged Mrs Moody with posting offensive material…
DetailsTrainer Neville Parnham is confident Secret Doubt can play a major force as she ramps up her bid for next month’s Belmont Oaks on Wednesday. Parnham expects Secret Doubt and Lindsey Smith’s Black Smuggler to fight out the finish in the Hahn Ultra Dry Handicap (1675m). Black Smugger failed to escape Parnham’s attention and those…
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