Group 1 galloper Kia Ora Koutou has been installed a pre-post $2.75 favourite for the $400,000 WATC Derby on April 16. The son of Scenic Lodge champion Blackfriars was unbeaten in four starts at Pinjarra and Belmont earlier this season before travelling to Flemington for the G1 Victoria Derby. He settled in the back half…
DetailsFormer Perth mare Real Love has been in work for over six months and is still prepared to tough out the hard yards for trainer Darren Weir. A homebred for Bob and Sandra Peters, she broke through for her new stable in the LR Roy Higgins Quality (2600m) on Saturday and will head interstate again…
DetailsPremier Victorian trainer Darren Weir has accepted to run Signoff in Monday’s Group II Adelaide Cup (3200m). Up Cups is one of 18 acceptors for Monday’s Adelaide Cup. Photo: Magic Millions Signoff strolled to an easy win in the Group III Lord Reims Stakes (2600m) at Morphettville last Saturday but the Ballarat trainer flagged the…
DetailsPopular South Coast of New South Wales trainer Bede Murray has passed away peacefully in his sleep overnight at the age of 80. Bede Murray. Photo: Steve Hart. Murray started his training career in 1962 at his Conjola property “Rissmore”, south of Nowra. “Horses in the country do better as it’s closer to their natural…
DetailsRWWA Stewards have been advised by the ChemCentre in Perth, that cobalt at a concentration in excess of 200 micrograms per litre, being the threshold prescribed in the Harness Rules of Racing, has been detected in a urine sample taken from DREAM TO BELIEVE at Northam on 16 January 2016 after it had competed and…
DetailsKalgoorlie-based horseman, Brett Mathews, is confident Western Blaze can set a weight carrying record to win the $70,000 Esperance Freight Lines-Esperance Cup (2000m) on Saturday. Western Blaze is the 61.5kg top weight and the biggest impost carried to win Esperance’s premier staying race since the metric system was introduced to racing in 1972 was 61kg…
DetailsAn intriguing sidelight to Geraldton’s meeting on Wednesday is the battle between young gun, Sarah Childs and veteran horseman, Gordon Spowart for leading trainer. It’s exciting new territory for Childs who is in search of her first Geraldton trainer’s premiership while Spowart is looking to extend his record-breaking tally to 19. With five meetings remaining…
DetailsRWWA Stewards today inquired into a report received from the ChemCentre in Perth, that arsenic in excess of the threshold of 0.3 mg/L in urine has been detected in the post-race urine sample taken from DUST ME OFF at Ascot on 5 December 2015 after it had competed and won in Race 5. This finding…
DetailsJake Casey will represent Western Australia in the first leg of the National Apprentice challenge at Sandown on Thursday. Casey will partner the Robert Griffiths-trained Flying Geepee, a Flying Spur three-year-old who is returning from a spell. The gelding, who has drawn the widest gate in the field of ten, has one win and three…
DetailsExtreme Choice is the new favourite with most firms for the 2016 Golden Slipper Stakes following his brilliant Blue Diamond Stakes victory. Extreme Choice is favourite with most firms for the 2016 Golden Slipper Stakes. Photo: Darryl Sherer The Mick Price-trained Extreme Choice remained unbeaten with victory in Saturday’s Group I Blue Diamond Stakes at…
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