Lindsey Smith is banking on a change of venue to snap Zarantz back to winning form ahead of the Listed $120,000 XXXX-Gold Bunbury Cup (2200m) on Thursday. The Choisir gelding has raced with success at Northam, Pinjarra and Belmont, collecting five wins from 24 starts, but Ascot has proven to be his nemesis. Zarantz has…
DetailsAnne King will saddle up Already Famous in Thursday’s $120,000 Listed XXXX-Gold Bunbury Cup (2200m). The son of Viscount is rated a $13 chance and a win would give King her greatest triumph in racing. The pair have gone close previously in big races with placings in the Boulder Cup (2100m) and AHA Cup (2019m).…
DetailsA change of career path has paid off handsomely for apprentice, Shelby Colgate, who punched home her first winner at Norseman on Saturday. Colgate had a brief taste of tertiary studies at university, but after two weeks of a physiotherapy course the 19-year-old swapped her textbooks for a saddle. At just her eighth ride, Colgate,…
DetailsA visit from the Compliance Assurance Team at the stables of Brian Cox on Thursday morning resulted in four horses being scratched from their engagements at Wangaratta later that day. During a routine stable inspection, the Compliance Assurance Team confiscated a substance that Cox refused to identify. Acting under the provisions of AR8(m), Stewards ordered…
DetailsGroup 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…
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