The Fair Work Commission has advised that a decision issued by the Minimum Wage Panel recently granted all employees (e.g. stablehands) a pay rise effective 1 JULY 2015. The Australian Trainers’ Association (ATA) has mailed the following information to ATA Members which you should receive shortly. Included in the mailer referred to above, ATA Members…
DetailsBroome punters might have been reeling after Tranquillo scored at big odds, but for apprentice jockey, Zack Gibbs, it is a race he will never forget. Zibb’s celebrated his first ever win as a jockey when he guided Tranquilo to an easy victory in the Territory Rural Maiden (1300m) on Saturday. The Bunbury galloper started…
DetailsRacing Queensland’s top integrity man Wade Birch has to fight to retain his job after he received a show-cause notice from the new administration. The Queensland Government sacked RQ’s board early this month in the wake of the live baiting furore that erupted in greyhound racing following an ABC investigation into the illegal process of…
DetailsDan Morton says it’s time for Woolibar to step up and reignite his campaign in the perthracing.com.au Handicap (1000m) at Belmont on Wednesday. After two fifths at Belmont and Northam, Morton concedes Woolibar has yet to reach the same heights he set last year The Ascot trainer set a high bar for Woolibar but based…
DetailsWith the Australian Group I races run and won for the 2014-15 season, Sydney trainer Chris Waller finished the term with a record-breaking 14 Group I wins next to his name. The tally surpassed John Hawkes’ total of 12 set in the 2002-03 season. But perhaps the most impressive aspect of Waller’s achievement is that…
DetailsThe Ciaron Maher-trained Srikandi ended her highly successful Queensland campaign with an emphatic victory in the Group I Tattersall’s Tiara (1400m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday. Srikandi claimed Queensland’s richest race, the Group I Stradbroke Handicap, two weeks ago at Doomben and on Saturday she repeated the dose against her own sex under weight-for-age…
DetailsTradesman by name but not by performance. Co-trainer Todd Harvey is excited by what lies ahead for his Trade Fair gelding after a career best win in the Listed Belmont Guineas (1600m) on Saturday. Aided by a gun ride from Troy Turner, Tradesman was not going to repeat his last-start heroics when he battled on…
DetailsChampion sprinter Takeover Target has been euthanized after succumbing to injuries sustained in a paddock accident. Takeover Target winning at the first post-EI meeting at Randwick in 2007. Photo: Steve Hart Takeover Target’s career was one of the Australian turf’s greatest stories. Purchased by his trainer Joe Janiak in the Inglis sales ring at a…
DetailsChris Parnham is banking on giving his father a race that has eluded his grasp when he returns home from Melbourne on Saturday. The gun young jockey has picked up the prized mount on Belmont Guineas (1600m) favourite, Top Show, one of four runners for trainer, Neville Parnham. At $4 Top Show heads an open…
DetailsThe Flirt looks well placed to shed his maiden status when he travels to Kalgoorlie and tackles the Like Us On Facebook Maiden (1400m) on Sunday. The Flirt is knocking on the door of victory with co-trainer Todd Harvey desperate for the gelding to prise it open after four placings from five starts. The only…
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