Jockey Ryan Hill will out to maintain his good form after picking up a good book of mounts at Belmont Park’s midweek programme. Hill, fresh from a Kalgoorlie double on Sunday, is upbeat about the winning prospects of Jim Taylor stable mates Baraki Beats and Slik Act. Baraki Beats, one of the 14 combatants in…
DetailsRacing Victoria has announced a change of dates it says will provide a smoother build-up for this year’s Cox Plate contenders. The Group I Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) and Underwood Stakes (1800m) were run a week apart last year but the Melbourne Racing Club and RV agreed to move the Underwood Stakes back a week…
DetailsJo Anne Leeson and her Testa Rossa gelding, Tindal, combined to score their second consecutive win in the Minilya Sprint (1200m) at Carnarvon on Saturday. Tindal defied his rating and proved there was still plenty of life left in his ageing nine-year-old legs when he bloused out favourite, Iconoclast, by a short-head. In a driving…
DetailsPaul King had only one engagement at Rosehill on Saturday but went home a winner as the Kristen Buchanan-trained Two Blue prevailed in the TAB Benchmark 85 Handicap (1200m). Paul King made full use of his only ride at Rosehill on Saturday Photo: Steve Hart King had to wait until the final race on the…
DetailsPat Bermingham Jnr says multiple gear changes will be the key to Casino Gleam bouncing back an atoning in the Goldfields Printing Handicap (1760m) on Sunday. Bermingham Jnr believes Casino Gleam lost a golden opportunity of registering his first win this campaign after a close runner up placing last week. The bay gelding raced away…
DetailsThe Group 3 Strickland Stakes (2000m) takes top billing at Belmont on Saturday but a worthy undercard will be a hot edition of the Westspeed 3YO Handicap (1300m). It’s attracted a cracking line up including outstanding last-start winners, Bourne Supremacy and Flying Roar as well as the return of talented gelding, Outlaw Pete. The son…
DetailsAdam Durrant fears the Strickland Stakes (2000m) could be run in the same fashion as the Hyperion Stakes (1600m), giving Fuchsia Bandana a major advantage in the Group 3 feature at Belmont on Saturday. Fuchsia Bandana took up the running in the Hyperion Stakes and with no pressure applied she was able to dictate terms…
DetailsThe 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…
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