The transition from Ascot to Belmont Park on Saturday provided young trainer Chris Gangemi with a major spike in confidence. Searching to end a frustrating summer campaign, Gangemi got it with Twelve Rounds in the opening race of the winter season. The Not A Single Doubt colt could have ended Gangemi’s misery at summer headquarters…
DetailsBunbury jockey Kate Witten represents WA in the penultimate leg of the National Apprentice Series at Alice Springs this afternoon. Witten picks up the mount on the George Cooke-trained Threelegsagain who is rated one of the outsiders in the 11 horse line up. The son of Danbird will need to lift on current performances after…
DetailsAn understated Neville Newton is taking a cautious approach with Comanche Red in the Race Round 2015 Tentland Tickets Now On Sale Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. Newton believes a weight rise could test the Fly Pegasus gelding who unleashed a brilliant finish to score handsomely when resuming first-up two weeks ago. Carrying 56.5kg for apprentice…
DetailsStewards today resumed the inquiry regarding trainer Ms S Taylor to clarify various aspects following her previous plea of guilty on 2 April 2015 to a charge under AR178 concerning the detection of cobalt at a level in excess of 200 micrograms per litre from a sample taken at Ascot following Race 5 on 4…
DetailsThoroughbred – Stewards’ Inquiry – Licensed Trainer Ms Kellie Kersley – Ascot Racecourse Trackwork on Tuesday, 17 March 2015. RWWA Stewards yesterday afternoon continued the adjourned inquiry into a report received from Stewards Investigative Officer, Ms Taleah Moult regarding a direction given by her to licensed trainer, Ms Kellie Kersley to provide a urine sample…
DetailsBullsbrook trainer Jim Taylor is gearing up for a massive weekend and admits the task of preparing for an interstate feature double has proved a challenging exercise. Taylor saddles Magnifisio in the Group 1 William Hill Classic (1200m) at Morphettville on Saturday before turning his attention to Barakey’s return in the Listed Northam Stakes (1100m)…
DetailsJake Casey is aiming to capitalise on Lucy Warwick’s absence in his bid to win Bunbury’s Leading Apprentice on Wednesday. Casey, with one meeting remaining, is one win shy of the lead but will fancy his chances with a strong book of rides. Casey, fresh from an Ascot double on Saturday, partners Fabulistic in the…
DetailsRacing Australia (formerly the Australian Racing Board) has release a number of new and amended Australian Rules of Racing. I encourage Members to take the time to review these Rules. To view the Rules in full, please click on the relevant links. AR.85A(3) – Licensing of Riders Agents Date of Effect: 1 May 2015 AR.146…
DetailsThoroughbred – Stewards Inquiry – Trainer Ms Sharon Taylor – IGNITION At a Stewards inquiry conducted on 2 April 2015, trainer Ms Sharon Taylor pleaded guilty to a charge under AR178 with the particulars of the charge that as the trainer, she brought and presented IGNITION for the purposes of engaging to race in Race…
DetailsIt looks a promising Ascot programme for Simon Miller and none more so than race one when exciting three-year-old Liberty’s Gem makes his much-anticipated return to racing on Saturday. Miller has excellent claims with Muskets At Dawn, Eurosun and Nat The Fyfe, but it’s Liberty’s Gem that will command his attention in the Westspeed Handicap…
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