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Banned Racehorse Azkadellia Up For Auction

Posted on September 26, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Group One winner Azkadellia, who has been banned from racing, is one of a number of former racehorses being auctioned at Echuca. Azkadellia, winner of the Group One Queen Of The Turf Stakes at Randwick in the autumn of 2016, has not raced since June 2016 following a Racing Victoria investigation into the mare's ownership[...]

Posted on September 26, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Veteran Sydney gelding Top Striker finds himself in new territory at Doomben where he will make his interstate debut at the ripe age of eight. In a career that has spanned 44 starts, Top Striker has only raced on NSW tracks, his furthest venture coming just two months ago when he travelled to the NSW[...]

Posted on September 26, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The only thing left for the CV of multiple stakes winner Winter Bride is to land a Group One victory. Co-trainer Toby Edmonds said Friday night's Moir Stakes (1000m) was always intended to be Winter Bride's campaign opener although the Manikato Stakes (1200m) at The Valley on October 25 may prove to be a better[...]

Posted on September 26, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

The high-profile Brisbane training partnership between Robert Heathcote and Chris Anderson is to be dissolved. Anderson says the two have agreed to an amicable split after joining forces in May. He says he hopes the paperwork will be finalised by October 1 to return to individual stables. “Rob and I have agreed to go our[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Victorian horse trainer Jarrod McLean has accused police of unlawfully giving the state's racing body information to charge him after a raid. McLean alleges Victoria Police passed on to Racing Victoria details of items seized during the execution of a warrant at his Yangery stables, near Warrnambool in January. But police lawyers argued in the[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Kathy O'Hara has had a three-month ban for using her mobile phone during race days reduced from 13 weeks to five. At an inquiry earlier in September, O'Hara pleaded guilty to using her phone in the jockeys' room on 65 occasions during a 12-month period. Riders are not allowed to use their phones during a[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jockey John Allen knows what it takes to win a Victoria Derby and says Adelaide Ace has the attributes to succeed in the classic. Allen won the Derby in 2018 on the Darren Weir-trained Extra Brut and partnered Adelaide Ace to victory in the Victoria Derby Trial at Flemington on Wednesday. Adelaide Ace is prepared[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

After racing too keenly in the Naturalism Stakes, Super Titus will return to Caulfield to race on an eight-day back-up in the Group One Underwood Stakes. Super Titus was an impressive winner of the Listed Heatherlie Handicap over 1700m at Caulfield two starts ago and then went to last Saturday's Naturalism (2000m) as the $3.60[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Sydney trainer Mark Newnham has landed successive VRC Oaks Trial victories after Celestial Falls led throughout at Flemington. Celestial Falls' older half-sister Greysful Glamour won the corresponding race 12 months ago before going on to finish second in the VRC Oaks at Flemington two starts later. Under a well-judged front-running ride from jockey Tim Clark[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Enticing Star will try to emulate stablemate Arcadia Queen with a Group Two win at Rosehill at her first Sydney start. Leviathan Perth owner Bob Peters has sent the mares from the west to Rosehill trainer Chris Waller and both have secured starts in the $14 million Everest on October 19. Arcadia Queen made an[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Tony McEvoy hopes Sisstar's victory at Flemington is the entree to a bigger dish later in the week. Sisstar is the younger sibling of multiple Group One winner Sunlight, who runs in Friday night's Group One Moir Stakes at The Valley. Living in the shadow of her big sister has resulted in Sisstar not[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

If Bivouac can get the job done in the Golden Rose at Rosehill, trainer James Cummings would not rule out a tilt at the $14 million Everest. Saturday's Group One Golden Rose (1400m) is known as a stallion-making race and Godolphin has four past winners – Astern (2016), Exosphere (2015), Hallowed Crown 2014) Epaulette (2012)[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

New Zealand trainer Tony Pike does not believe he could have The Bostonian going any better ahead of the sprinter's spring return in the $1 million Moir Stakes at The Valley, but would have liked a better barrier draw. The Bostonian, who won two weight-for-age Group Ones in Brisbane in his previous preparation, begins his[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Trainer Grahame Begg isn't one to rush his two-year-olds but the first time he galloped Mildred, the filly showed she was a ready-made racehorse. So Begg had no hesitation running Mildred in the opening two-year-old race of the season, the Darley Spring Preview (900m) at Flemington on Wednesday. Mildred joined Begg's stable at the start[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Epsom Handicap favourite Te Akau Shark has had a gallop between races at Canterbury, with jockey James McDonald and trainer Jamie Richards pleased with his condition. The New Zealand gelding finished second to Dreamforce in his first Australian start in the Tramway Stakes but still retains favouritism for the Group One Epsom (1600m) on Saturday[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

Two veteran Victorian jockeys will have surgery and have an extended stay on the sidelines following recent falls. Kevin Forrester will have surgery to repair a fractured pelvis after falling during trackwork at Cranbourne on Wednesday. Victorian Jockeys Association chief executive Matthew Hyland said Forrester was conscious and in a stable condition after also incurring[...]

Posted on September 25, 2019
in Australian Horse Racing News

When it comes to emerging equine talent in Mark Newnham's Sydney stables, staying prospect Shadow Hero is high in the pecking order. Shadow Hero steps up to 1800m in Saturday's Group Three Gloaming Stakes at Rosehill on the way to spring targets over even greater distances. Newnham is aiming Shadow Hero at the Group One[...]

Author: AAP

Banned Racehorse Azkadellia Up For Auction

Sydney Striker Poised To Come Out On Top

Winter Bride In Order For Group 1 Moir Assault

Anderson/Heathcote To Dissolve Partnership

Vic Trainer Claims Police Acted Unlawfully

O’Hara Ban Cut To Five Weeks On Appeal

Allen Sees Derby Potential In Adelaide Ace

Super Titus To Back-Up In Group 1 Underwood

Back-To-Back Oaks Trial Wins For Newnham

Enticing Star Ready For Golden Pendant

Sunlight’s Sister Victorious At Flemington

Bivouac To Stake Claim As Best Colt

The Bostonian Set For Spring Return In Group 1

Mildred Takes 2yo Opener At Flemington

Te Akau Shark Has Day Out At Canterbury

Jockeys To Undergo Surgery After Falls

Gloaming Stakes Next Step For Shadow Hero

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