Veteran sprinter Music Magnate is set to begin his third Queensland winter carnival campaign at the Gold Coast. Sydney trainer Bjorn Baker elected to avoid the Victory Stakes over 1200m at Eagle Farm last Saturday and is looking to run Music Magnate over 1400m seven days later in the Australian Turf Club Trophy (formerly Prime[...]

Instead of contesting the feature flat race at the Warrnambool carnival, Self Sense will run a day earlier in the main hurdle event. A lacklustre performance on the flat at Flemington on Anzac Day has forced a rethink from trainer David Brideoake and connections. The winner of the Yarra Valley and Mornington Cups before a[...]

Australian Oaks runner-up Scarlet Dream is pressing on for a Brisbane campaign with the Group One Queensland Oaks and possibly the Derby on the agenda. The Mark Newnham-trained filly finished just under two lengths behind Verry Elleegant in the Australian Oaks (2400m) at Randwick at her most recent start on April 13 and she will[...]

Trainer Dean Krongold is banking on a dry start to the Warrnambool carnival in a bid to run Man Of His Word in the feature sprint race. The Warrnambool carnival can be notoriously wet, something Krongold is keen to avoid with Man Of His Word who is down to run in Wednesday's Listed Wangoom Handicap[...]

A text message sent to Gai Waterhouse has led to Shane Jackson becoming her go-to rider in jumps races. Waterhouse was lamenting how difficult it was to get a rider for her horses at the start of the jumping season until she received a text message from Jackson. Along with training partner Adrian Bott, Waterhouse[...]

Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller leads the numbers for the nominations in the Group One races in the Brisbane winter carnival. The entries for the seven Group One races held by the Brisbane Racing Club closed on Tuesday morning. There were 29 nominations for the Doomben 10,000 on May 12 with Waller having favourite Nature[...]

A capacity field has been declared for the Group One Australasian Oaks while a field of 15 is set to contest the Group One TAB Classic for fillies and mares. The Australasian Oaks (2000m) and TAB Classic (1200m), registered as the Robert Sangster Stakes, headline Saturday's program at Morphettville. The Hawkes Racing-trained Amangiri, a luckless[...]

Multiple Group One-winning jockey Damian Browne has announced his retirement. Caloundra-based Browne, 46, has not ridden since January after first having problems with a perforated bowel as a result of taking anti-inflammatory drugs for problems with his knees. The diagnosis meant Browne could no longer take the medication and has been left with major knee[...]

Eagle Farm trainer Desleigh Forster hopes to continue her good start to the winter carnival with promising two-year-old Couldn't Refuse at the Gold Coast. Forster's stable star Chapter And Verse opened his winter campaign on Saturday with a runaway win in the Metricon Plate (1200m) at Eagle Farm. The trainer is aiming him at the[...]

The Lloyd Williams-owned Master Of Reality has caused an upset to win the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan and set up a tilt at the Gold Cup at Royal Ascot. Master Of Reality is trained by Joseph O'Brien who combined with Williams to win the 2017 Melbourne Cup with Rekindling. A field of nine runners[...]

Adelaide Cup winner Surprise Baby is set to run at Flemington as a prelude to an attempt at a ballot exemption for the Melbourne Cup. Surprise Baby runs over 2600m at Flemington on Saturday in the lead-up to the revamped Andrew Ramsden (2800m) at Flemington on May 25. The Andrew Ramsden has been shortened from[...]

The best horse Gerald Ryan will take to a racetrack this week will not be competing but the trainer is more than keen to see Menari have a testing gallop. Menari's stud career has been put on hold after he managed to get only 20 of 70 mares in foal in his first season and[...]

Brilliant filly Sunlight will miss the Adelaide carnival and be spelled before being prepared for an assault on The Everest in the spring. Trainer Tony McEvoy was not happy with Sunlight after she trialled at Gawler last Friday and on Monday ruled her out of Saturday's Group One Sangster Stakes at Morphettville. “She didn't bounce[...]

Classy filly Outback Barbie will wear blinkers and will be ridden for the first time by Jeff Lloyd when she resumes in the Listed Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast. Rain has played havoc with premier Brisbane trainer Tony Gollan's early winter carnival plans but he will have a strong team including three-year-olds Outback Barbie[...]