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Melbourne Cup winner Rogan Josh dies aged 29

Posted on June 24, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Living Legends have announced that 1999 Melbourne Cup winner Rogan Josh has sadly passed away. ‘Josh’, as he was affectionately known, was humanely euthanised following colic-related complications.

Posted on June 10, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

After being sensationally scratched on the eve of last year's $5 million Cox Plate, French import Gold Trip is on the comeback trail with another tilt at the prestigious race in sight.

Posted on June 10, 2022
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Blake Shinn has been fined a massive HK$600,000 by Hong Kong stewards for attending venues he was not permitted to visit under the Hong Kong Jockey Club-mandated COVID protocols.

Posted on June 4, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Irish Sequel gave Chris Waller his fifth winner across the country for the day when taking out the Listed Furphy Winter Cup (2400m) at Rosehill Gardens in a thrilling three horse finish. Getting back on to the top of the ground proved beneficial for the Invincible Spirit gelding who was settled back in the second[...]

Posted on April 30, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Glint Of Hope has taken out the Group 1 Australasian Oaks at Morphettville for Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young under a gun ride from Daniel Moor. From her nine race starts, the VRC Oaks has been the only time the daughter of Deep Impact has been out of the placings, including a second in the Group 3 Ethereal Stakes[...]

Posted on April 23, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Champagne Dreams has broken through in a class field for her first Stakes victory in the Listed Redelva Stakes (1100m) at Morphettville. Trained from Strathalbyn by Wayne Francis & Glen Kent, the three-year-old daughter of Reward For Effort was coming off a close second at Moonee Valley where she was run down to be beaten[...]

Posted on April 23, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Bella Vella has returned in brilliant fashion from a failed stint in the breeding barn to take out the Group 3 R N Irwin Stakes (1100m) at Morphettville. Sent out a $5.50 chance with online bookmakers after a recent trial win, the now seven-year-old mare lead throughout under Kayla Crowther before having to dig deep to fend[...]

Posted on April 23, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

It was the first time Team Hawkes have had a runner in Tamworth, but the trip paid off when Bandersnatch claimed the $200,000 Tamworth Cup (1400m) on Friday. Shouldering 62kg and ridden by Golden Slipper winning jockey Brenton Avdulla, Bandersnatch was second up after a good two-length fifth in the hotly run Group 3 Star Kingdom Stakes[...]

Posted on April 20, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

While country trainers and connections are happy with the ever-increasing prizemoney and initiatives for country-trained horses, there has been an underlying feeling of ‘the battler’ slowly being pushed out by city-trained horses.

Posted on April 16, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Nash Rawiller had gone to the far extreme of his outside fence run in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes last weekend, instead scraping the inside rail in the Group 3 Hall Mark Stakes (1200m) to get Kementari over the line for James Cummings. Jumping from barrier 4, Kementari settled back fifth on the fence in the seven-horse field[...]

Posted on April 16, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Espiona has proved her doubters wrong and shown she is a filly on the rise when blowing them away in the Group 3 James H.B. Carr Stakes at Randwick. Winner of the Listed Desirable Stakes (1400m) at Flemington in November, the Chris Waller-trained Extreme Choice filly finished second and third respectively in the Group 2[...]

Posted on April 15, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

The inaugural running of the $500,000 The Country Discovery (1100m) has been won in impressive fashion by the ever consistent In The Boat for Warrnambool trainer Lindsay Smith. The four-year-old Nostradamus gelding notched up his seventh win from just eleven starts in the feature and took his prizemoney to over $600,000. Having never been out[...]

Posted on April 15, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jordan Childs has ridden a double in two of the feature races on the Sale Good Friday card, steering the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Spleniferous to victory in the $150,000 Country Oaks (2200m) before backing up with Thought Provoking for Mick Price and Michael Kent (Jnr) in the $100,000 Good Friday Appeal Cup (2200m).[...]

Posted on April 15, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

The inaugural Good Friday meeting at Sale kicked off with the running of the Country Trainers Series Finals. The new initiative from Racing Victoria is exclusive to trainers who are licenced in Victoria and had less than 50 metropolitan starters in the 2020-21 racing season and less than five metropolitan winners in the same period.[...]

Posted on April 13, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Mugatoo, the 2021 All-Star Mile champion, made a positive step in his progression back to the races when trialling at Muswellbrook on Wednesday morning.

Posted on April 11, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Country Discovery at Sale on Good Friday was the original plan for Shelby Sixtysix, but trainer Danny Williams has instead opted for the Group 12 All Aged Stakes at Randwick on Easter Saturday.

Posted on April 11, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Top New South Wales jockey Christian Reith was dislodged when his mount Graphite Mist fell at around the 150m mark in the opening event at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday.

Author: Belinda Jones

Melbourne Cup winner Rogan Josh dies aged 29

Cox Plate still the goal for Gold Trip

HKJC fines Blake Shinn $600k over COVID breaches

Irish Sequel arrives in time to take out Winter Cup

Glint Of Hope claims enthralling Australasian Oaks

Champagne Dreams breaks rivals hearts in Redelva Stakes

Bella Vella wins the R N Irwin Stakes

Bandersnatch lugs big weight to claim Tamworth Cup

Conditions confirmed for $2m Big Dance feature in November

Rawiller’s tactics slammed as Kementari claims Hall Mark Stakes

Espiona bounces back to form with dominant win

In The Boat puts massive gap on rivals in The Country Discovery

Jordan Childs steers home the winners of the Country Oaks & Good Friday Appeal Cup

Duric & Brown pearlers help take out the Country Trainers Series Finals

Mugatoo on comeback trail after tendon injury

Shelby Sixtysix to skip Sale for All Aged Stakes tilt

Reith hospitalised with broken vertebra after Newcastle fall

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