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Melbourne Spring Carnival Faces Changes

Posted on May 26, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Melbourne’s spring racing carnival may be overhauled because of a clash with the rescheduled AFL finals. The 2400m Group 1 Caulfield Cup, one of the biggest races of the season and a key lead-up to the Melbourne Cup, could be moved from mid-October to the end of November. The Herald Sun reported on Tuesday that[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

In-form Sydney colt Dawn Passage is the early favourite to win the Fred Best Classic at Doomben and clinch his spot in the Group One Stradbroke Handicap. The Group Three Fred Best Classic (1350m) on Saturday features a number of three-year-olds who also hold nominations for the Stradbroke a week later at Eagle Farm. The[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Well-related gelding Gobstopper is making his mark during this year’s Victorian jumps racing season and trainer Eric Musgrove is now plotting a path for him to the Grand National Hurdle. By Tavistock out of Bagalollies, Gobstopper’s siblings include former Hong Kong Horse of the Year Werther and recent Group One Australasian Oaks winner Toffee Tongue.[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Hey Doc has returned to work after a spell and will be given a slow build-up before the three-time Group One winner is locked into spring targets. Six-year-old Hey Doc has not started since unplaced in the Group One CF Orr Stakes in early February. “He only came back into work last week so he’s[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian jockey Zac Purton remains locked in a enthralling tussle with arch-rival Joao Moreira as he tries to defend his Hong Kong jockeys’ premiership crown. Purton rode four winners at Sha Tin on Sunday, including Exultant in the Champions & Chater Cup, the final Group One race of the Hong Kong season. But his quartet[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Prominent jockey Jason Waddell will quit New Zealand racing to ride in Australia as soon as travel between the two countries can resume. Waddell, regarded as one of New Zealand’s best riders with 13 Group One wins to his credit, said he had thought long and hard about the move. “After some long consideration, I[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Waikato jockey Ryan Elliot was a little disappointed about the season being curtailed as a result of COVID-19, but he is looking forward to getting back raceday riding in just over a month. The 21-year-old hoop was able to keep relatively busy at trainer Graeme Rogerson’s private training property in Hamilton over the lockdown period,[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

Gobstopper has given his Kiwi owners plenty of excitement over the COVID-19 enforced lockdown period, and he continued that on Sunday when taking out the Australian Hurdle (3900m) at Sandown. “I thought he was really professional this time, he didn’t over-race he got a nice trail and was ridden amazingly,” part-owner and former trainer Andrew[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Tavistock gelding Stockman continued to show his progressive talents at Randwick on Saturday when taking out his 2000m event, and trainer Joseph Pride is now eyeing some loftier targets for his charge. It was his third victory this preparation from just four starts, ranging from 1300m to 2000m, and Pride has been impressed with the[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Top Queensland sprinter Tambo’s Mate has been injured and will miss the Group One Stradbroke Handicap. Tambo’s Mate had beaten the ballot for the Stradbroke at Eagle Farm on June 6 after winning the Group Three BRC Sprint at Doomben three weeks ago. The gelding ran seventh in the Group Two Victory Stakes at Eagle[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Queensland’s iconic Birdsville horse racing carnival is the latest COVID-19 victim, with organisers announcing this year’s event has been scratched. The event, known as the Melbourne Cup of the outback, have been held since 1882 and is a major tourist drawcard for operators in the state’s far west. The races, staged in the Simpson Desert,[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Australian jockey Damian Lane has added another handful of winners to his tally in Japan but has come up short in the Group One Japanese Oaks won by emerging star Daring Tact. Lane rode five winners at Tokyo at the weekend, with a treble on Saturday and a double on Sunday. It has taken his[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Jockey Brad Stewart is the latest to need a stay on a suspension if he is to ride at the big Group One day of racing at Eagle Farm. There is an increasing shortage of top jockeys in Queensland which has been exacerbated by injury, suspensions and coronavirus restrictions imposed on interstate riders. Stewards opened[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in United Kingdom Horse Racing News

Brant Dunshea, chief regulatory officer at the British Horseracing Authority, has expressed his confidence that racing will be able to resume in Britain on June 1. Racing was last staged on March 17 and the government announced earlier this month that no professional sport, even behind closed doors, would take place before June 1 at[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Waikato Stud-based stallion Ocean Park was in the headlines again on the weekend after his three- year-old son Opacity took his career record to four wins from just six starts with an impressive victory in age-group company at Randwick on Saturday. The John O’Shea-trained gelding was having just his second start back in a new[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

It was hard work but Exultant has never been one to shirk a challenge. The tough kingpin of the Hong Kong stayers’ division proved his preeminence with a gritty second success in the Group 1 Standard Chartered Champions & Chater Cup (2400m) at Sha Tin on Sunday, 24 May. The six-year-old bay dug deep to[...]

Posted on May 25, 2020
in Hong Kong Horse Racing News

Thanks Forever fought his way to a deserved victory in the Group 3 Sha Tin Vase Handicap (1200m) at Sha Tin on Sunday, 24 May to initiate a big-race brace on an afternoon of plenty and pain for Zac Purton. The champion jockey had his head banged against the starting gate before race seven and[...]

Horse Racing News

Melbourne Spring Carnival Faces Changes

Stradbroke Places Up For Grabs At Doomben

Gobstopper Jumps Into National Contention

Hey Doc Returns In Boost For McEvoy Stable

Purton, Moreira HK Stoush Down To The Wire

Top NZ Jockey Waddell In Australian Move

Elliot set to surpass season’s best

Australian Hurdle triumph for Gobstopper

Pride eyeing Group 3 assignment for Stockman

Tambo’s Mate Injured, Out Of Group 1 Stradbroke

Birdsville Races Latest Covid-19 Casualty

Lane Adds More Winners During Japan Stay

Stewart Needs A Stay To Ride In Stradbroke

Officials Confident UK Racing Can Resume

Future looks bright for impressive Randwick winner

Exultant stamps Horse of the Year claim with Champions & Chater Cup victory

Thanks Forever takes the Sha Tin Vase on a dramatic day for Purton

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