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Gollan’s Baller takes out the Moreton Cup

Posted on June 4, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Tony Gollan and Hugh Bowman combined for a memorable win as Baller recorded his second straight Moreton Cup at Eagle Farm. The six-year-old gelding got a sweet run in transit in the Group 3 event and put in the big bounds out wide on the track to win by a length. 2022 Moreton Cup Replay[...]

Posted on June 4, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

With a fourth straight Sydney metropolitan century and seemingly a sixth Sydney jockeys’ premiership in the bag, Kiwi jockey James McDonald could be forgiven for taking his foot off the throttle. But that’s the last thing on McDonald’s mind as he sets his sights on Brisbane Group One targets before jetting off to England for[...]

Posted on April 2, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Honeycreeper has raced away from the field to claim Saturday’s Group 3 Adrian Knox Stakes (2000m) at Randwick in dominant fashion under Hugh Bowman. Trained by James Cummings, the filly by Teofilo settled towards the rear of the big field after jumping from barrier 15, but she proved classes above her rivals, pulling clear to[...]

Posted on April 1, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Some of Australia's best riders will battle it out over the next two weeks during The Championships at Royal Randwick in a bid to win the Nathan Berry Medal.

Posted on April 1, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Newcastle Jockey Club hosted its second meeting for the week on Thursday with the running of the Provincial-Midway Championships Wild Card.

Posted on March 19, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Forbidden Love recorded consecutive Group 1 victories, claiming the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill Gardens. Now a three-time Group 1-winning mare, the daughter of All Too Hard did enough to fend of a last-stride effort from Colette and a game Laws Of Indices. Trained by the soon-to-be split Richard & Michael Freedman, the four-year-old mare[...]

Posted on March 12, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

The Richard & Michael Freedman-trained Glistening was able to deliver her second career stakes victory in the Listed Moomba Plate (1100m) at Flemington on Saturday. The Freedman brothers, who announced during the week that they will be ending their training partnership to go their separate ways, were able to pick up a first-up victory with[...]

Posted on March 7, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Group 1 winner Profondo will have a new rider in the Rosehill Guineas, as connections have advised that Hugh Bowman will take over from Robbie Dolan.

Posted on March 5, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

Just days after being stripped off the 2021 Canterbury Stakes due to Savatiano being disqualified, Hugh Bowman has notched up his 100th Group 1 victory – for the second time – aboard Forbidden Love in the 2022 Canterbury Stakes. The Richard & Michael Freedman-trained mare made it two wins in just seven days, after romping[...]

Posted on March 2, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

James Cummings has been fined AU$10,000 and Savatiano has been stripped of her sole Group 1 victory following an inquiry into the mare’s positive swab after her win in the 2021 Canterbury Stakes.

Posted on February 12, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

It was the race that everyone waited for on Saturday, as boom filly Espiona returned for her autumn campaign, but it was her stablemate Fangirl who spoilt the party, taking out the Group 2 Light Fingers Stakes in a terrific battle up the Randwick straight. The Chris Waller pair were expected to be in the[...]

Posted on February 12, 2022
in Australian Horse Racing News

The first Group race at Royal Randwick on Saturday was taken out by Lost And Running in what was a terrific edition of the Group 3 Southern Cross Stakes (1200m). With the scratching of his stablemate, Quantico, on Friday, Lost And Running started $2 across the three totes and proved far too good, defeating a[...]

Posted on October 22, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

A decade and a half after Todd Pollard entered the racing industry as an enthusiastic schoolboy, he now finds himself front and centre of one the world’s most famous races, the Group 1 W.S. Cox Plate (2040m). Pollard’s first taste of racing was as a 12-year-old working weekends and holidays as a stablehand for Matamata[...]

Posted on July 28, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Two of Australia's top jockeys, Hugh Bowman and James McDonald, have each been fined $1,000 over a breach of the Queensland Government’s health directions whilst in North Queensland on July 1.

Posted on April 18, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Leading Newcastle trainer Kris Lees has won the Provincial Championships Final for the third time in the race’s seven-year history, triumphing on Saturday with Cristal Breeze. An Australian Bloodstock syndication, Cristal Breeze was identified as the right type of horse for the $500,000 race last winter and connections have trodden a patient path to get[...]

Posted on April 11, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Edward Cummings will decide early this week whether Adrian Knox Stakes winner Duais will take her place in the Group 1 Australian Oaks. The filly gave the young horseman his first stakes success as a trainer in his own right when she raced away with Saturday’s Group 3 feature at Randwick on Saturday. Hailing from[...]

Posted on March 14, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Hugh Bowman thought hopes of winning the $5 million All Star Mile (1600m) at The Valley aboard Sydney visitor Mugatoo looked forlorn after his first two rides on Saturday. The rain that was forecast had not arrived, but it arrived in bucket loads after 3pm, moving the track into the soft range by All-Star Mile[...]

Gollan’s Baller takes out the Moreton Cup

Kiwi superstar McDonald not resting on his laurels

Honeycreeper dominates the Adrian Knox Stakes

Top jockeys to lock horns in Nathan Berry Medal race

Bowman, Pike star in Provincial-Midway meeting at Newcastle

Forbidden Love excels in the George Ryder Stakes

Glistening fends off her rivals in the Moomba Plate

Bowman replaces Dolan on Profondo ahead of Rosehill Guineas

Forbidden Love picks up the Canterbury Stakes

Cummings fined $10k as Savatiano loses G1 Canterbury Stakes title

Fangirl springs an upset in the Light Fingers Stakes

Lost And Running kicks off Autumn prep in style

Young Kiwi front and centre of Cox Plate preparations

NSW stewards fine Bowman & McDonald for COVID breaches

Cristal Breeze sparkles in Championships Final

Cummings considers Oaks start for Duais

Rain arrives in time for Mugatoo in All Star Mile

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