Horse Racing News
Small fish sweet pickings for David Payne
With Sydney’s best horses in the paddock and a ten-race card of exclusively benchmark events, David Payne is hoping to make the most of some off-season opportunities at Rosehill. The decorated trainer only has a small team in work these days, but he will have four runners at his home track on...
Horses disqualified, owners keep prize money
Racing Victoria has disqualified the 29 horses that Wiremu Pinn rode with an incorrect weight, but the connections of those horses will get to keep the prize money. RV Stewards ordered an inquiry after an audit established Pinn rode with an incorrect claim when he first came across from New Zealand to be based with Michael Kent at Cranbourne. A miscommunication...
Neville Parnham confident of claiming Aquanita Stakes
Trainer Neville Parnham believes Demolish has improved since his return run in the Belmont Guineas (1600m) and is confident the three-year-old can snap a feature race drought on Saturday. Demolish ran third to Rusty Dreams and Upper Limits in the Belmont Guineas two weeks ago, the Rich Enuff gelding’s fourth straight placing in Listed...
Trainer Adam Durrant closing in on another Belmont Oaks
Adam Durrant says Ihts Closing Inn has the credentials to go on with the job against career-best opposition at Belmont on Saturday. Ihts Closing Inn has been one of the eye-catchers of the winter season and is ready to take the leap from graduation company into stakes grade. The daughter of Sessions is...
Ryan, Alexiou filly starting to fulfil Expectation
Enthusiasm for a task is usually a good quality but when it comes to racehorses, it can be detrimental. When Deep Expectation joined the Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou yard earlier this year, the filly was keen to get on with the job and her high energy was costing her at...
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace to rely on mares at Coast
They didn’t get the Royal Ascot result they’d hoped for with Coolangatta, but Ciaron Maher and David Eustace still have some feature race cards to play before the end of the season. The training duo will have at least two stakes runners at the Sunshine Coast on Saturday with enigmatic mare [[Secret...
Flemington debut for Yeronga Songbird
A close relation to one of Hong Kong’s great milers will make her debut at Flemington this Saturday. Yeronga Songbird, a half-sister to Beauty Generation, will contest the $150,000 Next Generation Sprinters Series Final that kicks off the Finals Day card. The two-year-old is not only from a mare who has already...
First Immortal lines up in the Mahogany Challenge Final
Father-and-son training team Mark and Levi Kavanagh has been quietly developing First Immortal into a potential stayer of the future. After two victories at 2000 metres, the time has come to test the three-year-old at 2500m when he lines up in the Mahogany Challenge Final at Flemington on Saturday. The corresponding race in...
Silverina kicks off at Flemington
Liam Howley will kick off the Australian career of former New Zealand mare Silverina at Flemington. Group 2 placed during her eight-start career in New Zealand, Silverina runs in the Leilani Series Final (1400m) on Saturday. Silverina has not raced since finishing third in the Group 2 Isuzu Stakes (1600m) at Te Rapa on December 10 before transferring into the care...
Linda Meech on track for her comeback at Flemington
Renowned jockey Linda Meech is on track for her comeback to the racing scene after an 12-day recovery period following a concussion from a race fall at Flemington. Meech aims to make her return at the Winter Championship meeting held at Flemington this Saturday. “I’m feeling really good now and can’t wait...