Horse Racing News
Local trainers plotting The Gong upset
It might be a relatively recent addition to the calendar, but The Gong is a race close to the hearts of local horsemen Robert and Luke Price. Count De Rupee gave the Kembla Grange trainers their biggest win when he took out the 2021 renewal, atoning for a narrow defeat at the...
Two Cranbourne Cup hopes for leading stable
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace will attempt to keep the Cranbourne Cup on home soil when they saddle up Ascension and Charterhouse in the 1600m Listed race on Saturday. Since the Cranbourne Cup was shortened to 1600m and transferred to after the Melbourne Cup Carnival, Cranbourne trainers have taken out the race. Robbie Griffiths and Mathew...
Daniel Moor lands Forgot You ride in Railway Stakes
Jockey Daniel Moor has answered the call to head to Perth to ride Forgot You in the opening Group 1 race of The Pinnacles. Moor partnered the Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young-trained Forgot You to his three wins as a three-year-old before Blake Shinn registered a win on the now five-year-old at Flemington last time...
Lindsey Smith sweats on WA heat with Tuvalu ahead of Railway Stakes
Lindsey Smith has no complaints with the barrier Tuvalu drew for this Saturday’s Group 1 Railway Stakes at Ascot, but it is a different story with the weather in his old home town of Perth. Western Australia is in the early stages of a heat wave that will not abate until early next...
Gavin Bedggood on weather watch
Trainer Gavin Bedggood will wait as long as possible before making a decision on where he starts Just Folk on Saturday. Bedggood has Just Folk entered in the $1 million The Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange on Saturday along with the $500,000 Listed Cranbourne Cup over the same trip. Kembla Grange had been the preferred option,...
Jigsaw to chasing a second Apache Cat Classic
Jigsaw will line up for his third run at the Cranbourne Cup meeting when he looks to go back-to-back in the Apache Cat Classic. The Cindy Alderson-trained sprinter finished last on a very wet Cranbourne track on as a three-year-old in 2021 before taking out the Apache Cat Classic (1000m) last year. It will...
Malkovich on Warra weather watch
Short course specialist and one of the favourites for The Warra (1000m) on Saturday, Malkovich should take his place in the $300,000 Kembla Grange sprint provided the track isn’t too wet. Luke Hilton from the Bjorn Baker stable was confident the Kembla Grange track will hold up, with anywhere from 0-6mm of rain...
James McDonald hunting another Gong aboard Osipenko
After a dominant carnival in Melbourne, James McDonald will bid to add the $1 million The Gong to his spring portfolio before jetting off to Hong Kong for a short-term stint. Sydney’s reigning champion jockey will link with the Chris Waller-trained Osipenko in Saturday’s Kembla Grange feature, ahead of fulfilling a five-week...
Pounding set to tackle the Cranbourne Cup
The Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman stable are banking on the longer the preparation goes the better it will turn out for Pounding. The five-year-old will line up for the sixth run of the campaign when he contests the Listed Cranbourne Cup (1600m) on Saturday. Pounding’s current campaign kicked off in the P B Lawrence...
Hard To Say to continue winning ways in The Warra at Kembla
Time and patience are proving a successful combination for connections of Hard To Say as he attempts to extend his winning sequence to five in the $300,000 The Warra at Kembla Grange. The sprinter has been a revelation this campaign, book ending back-to-back victories in Brisbane with a first-up triumph at Rosehill...