Horse Racing News
Drying track good news for honest Grebeni in 2025 Civic Stakes
Grebeni will take his place in Saturday’s Civic Stakes (1400m) at Randwick, with trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou electing to stay local rather than head to Brisbane. The original plan was to target the Tattersall’s Mile (1600m) at Eagle Farm, but uncertainty around the Queensland track surface led the stable...
Talented Marble Nine chases another Flemington first
Marble Nine returns to Flemington on Saturday as he prepares for a more lucrative goal in the weeks ahead under the guidance of the Corstens and Larkin training combination. The four-year-old is entered in The Funky Farm Sprint (1100m), which will serve as a key lead-up to the Listed Santa Ana...
Oaklands Plate a possibility for Millennium Blade
The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr yard are planning to stretch Millennium Blade out to 1400m as they push for the colt’s first win before the season concludes. Millennium Blade appears in the nominations for Saturday’s TAB We’re On (1420m) at Flemington, one of 11 entries, though a switch to...
Jason Miller after further 2025 Strickland Stakes glory
Immortalising his place in Strickland Stakes folklore, trainer Jason Miller is ready to run Admiration Express in Saturday’s Group 3 Strickland Stakes (2000m) at Pinjarra as he chases a fourth win in the race. Miller, who began with Dedicated Miss as a jockey in 2004 and later trained Naughty By Nature...
James McDonald notches another Royal Ascot winner
Top jockey James McDonald has captured another highlight at Royal Ascot, this time aboard Crimson Advocate in the Group 2 Duke Of Cambridge Stakes. Crimson Advocate, a past winner of the Queen Mary Stakes as a two-year-old, returned to Royal Ascot as a more mature and versatile performer. After a testing...
Jockey Tim Clark has covered all Bases this season
Tim Clark added another major trophy to his career collection last weekend, steering War Machine to victory in the Stradbroke Handicap. It marked the 26th Group 1 win of his career, coming 17 years after his breakthrough aboard Typhoon Zed in the 2008 The Galaxy. The veteran hoop continues to thrive...
El Soleado heads back to Flemington races
Veteran jockey Tim Clark continued his Group 1 dominance with a hard-fought win on War Machine in the Stradbroke Handicap, taking his tally of major wins to 26. His journey at the elite level began in 2008, when he piloted Typhoon Zed to victory in The Galaxy. Now nearly two decades...
2025 Winx Guineas a potential goal for improving Millie De Lune
Plans for Millie De Lune to contest the Queensland Oaks didn’t materialise, but trainer Matthew Smith is still hopeful of a winter carnival run, starting with Saturday’s Elite Sand & Soil Handicap (1800m) at Randwick. Denied a start in the Group 1 due to insufficient prizemoney, Millie De Lune bounced back...
Ciaron Maher to take over Leilani Lodge
Leading trainer Ciaron Maher has been granted a base at Randwick and will take over the facility formerly known as Leilani Lodge. Maher was one of three applicants for the boxes, along with Tulloch Lodge duo Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott, and former Godolphin head trainer James Cummings, who subsequently withdrew his...
Sears hoping to ride another Wave in the 2025 Ipswich Cup
Red Wave’s winter carnival campaign may have started with a hiccup, but co-trainer Maddysen Sears believes the gelding is ready to peak for his title defence in the Ipswich Cup (2150m). Originally set to resume in May, a bruised heel meant plans were delayed and the six-year-old is now third-up, backing...