Horse Racing News
Casterton hit out set to shape Flying Mascot’s spring
A jump-out at Casterton will determine whether Flying Mascot will have the addition of blinkers when she has her next race start at Flemington. Trainer Tom Dabernig was disheartened with Flying Mascot’s first-up performance in the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield on July 8 and has called for a...
Golden Slipper winner Fireburn puts spring in trainer’s step
Having put the disappointment of Fireburn’s controversial Queensland Oaks scratching behind him, Gary Portelli is looking to the spring with renewed enthusiasm. The filly was a short-priced favourite for the Oaks after sweeping to victory in The Roses, but two days out from her grand final, Queensland Racing Integrity Commission veterinarians ordered...
Zac Lloyd edges ahead in premiership battle
Zac Lloyd has shot to the front in the race for the Sydney apprentices’ title, booting home a trio of winners at Rosehill to overtake rival Dylan Gibbons with just two meetings of the season remaining. Gibbons went into Saturday’s 10-race card with a two-win lead but after two of his mounts were...
Ingratiating shows a touch of class in Bletchingly Stakes 2023
Class rose to the top in Melbourne’s final Stakes race of the 2022-23 season with Godolphin galloper Ingratiating scoring at Caulfield. Showing considerable improvement from his first-up in the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes (1100m) at Caulfield a fortnight earlier, Ingratiating stamped his authority in the straight. Ridden by Blake Shinn, Ingratiating ($4) scored...
Barbie’s Fox proves a Winter queen
Zac Lloyd has played a starring role at the penultimate Sydney Saturday meeting of the season, taking out the feature race on Victorian Barbie’s Fox as part of a winning treble that has vaulted him to the lead in the apprentices’ premiership. The young rider was relieved to get the verdict...
Ouroboros lands breakthrough win at Caulfield
Ourbooros may have saved himself from a gelding operation with his hard-fought win at Caulfield. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr-trained two-year-old landed his first win at career start number four when successful in the Quayclean Handicap (1200m) on Saturday. Price spoke pre-race of the possibility of sending Ouroboros to be gelded if again beaten on...
Milestone for jockey Tim Clark at Rosehill
Tim Clark has celebrated a significant career milestone with his 1500th winner and fittingly he has achieved the feat aboard the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Taormina. Clark has a long record of success for Tulloch Lodge and is their go-to rider in Sydney, but says he only became mindful he...
Mollynickers to chase Spring Racing Carnival riches
Trainer Peter Moody may have to go and raise the bar with Mollynickers after the filly registered a comfortable win at Caulfield. Mollynickers took out the VOBIS Gold Ingot (1400m) on Saturday to give Moody successive wins in the race for two-year-olds. Boogie Dancer won the corresponding race last year and later in...
Teewaters chases second win at Caulfield
Trainer Archie Alexander is looking to Teewaters repeating the victory he recorded in a staying race at Caulfield a year ago. Teewaters is back for a second shot at the VOBIS Gold Stayers (2400m) on Saturday, a race he won last year with Craig Williams in the saddle. This year Declan Bates takes over, and...
Gangitano is set to make his return at Caulfield
A bigger, more muscular Gangitano is set to make his return ahead of a spring campaign at Caulfield. The Amy and Ash Yargi-trained two-year-old resumes in the Quayclean Handicap (1200m) on Saturday after two runs earlier in the season, both at Stakes level. Gangitano ran third on debut in the Listed Merson Cooper Stakes (1000m)...