Owners of champion mare Verry Elleegant have made a staggering offer to race Queen Elizabeth Stakes conqueror Addeybb in a winner-take-all $10m match race. However, unfortunately for the Australian racing public, the race won’t come to fruition despite best intentions – at least not this year. An early morning call to master trainer William Haggas at Newmarket in England on […]

Mighty Thunder provided Scottish trainer Lucinda Russell with victory in the Coral Scottish Grand National at Ayr. Trained in Kinross by Russell and her partner Peter Scudamore, Mighty Thunder was an 8-1 chance for his latest National assignment after winning the Edinburgh National at Musselburgh and finishing second in the Midlands Grand National at Uttoxeter on his last two starts. […]

Snow Lantern ran out a cosy winner of what is sure to be an informative Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships Maiden Stakes at Newbury. Richard Hannon’s grey filly is certainly bred for the job, being out of two Guineas winners in Frankel and Sky Lantern, the latter also trained by Hannon. It looked a strong event on paper with Enable’s […]

A pizza-eating, champagne swilling mare and a galloper who used to take a chomp out of his rivals will be some of the quirky headline acts of the Queensland winter carnival. Wendy Roche has confirmed Nettoyer, who celebrated winning Saturday’s Group 1 Queen Of The Turf by eating margherita pizza, drinking scotch and coke and pink Moet champagne, is Queensland-bound. […]

Beaten Queen Elizabeth Stakes contender Mugatoo is set to push onto the Doomben Cup while fourth placegetter Think It Over is headed to the paddock with the Cox Plate now on his radar. The Kris Lees-trained Mugatoo only beat one runner home when sixth in the Group 1 Queen Elizabeth Stakes but was less than two lengths off the winner, […]

Harry Skelton stretched his jump jockeys’ championship lead to six ahead of Brian Hughes thanks to a double on his brother Dan’s horses at Bangor. Dan Gun and Dog Of War struck for the Skeltons – while Hughes suffered several near misses as his title rival took his winning tally to 145. Skelton and Hughes are set to continue trading […]

Desleigh Forster has some intriguing decisions to make with Apache Chase and one of them involves a potential Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap blueprint for the talented three-year-old. Eagle Farm trainer Forster has always believed Apache Chase could be her first Group 1 winner and she was delighted to see the gelding make a one-act affair of the Listed Daybreak Lover […]

Amateur jockey Lorna Brooke is reported to be in a “critical, but stable” condition in hospital in Bristol following her fall at Taunton last week. Brooke was riding Orchestrated for her mother, Lady Susan Brooke, when falling at the third fence in the Pontispool Equine Sports Centre Handicap Chase. Racing was delayed by more than an hour as she was […]

He’s carrying the top weight over 1800m but the Joseph/Jones training team is confident Mercurial Lad can get a cushy run and win the Murrumbidgee Cup at Wagga Wagga on Sunday. The Pendragon seven-year-old hasn’t run a poor race this time in training which started off three runs ago with a Bega Cup (1600m) win. The Form: Complete NSW Racing […]

Hungry Heart, named after the classic Bruce Springsteen song, is a hit in her own right. The outstanding three-year-old filly by superhorse Frankel scored her second Group 1 win in succession with her impressive effort in the $1 million ATC Australian Oaks (2400m) at Royal Randwick. Trainer Chris Waller prepared his 12th Group 1 winner of the season – and […]