Racing Victoria has set up another battle with Richard Laming after appealing the trainer’s three-month ban on a cobalt-related charge. The Victorian Racing Tribunal suspended Laming for three months after the trainer pleaded guilty to presenting Iam Ekstraordinary to the races with an elevated cobalt level. Laming was found not guilty of administering the substance to Iam Ekstraordinary, which contested […]

Robin Goodfellow’s Racing Tips: Best bets for Tuesday, March 23 Sportsmail’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Tuesday’s meetings at Huntingdon, Wetherby and Taunton. Sportsmail’s racing expert Robin Goodfellow dishes out his tips for Tuesday’s meetings ROBIN GOODFELLOW     12.30 Kakamora 1.00 Kaphumor 1.35 Go As You Please 2.05 Raffles Gitane 2.35 Ajero (nb) 3.10 Candy Lou 3.40 Kalmoor  […]

Owners are on course to make a limited return to the track from the end of March. An update issued to owners and other industry stakeholders by the British Horseracing Authority on Monday morning confirmed planning is under way for owners to be admitted to racecourses again in England and Scotland on March 29, although further guidance is awaited in […]

The Grafton midweek meeting could be the latest casualty of the big wet which is wreaking havoc with NSW race programming. Clarence River Jockey Club chief executive Michael Beattie is hopeful of a break in the weather to enable Grafton to race on Wednesday. “For a week we have been just on the periphery of the heavy rain but the […]

Trainer Annabel Neasham had to make a 500km return trip but she got the fast gallop on a grass track she so desperately wanted for Golden Slipper hopeful Queen Of Wizardry and Rosehill Guineas favourite Mo’unga at Queanbeyan on Monday. The grass tracks at Neasham’s stable base of Warwick Farm are waterlogged and closed for fast work so the trainer […]

Two prominent Sydney jockeys will seek to fight bans on the eve of the Golden Slipper as they wait on a final green light from the Racing NSW Appeals Panel to ride in the $3.5 million event at Rosehill. Group 1 winning hoops Nash Rawiller and Kathy O’Hara will both front the Panel as they look to fight bans picked […]

A bad habit could lead to a Golden Slipper victory for Blue Diamond Stakes winner Artorius. Artorius has won two of his three starts in Victoria despite giving his opposition a start in all his races. But a slow beginning could lead to a big finish in Saturday’s $3.5 million event. Artorius has drawn barrier 13 in the Golden Slipper […]

Jim Bolger’s apparent second-string Missing Matron landed the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Maiden at the Curragh. Just two days after the Cheltenham Festival came to a close, a field of eight unraced juveniles went to post for the first race of the Irish Flat turf season – a race Bolger has won on several occasions in recent years. The Coolcullen […]

The fantastic finish in the Group 1 Chipping Norton Stakes last month had racing fans excited but it also got John O’Shea thinking. And those thoughts escalated after his exciting three-year-old Lion’s Roar won the Group 1 Randwick Guineas a fortnight ago. Even if Rosehill’s meeting went ahead on Saturday Lion’s Roar wouldn’t have run because O’Shea wants to keep […]

Flavour of the weekend William Pike is keen to do more “fly in, fly out” Melbourne riding missions. The star jockey returned to Perth on Sunday after a profitable 48 hours on the east coast, winning five of seven races contested, including the Group 1 William Reid Stakes and Mornington Cup. Pike‘s winners and a close second, which denied the […]