A prominent trainer has launched a stinging attack on Racing Victoria, accusing the regulator of “shutting up shop” after it bungled the case against Richard Laming. RV has maintained a public silence on what led to charges being abruptly dropped last month and the employment status of the stewards named in the blundered hearing. Speaking on a strict condition of […]

Racing chiefs are bracing themselves for negative publicity if horses from Gordon Elliott’s Cullentra House stables win at Cheltenham next week. Last Friday, Elliott received a six-month ban – with six months suspended – from the Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board after a photograph of the Co Meath trainer sitting astride a dead horse was published on social media. Control of […]

Disgraced jockey Rob James has been handed a one-year ban from the sport – with eight months suspended. It comes after a video of the Irishman went viral portraying the amateur rider laughing and jumping over a dead horse. The incident came to light just a day after Gordon Elliott's own shame. The Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (IHRB) ordered the […]

Amateur jockey Rob James has been banned for 12 months, with the final eight months suspended, after footage appeared on social media of him sitting on a dead horse. An IHRB (Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board) referral hearing took place on Wednesday night, after they had concluded their investigation into the incident. And James was found to have brought racing into […]

Nick Mitchell is out to cap his first season back in the training ranks with a Cheltenham Festival winner next week. Best known for his handling of prolific top-class chaser The Listener, Mitchell relinquished his training licence at the end of the 2018-19 campaign. But with the backing of owner Syd Hosie, he resumed his training career from a yard […]

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy will return to action following his drugs ban with three rides at Lingfield on Friday. The champion jockey was banned for three months after a racecourse test, taken at Chantilly in July, found traces of cocaine in his system. Having always strenuously denied he had taken any drugs, Murphy requested a B sample – and upon […]

The Shunter’s Cheltenham Festival target will be a last-minute call as his connections eye the prospect of a £100,000 bonus up for grabs. Emmet Mullins’ charge has several options over hurdles and fences next week, and could not be arriving in better form. He won the Morebattle Hurdle at Kelso on Saturday, a valuable race in its own right – […]

Only another win in Saturday’s All-Star Mile will satisfy jockey William Pike. Pike won last year’s All-Star Mile with Regal Power and has spent the past few weeks in Melbourne preparing to ride Arcadia Queen in Saturday’s edition of the $5 million event at The Valley. The jockey shared the spoils on Celebrity Queen in the Oakleigh Plate last month […]

Easy going trainer Les Ross is deadly serious when he pinpoints the reason for his success in races carrying QTIS bonus money. Ross has a great chance of adding to his reputation in QTIS races in the $500,000 2YO The Jewel (1200m) at the Gold Coast on Saturday. His runners Mishani Delight (barrier one) and Mishani Enchanted (barrier nine) have […]

Classy mare Krone is on course to arrest a worrying recent trend for Queensland horses in interstate Group 1 races on Saturday. The decision to delay Krone’s retirement could go from a good idea to a master stroke if she wins the $600,000 Coolmore Classic (1500m) at Rosehill. In a golden period Queensland-trained horses won 12 interstate Group 1 races […]