The winning run of racehorse Lord Halifax turned into tragedy when he suffered a fatal injury just yards from the finish line. The five-year-old gelding was two lengths ahead of the field in the Betway Casino Handicap (4.15) at Newcastle on Friday, when he lost his action. Jockey Stevie Donohoe quickly eased the 9-2 shot down, as Starfighter (7-1) passed […]

Popular Sydney jockey Andrew Adkins returned to the trials on Friday as he prepares for his return to race riding. Adkins hasn’t ridden at the races since suffering serious injuries in a race fall at Rosehill in July. Adkins suffered a broken leg, collarbone, ribs and a punctured lung in the controversial incident that saw Hugh Bowman suspended and country […]

Joseph Pride loved unbeaten filly Paper Daisy the moment he saw her at the sales and she’s impressed him every day since. The daughter of Press Statement caught Pride’s eye at the 2020 Inglis Classic Sale and landed in Pride’s Warwick Farm yard after going under the hammer to Laurel Oak for $145,000. “It‘s easy to say now but I […]

John Moore has begun the new phase of his celebrated training career by starting the search for his next champion racehorse at the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale on Tuesday. The world-renowned former Hong Kong trainer only came out of quarantine on Monday but hit the ground running attending trackwork at Rosehill before making his way to Inglis’s Riverside sale complex […]

Gold Cup hat-trick seeker Al Boum Photo is to have his fitness levels tested this week with a "really tough" workout. Before several of Willie Mullins ' Cheltenham favourites head to this weekend's Dublin Racing Festival, including Chacun Pour Soi and Appreciate It, the nine-year-old will be put through his paces away from home. Al Boum Photo is just weeks […]

Cranbourne trainer Francis Finnegan and Queensland-based jockey Ben Thompson will face serious charges relating to an alleged horse swap at three jumpouts last year. Stewards charged Finnegan with “dishonest, fraudulent, improper and/or dishonourable” conduct after he allegedly jumped out No Frontiers under other horses’ names in March and April last year. Stewards alleged Finnegan ran No Frontiers under the name […]

Apprentice Chris Williams has been waiting for a while now to ride Skedaddle in a race and he’s hoping a drying track at Randwick will enable him to debut the promising filly. Trainer Les Bridge has been waiting for the right race to kick off the three-year-old’s career and the third event on the Kensington track on Wednesday over 1100m […]

Racing in South Australia is set to receive a significant boost in 2021 with six figures of additional prizemoney to be injected later this year. The $2.6 million boost will come into effect at the launch of the 2021 Adelaide Autumn Racing Carnival (April 1, 2021) with all black type races set to be increased, along with a major boost […]

Trainer Mick Price has confidence in brilliant colt Profiteer’s ability to immediately adapt to the Sydney way of going in the $2 million Inglis Millennium (1100m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Profiteer created a huge impression on debut last month winning down the Flemington straight by nearly three lengths in fast time. The boom Melbourne colt is the $2 favourite […]

Enthaar bucked a recent oddity when she waltzed away first up at Caulfield on Saturday, tightening her grip on Blue Diamond and Golden Slipper favouritism and in every way looking a budding star. Interestingly, she defied a recent trend of juveniles off a last start Sydney run underperforming in Victoria. In Victorian two-year-old stakes races since 2017, there had been […]