Hot favourite Love is set to face five rivals in the King George VI And Queen Elizabeth Qipco Stakes at Ascot on Saturday. Last season’s 1000 Guineas and Oaks heroine made a successful return from 10 months off the track in the Prince of Wales’s Stakes at Royal Ascot last month and is a warm order to provide trainer Aidan […]

Brisbane trainers will have the option of later starting times under a two-month trial period negotiated by Eagle Farm conditioner Chris Anderson who believes it could be a “game changer” for the racing industry. A day after Group 1 winning Sunshine Coast trainer David Vandyke stepped up his crusade for later starting times for trainers, Anderson has revealed details of […]

Herald Sun form analyst Brad Waters runs the rule over Friday’s card at Mildura. BEST BET ZOUTONS (Race 4 No. 5 – $2.80) Zoutons was a fighting winner first-up before showing ability in town last time in. He easily won a Bendigo jumpout leading up to this and he’ll be hard to catch fresh. NEXT BEST O’WHATAPICTURE (Race 2 No. […]

National Hunt racing, or ‘Jumps racing', is traditionally a winter sport but National Hunt betting is now available most of the year round thanks to a successful summer jumping programme. There are three categories within jumps racing under rules: Hurdles races, steeplechase races and bumpers, which are flat races for Jumps horses. The biggest races in the Jumps calendar tend […]

Punters tend to gravitate to Cody Morgan-trained horses when he has a big team racing at Tamworth but he’s more cautious than usual about their chances at home on Friday. Many of his runners are well in the market but heavy rain in the region in the past month has made training horses difficult. “It’s just been so wet up […]

Racegoers at York on Friday evening will be treated to the sight of top-class filly Alpine Star making her return to action in the British Stallion Studs EBF Lyric Fillies’ Stakes. Jessica Harrington’s filly followed in the hoofprints of her multiple Group One-winning half-sister Alpha Centauri by running out a brilliant winner of the Coronation Stakes at Royal Ascot last […]

Last year’s winner Space Blues is among 23 horses left in the the Qatar Lennox Stakes at Goodwood following the six-day confirmation stage. Charlie Appleby’s five-year-old won the very valuable Turf Sprint at Riyadh in February, but has been absent since finishing unplaced in the Al Quoz Sprint at Meydan in March. Appleby also has Creative Force and Glorious Journey […]

La Mexicana wasn’t quite ready for the Group 3 Bletchingly Stakes but the filly will resume her chase for a Group 1 win at Saturday’s Caulfield meeting. Trainers Anthony and Sam Freedman entered La Mexicana and King Of Hastings for the Bletchingly Stakes but neither were among the acceptors for the feature sprint. Sam Freedman said the stable thought La […]

A heavy track last week delayed the first Australian race day appearance of a former Ballydoyle Stakes performer but the prospect of an improving surface has trainer Annabel Neasham keen to venture to Rosehill with the horse on Saturday. Blue Soldier, formerly known as Fort Myers, won two of his 11 Northern Hemisphere starts including the Listed Star Appeal Stakes […]

Racing in South Australia has been given the go-ahead to resume throughout the state’s snap seven-day Covid lockdown. Racing SA had made the decision to postpone Wednesday’s meeting at Gawler yesterday as it continued to lobby the State Government to allow the sport to continue while the state endures tough new restrictions. A statement from Racing SA has confirmed the […]