In Jamie Kah’s race to the magical 100 winner mark she landed plenty of big race winners but also a stack of winners taking out midweek races around the traps. I’ve gone back over this remarkable achievement and come up with my Top 5 winning rides for the champion hoop. 1. MR QUICKIE, Oct 10 Group 1 Toorak Handicap (1600m), […]

Some clever buying at a Ready To Run Sale has trainer Todd Smart set up for fun times ahead with his promising two-year-old Kelvedon Road, who resumes at Albury on Tuesday. Bred by the same crew who designed Golden Slipper winner Mossfun, Kelvedon Road is a son of Star Witness out of a mare by another Golden Slipper winner in […]

COVIGLIA is ready to put in a winning performance in the Ayrshire Cancer Support Handicap (5.25). Michael Dods' gelding finished a horse taking its second race in succession eight days ago. The selection was just a neck behind the winner, in the course and distance handicap, running on at the finish. The handicapper has kept him on the same mark […]

Hollie Doyle is happy to keep proving any doubters wrong when it comes to having the strength and skill to ride winning racehorses. At just under five feet tall, even by jockeys’ standards, Doyle is on the short side and had sometimes been considered “too small” by certain trainers. Doyle, 24, is now an award-winning rider, breaking her own record […]

Tom Marquand has been ruled out of taking the plum ride on Alenquer in Wednesday's Grand Prix de Paris at Longchamp – because he has only had one Covid jab. The jockey, fresh from his barnstorming victory on Starman in Saturday’s July Cup at Newmarket, was desperate to ride William Haggas’s Royal Ascot hero in the Group One contest. But […]

In the wintry darkness of early morning Rosehill trackwork, champion mare Verry Elleegant’s training workload is cranking up for her comeback to racing next month. Trainer Chris Waller told News Corp the nation’s Horse of the Year-elect Verry Elleegant’s gallop on Tuesday morning was her fastest so far this preparation ahead of her spring carnival campaign. “Verry Elleegant had her […]

Jordan Henderson's trophy cabinet could have an early addition on the eve of the Euro 2020 final, if his smart racehorse delivers the goods at Newmarket. The England midfielder, limbering up for Sunday's showdown with Italy, is a part-owner of bet365 Superlative Stakes (3.15) runner Mr McCann. Henderson's first horse he purchased with Liverpool players Andrew Robertson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, James […]

West Australian pacing sensation Shockwave is headed to Victoria. Just hours after his phenomenal Gloucester Park win last night, trainer Ryan Bell revealed Shockwave could be in Melbourne as early as next month. “I spoke with Kevin (Jeavons, owner) after the win and we both agreed it’s time to work out when we can get over (to Melbourne),” he said. […]

One-time Classic hope Mehnah is set to reappear in the Irish Stallion Farms EBF Cairn Rouge Stakes at Killarney this week. Trainer Kevin Prendergast has earmarked Wednesday’s Listed contest over a mile as her comeback run following a setback. The daughter of Frankel tweaked a muscle which ruled her out of the Irish 1,000 Guineas at the Curragh and also […]

Eight races at Murtoa on Monday and Billy Egan combines with Patrick Payne in the first six events on the program, and five are favourites. MURTOA BEST BET CHADSTONE R3 No. 3 $2.40 Tricky draw but the three-year-old gelding out of Born To Shop should be too smart for these. Debuted at Edenhope over 1450 and savaged the line to […]