Australia
Bargain has been knocking on the Group door in her last three starts and trainer Mark Newnham is hoping it will open at Eagle Farm on Saturday. The Ocean Park filly has placed in her last three starts, including the Gr.2 Adrian Knox Stakes (2000m), Gr.1 Australian Oaks
New Zealand
Iffshecan has proven to be a welcome surprise for trainer Cody Cole. The juvenile filly had always struck the Matamata horseman as a three-year-old type, but she has come along in leaps and bounds in recent months and will get her first tilt at stakes level at Wanganui this weekend.
New Zealand
Wanganui trainer Raymond Connors is coming into his favourite time of year. The dairy farmer is getting a break from the milking shed after drying off his herd, and the jumps season is just starting to ramp up. He has already snared the Waikato Steeplechase (3900m) with Mesmerize, and he
Australia
Promising juvenile Verbek has made quite the impression on trainers Luke and Robert Price. While he will head into the Listed The Phoenix (1500m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday a maiden, his trainers don’t believe he will be one for long. The son of Turn Me Loose has finished
New Zealand
Word that Winton trainer John Phillips was able to float his horses trouble-free across the Ashburton River bridge allowed Timaru trainer Bruce Tapper to breathe a sigh of relief on Thursday afternoon. Heavy rain in the Canterbury region prompted the Canterbury Jockey Club to move Friday's meeting to
New Zealand
Opie Bosson is in danger of catching a chill from the amount of times he is dipping in-between New Zealand’s cold winter and Queensland’s summer-like conditions. The New Zealand hoop will once again make the trek across the Tasman to ride in Queensland’s Winter Carnival this weekend,
New Zealand
Jockey Lynsey Satherley rode a treble at the Cambridge all-weather meeting on Wednesday, taking her record to five wins from 15 rides on the new polytrack surface, which had its first race meeting a fortnight ago. "It was a good day. I thought I could win one but to
New Zealand
Trevor Bau’s life over the past two decades reads something like a Boy’s Own classic, but last Saturday at Trentham he was back doing what he enjoys most, riding a winner. The 57-year-old journeyman’s first success in more than 12 years came in the best possible circumstances.
Australia
Westbury Stud stallion Tarzino recorded his first win as a sire at Sandown on Wednesday and fittingly it was his former trainer who saddled the victor. Caulfield conditioner Mick Price trained Tarzino to wins in the Gr.1 VRC Derby (2500m) and Gr.1 Rosehill Guineas (2000m) on his way
New Zealand
Export of horses to and via Australia is set to return to normal with New Zealand in the final stages of having Australia accept its country freedom from Theileria equi status. Travel was halted last year after a single, isolated case of the tick-borne protozoal disease, piroplasmosis was found in
Australia
Michael Moroney will have to watch his Queensland contenders over the next week on a screen at home after being caught up in Melbourne’s COVID-19 enforced lockdown. The Flemington trainer will contest the Gr.1 Queensland Oaks (2200m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday with New Zealand-bred filly Yatton (NZ)
New Zealand
Mark Brosnan is hoping to add another stakes win to Supreme Heights’ (NZ) (Jimmy Choux) burgeoning record when she contests the Listed AGC Training Stakes WFA 1600 at Wanganui on Saturday. She boasts an imposing record in black-type company, having won twice at Group Three level and placed at stakes