Category: Australian Racing

It’s been a long road back to race riding, but jockey Nathan Punch snared his first race win in almost two years on Monday, guiding Ellmaknific to victory at Pakenham.The Victorian hoop spent 22 months on the sidelines battling severe concussion symptoms, stepping away from riding in August 2022, and there was no guarantee that…

Lindsay Park has a spring in its step with superstar Mr Brightside and rising star Bold Bastille taking the next step in their pre-training program.A bulked up Mr Brightside, a six-time Group 1 winner and Cox Plate runner-up, will start pace work this week along with electric filly Bold Bastille.Trainer Ben Hayes, fresh off a…

Elson Boy took his remarkable winning streak into the city on Saturday and just kept on rolling, collecting his sixth victory in a row in the $160,000 Rosehill Bowling Club Handicap (1300m) in Sydney.The four-year-old son of El Roca kicked off his hot streak with a win on his home track of Dubbo in early…

Godolphin’s Tamerlane will need to set a modern-day weight-carrying record for the Listed $200,000 Civic Stakes (1400m) after being allocated topweight of 59.5kg for the feature sprint at Royal Randwick on Saturday.The Civic Stakes has attracted 26 entries with the James Cummings-trained Tamerlane conceding between 1.5kg and 5.5kg to his rivals.In recent years, Ninth Legion…

Lindsay Park trainer Ben, Will and J D Hayes had Derby aspirations with Rise At Dawn, but they were equally as happy to come away with a narrow Flemington win.Rise At Dawn was coming off a short break to claim the RDAV Mary Longden Mile (1600m) on Saturday, his first run since April.Ridden by apprentice…

Tim Clark says French import Eliyass has the scope to make his presence felt in the spring after dominating at his Australian debut in the Lord Mayors Cup at Randwick.While many former European horses take a preparation to acclimatise to local conditions, the five-year-old made an immediate impact.Trailing the solid tempo set by stablemate and…

Quick Tempo has been an excellent money spinner for the Mark Minervini stable with seven wins and over $400,000 in prize money and the Newcastle based trainer is hoping the gelding can win his first listed race in Saturday’s Bob Charley AO Stakes (1100m).The five-year-old put in the best performance of the preparation last start…

Leap To Fame has run second in the $2.1m TAB Eureka and won the $1m Miracle Mile, but a lowly $32,376 race at Albion Park on Saturday night looms as one of the most important of his career.That’s because the Flashing Red Handicap will be the champion pacer’s first try at standing-start racing and go…

Think About It will have to defy history to go back-to-back in the $3m Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap after handicappers hit him with 58kg in the feature event.Racing Queensland chief handicapper Nathan Bourke released the weights of 126 horses on Monday, with the Peter Moody and Katherine Coleman-trained I Wish I Win hit with the…

Which Amade will turn up to contest the Sandown Cup?That is the question trainer Phillip Stokes would like to answer in the positive, but the gelding’s barrier antics at the start of the 3200m Listed race today will have a big bearing on the outcome.Amade has the potential to take out today’s race, but he…