On the same day he will hand over Buffering’s Queensland Horse of the Year title for the first time in six years, Rob Heathcote is confident one of Buffering’s relations will win at Doomben.
The wind and a bleeding attack were no help to me last weekend but racing returning to Moonee Valley on Saturday is cause for optimism.
Changes are afoot at the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association.
Regular followers will be shocked because I’m betting at Moonee Valley on Saturday while I also expect a Group I class mare to bounce back at Rosehill.
Paul Perry’s Group I Champagne Stakes-winner The Mission will use Saturday’s Stan Fox Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill as his first step towards the Group I Caulfield Guineas.
Favoured runners appear set to dominate at Rosehill on Saturday but there is usually at least one upset result and I’m confident I’ve found the one.
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Caulfield trainer Ciaron Maher says he is glad the conjecture around the ownership of Azakadellia and three other horses is almost over.
Blanco Belle will face an early test in black type company on Saturday and her performance at Wanganui could fuel a longer-term dream of an Australian classic.
A small and select group of bets for me Saturday but I’m very keen to have something on Winx’s little brother at double figure odds.
One of a handful of Australian bred stallions to achieve global success in both hemispheres, Choisir has sired 84 stakes-winners and left the winners of over $100million worldwide with his sons now standing at some of the best farms in the country.
Stewards suspended a jockey for over-use of the whip for the second successive Wednesday at Sandown.
Racenet has compiled a list for your use of horses racing on Thursday that hold entries for feature races during the upcoming spring carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne.
James Cummings has made a solid start as the head trainer of the Godolphin operation but from a betting perspective, punters should tread warily.
The Toowoomba trainer and apprentice combination of Ben Currie and Rebecca Goldsbury have made an excellent start to the new racing season and the hot run looks set to continue at Ballina on Thursday.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Thursday’s meeting at Gosford.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Thursday’s meeting at Ballina.
WELL known gelding Restless (Thunder Gulch – Let’s Hurry) – bred by the late Major James Mitchell from his private broodmare band at Yarraman Park and sold as a $150,000 Easter yearling, has retired on a high note after an astonishing 48 race starts and 33 eventing starts.
The Hong Kong market is an important one for Australian breeders and a sire whose progeny excel in this jurisdiction adds an important string to his bow.
Champion sire Fastnet Rock reeled off two blue-blooded three year-old maiden winners at Warwick Farm and Sandown on Wednesday.
Victoria's premier trainer Darren Weir will face a penalty hearing where he could be fined up to $5000 over a positive swab.
Promising Sebring gelding Our Mantra opened his account with a strong finishing win at Canterbury on Wednesday.
It was shades of last Saturday's Chelmsford Stakes when Winx chased down Red Excitement but on this occasion, at Warwick Farm on Wednesday, the hare never got caught.
Superhard does what he wants at the start of his races but the three-year-old produced an irresistible finish to Wednesday’s Sheamus Mills Bloodstock Handicap (1000m) at Sandown.
The Brad Widdup-trained Acqume brushed aside four other last start winners in the TAB Rewards Handicap (1200m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Caulfield Cup-winning trainer Ciaron Maher will plead guilty to conduct prejudicial to the image of racing over the ownership of several horses in his stable.
A Victorian owner will front the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board to answer a charge relating to an abusive message sent to a jockey.
Randwick trainer Ron Quinton and country-based Group I-winning trainer Gordon Yorke face seperate stewards’ inquiries over cobalt positives returned by gallopers from their stables.
Talented All Too Hard colt Superhard made it two wins in as many starts when he saluted at Sandown on Wednesday in the Champion Thoroughbreds colours.
Chinese businessman Zhang Yuesheng’s extensive bloodstock portfolio now includes a significant investment in the New Zealand industry.
Joe Pride’s Our Mantra has stormed over the top of his rivals for a breakthrough victory in the Casino Prince@Vinery Maiden Plate (1200m) at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
Former Japanese galloper Brave Smash is better than a four-to-one chance of taking a slot in The Everest but his hopes hang on another bold run at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Wednesday’s meetings at Warwick Farm, Sandown Hillside, Ipswich and Strathalbyn.
Brazilian superstar Joao Moreira will be in action at the Group I Moir Stakes meeting at Moonee Valley later this month.
The saga of the Irish jockey that punched a horse before a race is over.
A field of 11 will chase a guaranteed Cox Plate start in Saturday’s Group II Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.
The carnival continues to hot up in Sydney with Saturday’s focus switching back to the Golden Rose bound three-year-olds and Racenet has the fields and form online for the bumper Rosehill card.
Caulfield trainer Henry Dwyer faces a fine for taking a horse to a jumpout with an anti-inflammatory drug in its system.
The betting moves have come thick and fast at Warwick Farm on Wednesday – here are my top three bets.
Racenet has compiled a list for your use of horses racing on Wednesday that hold entries for feature races during the upcoming spring carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Wednesday’s meeting at Strathalbyn.
The Daily Debutants list for Wednesday features a half-brother to a dual Group I winner and the last foal of Group I ATC Coolmore Classic winner Bollinger.
One of the few top class North American sires to enjoy ongoing success as a sire in Australia, Darley’s Medaglia D’Oro (USA) was making news in the US this week when siring his fifth Group I winner of the year.
Ultra Racing have been making news of late with their rising star colt Addictive Nature, but it was a homebred that had Sean Buckley’s black and emerald green chevrons in the winner’s circle at Pakenham on Tuesday.
Although neither are racing at Moonee Valley on Saturday trainer James Cummings sent Hartnell and Esperance on an outing to the course on Tuesday
Hall Of Fame trainer Lee Freedman has received an official clearance to start training horses in Singapore.
One of the fastest gallops at the Inglis Ready2Race breeze up session at Cranbourne on Monday morning was turned in by a stunning grey son of Aquis Farm’s Artie Schiller (USA), who is closely related to former brilliant grey filly Secret Land.
Promising filly Banish will be tested at Listed level in the Atlantic Jewel Stakes at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Connections have locked in a rider for star sprinter Chautauqua in next month’s $10 million The Everest at Randwick.
A half-brother to Group I winner Complacent, Godolphin blueblood Ataraxia resumed from a spell to score his first win at Newcastle on Tuesday downing the short priced favourite Legendofoz.
A tough first campaign has stood Aberro in good stead for his natural progression to Saturday grade at Moonee Valley.
Group I winner Russian Revolution returns to Melbourne a seasoned traveller for his tilt at a first-up win in Saturday’s Group II McEwen Stakes (1000m) at Moonee Valley.
Moonee Valley was busy on Tuesday as horses nominated for races on Saturday were able to gallop on the course.
It's a special day in the history of Racenet as we’re excited to announce the launch of our new website in a Beta Trial.
Co-trainer Murray Baker says horrible conditions in New Zealand have left two runners short of their best when they resume in Saturday’s Group II Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.
Mungrup Stud freshman Playing God jumped the gun when the first 2yo trials of the season were conducted at Belmont on Monday morning.
Fraser Auret will always have the fondest of memories of his two-time Group One winner Julinsky Prince.
Melbourne Cup hopeful Chocante has impressed his connections with his third placing to glamour mare Winx and bold front-runner Red Excitement in the Group II Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.
A defeat in Saturday’s Group II McEwen Stakes would not jeopardise brilliant Queensland filly Houtzen’s quest to win next month’s Everest at Randwick.
Brave Smash, Clearly Innocent, Global Glamour, Le Romain and Redzel have made the shortlist for the Australian Turf Club's slot in the $10 million Everest.
It’s a good midweek card at Warwick Farm this week and I’m keen to get my teeth into a few horses in the later races.
Our video analysts have supplied you with their number one run from the weekend's metropolitan meetings.
Following the close of nominations, a combined total of 162 horses are in the reckoning for Group I glory in the Epsom Handicap (1600m) and The Metropolitan (2400m) at Randwick later this month.
A horse whose unlucky defeat at Muswellbrook last time out created plenty of interest in the Racenet comments gets the chance to make amends on the Beaumont circuit at Newcastle on Tuesday.
This is the Racenet preview and tip sheet for Tuesday’s meeting at Beaumont Newcastle.
The Melbourne breeze-ups for the 2017 Inglis Ready2Race sale have today been completed at a wet and windy Cranbourne Turf Club, with 82 horses dashing around the track on their way to the sale.
So You Think had runners in both the Victoria Derby and Oaks last spring, so when one of his three year-olds breaks their maiden like this we want to know more.
Two juvenile trials at the Cranbourne training track in Victoria on Monday morning produced interesting winners for the Tony McEvoy stable by I Am Invincible and first season sire Zoustar.
I’m questioning whether the tall poppy syndrome is starting to kick in with Winx while suggesting those who jumped off Spieth following his defeat at Randwick on Saturday may be advised to have a little rethink.
Steven Arnold landed another feature in Mauritius on Sunday when powering home aboard Enaad to land the Air Mauritius Maiden Cup.
Nominations for Saturday's meeting at Rosehill have been released including 12 entries for the Group II Theo Marks Stakes (1300m).
The Tony McEvoy stable looks set for another big two-year-old season after its youngsters claimed the season’s first two-year-old trials on the Cranbourne training track.
The Rosehill barrier trials on Monday morning featured a heat for new season two year-olds which was won by an I Am Invincible colt from the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable.
The wind played a few tricks in the first half of the programme but there were plenty of good performances to follow out of Saturday’s Caulfield meeting.
A challenging day on the punt but as Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour once famously sang I’m expecting to “grab that cash with both hands and make a stash” in the coming weeks.
Trainers have nominated 13 runners for a shot at a Cox Plate start in Saturday’s Group II Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley.
Caulfield Cup contender Gingernuts has come through his first-up run in Saturday’s Group I Tarzino Trophy at Hastings in good order.
Saturday produced four winners for the Racenet team while a number of horses can be followed out of Sydney and Melbourne’s meetings.
Top jockey Ben Melham has lost his appeal against a careless riding suspension he incurred at Sandown last Wednesday.
English-based owner Rich Ricci is contemplating another raid on the spring carnival with potential runners in the three feature races.
Tommy Berry got on the winner’s list but it appears not much will change in the Hong Kong jockey ranks if Sunday’s season opener is any guide.
A post-race comment to another rider after a race in South Australia has earned a jockey a four-week ban.
Top class mare Savanna Amour burst back to her best form at Caulfield on Saturday with a tenacious win in the Group III MRC Cockram Stakes, her dam Savanna La Mar a confirmed booking to visit Newgate Farm’s brilliant Group I winning sprinter Flying Artie this spring.
Craig Williams won his fifth Scobie Breasley medal and Winx named Victorian Horse of the Year at Sunday’s award evening in Melbourne.
The spring carnival is not just all about rising star colt Royal Symphony for Aquis Farm's Domesday.
What do Wolf Cry and Winx have in common?.
Josh Adams’ resurgence in the saddle has been brought to a shuddering halt by a six-week suspension incurred at Moree on Sunday.
The Jimmy Choux yearling colt at Lot 6 in the current gavelhouse.
Dual Melbourne Cup-winning rider Kerrin McEvoy was inducted into the South Australian Racing Hall of Fame at a ceremony on Sunday.
Westbury Stud’s dashing grey Group I winner Reliable Man (GB) has sired his first stakes-winner with a dominant win in the Group III 144th Steinhoff Zukunftsrennen at Baden Baden in Germany on Sunday for unbeaten filly Narella.
Kevin Manning rode the wonderful Alexander Goldrun (IRE) in all 31 starts around the globe so it was fitting he should be in the saddle when Alexander Goldrun’s 3-year-old Frankel filly Goldrush carried the China Horse Club colours to victory China Horse in a 17-runner maiden at his career debut at Navan.
When spring is in the air it’s always the time to go looking for a High Chaparral (IRE) three year-old on the up.
The opening race at Caulfield on Saturday was won in good style by lightly raced Sepoy filly Watchmespin, a $150,000 Magic Millions purchase from the Mill Park draft with Group I aspirations.
Widden Stud’s Nicconi kicked the Hong Kong season of in style with a brilliant debut winner in the first race of the new year.
A double at Caulfield on Saturday for followers of this column and last Thursday’s heats produced further candidates to note.
With the first two year-old trials still a week or two away we're focussing on the three year-olds of which there were plenty in the past week, so here's the list of barrier trial placegetters from around the country in the past week with breeding and sale details.
Paul Joice takes an in-depth look at how your money performed and pinpoints some future winners from Randwick in a race-by-race analysis of Chelmsford Stakes day.
The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has suspended the licence of a Brisbane trainer for a contravention of his licence conditions.
It’s Father’s Day at home and the opening day of the season at Sha Tin so if you’re planning on having a punt, the Racenet tipsters have done all the hard work as a gift to you.
Unbeaten colt Royal Symphony pleased trainer Tony McEvoy with a gallop at Caulfield on Saturday and could repeat the scenario next week.
Tropical storm Mawar is threatening Sunday’s opening meeting of the new 2017-18 Hong Kong season.