VIC Racing
Blinkers off: ‘What are we gonna do now?’
HOW did punters go from working Monday-Friday and having a quaddie on the weekend to anyone with a phone, a love of sport and a habit that might be a short-half head from addiction?
Poignant win for Mr Individual
THE SUNDAY FIX: MR Individual had to overcome potential breathing problems to score an emotional win at Caulfield for father and son training partners, Leon and Troy Corstens.
Williams takes the good with the bad
THE race for the jockey title eased to a crawl at Caulfield on Saturday as focus shifted away from Craig Williams and Dwayne Dunn and turned instead to the plight of those far less fortunate.
Majestic Lass ready-made for spring assault
TAB BIG BETS: DAVID Hayes described it as like adding the water to soup when Majestic Lass lobbed at Lindsay Park after previously being trained by Peter Moody.
Bayliss kicking on with Hayes
APPRENTICE Regan Bayliss didn’t have a shortage of offers from stables when his master Peter Moody was suspended for six months on a cobalt charge.
Azzopardi gets jump on ban
ANTHONY Azzopardi is one of the lucky NSW greyhound trainers. A regular visitor to Victorian races, he decided late last year to relocate to Myrniong, near Bacchus Marsh.
Rocking rolling for win assault
TOM Dabernig believes Fast ’n’ Rocking has found the right race to break his drought in the Group 3 Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.
Williams, Dunn settle in for titanic battle
DARREN Weir’s record run and the struggle between Craig Williams and Dwayne Dunn for the jockeys’ title have become the stories of the winter.
Dogs more than just a numbers game
FOR a sport that has generated such loud noise, greyhound racing conducts itself in near silence, writes Matt Stewart.
Claims RV knew labs were not cobalt accredited
RACING Victoria’s integrity department knew three months before charging leading trainers with cobalt offences that labs used for sample testing were not accredited, a tribunal was told on Thursday.
Payne a Cynic about gelding’s chances
ALTHOUGH The Cynic’s best Hong Kong form would have winning on his return to Australian racing in Saturday’s Sir John Monash Stakes, trainer Patrick Payne is dubious.
The Early Oil: Caulfield
TAB BIG BETS: Herald Sun racing writer Michael Manley previews the Sir John Monash Stakes meeting at Caulfield on Saturday.
Beat The Bookie value bets
OUR experts try to boost your bank balance with the best value bets of the weekend in the major cards around the nation.
Williams hits front in title race
CRAIG Williams continued his late-season swoop on the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership, taking the lead from Dwayne Dunn with a double at Moonee Valley on Wednesday.
The Score: Saints dip out at races
A TRIO of St Kilda stars lucked out at the races, Ricky Nixon has posted a selfie of a “slick” looking Ben Cousins and why is Danny Green bleeding? All this in The Score.
Let’s ‘sort things out’: Nikolic lawyer
BANNED jockey Danny Nikolic has to wait longer to have his appeal heard as the hoop’s lawyer declared he wanted to be back riding at this year’s Spring Carnival.
‘I’m glad it’s done’: Weir breaks training record
DARREN Weir broke a 13-year-old training record when Gun Case became his 335th winner for the season on Wednesday and he was glad to “get it out of the way”.
Weir one win away from milestone
DARREN Weir is well placed to break the Australian training record with eight runners at Moonee Valley on Wednesday.
Lord back to his best, says Laing
ROBBIE Laing is happy to put his head on the chopping block for maligned sprinter Lord Of The Sky, who on Saturday at Caulfield will try to break a two-year drought.
Weir draws level with Hawkes’ record
DARREN Weir on Tuesday equalled the Australasian training record of 334 winners but he concedes Lee Freedman’s mark of 115 city winners is a step too far.
Track call falls on deaf ears
INSIDE RUNNING: MONDAY’S abandonment of the Echuca meeting again led to calls for a new synthetic track in Northern Victoria.
‘I regard myself as extremely lucky’
RESPECTED Flemington trainer Steve Richards counts himself lucky to be alive after being double barrelled by one of his rising two-year-olds last week.
Animal welfare claims unsubstantiated: RA chief
RACING Australia has hit back at claims from an animal welfare group that thousands of thoroughbreds are put down each year because they are uncompetitive.
Monday rewind
OUR experts look back at their metropolitan meetings in their respective backyards on Saturdayand give us their assessment of the best and worst performers.
Hawkes mulls Chautauqua Japan offer
WILL Chautauqua stop over in Japan on his way to Hong Kong? Japanese racing authorities have dangled a carrot to get the superstar sprinter there.
Sea King makes light of bog track, 71kg
JUMPS jockey Paul Hamblin admitted he’s never seen a steeplechaser finish a race on a bog track like the Patrick Payne’s Sea King did in Sunday’s Thackeray Steeplechase at Warrnambool.
Blinkers off: Weir the growing giant
DARREN Weir is about to become the winningest trainer in Commonwealth history. But he says bigger doesn’t necessarily mean better.
Rosa proves looks can be deceiving
TAB BIG BETS: IT was an interesting contrast as Euro Angel and Daniela Rosa paraded before the second at Flemington.
Williams, Weir wipe the floor with rivals
IT was a day for chasing records and milestones at Flemington on Saturday and it began with Craig Williams’ great chase in the metropolitan jockeys’ premiership.
