History may show Egg Tart to be the next Winx
While Chris Waller could hardly conceal his delight, the trainer inwardly knew that Egg Tart's brave win in the Queensland Oaks at Doomben on Saturday was not the work of an average classic winner.
While Chris Waller could hardly conceal his delight, the trainer inwardly knew that Egg Tart's brave win in the Queensland Oaks at Doomben on Saturday was not the work of an average classic winner.
Trainer Darren Weir went into the record books again at Moonee Valley on Saturday when he saddled up a double to set a new benchmark for metropolitan winners in a season.
Anything Craig can do, Beau can do too.
Sydney's spring carnival will be moved back, more than $1 million in stakes will be added to the prize pool and there will be a greater focus on pathways to big Melbourne races, meaning champion Winx is likely to stay at home right up to her crack at a third Cox Plate.
Adrian Bott is adamant his training partnership with Hall of Famer Gai Waterhouse won't be wound up, brushing off a report which suggested the Tulloch Lodge union will unravel before the new season.
Single Gaze is back on the winner's list but her victory was marred after Cylinder Beach was euthanised.
Chris Waller seems to save his best fillies to win Queensland Oaks at Doomben.
With the commentary of Mark Van Gestel in Morgan Freeman (voicing God) mode, the video saved Glyn Schofield from being hung, drawn and quartered by punter opinion over one of the most controversial recent rides.
Champion driver Luke McCarthy believes smart two-year-old filly Molly Kelly has the same characteristics as her champion sister Frith after winning a Breeders Challenge heat behind her at Menangle on Tuesday.
Sydney jockey Jason Collett will head to Goulburn on mission as he rides Sir Barb, his partner Clare Cunningham's first runner as a trainer, and another for father Richard in Japhite on Monday.
Brad Widdup is the latest member of the NSW trainers' ranks to come out of the Crown Lodge program but he realised it is going to take a while for him to make his mark.
Confusion between Brisbane racing organisers and Queensland Rail will cause travel headaches for punters, with commutes of up to an hour expected for those heading to Oaks Day at Doomben Racecourse.
Stuart Webb has about as many horses in his stables as Chris Waller and Darren Weir will have runners on Saturday, yet his star filly Ana Royale could be ready to spoil their party in the Queensland Oaks at Doomben.
There are derbys all over the world, from Kentucky to Tokyo, Sha Tin to Flemington. But there is only one race that is known simply as "The Derby".
Egg Tart and Kenedna, the high-class fillies who bravely fought out the South Australian Oaks, appear set to quinella the Queensland Oaks on Saturday.
Running a massive stable like the Chris Waller yard takes planning. It is also about making the most of opportunities for now and the future and that's what he is doing on Saturday.
A prediction made by Sportsbet CEO, Cormac Barry, last year, that operators like Tabcorp and Tatts wouldn't exist in five years may come back to haunt them.
Two of Bloodlines' favourite racehorses/stallions are Galileo and Frankel; their achievements never cease to amaze. So the past week of racing has hardly been surprising.
Anthony Cummings openly admits he thought he had a Golden Slipper filly on his hands in Kanga's Eye after the Gimcrack Stakes in the spring.
Joe Cleary has been to a Highway Handicap before with Cliff and had to play second fiddle, it something he doesn't want to do again at Rosehill on Saturday.
Kris Lees has dominated the Queensland carnival at group 1 level getting Clearly Innocent and Sense Of Occasion to rise to the challenge of the top level. The Newcastle trainer wants to make it a group 1 hattrick with Danish Twist in the Tatts Tiara, a challenge that has been in the planning for a couple of months.
One of Australia's most decorated horse trainers of the past 30 years, Lee Freedman, is poised to move to Singapore in the next three months and purchase one of that country's most lucrative training operations.
Australian Turf Club has started a tender process for its Everest spot as one slot holder is coming to terms with missing out on Hong Kong sprinter Lucky Bubbles, which will head to Japan rather than Randwick in October.
As racehorses go, Arch Fire comes from a privileged background, in human terms an Eton student bound for a career studying at Cambridge in England.
Lachlan King, the 18-year-old son of former champion rider Steven King – who won the cups double on the mighty mare Let's Elope back in 1991 – knew he would have big shoes to fill.
Slow and steady is Lloyd Williams' carefully planned pathway back for 2016 Melbourne Cup winner Almandin.
A horse trainer who went missing for three days in bushland prompting a large scale search will allege she was pushed in the chest four times, grabbed by the arm and threatened by Taree racing officials on her own property in a case set to be heard in the Newcastle District Court.
A power play by the Racing Queensland board has forced the Queensland Oaks and Stradbroke meetings to be moved from the maligned Eagle Farm racecourse to Doomben.
Racing Queensland has bowed to a chorus of complaints from owners, trainers and jockeys and moved the Queensland Oaks away from Eagle Farm to Doomben on Saturday.
Eagle Farm raced as expected on Saturday – poorly – and Brisbane racing officials have to learn from the past and take decisive action at the end of the winter carnival.