Horse Racing News
Shaun O’Donnell big push for Too Dardy
Shaun O’Donnell is excited about the future of Too Dardy and in a solid push has declared the gelding to be his best ride at Belmont Park on Saturday. O’Donnell believes Too Dardy, who has one win and two placings from four starts, has the makings of a good horse and...
Chris Waller continues heady juvenile season
Chris Waller will set his sights on the Princess Series with Tutta La Vita after she added to his brilliant juvenile season with a gritty, albeit narrow victory at Rosehill. Having made a clean sweep of Sydney’s two-year-old triple crown with Shinzo and Militarize, Waller has unearthed a host of other promising...
Illness claims respected Echuca horseman
Respected Echuca-based horseman Daryl Archard who had held a trainers’ licence for more than 45 years, has died. The 68-year-old died on Thursday following a long illness. Archard took out his licence in 1977 and trained over 200 winners with the majority across country Victoria and New South Wales. His best horse was Section that reached a rating of...
Artorius on track for Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes
The Queen Elizabeth II Jubilee Stakes is more than a week away, but Sam Freedman has already seen enough to know that the four-year-old has shown the benefit of last year’s trip. The son of Flying Artie has been at Newmarket since Thursday night last week and has already reclaimed the weight...
King Magnus not done with yet
It is not often a year away from racing will rejuvenate a gelding the way it has King Magnus. The Robbie Griffiths and Mathew de Kock-trained galloper is a rising eight-year-old and is at the highest level he has been to in his 30-start career. And judging by the way he is racing he is not done with...
Blinkers on for Sunsource at Flemington
Co-trainer Trent Busuttin isn’t one to mince his words when it comes to the horses he prepares with partner Natalie Young. Busuttin described the first-up run of Sunsource at Flemington on June 3 as plain, expecting the two-year-old to finish off the 1200m better than he did. Sunsource will be out for some form of redemption at Flemington on Saturday when...
Artzino to be suited by Flemington trip
Unfortunately for trainers Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr their aspirations of a Derby win with Artzino did not eventuate for the three-year-old. But that has not stopped the pair looking further ahead with the gelding who will progress his career in the Sir Henry Bolte Handicap (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday. Price and Kent...
Cepheus fresh for Eye Liner Stakes
Everything about the European form of Cepheus suggests he is a dour stayer, but a couple of campaigns into his Australian journey and the horse’s career is being reimagined. The gelding arrived two years ago as a Listed winner over 2500m in France and connections were hopeful he could develop into...
Chris Waller sets sights on successive McKell Cups
Chris Waller is pinning his faith in Bold Mac to overcome a distance query when he steps up to 2000-metres in the Listed McKell Cup at Rosehill. The former New Zealander will be one of three Cup runners for Sydney’s premier trainer along with dour stayer Irish Sequel and Lord Ardmore,...
Les Kelly banned for 18 months
Gold Coast-based trainer Les Kelly has received an 18-month disqualification following a guilty plea to two charges of using the banned drug erythropoietin (EPO). The charges concerned the horses Freddie Fox Trot and Gogol, both of whom were unplaced in the 2022 Ramournie Handicap at Grafton. The Racing NSW stewards commenced the...