Trainer Steve McKee will test his good stayer Boundless in the $NZ1 million Kelt Capital Stakes at Hastings in Oct before deciding if she'll have another crack at the Melbourne spring carnival. Her #1 goal will be the wfa 2040m Grp 1 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley, an event the McKee stable has won twice with the champion Sunline. Boundless will not tackle the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.Jockeys to follow in the new season? In Victoria, the young turks should be the way to go...Nick Hall, who sewed
Trainer Steve McKee will test his good stayer Boundless in the $NZ1 million Kelt Capital Stakes at Hastings in Oct before deciding if she'll have another crack at the Melbourne spring carnival. Her #1 goal will be the wfa 2040m Grp 1 Cox Plate at Moonee Valley, an event the McKee stable has won twice with the champion Sunline. Boundless will not tackle the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.
Jockeys to follow in the new season? In Victoria, the young turks should be the way to go...Nick Hall, who sewed up the apprentices' crown at Sandown Lakeside on Thursday, and the lads who finished behind him, Ibrahim Gundogdu and Dean Holland. And what about the females? Linda Meech, Michelle Payne and Nikita Beriman are the three 'go to' gals.
Not a breath between them...Damien Oliver and Craig Williams dead-heated for the Melbourne jockey title for the 08-09 season. Each had 71 wins.
The chips are down in the NSW race club merger issue...AAP says Sydney's two race clubs are opposed to a merger unless it is part of wide ranging reforms of the NSW racing industry and say the economic benefits of such a move have been grossly exaggerated. The Australian Jockey Club (AJC) and Sydney Turf Club (STC) commissioned their own study into a merger in response to a report by Ernst & Young undertaken on behalf of the NSW government and presented it to Racing Minister Kevin Greene on Wednesday.