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Promising three-year-old Arjuna will go into his spring grand final a fresh horse in Saturday's Group Two Sandown Guineas.Trainer John Collins said he was always going to give the Giant's Causeway ...
Talented gelding Caymans mended his ways to win today's Group Two Sandown Guineas and give himself a chance at the cream of the three-year-old autumn races in Sydney.Trainer Peter Snowden listed th...
Douro Valley could be Australia's sole representative at the rich international meeting in Hong Kong.Although disappointed the gelding was beaten by Zipping in Saturday's Sandown Classic, trainer D...
Promising stayer Circle Of Fame is beginning to justify trainer Rod Craig's faith in his ability and will step up to open company at Randwick on Saturday.The four-year-old has won two of his four s...
The moment of truth will soon arrive for up-and-coming star Burdekin Blues who is back in work ahead of his tilt at Group One glory in Melbourne in the autumn.Burdekin Blues has been in work with t...
Jockey Stathi Katsidis is expected to be sidelined for up to three months after breaking his leg in a track mishap.Katsidis is due to be released from Redlands Hospital on Brisbane's bayside on Thu...
Heavy rain has forced Wednesday's Doomben race meeting to be abandoned.Queensland Racing Limited chief steward Reid Sanders had no hesitation calling off the meeting after Doomben was drenched foll...
Rookie trainer Eden Petrie is hoping more than two decades studying the methods of Ron Quinton and John Wallace will pay dividends and give him his first metropolitan win with talented sprinter Alb...
Melbourne Cup winner Viewed is expected to launch his autumn carnival campaign in a race that has twice confirmed the genius of trainer Bart Cummings.As Viewed rests in a paddock near Bowral in the...
A luckless Emirates Stakes result has convinced trainer Anthony Cummings to keep Dealer Principal in training to try to snap a spring losing streak.Dealer Principal hasn't been able to win in five ...
Phil Purser runs the Just Racing website ( www.justracing.com.au ) and is a regular contributor to PPM. His new book, of some 628 pages, has just been released. This is an extract from the book. ...
Phil Purser runs the Just Racing website ( www.justracing.com.au ) which is always well worth a visit for its information and many thought-provoking articles. An opinion is just that, an opinion ...
Flemington Tue 1 Nov 2011@ 2:56pm on Mon 31 Oct 2011Track: Dead 4Overall penetrometer: 4.73Track rating variations: None.Rail LocationToday: 3 metres.Previous meeting 29 Oct 2011 - True.Last meetin...
Very heavy...Stewards downgraded the Caulfield track rating to Heavy-10 after 9am. The track was hit by rain through the early morning period. Officially, 24mm (an inch) fell overnight at Caulfield...
Flemington track report: 6:15amTrack: Dead 4Overall penetrometer: 4.74Track rating variations: None.Rail LocationToday: 3 metres.Previous meeting 29 Oct 2011 - True.Last meeting with current rail ...
Track's in good nick...Moonee Valley has a dead 5 rating for Friday night's Manikato Stakes meeting. Track boss Marty Synan says a penetrometer reading of 4.85 was taken at 6:30am .He says: 'We had...
Bad news at Randwick...The track rating has been downgraded to a Heavy (9) after more heavy rain on Thursday night. Racecourse manager Dave Hodgson says 22mm of rain fell in the last 24 hours. 'It ...
áPutting on a PumpkinThe retired ace commentator and thorough gentleman, John Tapp, frequently used to make the comment that the punter sometimes can leave his head in the cloak room and put on a...
Yes, But How Wet?If the Doomben Ten Thousand, one of Australia's biggest sprint races, wasn't being run this weekend I'd be tempted to go to the movies.Well not seriously. I'm addicted to racing wh...
Warwick Farm trainer Guy Walter is almost resigned to his home track conspiring against Villiers Stakes plans for promising galloper Straight Albert.Straight Albert, the Goulburn Cup winner in reco...