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The Christmas Stakes at Caulfield will be one the last chances for consistent galloper Itsamonty to win a feature race.Trainer Dean Lawson admitted time was running out for the seven-year-old who h...
Maligned galloper Mind Your Head has rewarded the patience of his connections and delivered on a six month plan to give trainer John Ledger his second Christmas Stakes win in three years.The six-ye...
Trainer Liam Birchley is eyeing his first international runner after flashy juvenile Sarge in Charge trounced his rivals at Eagle Farm to earn a trip to New Zealand.Birchley confirmed after Friday'...
Champion jockey Damien Oliver will stick with Eclipse Stakes winner Eskimo Dan in a bid to win his first Listed Bagot Handicap at Flemington.Oliver had his first ride on Eskimo Dan last start when ...
Terry O'Sullivan says the extra distance of this season's Bagot Handicap, run over 2800 metres for the first time, could be the key for Ladies In Luck posting her first feature race win.Ladies In L...
Larry Cassidy will have one of his last feature rides as a Sydney-based jockey when he partners Sir Sensible in the Listed Tattersalls Club Cup at Randwick on New Year's Day.The New Zealand-born Ca...
International sprint champion Takeover Target will not run in the Group One Telegraph Handicap in New Zealand.Trainer Joe Janiak told the Wellington Racing Club (WRC) on Friday the globe-trotting n...
Luke Oliver's faith in consistent stayer Good Red was rewarded when the gelding delivered on a seven-month plan to give the trainer the biggest win of his career at Flemington.Oliver pulled the ace...
Tye Angland repaid the faith Black Piranha's connections bestowed in him with a brilliant ride to win the $100,000 Goldmarket Handicap but they are already chasing a replacement for next week's Mag...
A horse who nearly severed his hind legs as a juvenile has emerged as an Australian Guineas prospect for Weekend Hussler's trainer Ross McDonald.Stravinsky gelding Swift Bay still bears the scars o...
As the results of handicap races invariably prove, large-weight concessions rarely make winners of outclassed or unfit horses. The principle stands up in all kinds of races, from the lower class u...
Ever since Andy Beyer and Howard Sartin’s speed theories were imported from the USA into Australian racing, a doting band of time and speed aficionados have chipped away at weight-based principles...
The importance of weights as a major form instrument. for the greater part of racing's history, has never been a contentious issue. Weights have long been regarded as the cornerstone of successful...
Many years ago, a respected racing man told me that about 90 per cent of races are won by one of the three best 'weight contenders' which also rate highly on other essential handicapping factors. ...
Will we see female jockeys dominating raciing in a few years' time? Kate Mallyon reckons we will. On the comeback trail from some grim injuries, Kate has been sounding off about the 'weight power' ...
In this article, provided by the respected UK website Flatstats ( www.flatstats.co.uk ), some pertinent points are made about the effects of weight on racehorses. The article refers to British rac...
A total of 202 nominations have been weighed for the 146th running of the $2million BMW Doncaster Mile (Group 1) to be staged at Royal Randwick on Saturday, 21st April 2012.Since the rise in minimu...
Trainer Mick Price is confident we'll see a big Doncaster bid by Aloha, currently at 9/1. She gets a weight drop from the 57kgs she carried in Sat's Ryder Stakes to 51kgs in the Doncaster Mile. Pr...
Looks like Hay List is a non-goer for the $1m Stradbroke on June 11. Trainer John McNair admits the handicapper's assessment of Hay List on 57.5kgs is a 'winnable weight' but he remains in favor of...