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Victoria's extreme weather conditions claimed the last two races at Wednesday's Geelong meeting as well as Thursday's Ballarat fixture due to excessive heat.The eight-race program at Gawler in Sout...
The meteoric rise of Gold Trail continued when he out sprinted a class field in the Canterbury Classic to win the Listed race in a deceptive finish from Desuetude.It was the third successive victor...
Gai Waterhouse believes blinkers will make Manhattan Rain even harder to beat on debut at Rosehill on Saturday.The much-hyped colt is providing Waterhouse with something to smile about following a ...
Greg Eurell is very confident Apache Cat can make it back-to-back wins in Saturday's Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington despite the presence of reigning Horse of the Year Weekend Hussler.Apac...
Emerging apprentice Nathan Berry's momentum has been stalled after he suffered a suspected shoulder injury in a fall at Canterbury on Thursday night.Berry's mount Trinitarian came down rounding the...
It's usually considered bad luck to wear green on a racecourse but it wasn't that way for Gai Waterhouse who got into the spirit of the carbon neutral race day at Rosehill and duly greeted three wi...
West Australian Scenic Blast beat the best sprinters in the land and gave trainer Danny Morton his first Group One winner in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington.Among those left in his wake were Wee...
Plans to run Group One winner Northern Meteor in England have been cancelled by the colt's owner, Eduardo Cojuangco of Gooree Stud.Trainer Gai Waterhouse was keen to campaign the colt at Royal Asco...
Fair Trade came into Australian Guineas calculations in a big way when he made it two Flemington wins from as many starts with an impressive victory in the CS Hayes Stakes.The Danewin gelding had b...
Diminutive but gutsy filly Romneya, who was consistently thereabouts during the spring without winning, made up for it with her success in the Group Three The Vanity at Flemington.Weighing in at ar...
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...