Year: 2019

Australian sprinter In Her Time has been ruled out of the HK Sprint with a hoof injury. Australian sprinter In Her Time has been scratched from the Hong Kong International Sprint because of a hoof problem. The Kris Lees-trained mare was found to have a quarter crack in her left front foot on Saturday. A day later she was re-examined but ruled unfit to run in Sunday’s 1200m-race. Lees had been confident the matter was not serious but vets decided otherwise. Aethero is the raging favourite for the Sprint, one…

In Her Time at track work Saturday 7 Dec At the conclusion of track work yesterday (Saturday 7 Dec) Stewards released a statement, “An examination of In Her Time, trained by Mr. Kris Lees, has found that horse to have sustained a quarter crack in its left front foot. In Her Time will be subject to a further veterinary examination tomorrow (Sunday) morning to assess its suitability to race. A further release will be issued at that time.” That subsequent examination of In Her Time conducted by the Veterinary Officers…

Three-year-old filly Kay Cee has given the Parnham family an historic win in the Group One Kingston Town Classic at Ascot. Trained by Neville Parnham, Kay Cee ($11) was ridden by his son Steve in Saturday’s 1800m-race, the final Group One race of the year in Australia. Kay Cee is a daughter of Playing God who Neville Parnham trained to win the Kingston Town in 2010 and 2011, with Steve aboard both times. The jockey got down to ride Kay Cee at the featherweight of 50kg and was rewarded when…

Trainer David Vandyke has always expected to win a stakes race with mare Frangipani Moon but it came a little earlier than expected at Doomben. Ridden in a rails-hugging manner by jockey Jake Bayliss, Frangipani Moon ($19) got up to beat Shalwa ($11) in a driving finish to the Listed Just Now Stakes (1350m). Frangipani Moon was bred by Oakey vet David Pascoe and his wife Heather who have been major players in Queensland racing for decades. Vandyke, who won the first race with Red Stiletto, said it had been…

The Party Girl has upstaged her more-fancied rivals to win at Rosehill. A race that looked as if it would not pan out for The Party Girl has turned out to be the ideal platform for the backmarker to score a confidence-boosting win. Burning Crown appeared to be the only natural front runner in Saturday’s Schweppes Handicap (1200m) at Rosehill and that is how most punters read it, sending the horse out an odds-on favourite. But Nash Rawiller on Echo Jet had other ideas and spurred on by the addition…

Jarrod Fry has secured a lucky pick-up ride with Yulong January winning the VOBIS Gold Bullion. Jockey Jarrod Fry was the lucky recipient of last-minute pick up ride, guiding Yulong January to victory at Pakenham. Ben Melham was stood down with a wrist injury following Saturday’s Pakenham Cup, in which he finished fifth aboard Carzoff. He had to forgo the ride on Yulong January in the $150,000 VOBIS Gold Bullion. Fry had not previously ridden Yulong January in a race or trackwork, but it mattered little as he took the…