Year: 2019

Leading Brisbane jockey Jim Byrne suspended for careless riding at Doomben. Leading Brisbane jockeys Jim Byrne and Baylee Nothdurft have both been suspended for careless riding at Doomben. Byrne leads the senior riders premiership on 33 wins from apprentice Nothdurft who is on 30-1/2. Byrne was suspended for seven days after being found guilty of causing interference on Bring It Home Pop in the Christmas Movies Handicap. Nothdurft pleaded guilty to causing interference on Macewen in the Class Six Plate and was outed for 12 days. Both have the option…

Multiple G1-winning trainer Ciaron Maher has won the Jericho Cup at Warrnambool with Ablaze. Rod Lyons owns shares in several top-line racehorses including triple Group One winner Nature Strip but says Ablaze’s win in the $300,000 Jericho Cup is as good as it gets. Trained by Ciaron Maher and David Eustace, Ablaze has taken out the second running of the unique flat race over the steeplechase course at Warrnambool on Sunday. Restricted to Australian and New Zealand-bred horses, The Jericho over 4600m is the longest flat race in Australia and…

Trainer Trent Busuttin and partner Natalie Young will have two runners in the Pakenham Cup. The Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young stable is planning a two-pronged attacked on the last feature staying race of the year in Victoria. Last-start Sandown winner Maracaibo will be joined by Savvy Oak in the Listed Pakenham Cup (2500m) on Saturday. Busuttin said the Pakenham Cup would give the stable an indication whether Maracaibo would then head to the Gold Coast for the $1 million Magic Millions Trophy (2400m) on January 11. At her third…

G1 placegetter Tyzone heads a list of 20 horses from the Edmonds stable to trial at the Gold Coast. Stradbroke Handicap placegetter Tyzone heads a host of summer carnival hopes the Toby and Trent Edmonds stable has entered for the Gold Coast barrier trials. Team Edmonds will trial 20 horses on Monday including many headed to the Magic Millions day on January 11. Tyzone will be joined by Whypeeo, Churning, Cadogan, Fit For Purpose and Mr Bellagio in the three open company heats over 1000m. The consistent Tyzone is back…

Melbourne Cup winner Vow and Declare will return to Brisbane in winter and defend the Tatt’s Cup. Trainer Danny O’Brien will not be deviating too far from the successful Queensland winter campaign that landed him a Melbourne Cup victory with Vow And Declare. During the winter, Vow And Declare ran in the Grand Prix Stakes and Queensland Derby, before beating older horses in the Tatt’s Cup (3000m) which will again be part of the stayer’s build-up to the spring. Vow And Declare stayed in Queensland after the Tatt’s Cup in…

Singapore-based Michael Rodd will again compete in the State of Origin jockeys series in Brisbane. Singapore-based Michael Rodd will again represent NSW in the annual State of Origin jockeys series in Brisbane. To be held over five heats on December 13/14 at Doomben and Eagle Farm, the series will be a boost for other feature races on those days because some of Australasia’s top riders will be available for mounts. The series will be run in conjunction with two Listed races at Doomben on the Friday and three black-type races…

Dual Doncaster Mile winner, Waikato Stud stallion, Sacred Falls has died after an illness. Dual Doncaster Mile winner Sacred Falls has died at New Zealand’s Waikato Stud after a short illness. The Waikato Stud veterinary team identified an issue with the stallion’s liver a fortnight ago. Despite receiving world-class treatment at both the stud and at Matamata Veterinary Services equine hospital, the 10-year-old’s condition deteriorated overnight and he died early on Sunday. The son of Waikato Stud’s champion sire O’Reilly was in his fifth season of stallion duties after retiring…

Hollie Doyle has equalled Josephine Gordon’s British record of 106 winners by a female rider in a calendar year with victory on Angelic Time at Wolverhampton. Doyle, 23, became the third female to reach a century in a year after Gordon and Hayley Turner when she won on The Perfect Crown at Chelmsford on November 21. Gordon’s landmark total came in 2017 and Doyle had reduced the gap to one on Urban Hero for her main supporter, trainer Archie Watson, at Lingfield earlier in the day. “I’m very relieved. It’s…