Month: April 2022

2022 Capricornia Yearling Sales-topping filly. (Photo: Magic Millions) The 2022 Capricornia Yearling Sale hosted at the Rockhampton Showgrounds has produced a 34-year record with a sales gross of more than $1.5 million on Sunday afternoon. The three-day carnival in the nation’s beef capital saw two quality days of racing run and won across Friday, April 8, and Saturday, April 9, headlined by the $125,000 Capricornia Yearling Sale Classic 2YO Plate (1200m) and the $75,000 Capricornia Yearling Sale 3&4YO Handicap. The locals shared the spoils in both feature races, with the…

Nash Rawiller produced a ride to remember on Think It Over in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes. (Photo: Bradley Photos) A winning double on Day 2 of The Championships was enough for Nash Rawiller to win the 2022 Nathan Berry Medal. Having finished Day 1 with four points thanks to finishing second in both the TJ Smith Stakes aboard Eduardo and in the Country Championships Final on Commando Hunt, Rawiller added a further six points to his tally on the final day with two victories. After claiming the Provincial-Midway Championships Final…

Trainer Terry Gillett and jockey Stan Tsaikos (Photo supplied) He has been the dominant trainer in Alice Springs in recent times, so it came as no surprise that Terry Gillett celebrated a treble on the opening day of the 2022 Alice Springs Cup Carnival on Saturday. Gillett, who took out the Alice Springs and Provincial trainers’ premiership last season with 26 winners, boosted his tally to 27 for the 2021/22 season at Pioneer Park. The former jockey has now extended his lead over Lisa Whittle in the trainers’ premiership to…

Stacey Callow (Photo supplied) Adelaide apprentice Stacey Callow won’t forget her first trip to the Northern Territory in a hurry. On Thursday, the 20-year-old won her first race in her first ride at Darwin’s Fannie Bay when she piloted the Phil Cole-trained Looking For You to victory. Amazingly, Callow pulled off the same feat on Saturday when she made her debut at Pioneer Park on the opening day of the 2022 Alice Springs Cup Carnival. Stacey, the daughter of well-known Australian jockey Noel Callow, guided Sedona ($3.90 fav) to victory…

The Danny Williams-trained Shelby Sixtysix takes out The Galaxy in March 2022. (Photo: Steve Hart) Over the Sydney Autumn Carnival, stars of the turf have been born and champions have reaffirmed their status in magnificent fashion. But none have captured the attention of the nation like Shelby Sixtysix, who has provided his Goulburn trainer Danny Williams the ‘joyride of a lifetime’. The rise to stardom needs no introduction, from being beaten in Highway races in January, to placing second to Eduardo and running past Nature Strip in the Group 2…

Jockey Christian Reith (Picture: Bradley Photos) Top New South Wales jockey Christian Reith was dislodged when his mount Graphite Mist fell at around the 150m mark in the opening event at Newcastle Racecourse on Saturday. He was conscious after the fall and was transported to the John Hunter Hospital with a suspected shoulder injury. It was advised by Racing NSW on Saturday evening that Reith had in fact sustained a fracture to his T4 vertebra and is awaiting specialist advice. The three-year-old Capitalist filly was having her third race start,…

A few pretty handy results were thrown up on Saturday with Think It Over winning an incredible Queen Elizabeth Stakes, Damien Oliver surpassing George Moore’s Group 1 record, and Rachel King becoming the first female jockey to win the Sydney Cup. The Punt Drunk team recap these great on-track results and tip our hats to the champions of the game. THE GREATEST RIDE Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth Stakes had plenty of airtime – as it deserved – and thankfully for us in the media, it did not disappoint. Although the rough…