Online Licence Renewals for the 2023/24 licensing season 1 Aug 2023 – 31 July 2024 are now open (due date 30 June 2023) You can renew your licence online via your My HRNZ login on the HRNZ website or on the HRNZ Infohorse App on your mobile phone, download from the App Store or Play Store. If you need to supply a medical clearance, please complete your online renewal application and submit the medical once completed. If you would like help completing your online renewal please contact Maria Harris, details…
Month: June 2023
Follow Files: Gollan mare ready for Group 1 Tatts Tiara
Last Saturday we saw Stradbroke Handicap Day at Eagle Farm take centre stage. Meanwhile, Sandown, Randwick, Morphettville and Belmont all hosted nice meetings as the winter racing season heats up across Australia. Below we have found three runners from each of Eagle Farm, Randwick and Sandown that are worth following at their next start. Eagle Farm – Stradbroke Handicap Day Track rating: Good 4Rail position: +4m entire circuit Race 9: Group 2 Dane Ripper Stakes (1300m) | Time: 1:17.73 Horse to follow: Comrade Rosa (1st) Since joining the Tony Gollan…
New horse clinic & hospital for Cranbourne Racecourse
The Andrews Labor Government is backing the racing community in Melbourne’s south-east, with racehorses at the Cranbourne Training Centre to have access to a new world-class equine veterinary clinic and hospital. Minister for Racing Anthony Carbines visited the centre on Wednesday morning to announce the Government is investing $2 million from the Victorian Racing Industry Fund towards the project, with the Cranbourne Turf Club contributing a further $2.6 million. The Cranbourne Training Centre is the largest training centre in the southern hemisphere, with more than 1200 horses in training each…
Peter Baken – one of harness racing’s more colourful characters
By Rob Courtney Every sport has its personalities and one of the most identifiable figures in Canterbury harness racing is (and has been for sometime) Peter Baken, known to many across the country as ‘rabbit’. From administrators, trainers and drivers to fellow owners, there wouldn’t be many harness enthusiasts who didn’t recognise Baken with his dapper wardrobe and immaculate accessories including ‘the hat’. One only has to spend time in the company of the man to sense his passion and commitment to harness racing and his energy levels and…
BYO change welcomed by racing clubs
Small harness racing clubs are welcoming a recent change to the country’s drinking laws. The Sale and Supply of Alcohol (Exemption for Race Meetings) Amendment Bill passed its third reading in Parliament last week. “It will mean race-goers and punters can take a bottle of wine or beer to the races at clubs with three or fewer meetings in a calendar year,” says the Bill’s backer, National’s Racing spokesperson and Rangitikei MP Ian McKelvie. “This Bill eliminates any ambiguity about the legality of BYO at race meetings.” “Rural clubs in…
Group Two winner retired
Trainers Shaun and Emma Clotworthy have called time on their outstanding money-spinner Justacanta (NZ) (Per Incanto). “He’s been retired, he’s getting on a bit now and he’s done a great job for us and wasn’t an expensive buy off gavelhouse.com,” Shaun Clotworthy said. The now nine-year-old won three races from David Greene’s stable before he was offered via the online platform in 2019 and the son of Per Incanto sold for $6,000 to an ownership group, which included Clotworthy’s wife Emma. He doubled his winning tally from his new quarters…
Dark Destroyer to contest Ipswich Cup
Dark Destroyer (NZ) (Proisir) will be back in action in Queensland on Saturday and is expected to appreciate a step up in distance in the Listed Ipswich Cup (2150m). The Proisir four-year-old is open to improvement over ground following an unplaced first-up effort at Doomben and then finished in behind the major players in the Listed The Wayne Wilson (1600m) at Eagle Farm last weekend. “He’s going to back up in the Cup and he should run well again from a good gate of seven,” said Andrew Scott, who trains…
Rejuvenate a dream ‘Diamond’
Veteran Gippsland breeders Ian and Maureen Brown have waited a lifetime for home grown sprint sensation Rejuvenate, favourite for Friday night’s Listed $110,000 Sportsbet Pink Diamond Champion Sprinter final (460m) at Warragul. Brilliant winner of 18 of his 23 starts, Rejuvenate (box 3) sits atop Sportsbet’s Champion Sprinter market at $2.70. Patience is a virtue – especially so in racing – and Rejuvenate is the culmination of a dream half a century in the making for the Loch-based Browns. “It’s a bit late in life but he’s the best dog…
Today’s horse racing tips & best bets | June 14, 2023
Horse Racing on Wednesday, June 14 will feature five meetings in Australia. Our racing analysts here at horsebetting.com.au have found you the top bets and the quaddie numbers for the meetings at Randwick-Kensington, Sandown & Happy Valley (HK). Wednesday Racing Tips – June 14, 2023 Randwick-Kensington Racing Tips Sandown Racing Tips Happy Valley (HK) Racing Tips As always there a plenty of promotions available for Australian racing fans, check out all the top online bookmakers to see what daily promotions they have. If you are looking for a new bookmaker…
GRV update: Horsham abandonment
Greyhound Racing Victoria wishes to provide an update regarding the abandonment of today’s race meeting at Horsham and ongoing issues with the track surface. Following the abandonment of the race meeting after Race 5 at Horsham on Tuesday 6 June, the Horsham Greyhound Racing Club, in conjunction with the GRV track maintenance team, undertook remedial works on the track from Thursday until this morning in preparation for this afternoon’s race meeting. Unfortunately, it is extremely disappointing that the track has not reached a satisfactory state for racing and as a…