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Link to Share Australian punters who enjoy eating their breakfast whilst watching the races may have been surprised to see a couple of familiar names race overseas on Thursday morning. The first race wagered by Australias TAB service on Thursday was an 1100-metre handicap at Valparaíso in Chile won by Yes Yes Yes, a horse sharing the same name as the 2019 Everest winner. That, of course, was a false alarm but the second race for broadcast, which came from Gulfstream Park in Florida, wasnt a ...

All Star Mile attracts stellar entries Posted by: Mediality Racing+ at 4:45pm on 11/1/2021 A total of 83 eligible horses, including the reigning Cox Plate winner and Caulfield Cup heroine, have been nominated for the third edition of the $5 million All-Star Mile. Late entrants for the 2021 running of the world’s richest mile race the All Star Mile included Chris Waller’s Caulfield Cup winner Verry Elleegant and the Cox Plate winner the Ciaron Maher and David Eus...

Link to Share Two of spring’s major winners have joined in late for the race for the $5 million All Star Mile with Caulfield Cup winner Verry Elleegant and Cox Plate winner Sir Dragonet among the entries at closing time on Monday. A total of 83 eligible horses, including other spring group 1 winners Russian Camelot and Ole Kirk, were among the entries for the race in March where the public vote the first 10 horses into the race. Sir Dragonet is one of 23 Group 1 winners in the nominations lis...

Sponsored by: Maija Vance, the jockey who was told she would never walk again after a horrific race fall, has started riding trackwork in the latest stage of an extraordinary recovery from life-changing injuries. In September 2018 the 29-year-old suffered 13 rib fractures and broke her back in five places with the T8 vertebra crushing her spinal cord and leaving her with no feeling or movement from the waist down. Now she is riding out for trainer Tarissa Mitchell and even talking of ...

Local trainer Brett Dodson should ensure the last meeting at Coffs Harbour in 2020 sees the stable add another winner to the tally before the New Year thanks to the exciting Parksville. The three-year-old son of Golden Slipper winner Vancouver won a trial at Coffs Harbour by seven and a half lengths just 13 days before his debut across the border in an 1000m maiden at Eagle Farm where he raced handy from a wide draw to clock in a distant third. “Gee, they ran some time,’’ Dodson said. “...

Boulia Races: Australia’s racing-inspired by Oman By: Times News Service You may not have heard of Boulia Races, but the famous Australian meeting has been inspired by Oman and the UAE. That’s because Boulia is the Melbourne Cup of camel racing and takes place deep in the Australian outback every year. When you think of Australian horse racing, the Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse, the Caulfield Cup at Caulfield Racecourse and the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley Racecourse trip off the ton...

Next Article Ryan Moore: A great win on my first ‘proper’ international horse - and thanks to him I enjoyed LA properly too Share Conduit and Ryan Moore are led to the winner’s circle after the 2009 Breeders’ Cup Turf at Santa Anita. Photo: Breeders Cup/Phil McCarten Ryan Moore underlined his status as one of the world’s elite jockeys (he is currently world #6 in the TRC Global Rankings) with a hugely successful visit to Hong Kong’s International Races at Sha Tin earlier...

Link to Share Peter Gelagotis left Flemington yesterday with a great sense of self satisfaction, believing he’d just pulled off one of the best training efforts of his career following Long Arm’s victory over 1600m at his first Australian start. “I was reflecting when driving home in the truck and I thought that was as good a training performance as I’ve ever put in, even comparing to my best horses but in a different way,” Gelagotis told racing.com on Sunday morning. “You get a lig...

Sponsored by: Beauty Generation works on the turf under Romain Clavreul. David Hayes will attempt to emulate the career-ending Cox Plate glories of retired Australian warhorse Fields Of Omagh on Sunday, when he sends out Beauty Generation in an attempt to annex a third HK$25 million (US$3.23 million) Grade 1 LONGINES Hong Kong Mile at Sha Tin. Hayes famously sent Fields Of Omagh into retirement after the 9-year-old snared Australias premier G1 weight-for-age contest – the Cox Plate ...