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Jericho Cup-winning jockey Will Gordon is enjoying a career-best season

Tom Ryan may face a a tough preparation for Sundays Jericho Cup if hes beaten on his sole ride at The Valley on Friday night.

Not surprisingly, Johnny Allen’s phone was full of congratulatory text messages on Saturday night after “The Irishman” from Araglin (in County Cork) lifted State Of Rest over the line and then withstood QC Craig Williams’ objection to rightly keep the Ladbrokes Cox Plate.

$500,000 prizemoney injection, headlines the spring carnival finale meeting which has been relocated from Ladbrokes Park Sandown to Caulfield and transplanted to the last Saturday of November. The Jericho is run the following day and Gibbins and McKenna say the Zipping meeting has invaded the Jericho’s territory. While the increasingly-popular Jericho Cup is run on the Sunday at Warrnambool, festivities such as a Light horse competition staged on the Saturday had made the Jericho a weeken...

Wil John wins at Warrnambool on Sunday (Image: Racing Photos) Homebred stayer Wil John continued his winning run with his third-straight victory demolishing his rivals by 20-lengths in the 1JW Hurdle (3200m) at Warrnambool on Sunday. Prominent local owner-breeder Colin McKenna was overcome with emotion as the rising six-year-old cemented his staying and jumping credentials with a tough win in heavy conditions as connections look towards the Jericho Cup (4600m) in November. The C...

If the yearling sale is horse racing’s dream factory, then the online auction is its reality check, writes Matt Stewart.

RSN927 BOOK YOUR MOTEL. CROWDS ARE OFFICIALLY BACK AT THE BOOL March 15, 2021 8:36 am By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor The 36,000 attendees over the three-days, a return to near-normality and a guaranteed $14 million cash-injection to the City of Warrnambool. Warrnambool Racing Club chief executive Tom O’Connor said this morning that state government approval came through on Friday for up to 12,000 per day through the carnival. Crowd-wise, last year’s carnival was a ghost meet because of...