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The rain has cleared and even though the track will be soft, all horses should get their chance. As is usually the case however, expect riders to go looking for the fast lanes near the crown of the straight at the Sunshine Coast on Sunday.

The Randwick track not good enough on Queen Elizabeth Stakes day OUTSTANDING DAY’S RACING BUT SURFACE DISAPPOINTING The question most people were asking after Saturday at Randwick was if the “track was prepared to aid Addeybb?” I criticised the Caulfield track on Blue Diamond Stakes day when horses had to race off the rail to find the best going on a surface rated a good (4), so it is only fair I also ask the same questions about Randwick being rated a good (4) last Saturday. If it is goo...

Horses Tony McMahon Premium Content Subscriber only Rockhampton racing’s darling and Queensland’s best juvenile filly Sweet Dolly has gone amiss and could be sidelined for up to six months. Sweet Dolly, the winner of her only four starts including a last start victory in the $500K The Jewel 2YO (1200m) at the Gold Coast on March 13, will undergo immediate surgery at the Gatton Equine College. This will centre around the near side front sesamoid which is a ...

Claire Power MIDWEEK racing at Ipswich featured a strong line-up of jockeys including Michael Rodd who rode a winning double from only three rides for the day. First up this afternoon, Rodd was aboard Le Rubis who showed promise after finishing strongly in the 800m two-year-old maiden when returning to the track after a break. The Rubick filly started as the short-priced favourite. She resumed nicely to win first-up after spelling following her first start after pulling up shin sore. Ipsw...

Australian jockey Danny Beasley has announced his comeback to race riding in Singapore. However, the 45-year-old has decided to give competitive riding another crack, with Singapores jockey ranks diminished since the COVID-19 outbreak. "Its a very unique time we have been living in in the last couple of months, with so many jockeys leaving. I put myself forward for a licence, hopeful it would be considered," Beasley told the Singapore Jockey Club. "Of course, I was a bit disappointed I was kn...

Stuart Kendrick is at a loss to explain how apprentice Sheriden Tomlinson seems the only rider capable of getting Star Of Michelin to put his mind on the job early in a race. Tomlinson won his second race in three starts when Star Of Michelin stuck his head out late to defy the grinding finish of Penshurst in the Class 6 Handicap. At Tomlinson’s two previous rides on the horse, Star Of Michelin also settled handier to the speed. But away from Tomlinson, the son of Jet Spur just hasn’t been ...

Why I Love... My DAW John Walden I’m addicted to YouTube. A couple of weeks ago, its slightly scary algorithms coughed up a video clip from BBC TV’s 1980s ‘new technology’ programme Tomorrow’s World. This clip featured Michael Rodd exploring the original TEAC/Tascam Portastudio 144 (see https://youtu.be/fPFPGjhIUUo). It brought a smile to my face and a tear to my eye. If there was ever a single device that enabled the home recording studio revolution, the humble TEAC 144...

Punters post-race: Saturday racing in review, January 23 by James Lamb, Luke Sheehan & David Hocking Artorius dominated his rivals at Sandown Image: Getty A Freedman-trained 2YO stole the show at Sandown, a Kiwi star enhanced her reputation even further, and we saw an all-time sick beat in Sydney. Star Performer Levante in the Westbury Classic (Ellerslie R3) Wins dont come much bigger than that of Levantes over the ditch at Ellerslie in the G2 Westbury Classic. The Ken Kelso-train...

Racing industry mourns loss of celebrated Rocky jockey Jockey Larry Allen and the late Theodore-based trainer Mick Hanlon deep in thought after another winner at Callaghan Park in January, 1981. Horses Tony McMahon Premium Content Subscriber only In particular, senior Rockhampton racing followers and Queensland industry stakeholders as a whole, will be saddened to hear of the passing of jockey Larry Allen who was a leading figure at Callaghan Park in th...

Watch �� Sugar Boom romps home at the Gold Coast Posted by: Graham Potter+ at 5:05pm on 9/1/2021 The Tony Gollan trained Sugar Boom turned the fifth race at the Gold Coast … the Gold Coast Open, a 900m dash … into a one-horse procession, dictating events from start to finish without ever looking in any danger of defeat. Michael Rodd jumped the four-year-old daughter of Spirit Of Boom into the leading line out of the gates and, from there, she had the race re...