Just Horse Racing News
Sydney jockey sports cupping spots
By AAP Cupping has left its mark at the pool at Rio, but the signature circular bruises have also been spotted in the jockeys’ room at Sydney racetracks. Used to treat muscle pain, the Chinese therapy involves placing cup-like devices ... Read More »
Suavito chases another 1400m Caulfield win
By AAP Suavito kicks off her spring campaign looking to add another stakes race over the 1400 metres at Caulfield to her first-up record. The Nigel Blackiston-trained mare runs in the Group Two P B Lawrence Stakes on Saturday over ... Read More »
Michelle Payne gets boot from Melbourne Cup winner
By AAP Michelle Payne’s hopes of a second Melbourne Cup on Prince Of Penzance appear to be over. It was revealed on Wednesday that Payne will not partner the Melbourne Cup winner when he resumes in the Memsie Stakes at ... Read More »
Regal Roller Stakes Field – 2016
By Joseph The Final Field has been released for the 2016 Regal Roller Stakes which is to be run at Caulfield racecourse on Saturday 13th, August 2016. View the Regal Roller Stakes Field. No Horse Trainer Jockey Barrier Weight 1 ... Read More »
Melbourne Cup 2016 now unlikely for previous winner
By Morgan Payne Melbourne Cup winner Protectionist had intentions to return to Australia to try and make it dual victories in the race that stops a nation although those plans now look unlikely. Connections have outlined that Protectionist is unlikely ... Read More »
QLD trainer and foreman banned for 12 months over cobalt use
By Media Release A Toowoomba based trainer and his foreman have both been sentenced twelve month disqualifications after a horse in their care returned a positive reading to cobalt at Lismore in May this year. Racing NSW’s media release: Racing ... Read More »
Kavanagh says pressured over cobalt vet
By AAP Under pressure to keep quiet about Dr Tom Brennan’s involvement in his cobalt case, Sam Kavanagh became enraged when even his father believed the vet over him. The outed Sydney trainer has again said he was pressured by ... Read More »
Bruce McAvaney’s horse set for Canterbury
By AAP With the eyes of the world on the Olympics, Australia’s most high-profile commentator in Rio could be forgiven for having one eye on the races. Leading sport broadcaster Bruce McAvaney is a part-owner of Embley who is entered ... Read More »
Clinic ‘tried to deflect cobalt blame’
By AAP Banned Sydney trainer Sam Kavanagh says a vet and clinic manager “poisoned” his reputation in an attempt to deflect the blame in three cobalt cases. Kavanagh said he was under serious pressure from Flemington Equine Clinic vet Dr ... Read More »
Xtravagant settling in to new home
By AAP Damien Oliver has partnered Xtravagant in a work-out at Flemington ahead of the star New Zealander’s Cox Plate campaign. Named last season’s champion three-year-old in New Zealand, Xtravagant is based at the Flemington stables of Steve Richards for ... Read More »
