Year: 2022

Tyler Schiller pictured riding Opal Ridge to a very impressive almost 2 1/2-length victory in the Tapp-Craig Stakes at Randwick on Saturday. Luke Pepper said “it was just silly” the amount of money he was losing every year because workers’ compensation fees are now so high in Canberra. Which is why his move to Scone – a big reason behind Opal Ridge’s outstanding victory in the $500,000 Tapp-Craig at Randwick in shocking Heavy 10 conditions – brought about so much respect across the racing industry on Saturday. It was only…

Top Ranked (outside) pictured in a dead heat with Ellsberg for the Epsom on October 1. Picture: Bradley Photos. Top Ranked could have run his last race – and will miss the Cox Plate on October 22 – after pulling up short in a gallop at The Valley on Tuesday morning. At about 6.30am near the 150m mark, the Epsom Handicap winner went amiss in his near hind leg. The seven-year-old failed to complete the gallop, with his rider dismounting and vets immediately attending to the Dark Angel stallion. The…

What Ipswich Races Where Ipswich Turf Club – 219 Brisbane Rd, Bundamba QLD 4304 When Wednesday, October 12, 2022 First Race 12:41pm AEST Visit Ladbrokes The Ipswich Turf Club will host Wednesday metropolitan racing again this week, with a nine-race card to kick off at 12:41pm AEST. The track is currently rated as a Soft 5, with no rain on the forecast, so hopefully by the first race we should be on a Good track. The rail will be 2m position from the 1600m to the 1100m mark and then…

Kyneton’s Thursday meeting has been transferred to the Ballarat synthetic. (Pat Scala/Racing Photos) For the third time in the space of four weeks, wet weather has forced the transfer of a meeting scheduled for Kyneton. On Tuesday morning, Racing Victoria (RV) advised that the meeting scheduled at Kyneton on Thursday, October 13, had been transferred to the Ballarat synthetic track owing to the impacts of wet weather. The Kyneton track has received 66mm rain in the past week and is currently rated a Heavy 9. With 20-30mm forecast tomorrow and…

The double may not have been done in over a decade, but the punters are tipping Peter Moody’s Prelude winner Boogie Dancer to win the Group 1 $1 million Schweppes Thousand Guineas (1600m) in Melbourne on Wednesday. The Peter Moody-trained Boogie Dancer is favourite to complete the Prelude – Thousand Guineas 2022 double with success in Wednesday’s Group 1. Photo: Ultimate Racing Photos. Eleven three-year-old fillies make-up the Thousand Guineas final field this spring with markets on the mile showdown at Caulfield firmly led by Moody’s daughter of Sooboog Boogie…

After a cracking Caulfield Guineas Day last Saturday, we now look forwards to Caulfield Cup Day as the track’s annual carnival comes to a close this weekend. Godolphin and James McDonald had a day out on Saturday with four winners to the ‘blue army’ and three individual winners for McDonald, including two Group 1 titles and a Group 2. The Caulfield track started as a Soft 6, but we received an upgrade to a Soft 5 after race five. The first few races definitely played favourable to leaders and on-pace…