Trainer hails Jason Collett’s instinctive reaction after racehorse suffers dramatic mid-race injury.
Colourful owner Tony Ottobre questioned whether a rival jockey’s ride was designed to beat his wonder mare,while Jamie Kah was robbed of a chance to ride in The Everest at the starting gates.
Leading trainer Joe Pride was filled with dread when his star horse fell at Randwick on Saturday,and officials erected a screen.
Ciaron Maher had a highly successful day across two cities,training the Everest and Caulfield Cup winners within one hour of each other. Duke De Sessa won the big race in Melbourne while Bella Nipotina ruled the roost in Sydney.
Pride Of Jenni was run down in a King Charles Stakes boilover as Joe Pride’s Ceolwulf crashed the party for Australian racing’s newest cult hero.
It wasn’t a pretty ride to take The Everest,but jockey Craig Williams knew he had to trust his star mare.
On the whole,the tone was one of indifference. A modern,trackside republican debate argued through juiced-up nonchalance rather than strong feelings about the monarchy.
Gillon McLachlan and Peter V’landys have been at loggerheads for years,but now they realise they need each other.
The great divide between the well-dressed and the barely dressed left little room for fashion at Sydney’s premier horse race.
Clayton Douglas has beaten the odds a few times in his life and is trying to do it again with Giga Kick in The Everest.
Rachel King is adamant she’s not a female jockey,just a jockey. And a damn good one. But it’s hard not to escape the growing influence of the girls on this year’s $20 million race.