Our former UK galloper Shamaal Nibris will open his season in Dubai tomorrow night at the famous Meydan Racecourse running first up over 1400 metres. Unfortunately, he has drawn 8 of 10 so will need a little luck. Trained by American trainer Doug Watson, he ran third at Listed level in Dubai at his last [...]
Steven Parnham got the monkey off his back by winning with Fremond in the that youngster's first race start. Unusually it was the quality jockey's first metropolitan win in the 2014/15 season and he also had only one previous provincial win going into the race. In addition a couple of race falls have not exactly [...]
It has taken six years for young trainer Damian Winn to break through for a Saturday win in the metropolitan area but Retro Rocket (Jarrad Noske) did it in emphatic fashion in the sixth race over 1200m at Belmont yesterday. Hey Bro and Chilly Reception filled the places but they were no match for the [...]
“I thought I had been beaten,” was senior jockey Peter Knuckey’s comment after winning by the Westspeed 3YO Handicap by the ‘proverbial lip’ on Liberty’s Gem. Megafactory (Chris Parnham) was a luckless second with Oradol (Troy Turner) half a length away in third place. Most would have agreed with Knuckey that the outside horse (Megafactory) [...]
It might have been only a small field of six but very little separated the first four horses in the Westspeed Handicap over 1650m. In a slugging finish topweight Prentice (Jarrad Noske) scored by a nose from Rattlehead (Shaun O’Donnell) with a half head to Toppa Dawozza (Jason Whiting) in third place. Noske carried out [...]