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SPORTINGBET HAVE 'ANY OTHER INDIVIDUAL JOCKEY' FAVORITE
THE Roy Higgins Medal for the most successful jockey over the three days of the Caulfield Spring Racing Carnival is any rider’s “race”.
Corporate bookmaker, Sportingbet, sponsor of tomorrow’s important BMW Caulfield Cup lead-up race, the Sportingbet Herbert Power Stakes, has framed a six-jockey market for the medal, yet its favorite is the “any other individual jockey” option.
Read more: OPEN betting market on Roy Higgins Medal at Caulfield
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CHAMPION JUMPS TRAINER POPULAR WINNER OF PRESTIGIOUS AWARD
CHAMPION jumps trainer Fran Houlahan, has won the prestigious Victorian Wakeful Club
Lady of Racing Award which was announced today at a luncheon at Caulfield
Racecourse.
The daughter of the late Hall of Fame trainer Jim Houlahan enjoyed an outstanding jumps
racing season with six-year-old gelding Pentiffic, which won the Yalumba Classic Hurdle
at Oakbank in April as well as the Dominant Hiskens Steeplechase at Moonee Valley and
Crisp and Grand National Steeplechases at Sandown.
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MCEVOY LOOKS SET TO GET THE CUP RIDE ON GODOLPHIN HOPE
KERRIN McEvoy is expected to be confirmed later today as the rider for Godolphin’s Kirklees in the BMW Caulfield Cup on Saturday week.
Godolphin’s number one jockey Frankie Dettori was keen to come to Melbourne for the ride but will be required for stable runners at the Champion’s Day meeting at Newmarket, the final feature meeting of the English flat racing season.
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FIVE RIDES FOR THE WORLD'S BIGGEST OWNER ON GUINEAS DAY
WHEN champion hoop Kerrin McEvoy arrives at Caulfield on Saturday, he will be carrying the hopes of the world's biggest owner and a probably a bag full of his luckiest riding gear – but only one set of jockey silks.
The reigning BMW Caulfield Cup winning jockey has five confirmed rides at Caulfield on Saturday, and each of them are for leviathan owner and the Ruler of Dubai, Sheikh Mohammed.
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CAULFIELD GUINEAS STEEPED IN RACING HISTORY
HISTORY Waits For No One is just one of the positioning statements used by the Melbourne Racing Club for The Age Caulfield Guineas Day, a day that is indeed steeped in racing history.
Many of racing’s most famous jockeys have been successful on this day and etched their name into racing history by becoming a Group One winning rider.
Read more: MELBOURNE Group One Racing Welcomes Two Newcomers
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TEN OF THE BEST FROM AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND TO COMPETE
THE country’s finest female jockeys will compete in the Pulse Pharmacy Ladies Invitational at Moonee Valley on Friday night.
Female riders from Australia and New Zealand have been invited by the MVRC to compete in the $50,000 Invitational Race, run over the Tatts Cox Plate distance of 2040 metres.
Read more: MOONEE Valley to host Ladies Invitation Race on Friday night
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EIGHT CRANBOURNE ENTRIES ALSO NOMINATED FOR MELBOURNE CUP
EIGHT nominated horses for the Luxbet.com Cranbourne Cup on Sunday are also nominated for the Group 1 Caulfield Cup, with victory in both races earning that horse an extra $1 million.
Sydney trainer Anthony Cummings has four horses nominated for both races, with 7YO gelding Zavite the most likely Luxbet.com Cranbourne Cup starter.
Read more: A MILLION reasons to run in the Cranbourne Cup on Sunday
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A LATE CHANGE OF DATE LANDS COLERAINE RICH STEEPLECHASE
COLERAINE Racing Club will have the honour of hosting the richest race at a non-TAB meeting in living memory when horses contest the $60,000 Great Western Steeplechase on Saturday.
In what has been a major boost for the Club, the initially abandoned Coleraine Cup meeting on 27 September found a new date and the race card has been boosted by two feature jumping races.
Read more: COLERAINE hosts richest non-TAB race in Victoria this Saturday
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SPRING CAMPAIGN ALSO OVER FOR JOLIE'S SHINJU
HIGHLY-rated Dermot Weld-trained mare Profound Beauty will not be coming to Melbourne for the 2009 Emirates Melbourne Cup.
The Irish trainer advised Racing Victoria’s General Manager of Racing Operations Leigh Jordon overnight that a decision has been made that after a long season Profound Beauty will be kept in training next year and therefore will not travel to the Melbourne Cup this year.
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VICTORIAN stewards today suspended top jockey Craig Williams for 10 meetings at the conclusion of an inquiry into interference in last Saturday’s Group 1 Turnbull Stakes at Flemington.
In other action stewards require the Singapore star, Jolie’s Shinju, to undergo further tests before racing again after she was found to have an irregular heart rhythm and trainer Colin Little has advised that El Segundo suffered an eye injury during the running of the Turnbull Stakes.
Read more: WILLIAMS outed for 10 meetings over Turnbull Stakes interference
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