Champion Hong Kong trainer John Moore may have bailed on his Gold Coast stable experiment earlier this year, but his nephew James Moore believes the glitter strip is the place to secure his own long-term training future. James Moore chose not to follow his father Gary, the younger brother of John, to Macau where the... Read More

Some generational depth of both the human and equine variety has come to the fore in Kote, the headstrong son of Choisir, who’s emerging as a sprinter to watch for his trainer – and breeder – Anthony Cummings.   As a teenager in the late 1960s and early ‘70s, Cummings would travel to stud farms... Read More

The Cox Plate is still begging for Annabel Neasham, but that does not alter the fact that her story is almost certainly unrivalled in terms of immediate impact in Australian racing.  Six Group 1 winners; another in waiting courtesy of her Australian debut Group 2 winner My Oberon last Saturday, and more runners in the... Read More

New winners Harry Angel (pictured above) – Yorkshire (2 c ex Totsiyah by Dalakhani) provided Darley’s first season sire Harry Angel (Dark Angel) with a 19th individual winner when scoring at the second time of asking in a six-furlong novice at Redcar. Trained by Ed Bethell, the colt kept on well in the closing stages... Read More

Where it began, I can’t begin to knowing But then I know it’s growing strong Was in the spring And spring became the summer Who’d have believed you’d come along…. Those are the words of the first verse of Neil Diamond’s hit song ‘Sweet Caroline’ and how fitting was it that this iconic tune should... Read More