STEVE O’Halloran had to make the right choice! The Hawkesbury trainer nominated his stable star Mal Coupe for no less than four races – including one in Melbourne - over the public holiday weekend. Finally he settled on staying home to run at Warwick Farm tomorrow. Tyler Schiller will continue his association with the five-year-old gelding in the Monday feature, the Benchmark 100 Handicap (1000m). O’Halloran entered Mal Coupe, the winner of six of his 17 starts, for both the

AS far as winning races is concerned, Brisbane has become like a “second home” to Jason Deamer. The Newcastle trainer added another Queensland “scalp” to his tally when Spaceballs scored easily at Eagle Farm yesterday. Ridden by Brisbane’s leading jockey Ben Thompson, Spaceballs ($5) took full advantage of clear running near the inside in the straight to take One Metropolitan Win Handicap (1400m). The Dynamic Thoroughbreds syndicate mare burst clear over the closing stages to

NEWCASTLE trainer Nathan Doyle’s home track double yesterday was a case of “the old and the new”. Doyle called on his current apprentice Liberty Smyth and former apprentice Shannen Llewellyn (who is on loan to Ciaron Maher at Warwick Farm) to continue his early season momentum, having now trained 14 winners since August 1. Smyth won the Midway Benchmark 64 Handicap (900m) on Emalyn ($3.10), and Llewellyn the Conditional Benchmark 68 Handicap (1300m) on stablemate Caltsar ($26

IT’S a date Shaun Harvey won’t miss. First acceptances for the world’s richest two-year-old race – the $5m Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens in March – are due on Tuesday, and the Wyong trainer can’t wait to pay the $605 fee for his filly I’m Admired. Especially after the youngster gave Harvey and her owners a huge thrill in finishing a cracking second in yesterday’s Group 3 Gimcrack Stakes (1000m) against her own sex at Royal Randwick. The $151 rank outsider,

BRAD Widdup has declared Savvy Hallie is back on track and ready for a “premiere” performance at Royal Randwick tomorrow. Hawkesbury’s leading trainer has dismissed any concerns that the mare’s setback in winning the Group 2 Sheraco Stakes (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens three weeks ago won’t have her in top shape for the $1m Group 2 Premiere Stakes (1200m) at weight-for-age. Savvy Hallie’s regular rider Nash Rawiller continues a successful association with her. The classy Hellbe

KRIS Lees’ Melbourne plans with Provincial-Midway Championships Final winner Lord Of Biscay are up in the air. The leading Newcastle trainer sent the gelding south only to be greeted by heavy rain in the lead-up to tomorrow’s Listed Paris Lane Stakes (1400m) at Flemington. Already the track is a ‘Heavy 9’ and unlikely to improve with more rain expected. “The meeting is apparently in some doubt and may even be postponed,” Lees said this morning. “Lord Of Biscay doesn’t like he

SHE cost only $600 online earlier this year and has already earned just over $50,000. Little wonder Wyong trainer Shaun Harvey reckons Gemtiki deserves her chance to earn bigger riches in town – either at Royal Randwick’s Group 1 Epsom Handicap fixture on Saturday, or Monday’s Warwick Farm public holiday meeting. Reece Jones will ride the five-year-old mare if she tackles the Midway Benchmark 72 Handicap (1800m) at Randwick, whilst Jean Van Overmeire has the mount if she wait

ALEX Lemarie laughs when he says he has more horses at his spelling farm than in his stable. But the Hawkesbury trainer, who has only three horses in work, is understandably excited to have his first Group 1 runner at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Lemarie will be represented by $6000 yearling buy ParisestMagic (Paris Is Magic) in the $750,000 Flight Stakes (1600m) for three-year-old fillies, and Rachel King rides. The daughter of Redoute’s Choice stallion Prague is the $151 out

THERE was no “drama” about Wyong gelding Harvey’s Turn’s breakthrough victory at Grafton yesterday. Trainer Damien Lane and his wife Kate bred the lightly-raced Star Turn four-year-old, who at his sixth start won the Maiden Plate (1006m). “I trained the gelding’s dam, the Street Cry mare Oakfield Ella (who won a 1900m Maiden Plate at Gosford in November 2019) for Bruce Mackenzie, who gave her to us to breed with when her racing career finished,” Lane said enroute home yesterd

MELBOURNE Cup winning jockey Robbie Dolan will ride Matcha Latte in Saturday’s Group 1 Epsom Handicap (1600m) at Royal Randwick. Wyong trainer Nacim Dilmi ended a search for a rider today for the sole provincial representative in the $1.5m feature after Brisbane-based Dolan had chased the mount. “I was at the barrier draw at Randwick this morning when Robbie messaged me,” Dilmi said this afternoon. “He said he wouldn’t have to waste much to ride Matcha Latte at his 50kg, an

KRISTEN Buchanan says it’s time for Annie’s Rose to have a crack at stakes company. The Wyong trainer is eyeing Saturday week’s $250,000 Group 3 The Nivison (1200m) at Rosehill Gardens – and who can blame her! Annie’s Rose is unbeaten from three starts at the track; the latest last Saturday when she surged along the inside to defeat Lulumon and Newcastle mare Mercy Me in the Benchmark 78 Handicap (1100m). The six-year-old daughter of Sepoy’s earlier Rosehill victories this ye

Graeme Hinton has been appointed Chief Executive Officer of Racing NSW in a unanimous decision of the Racing NSW Board. Mr Hinton, who has been Acting Chief Executive Officer since July 2026, will formally commence in the role on 1 December 2026. Mr Hinton has been Racing NSW’s Chief Operating Officer and, over more than a decade with the organisation, has worked closely with Peter V’landys AM during a period of unprecedented growth and improvement. He has been integral to mu

NACIM Dilmi will have his first Group 1 runner at Royal Randwick on Saturday – with help from another race club. The Wyong trainer has the support of Newcastle Jockey Club to help prepare Matcha Latte for the $1.5m Epsom Handicap (1600m). Dilmi has confirmed a shot at the Epsom with last year’s Provincial-Midway Championships Final winner, but was stuck to give the gelding a vital grass track gallop tomorrow. The NJC came to the rescue. “Wyong is undergoing a track renovation

HE’S the oldest horse in the stable – and he’s a 10-times winner! Little wonder Kembla Grange trainers Rob and Luke Price love having Satness around. The eight-year-old gelding took his winning record into double figures when successful at his home track yesterday. A $6 chance and ridden by Jean Van Overmeire, Satness defeated $3.90 favorite Feazabeel and Erina ($4.20) in the Conditional Benchmark 68 Handicap (1600m). Gosford trainer Adam Duggan’s Erina was attempting a hat-t

MIDNIGHT Black, Ascot Grey, Royal Blue, The Burgundy and The Rose! Classy names for varieties of flowers and shrubs, you might assume. But you’d be wrong. In fact they are names of caps Victorian businessman and entrepreneur Nick Cartledge has cleverly introduced to the market under his Peaky Punter banner. “Peaky Punter was built on a simple belief,” Cartledge tells Provincial RacingNSW. “Race day should feel like something again. “Not just a bet; not just a crowd – it’s day

ANDREW MacDonald says he is a “jack of all trades, and master of none”. But the Newcastle horseman, who helps out with clerk of the course duties at Port Macquarie and Taree when called up, is certainly mastering the training caper, especially with yesterday’s Scone winner Force March. The lightly-raced four-year-old son of dual Group 1 winner Grunt made it two wins on end with a superb performance under 61kg topweight in the Class 1 Handicap (1300m). When nothing else wanted

KRIS Lees has erased any worries about his Golden Rose Stakes hope Under Focus being slowly away at his lead-up run. Having his third run this preparation, the lightly-raced Under Focus lines up in the $1m 1400m feature for three-year-olds at Rosehill Gardens as the leading Newcastle trainer seeks a 20th Group 1 triumph. Under Focus followed an excellent first-up sixth, coming from well back, in the Listed Rosebud (1100m) at Rosehill on August 15, with another eye-catching th

IT’S already been a flying start to the season for Newcastle trainer Nathan Doyle. And he is taking three good chances to Rosehill Gardens tomorrow to keep the momentum going. Doyle, with 12 wins, has prepared more than any other New South Wales provincial trainer so far in not quite the first two months of the 2026-27 racing season. Five of those dozen victories have been in town, meaning he is also the leading provincial trainer to date in that area. Doyle’s racing manager

A winner at home today…and now Brad Widdup is on the “hunt” for a Group 1 triumph at the weekend! After saddling the lightly-raced Lion Hunt for an impressive first-up victory, Hawkesbury’s leading trainer has turned his focus to Saturday’s $1m Golden Rose Stakes (1400m) for three-year-olds at Rosehill Gardens. His hopes rest with the beautifully-bred and $750,000 yearling purchase Tenenbaum, who goes into the Group 1 feature on the back of a solid minor placing at the same d

WINKERS did the trick for Kembla Grange mare Monte Kate at Warwick Farm yesterday. And there was an emotional outcome to her victory in the Benchmark 78 Handicap (1300m). Ridden by apprentice Mollie Fitzgerald, Monte Kate returned to the winning list, defeating Alabama Fox ($5) and Felix Majestic ($4.40). The six-year-old daughter of champion sire I Am Invincible is raced by long-term clients Vic and Yvonne Bates of father and son trainers Rob and Luke Price, and outlaid $400