Dylan Gibbons has won more than 400 races in just under five years of race riding. He’s already visited the Gr 1 winner’s circle on two occasions and has thirteen other black type races on his CV.

The famous hit song “Some Days Are Diamonds” has struck many a chord with horse trainers since John Denver first propelled it to the top of the charts in 1981.

While farmers on the western side of the Great Dividing Range are already nervous about the possibility of an impending dry spell, NSW coastal dwellers are wishing the rain would go away.

 Patrick Murphy’s quartet of wins during April has earned him the Prydes Country Trainer’s Award.

With daylight savings behind us for another year the ten race Saturday programmes in Sydney are getting underway well before midday.

Ever astute Mitchell Beer was obviously chuffed with Sunrise’s win at Kembla Grange on March 22nd but preferred to keep things in perspective.

The significance of Greg Hickman’s Midway win with Glounthaune (Ire) on Saturday was lost on many racing fans. It’s likely that Greg himself had forgotten he’d trained the winner of the very first Midway ever staged on July 3rd, 2021.

Most horse trainers agree there’s nothing more satisfying than having a long range plan come off without a hitch.

A veritable army of people performing specialist duties play a vital role in the running of high profile race meetings. From jockeys, trainers and strappers to general stable staff.

The thrill of a Doncaster win on Celestial Legend in the autumn of 2024 kept Tyler Schiller in a buoyant frame of mind for many months.

The opportunity to double his team numbers was the primary catalyst in Luke Pepper’s return to Canberra last November.

Everybody was talking about Private Harry long before Yulong Investments tied up fifty percent of his ownership under a deal reported to value the colt at sixteen million dollars.

Many commercial horse trainers drive themselves to the races while their horses are transported by major floating companies. Life’s a bit different for Rebecca Dunn.

When Vauban arrived in Melbourne for his first Cup mission in 2023, he’d raced fourteen times for seven wins, including three over hurdles.

Darryll Kell was still pinching himself on Sunday morning in the wake of Mahogany Girl’s gutsy win in the Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championship Qualifier at Hawkesbury.

As El Morzillo swamped the opposition to win Saturday’s $1 million dollar Inglis Sprint, it was hard to believe this was only her second win and a full thirteen months after the first.

It wasn’t so much his six wins for the month but the way he won them, that qualifies Wayne Wilkes for the February award.

“It’s a good feeling to take a horse to the races and know he or she will give you optimum performance win, lose or draw,” was the quote from trainer Nathan Doyle

It’s not hard to imagine the reaction in homes, pubs and clubs when Grant Buckley coaxed La Bella Bondi to a narrow win in Saturday’s 1200m maiden at Newcastle.

It wasn’t until last Friday that Michael Cahill started to question his decision to retire from race riding - a decision he’d been tossing around for the last four or five years.