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Racing Confidential: Friday is D-Day for Australian Turf Club's call on new Leilani Lodge tenant
The Australian Turf Club board will meet on Friday to determine which trainer will be given the famous Leilani Lodge stables at Royal Randwick. James Cummings was in the running to return to the vacant stables which have been in his family for more than 40 years before his shock announcement on Wednesday that he accepted an offer to train in Hong Kong. This leaves the nation's premier trainer Ciaron Maher and the high profile Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott training partnership vying for the Leilani Lodge stables. Both are outstanding candidates and deserve the opportunity to increase their investment in Sydney racing which leaves the ATC board confronted by a very difficult decision. â– â– â– â– â– Golden send-off for Cummings? 🗣ï¸� "We're really looking forward to the challenge ahead, taking this opportunity as a real now or never opportunity." Hear from @JamesCummings88 following the recent announcement of his move to Hong Kong for the 2026/27 season... ðŸ‡ðŸ‡° #LoveRacing | #HKracing — HKJC Racing (@HKJC_Racing) June 12, 2025 As the dust settles on Cummings's bombshell move to Hong Kong, it is only fitting if he could provide some more big-race success with Godolphin before his tenure there ends on July 31. Since Cummings took over at Godolphin in 2017, he has trained 48 Group 1 winners for the racing and breeding giant. The champion trainer could 'raise the bat' for a half century of Group 1 winners with Godolphin at Eagle Farm on Saturday with Golden Mile in the $3 million Stradbroke Handicap and Zebra Finch in the $1 million JJ Atkins. â– â– â– â– â– Number's up for Warnie in Stradbroke ðŸ'€ What a start to TAB Turnbull Stakes Day!! Photo finishes all round. Well bowled, WARNIE. Takes out the TAB We're On. ðŸ'½ @7HorseRacing — Victoria Racing Club (@FlemingtonVRC) October 5, 2024 Warnie, the talented Maher-trained sprinter, is fifth emergency and needs a lot to go his way just to gain a start in the Stradbroke. But if Warnie does squeeze into the field for the big race, he will carry the 23 saddlecloth which will be a number significant to cricket fans. The late, great Shane Warne, or 'Warnie' as he was known, wore number 23 when he played for Australia in one-day cricket. • â– â– â– â– â– Stayer chasing rare back-to-back feat Sir Lucan wins the Listed @kiaaustralia Winter Cup for @GaiWaterhouse1 & Adrian Bott with a winning ride by Adam Hyeronimus at Rosehill Gardens. — Australian Turf Club (@aus_turf_club) June 15, 2024 Sir Lucan is attempting to become the first horse to win successive Winter Cups in more than 60 years at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Since the Winter Cup was first run in 1957, the only horse to go back-to-back was Royal Bark in 1962-63. The only other multiple Winter Cup winner was the remarkable Destiny's Kiss – but his wins were six years apart in 2013 and 2019. The former Joe Pride-trained stayer also ran second (2018) and third (2017) in the feature Rosehill staying race. • â– â– â– â– â– What might have been Arrowfield Stud's super sire Snitzel, the nation's four-time champion stallion, has died aged 23. — Racenet (@RacenetTweets) June 11, 2025 With Snitzel's passing this week, what would his colt out of mighty mare Winx be worth now? Winx missed to Snitzel in 2022 but went back to Arrowfield Stud's champion stallion in 2023 and successfully got in foal. She produced her invaluable Snitzel colt in November last year and was not served again that breeding season. Although Winx's owners have not decided whether they will retain or sell their Snitzel colt next year, there is speculation if he does go to auction he could challenge the Australian record for a yearling colt of $5 million that was paid for a Redoute's Choice half-brother to Black Caviar in 2013. Winx set a world record for a yearling filly when her first foal by Pierro was knocked down for $10 million at the Inglis Easter Sale last year. Earlier this month, Winx's owners confirmed their mare will visit Darley's champion sire Too Darn Hot this spring breeding season.
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Taylor Walker has full support of Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks after being singled out over historical racism incident
Adelaide coach Matthew Nicks has called out the 'unfair' treatment of veteran forward Taylor Walker after he was caught up in unsubstantiated claims alleging St Kilda's Nasiah Wanganeen-Milera had ruled out moving to the club due to a historical racism incident. Reports early in the week suggested Wanganeen-Milera, who is off contract at the Saints and being courted by both South Australian clubs, had ruled out the Crows because of Walker's indiscretion in 2021. The former Adelaide captain was given a six-match ban and a $20,000 sanction after being overheard making a racist comment at a SANFL match. But both Wanganeen-Milera's manager and the player vehemently denied the report, with Walker also reaching out to seek clarification, which was given to him. In the wake of the fallout, Nicks said he was proud of how Walker handled the situation, his growth since the 2021 incident, and lashed the way it was played out, calling out a 'lack of accountability' in contract speculation. 'I didn't like the way it played out at all. I think it was unfair to a lot of people,' Nicks said. 'But no, I didn't get any more involved than checking in with Taylor, for example, to make sure he knows I'm proud of what he's done since an unacceptable moment four years ago. 'He's done a lot of work on educating himself, probably more than anyone at the footy club. But our whole footy club has improved off the back of that (incident). 'I'd prefer not to talk further on it because it's not something I've got involved in, other than touching base with one or two people.' Nicks wouldn't be drawn on whether the club was chasing Wanganeen-Milera, who could be in line for a seven-figure payday for his new deal. 'We don't talk about players from other footy clubs,' Nicks said. 'It's something we've shown a lot of respect around over the years. It's just not a space we go into.' But Nicks conceded talk around contracts was hard to avoid and 'part of the deal' for players.
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There will be tears if Far Too Easy can fulfil Chris Caserta's Group 1 prophecy in Stradbroke Handicap at Eagle Farm
Matt Caserta was screaming at the top of his lungs. Then he broke down in tears and sobbed uncontrollably. It was when Far Too Easy powered to victory in the $2m The Kosciuszko on The Everest day at Randwick in Sydney last year. • It was a magic moment which Matt Caserta felt honoured the memory of his much-loved late twin brother Chris, the jockey who tragically drowned when going for a Surfers Paradise swim in 2021. Chris Caserta rode Far Too Easy at the galloper's first two wins at Grafton in 2021 and told his twin brother that David McColm's horse was a future Group 1 star. It hasn't eventuated yet, even though Far Too Easy has been a star and won almost $2.4m in prizemoney. But it could come to pass on Saturday in the Stradbroke Handicap. 'I was in my car watching the race on my phone when Far Too Easy won The Kosciuszko, I was screaming at the top of my lungs to get him home and then I broke down in tears when he won,' Matt Caserta said. 'It was Chris's favourite horse and from the first time he jumped on it, he told me it would be something very special. 'Every time the horse races, I watch it. 'I'll be watching on Saturday and hoping the horse can win again and win a Group 1 like Chris said he would one day.' Far Too Easy too strong in The Kosciuszko! ðŸ�'ï¸� What a story for David McColm! @DavidMccolm2 @CWilliamsJockey — 7HorseRacing ðŸ�Ž (@7horseracing) October 19, 2024 Unbeknown to Matt Caserta until Racenet told him, there is a special memorial plaque in the Eagle Farm jockeys' room which honours the late Chris Caserta. Sydney jockey Regan Bayliss will ride the Murwillumbah-trained horse Far Too Easy in the Stradbroke and there won't be a dry eye in the house if he wins. Far Too Easy is the horse who has cheated death – surviving deadly floods which have swept through his stable and also battling serious illness – to become a racing miracle. After a couple of uncustomary poor runs following his dazzling Kosciuszko triumph, Far Too Easy was back to form when finishing runner-up behind Stradbroke favourite War Machine in the Group 3 BRC Sprint. It convinced McColm to set his stable star loose on the Stradbroke. Far Too Easy is a $26 chance in the Stradbroke and War Machine, who beat him by 2½ lengths in the BRC Sprint, is the raging favourite. However, there is a weight swing in Far Too Easy's favour. Far Too Easy carried 59kg in the BRC Sprint and plunges to 52.5kg for the Stradbroke. War Machine carried 56.5kg in the BRC Sprint and drops to 53kg in the Stradbroke.
