Trainer fined $10,000 and horse stripped of Group 1 win after positive test

In Secret wins the Light Fingers Stakes at Randwick in 2023. Picture: Bradley Photos Two-time Group 1-winning sprinter In Secret has been ruled out of the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (1000m) on February 17. The winner of last year's Group 1 Newmarket Handicap (1200m), In Secret will bypass the $1 million sprint after the James Cummings…

Tom Kitten wins the Spring Champion Stakes. Godolphin boom colt Tom Kitten will not back up in the Group 1 Victoria Derby at Flemington on Saturday. Tom Kitten vaulted to Derby favouritism after his stunning four lengths romp in the Group 1 Spring Champion Stakes at Royal Randwick last Saturday and trainer James Cummings was considering the…

The Harry Angel colt won the Fernhill Handicap as a two-year-old and had been earmarked as Godolphin's Spring Champion Stakes colt, but Tom Kitten ($11) showed surprising dash to come over Kintyre ($21) to win by a long neck with Encap ($11) a half-length away in third. "I was thinking a couple of weeks ago that he has Spring Champion written all…

Godolphin's No.1 The Everest seed In Secret could be on a collision course with ageless sprint stars Nature Strip and Eduardo when she makes her comeback in the Concorde Stakes early next month. Trainer James Cummings revealed his early spring carnival plans for glamour mare In Secret after her impressive barrier trial effort at Royal Randwick on…

Trainer Bjorn Baker has described his stable's results this season as "very hit and miss" but statistics shows this has been his best yet. Baker's five winners at Randwick last Saturday is a personal-best, he's back in the top five rankings in the Sydney trainer premiership, has had big-race success with Arapaho in the Group 1 Tancred Stakes and…

Racing often loses its way when it comes to acknowledging and remembering champions of yesteryear. Unlike other sports that revere their best and boast extensive data bases for study and comparison, the thoroughbred industry does not have a definitive source to maintain and update race records of the equine superstars. On a similar theme, it is…

Zac Lloyd's lead in the Sydney apprentice premiership is still intact as he returns from a three-week suspension at Canterbury Park on Wednesday. The teenager earned the stewards ire when weighing in light after Sweet Mercy had run third at the Hawkesbury stand-alone meeting late last month. Sweet Mercy was subsequently disqualified from her…

Winning the Queen Elizabeth Stakes is pivotal to Anamoe's international plans. Picture: Grant Guy Champion Anamoe can virtually lock in an international race campaign if he wins his final Australian start in the Group 1 $5m Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2000m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Anamoe has already secured Horse of the Year honours after an…

Godolphin's James Cummings dismissed any suggestion he may never train another horse as good as Anamoe. "Notionally, that's a cynical take on it,'' Cummings said. "I wouldn't fall into that as you never know what the future holds. "All I know, in the here and now, Anamoe is a horse for us to enjoy and for his fans to enjoy. He's the absolute jewel…

Annabel Neasham just might have the best two and three-year-old fillies of their generation in training at her Warwick Farm stable base. Neasham's faith in three-year-old Sunshine In Paris was vindicated when she scored an exciting, albeit narrow win in the Group 1 Surround Stakes at Royal Randwick last Saturday. At the same track next Saturday,…

Anamoe, who will be ridden by James McDonald, will be chasing his eighth career major and is at the top of betting at $1.80 for the weight-for-age Randwick mile. Also at the Randwick meeting, Cummings has boom three-old filly In Secret as $2.20 favourite for the $600000 Surround Stakes (1400m) with Hong Kong-based Hugh Bowman returning to Sydney…

Godolphin has a history with the Expressway Stakes in the James Cummings era that suggests Caulfield Guineas winner Golden Mile could be underrated heading into the autumn, but he will face a stern test from Forbidden Love, which saves her best for this time of year. The pair at the top of the betting stand out being only group 1 winners in the…

Anamoe could resume in the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes at Randwick in March. Picture: Grant Guy Godolphin superstar Anamoe will resume in a Sydney weight-for-age sprint before a final decision is made on whether he campaigns overseas next year. Trainer James Cummings indicated the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) in March is the likely comeback race…

Hall of Fame jockey Hugh Bowman has declined an offer to ride champion mare Verry Elleegant in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe in France next weekend. Bowman was tempted by the opportunity to ride in Europe's most prestigious race, run at Longchamp on October 2, but had too many pressing Sydney spring carnival commitments. At Royal Randwick on…

Duais is at the top of the markets for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups. Picture: Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images The Melbourne Cup won't be the only multimillion-dollar target for Duais in the spring. The mare's trainer Ed Cummings also has the Japan Cup on the triple Group 1 winner's agenda. Duais is high in betting for the Caulfield and Melbourne…

Anamoe returns to racing his own age in the Hobartville Stakes on Saturday where he is a short-priced favourite. Picture: Grant Guy Godolphin trainer James Cummings has avoided a clash of his crack colts and will rely on Anamoe in the Group 2 $400000 Hobartville Stakes (1400m) at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Cummings had also nominated Paulele but…

The field has been unveiled for the final Group 1 of the Australian racing season and barriers have been allocated with three emergencies sweating on getting a start. Twenty contenders have accepted for the Group 1 Tattersall's Tiara (1400m) at Eagle Farm on Saturday in the $600000 race for fillies and mares' in which 17 will face the…

James Cummings covets the Golden Slipper with a zeal that borders on religious fervour. The Godolphin trainer gave an insight into just what this race means to him by revealing a telling conversation he had with one of his stable staff earlier this week. "My foreman said to me the other day this is just a race,'' Cummings said. "I said it is not…

James Cummings covets the Golden Slipper with a zeal that borders on religious fervour. The Godolphin trainer gave an insight into just what this race means to him by revealing a telling conversation he had with one of his stable staff earlier this week. "My foreman said to me the other day this is just a race,'' Cummings said. "I said it is not…

Godolphin galloper Paulele has the potential to be Group 1 winner with his trainer James Cummings hoping the sprinter can climb to the top this campaign. Paulele heads to Moonee Valley on Friday night to run in Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) and break a run of excruciating minor placings at the highest level. Last campaign Paulele finished third in…