MONDAY: December 22, 2025: IT’S been a good week for Fabio Martino! The young Hawkesbury trainer saddled eight runners at five different tracks for two winners and three placings. And he almost clinched his first ever double. “That would have been terrific, but I’m not complaining,” Martino said today. “You have to be happy with the results from the last week.” Martino began the week by running recent acquisition Tazaral in the Big Dance Eligibility Nowra Cup (1600m) last Sun

WEDNESDAY: December 17, 2025: THEY’RE all entitled to an off day! Leading Hawkesbury trainer Brad Widdup was at a loss to explain Tequila Baby’s defeat at Warwick Farm a fortnight ago. But the four-year-old mare regained her best form at the same track today to post her fourth win from 10 starts. Ridden by leading apprentice Braith Nock – who has been aboard at her last three runs – Tequila Baby ($8) raced up on the pace and gamely overhauled Kimberley Secrets ($3.90) to take

WEDNESDAY: December 17, 2025: STEVE O’Halloran went back to basics – and it paid off! The skilled Hawkesbury horseman made a number of gear changes on a resuming Royalify, who burst back to winning form on Newcastle’s inner Beaumont track yesterday. Ridden by Winona Costin and starting at $8.50, Royalify upset Gosford trainer Jake Hull’s $2.20 favorite Lord Vettori in the Class 1 Handicap (1200m). To say the now five-year-old son of Justify has been something of an enigma is

Hawkesbury News December 16 2025 TUESDAY: December 16, 2025: SUCH can be a trainer’s lot! Hawkesbury’s Fabio Martino has covered plenty of territory in the last few days in search of a winner – and one has been forthcoming. Martino was at today’s Newcastle meeting after going south to Nowra on Sunday and west to Orange yesterday. His victory with Doutelle at Orange was his third this season and career 12 th , and first under his banner. Ridden by apprentice Ella Drew, the Oly

SUNDAY: December 14, 2025: BLAKE Ryan was doubly pleased. Both for his owners and his apprentice Emma Ly when Heaven Bound returned to the track in winning form at Hawkesbury today. Heaven Bound ($4.60), having her first start since late July, defeated Monty Be Quick ($21) and Bend The Knee ($14) in the Provincial Benchmark 64 Handicap (1500m). “Heaven Bound bled from one nostril in finishing second at Warwick Farm on July 30, and because of a mandatory ban, some of her owner

SUNDAY: December 14, 2025: AUTUMN’S Provincial-Midway Championships are definitely on Jason Attard’s sonar. The Hawkesbury trainer burst back into the city spotlight yesterday with his talented mare Oui Oui Oui, who clinched a metropolitan breakthrough at Royal Randwick. Given a positive ride by Tom Sherry because of her wide draw (13 out of 14) in the Midway Benchmark 72 Handicap (1200m), the four-year-old daughter of Yes Yes Yes scored over the same course her sire had done

SUNDAY: December 14, 2025: BRAD Widdup is not prone to hyperbole! But Hawkesbury’s leading trainer doesn’t hide his affection for Hyperbolic, who at Royal Randwick yesterday made it two city wins on end. Ridden by Tommy Berry, the New Zealand-bred mare justified her price in the market ($2.90 favorite) by taking the Benchmark 78 Handicap (1600m), run in memory of the late Newcastle trainer Sam Kavanagh. Hyperbolic was strong to the line to defeat Bella Montagna ($13) and Deal

FRIDAY: December 12, 2025: JAKE Hull isn’t perturbed about putting Valilee’s unbeaten record on the line on a wet track at Hawkesbury on Sunday. The talented young Gosford trainer takes the sparingly-raced five-year-old there to begin a new campaign in the Happy New Year Benchmark 64 Handicap (1000m). Mitchell Bell has been the gelding’s rider in both his wins – a Provincial Maiden Plate (100m) at home on July 19, and Class 1 Handicap (1100m) at Hawkesbury on August 12 – and

FRIDAY: December 12, 2025: HAWKESBURY trainer Marc Chevalier hopes to “star” at his home track’s final race of the year on Sunday. Chevalier resumes his thrice city winner Everyone’s A Star in the Happy New Year Benchmark 64 Handicap (1000m) after consideration was given to retiring the mare, and has booked Tyler Schiller to reunite with her. Schiller partnered the now six-year-old in those city victories last year as a four-year-old; two on the Kensington track in March, and