Owner News & TROA Media Releases

The Thoroughbred Racehorse Association is a proud sponsor of National Jockeys Trust Raceday at Caulfield. An annual sponsor now for the third year running, the National Jockeys Trust hold a race meeting once per season to raise funds. The raceday has an official fundraising luncheon, race sponsorships with funds going to the NJT, and each race the top weight wears the NJT jockey silks.

The Connections Owners’ Pavilion at Caulfield Racecourse opened on Saturday for the BECK Caulfield Guineas with resounding success. Click here for complete Connections Owners' Pavilion details Officially opened by the Minister for Racing, The Honourable Dr Denis Napthine, Peter Jurkovsky, Executive Secretary TROA and Mike Symons, Melbourne Racing Club Chairman, saw hundreds of owners and their guests enjoying the facilities.

The Premier of Victoria and Minister for Racing Dr Denis Napthine will open Flemington’s luxurious new Owners’ and Trainers’ Lounge on Turnbull Stakes Day this Saturday (5 October 2013). Designed by award-winning architects Bates Smart, the spacious Owners’ and Trainers’ Lounge boasts a prime trackside location adjacent to the Mounting Yard with three times the capacity of the previous facility. Dr Napthine will cut a ribbon to the facility’s exclusive Winners’ Bar before the first race celebrations.

The Caviar legacy continues at the Victorian Owners and Breeders Awards. The cream rose to the top once again at the annual Victorian Owners and Breeders Awards held at the Myer Mural Hall on Thursday night. Premier of Victoria and Minister for Racing, Denis Napthine, was on hand to help celebrate the success and growth of the Victorian thoroughbred breeding and racing industry at the intimate event conducted by Racing Victoria in conjunction with Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria (TBV) and the Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners Association (TROA).

Victorian Premier Denis Napthine will join the some of racing’s big names to help toast the success of Victorian thoroughbred owners and breeders at an intimate awards night on Thursday. The annual Victorian Owners and Breeders Awards, presented by Racing Victoria in conjunction with Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria (TBV) and the Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners’Association (TROA), will recognise the outstanding achievements of Victorian-based owners and breeders of thoroughbred racehorses in the 2012-13 season.

More than 53,000 owners will shortly receive their golden ticket to racing in Victoria next season A golden delight will arrive in mailboxes over the coming weeks as the new Victorian Owners’ Gold Card is delivered by Racing Victoria (RV) to more than 53,000 racehorse owners. The Victorian Owners’ Gold Card will arrive in letterboxes, activated and ready for use, along with a car pass for the 2013-14 racing season.

Flemington racecourse will be home to one of Australia’s premier owners and trainers’ facilities thanks to a joint investment by the State Government and the Victoria Racing Club (VRC). Premier and Minister for Racing Denis Napthine today announced funding for the $1.2 million upgrade, which includes constructing a new owners and trainers’ facility in the undercroft area of the members grandstand; refurbishing the existing winning owners’ facilities; and relocating the raceday and ticketing office to the Heritage Centre near the main car park entrance.

Injury prone galloper scores a career highlight in Winter Championship Final. Darren Weir and his training team have put on a miracle-worker like performance in preparing Magnifique Soleil ($5 fav) to win the $150,000 Listed TROA/Luxbet Winter Championship Final (1600m) at Flemingon. “He has come back from his third tendon injury now including two stem cell treatments”, said Weir after the five-year-old gelding won the $150,000 winter racing highlight. “It’s not only a great effort by him but also my staff at Warrnambool who have got him right again.”

Consistent galloper Hollowlea is racing for a $50,000 bonus in Saturday’s $150,000 Listed TROA/Luxbet Winter Championship Final (1600m) at Flemington after the five-year-old topped the points tally in this year’s Winter Championship Series. Despite having not won a race since the Group 2 Stutt Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley in 2010, the Terry and Karina O’Sullivan-trained gelding was rewarded for his remarkable consistency and secured the top spot with a fourth placed finish in the final heat at Warrnambool on Sunday.

TROA, supported by LUXBET, is offering a $50,000 cash bonus to the connections of the horse that earns the most number of points in the 2013 TROA/LUXBET Winter Championship Series Heats and then subsequently wins the Series Final. The Terry O’Sullivan trained Hollowlea is the leading points scorer on 27 points following Heat 7 at Warrnambool. An extraordinary effort considering he competed in 4 heats without winning, finishing 2nd, 5th, 2nd and 4th respectively.

Saturday marks the centrepiece of Victoria's winter flat program with nominations in for Flemington's Finals Day Flemington Finals Day is fast becoming a highlight of Melbourne’s winter racing program and the nominations for Saturday’s meeting point to another quality card. The eight events at Flemington on Saturday will see the culmination of a series of races run throughout Victoria during the winter months.

Peter Moody continued his Winter Championship love affair with Club Command claiming Saturday's Flemington heat Club Command helped Peter Moody develop a unique record in the TROA/Luxbet Winter Championship with the master trainer having now won Heat 6 of the series in three of the last four years. Straight to the front, and first home; that was the tactic the Moody stable employed in winning the $80,000 heat over 1410 metres at Flemington today.

PREMIER trainer Peter Moody broke an unusually long drought of city winners when his consistent Club Command won Heat 6 of the Winter Championship Series at Flemington. The trainer, who was in Brisbane yesterday for the last Group 1 race of the season, is on target to win his fourth consecutive Victorian Metropolitan Trainers' Premiership. He now has 66 city wins, far fewer than in recent years. His record at Flemington this season went to eight wins, but he has endured 20 seconds and 14 thirds, many of them missing out in photo finishes.

Consistent Quinton Scott-trained galloper can cap special day for connections with win at Flemington Connections of Another Prelate will be hoping the consistent gelding can cap a memorable David Bourke Provincial Plate Day at Flemington on Saturday with a victory in the $80,000 TROA/Luxbet Winter Championship Heat 6 (1400m). Five of the eight-year-old’s part-owners, Mary Gannon as well as Hugh, Gavan, Michael and Brian Bourke, are siblings of the late former VRC CEO David Bourke CBE of whom the day’s feature race is named after.

Racing Victoria (RV) has unveiled a series of enhancements to its racing program for the 2013-14 season that are aimed at providing further earning opportunities for all participants. The enhancements, which take effect from 1 August 2013, are also designed to better manage the racehorse population and promote wagering growth which is ultimately returned to the industry through prizemoney and investment in infrastructure. Following are the enhancements to the 2013-14 Victorian racing program;

Racing Victoria (RV) and Premier Denis Napthine have today announced further enhancements to Victoria’s lucrative breeding and racing incentive scheme, VOBIS Gold. The Premier has reaffirmed the Coalition Government’s four-year $6.8 million commitment to promote Victoria’s thoroughbred breeding industry and reward owners competing in this state. The announcement, which comes on the eve of tomorrow’s $130,000 VOBIS Gold Elvstroem Classic at Swan Hill, includes the following;

Melbourne International 3 Day Event in conjunction with the National Jockeys Trust presents: The Gallopers High Tea Ladies and Gentleman, prepare yourself for a winters’ noon of decadence at the inaugural 2013 Gallopers High Tea.

TROA is a proud sponsor of the National Jockeys’Trust Fundraising Raceday on Saturday 2 February 2013 at Caulfield Racecourse. Champion racehorse Black Caviar will make her first public appearance in an exhibition gallop on the day, and her owners will also appear at the Official Luncheon. TROA members are invited to attend the 2013 Official Luncheon to be held in the Committee Room. This event is restricted to only 300 VIP guests. Ticket price includes:

Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale will be held from 3-6 March 2013 Prior to commencement of the Inglis Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale at 2pm, Inglis will once again host a range of Open Day activities including:

The 2012 Spring Racing Carnival was officially launched on the eve of the first Victorian Group 1 of the season Racing Victoria (RV) and some of the sport’s leading jockeys joined forces today to officially launch the 2012 Spring Racing Carnival which begins with a free day of racing at Caulfield tomorrow. The first Group 1 race of the spring, the Hyland Race Colours Underwood Stakes, heralds the start of Australia’s premier carnival which spans 65 action-packed days and takes in a record 115 race meetings.

The first Order of Entry for this year’s Emirates Melbourne Cup has been released Melbourne Cup favourites Mount Athos and Green Moon are both safely in the Emirates Melbourne Cup field as it stands today following the release of the initial Order of Entry. Progressive English stayer Mount Athos, from the Luca Cumani stable, is 20th in the Order of Entry with leading local hope Green Moon at no 25.

A bright and big new lounge facility is to be constructed at Caulfield Racecourse to greatly encourage racehorse ownership and help grow the racing industry. Minister for Racing Denis Napthine said the new indoor/outdoor lounge facility, to be located in the former outdoor betting ring, will be open to racehorse owners and their guests, regardless of whether their horse is running on the day.

For the second year running Black Caviar has been crowned Australian Racehorse of the Year Unbeaten mare Black Caviar has maintained her official status as the nation’s best equine with a back-to-back sweep of the 2012 Australian Racehorse of the Year Awards. She was tonight named both the Sky Racing World Australian Racehorse of the Year and Inglis Bloodstock Champion Sprinter for the second year running at a national awards ceremony presented by Sky Racing World, Tabcorp and Staging Connections at Peninsula, Docklands in Melbourne.

Three previous Emirates Melbourne Cup winners are set to chase a second victory in ‘the race that stops a nation’ following today’s closure of nominations for the 2012 edition. Defending champion Dunaden, fellow French-trained raider Americain (2010) and the grand Lloyd Williams- owned veteran Efficient (2007) feature among 151nominations for the $6.2 million 3200-metre showdown at Flemington on 6 November.