Kathy O’Hara has escaped serious injury in a fall at Rosehill after two-year-old debutante Shadowofyoursmile almost came down in the first race.

The Garry White-trained filly copped a bump from another horse and after O’Hara hit the ground, continued to race through the field.

O’Hara came back with a graze on her face and ice on her shoulder but said she was OK.

The Rosehill Gardens Handicap (1100m) was won by Regimental Pride who went into the race with two starts under his belt.

His jockey Glyn Schofield was confident throughout and sent the horse to the front in the straight but had a momentary fright when he sensed another horse coming.

“I had the race won at the top of the straight and took my time to chase them,” Schofield said.

“Then I saw a head appear but I realised the horse didn’t have a jockey on its back.”

Regimental Pride ($ 6.50) beat favourite Let’s Frolic ($ 2.50) by a short neck with a half length to Howdah ($ 5) third.

Shadowofyoursmile came through her ordeal with no apparent problems while the winner will back up in the $ 200,000 Wyong Magic Millions on Thursday.

“This was like a trial to him,” trainer David Payne said.

“He only had to walk over and will walk home. It’s not like he had a float trip and that’s what takes it out of them.

“As long as he does well over the next couple of days he will go to the Wyong race and then to the Magic Millions at the Gold Coast.

“It was a good win and a good gallop for him.”

Tim Martin will assess Let’s Frolic as a Magic Millions prospect over the next few days but may take the option of not running her again and waiting to see if she makes the race.

The $ 2 million Magic Millions Classic (1200m) is at the Gold Coast on January 12.

Cranbourne trainer Ricky Maund has been found guilty of treating a horse on race day as Racing Victoria continues its crackdown on illegal activity in the industry.

Maund had been charged after stewards found fresh blood on the neck of Timely Truce following a stable raid on November 10.

The horse had been scheduled to run in a Listed race at Flemington that day but was withdrawn by stewards.

Maund faces a penalty, which under the rules can include disqualification and a fine of up to $ 75,000, but the case has been adjourned until Monday to enable the trainer to make a submission.

He claimed the puncture mark found on Timely Truce had been the result of a scab from an injection he had given the horse legally the previous afternoon.

Maund said the fresh blood was possibly the result of him pulling the horse’s neck ring back over a scab shortly before stewards arrived at his stable.

He told the hearing he had injected Timely Truce with Aminolite, a legal mix of vitamins and amino acids on Friday evening, but his evidence was contradicted by RV veterinary surgeon Dr Grace Forbes.

Dr Forbes said an Aminolite injection left a small puncture mark which would heal in minutes.

“If the injection was given 15 hours earlier there would be no reason for bleeding,” she said.

Maund claimed that he had tossed the equipment he had used to give the Aminolite injection into the back of his utility and it had blown off while he was driving.

RV Compliance Assurance Team member Dion Villella told the hearing that Maund had been in an “agitated” state when he and another steward walked into the stable area on Saturday morning.

Maund denied he had treated the horse on race day and said he stood by his word “110 per cent”.

The finding follows Queensland trainer Nathan Schofield’s 12-month ban and Robert Smerdon’s $ 10,000 fine on similar charges.

There are ongoing inquiries into the activities of trainers Con Karakatsanis and Jim Conlan.

Gary Portelli’s faith in All The Talk remains firm despite a first-up defeat but it’s not enough to stop him from employing two gear changes for the colt’s Warwick Farm assignment.

All The Talk was highly-rated by Portelli leading into his debut in an 1100m Rosehill race where he sat outside the lead before finishing third to the impressive Charlie Boy and Windjammer.

Portelli wants All The Talk to be at his best on his home track on Saturday because he plans to spell the horse to concentrate on being around when the world’s richest two-year-old race is run.

“I’m hoping he might be a (Golden) Slipper horse yet,” Portelli said.

“I’m going to experiment with a tongue tie and with winkers on Saturday.”

The trainer has an inkling All The Talk may have got his tongue back in his throat and cut off his air supply during his debut race, which has prompted the move to apply a tongue tie.

“I thought we had them at the top of the straight and it looked like his condition gave out,” he said.

“That might have been a combination of his condition and possibly he might have cut his air off with his tongue.

“If he puts it together at his next start, if the tongue tie works, he should be able to get to the corner and then dash.”

All The Talk, who was ridden by Kathy O’Hara on debut, will also have a jockey switch with Blake Shinn to ride.

Portelli is also positive about the prospects of Miss Spoken in a fillies and mares race.

Miss Spoken has recovered from an elevated temperature which forced her scratching from a race two weeks ago.

“She worked fantastic this morning,” Portelli said.

“Kathy O’Hara rides her and I’m very happy with her.”

Eds: Attention to language in third and 12th pars

By Mike Hedge

MELBOURNE, Sept 20 AAP – Threats created by jockey Danny Nikolic against Victoria’s chief racing steward were all the more severe due to the fact they came against a background of a notorious murder, a tribunal has heard.

In one more explosive day of evidence, lawyer Phillip Priest QC informed the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary (RAD) Board Nikolic threatened chief steward Terry Bailey and his family at a Victorian race meeting earlier this month.

Mr Priest, appearing for the stewards, explained Nikolic had told Bailey: “We all have households c***, and we know wherever yours lives c***.”

He explained Bailey was entitled to take the threat seriously simply because it was a “notorious reality” that Nikolic’s former father-in-law Les Samba had been shot dead in February final year.

“Mr Bailey would have acknowledged this,” Priest stated.

The murder stays unsolved, but police have linked it with recent race-fixing allegations in which Nikolic has figured prominently.

Nikolic has denied generating the threats and of involvement in race repairing and his father-in-law’s murder.

In an usually heated cross-examination the colourful jockey accused Priest of “grandstanding”.

“I had nothing to do with Les Samba obtaining murdered,” Nikolic told the tribunal.

He said police had interviewed him in excess of the situation and he had offered data about Samba’s connections.

As a result of the alleged threats manufactured at the Seymour race meeting on September four, Nikolic is facing expenses of conduct prejudicial to the interests of racing and of dishonest, corrupt, fraudulent or improper conduct.

He denies the allegations, saying it was Bailey who threatened him, telling him: “I informed you I would f*** your occupation”.

The inquiry also acquired proof demonstrating the turbulent partnership in between Nikolic and Bailey.

In a letter he wrote to Racing Integrity Commissioner Sal Perna in 2010, Nikolic accused Bailey of conducting a witch-hunt, of vilifying and persecuting him and of arrogance toward him and other licensed individuals.

Nikolic also uncovered he had been questioned by detectives from Victoria’s Purana Job Force on Wednesday.

Detectives from the squad that investigated Melbourne’s gangland wars have spoken to numerous racing identities in connection with allegations of race fixing.

Police say a connection exists in between the suspect races and the Samba murder.

Closing submissions in the Nikolic inquiry will be delivered on Friday.

The remote likelihood Craig Newitt has of snatching a last-gasp victory in the Melbourne jockeys’ premiership has been assisted by the climate.

Newitt begins the second-final city meeting of the season two wins behind Luke Nolen and on paper has the inferior guide of rides.

But his prospects improved as the rain fell on Friday creating two of Nolen’s mounts – like the quick-priced favourite Genuine Spin – to be scratched.

Newitt also lost a single of his very best rides with Heart Of Dreams currently being scratched from the Bletchingly Stakes following he was found to be working a temperature and had mucus in his throat.

Whilst Nolen has the odds heavily in his favour, Newitt has pulled off a couple of pieces of tactical superiority in current weeks and can do the identical on Saturday in at least two races.

Nolen starts with the pre-submit favourite Planet Voyage in the Natalie Hunter Handicap (1000m), but Newitt is not out of it on the in-type, enhancing hefty tracker Zahee.

In the absence of Genuine Spin in the Nicholas Latimer Handicap (2400m), Newitt’s mount Min River is the likely favourite and the hardest to beat.

Newitt also has the edge, on paper, in the Murray Fairclough Handicap (1400m) in which his mount Stratigraphy looks to have the measure of Nolen and Randall.

The former Queenslander Prepared To Rip is a single of Nolen’s greatest rides of the day in the Group Three Bletchingly Stakes (1200m) in which Newitt is with out a ride.

But Newitt seems to have a slight edge in the Sportingbet Handicap (1400m) in which he rides Kitty Cotswold and Nolen has very good prospects of finishing off with a winner on Club Command in the Champagne Pommery Handicap (1400m).

Amd then, if a decider is necessary, there is Sunday.

A mid-winter return race at Flemington on Saturday is becoming utilized as a platform for potential spring riches for sprinter African Pulse.

Trainer Mike Moroney has the colt ready to kick off his campaign in an 1100m three-yr-old handicap.

African Pulse was tested in the Group A single Oakleigh Plate and Group One Newmarket Handicap in the autumn and regardless of finishing 10th and ninth respectively, his trainer believes organic improvement can support African Pulse go to the following degree.

“Our theory is that he wasn’t far away in Group Ones last preparation and if he can uncover that 3 lengths or so with all-natural improvement then he’s going to be really competitive this yr,” Moroney mentioned.

African Pulse went to Sydney immediately after the Melbourne autumn, finishing fourth in the Listed Darby Munro (1200m) at Rosehill and fifth in the Listed Gosford Guineas (1200m).

The son of Johannesburg invested a month in the paddock and Moroney says the colt is forward sufficient for his 1st-up assignment.

He is unbeaten in 3 1st-up runs.

“Being a colt still, we have a tendency not to give them also extended out and the other added benefit is that he’s got good kind on wet tracks so he can kick off now,” Moroney said.

“He’s got a great 1st-up record and we’re going to claim on him. Harry Kasim will ride him. He’s ridden about 80 winners in New Zealand but is in a position to declare three kilos right here so that will assist.”

Moroney will also start off Sophrosyne and Noble Park in a 1600m handicap on Saturday.

African Pulse is the 1st of Moroney’s spring carnival aspirants to start their preparations for the spring.

Dual Derby placegetter Sabrage will make his return at Flemington following month even though Ipswich and Caloundra Cup winner Shenzhou Steeds is due to arrive back in Melbourne from Queensland on Tuesday evening.

Group 1 winner Glass Harmonium is in pre-training with the Toorak Handicap nominated as his spring return ahead of yet another Cox Plate commence.

Wall Street will also be aimed at the Cox Plate.

Socceroo star Tim Cahill is in line to gain the world’s richest greyhound race at Sydney’s Wentworth Park on Saturday.

The Everton star co-owns Fancy Dean who’ll be racing in the Group A single Golden Easter Egg and could pocket $ 250,000 in prizemoney for a get at the prestigious race.

Fancy Dean, who’ll be chasing his very first Team One particular victory on Saturday, is in with a winning likelihood getting proven very good sort leading up to the race.

Fancy Dean place in a fantastic operate to finish second in his semi-final final Saturday and qualify for the Golden Easter Egg ultimate just hrs prior to Cahill performed a starring function in Everton’s 2- win versus West Bromwich Albion.

Co-owner Con Hansimikali has recognized Cahill considering that he was just 13 and taking part in soccer with his son in the junior ranks in Sydney’s west.

“Tim was residence two many years in the past and we obtained chatting about how I owned some greyhounds and he explained he would be fascinated in component possessing one one day,” Hansimikali said.

“I suggested component possessing Fancy Dean jointly and which is how it all started, and he has been an satisfying pet to very own.”

The gates of Caulfield will be thrown open up to the public on Saturday week when champion mare Black Caviar runs in the Team One particular Do F Orr Stakes.

Melbourne Racing Club chief executive, Alasdair Robertson, confirmed on Monday the club would grant free of charge admission to motivate the community to come and see the world’s best sprinter consider for her 18th successive get in the Orr which will be her 1st effort at 1400 metres.

The unbeaten 5-12 months-old, but to race outside of 1200m, was viewed by a crowd of 15,000-plus when she won her 17th straight race in the Group Two Australia Stakes (1200m) below lights at Moonee Valley on Friday.

The Moonee Valley Racing Club catered for a crowd of 8000 to ten,000 but with queues of folks lining up to see the great mare race, the club threw the gates open and permit the remaining racegoers outside the study course in for cost-free.

“The Melbourne Racing Club will not underestimate the greatness of this extremely specific horse and we’d enjoy as numerous men and women as attainable to arrive to Caulfield and rejoice her,” Robertson said.

“Making it possible for the manifeste to attend free of charge of cost sets the groundwork for a memorable event.

“We are unable to anticipate how numerous far more occasions we’ll see her race once again so we’d like to make the most of this superb option which will be made added specific if Black Caviar can win her very first Group 1 on her residence monitor.

“We’re anticipating a bumper crowd and a single of the fantastic factors of our club and Caulfield as a venue is the capacity to accommodate significant amounts of men and women on the spur of the instant.”

A definitive software for Black Caviar after the Orr Stakes, will be mapped out by coach Peter Moody and the mare’s entrepreneurs late this week.

Options include races in Sydney, Adelaide, Dubai and Royal Ascot.

Saturday’s $ 250,000 Inglis Common may well not be a race for the purists but trainer David Payne believes it is a excellent incentive for homeowners.

“It encourages people to acquire horses so why not?” Payne mentioned.

“They get a chance to get some early funds back again.”

The lucrative 1200-metre function, to be operate for the 3rd time on Saturday, is limited to horses acquired at the earlier year’s Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.

It currently has a handy honour roll with Likelihood Bye and Pane In The Glass the earlier winners.

Payne will saddle up two of the 14 starters, Chez Harmony and Dangerous Blonde, but is hopeful rather than assured.

Dangerous Blonde is a single of just three runners to have won a race right after scoring about 1000 metres at Gosford last thirty day period.

Payne took her to town and she finished fifth to growth youngster Raceway at Warwick Farm on January 7.

“She would be the one particular out of my two,” Payne explained.

“She is a little little bit more ahead at this phase.”

Dangerous Blonde, by 2007 Golden Slipper runner-up Zizou, was a $ 70,000 yearling obtain even though Chez Harmony, who cost $ a hundred,000, is the most high-priced horse in the race.

A daughter of Choisir, Chez Harmony wasn’t disgraced in a hard race on debut when sixth in the Gimcrack Stakes and Payne explained she had excuses when seventh to the remarkable Catkins at Kembla Grange 1st-up.

“She obtained fairly labored up at the limitations last start so you can disregard that operate,” Payne explained.

“She would by no means have won but she ought to have completed a pair of lengths nearer.”

Both Payne’s runners have drawn awkwardly with Risky Blonde in barrier eleven and Chez Harmony gate eight.

The Anthony Cummings-educated Diamond Earth has also drawn wide in 9 in her quest to emulate Possibility Bye and Pane In The Glass who both won the Inglis Nursery in the direct-up.

Diamond Earth showed blistering velocity to win the Nursery (1000m) at Warwick Farm but Payne forged doubts above her capability to extend that to 1200 metres at Rosehill.

He believes the toughest to defeat may be one of the unraced brigade in the Gerald Ryan-prepared Cavalry Rose, an outstanding winner of her only barrier trial.

“I’ve observed Gerald Ryan has got fairly a very good one,” Payne explained.

“I do not know significantly about Anthony’s filly but I’m not certain how she will go at the 1200 metres.”

As for Payne’s thoughts on his pair: “We are hoping.”

Pressday, a Group One winner for premier Sydney coach Chris Waller, is set to continue his racing occupation in the United States.

The 4-yr-aged is in training for leading California-based mostly horseman John Sadler after a Sydney spring marketing campaign was cut brief since of a bleeding assault.

Pressday, who won the Group 1 BTC T J Smith Common at Eagle Farm in 2010, was obtained by primary stud Eliza Park this yr.

“Chris recommended the United States was an solution and the horse is previously above there getting ready to go,” Eliza Park’s Lee Fleming told AAP.

“We count on him to race quite effectively and hopefully we can get some international curiosity so he can reverse shuttle as a stallion.”

Pressday, who also won the Group Two Sandown Guineas last 12 months, had his career derailed when he bled for the very first time in the Theo Marks Stakes at Rosehill in early September.

Underneath Australian policies, Pressday was banned from racing for 3 months.

In the United States, the son of Domesday will be ready to race on Lasix, an anti-bleeding treatment.

Fleming stated ideas to send out Pressday to stud following year stay in spot.

“As a grandson of Red Ransom we experience he has genuine global appeal and if we can get a reverse shuttle deal it will aid protected the horse’s potential,” he said.

“He’ll certainly be standing at stud in 2012.”

Fleming said Sadler had liked success with southern hemisphere thoroughbreds.

“John has had excellent outcomes with horses from Australian and New Zealand,” he mentioned.

Sadler trained New Zealand-bred mare Black Mamba to a Grade One particular win whilst Red Arrow, a fat-for-age placegetter in Australia for Anthony Cummings, also made a successful transition to United States racing under his care.

Horses educated by Sadler have earned much more than $ US70 million and he has won titles at Hollywood Park, Santa Anita and De Mar.

Internationally, Sadler is greatest known as the trainer of Our New Recruit, winner of the 2004 Golden Shaheen Stakes in Dubai.