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Brenlyn's Legacy impressed in his debut start. The promising two-year-old led the field in the GJ Gardner Homes 2YO Handicap with 300m to go but was run down late by the Hayes stable's Impending War who looks to have some talent with his win on debut backing up a...

By JEFF HANSON (NSW and Country Racing) For punters astute enough to find the winner of the 2025 Tumbarumba Cup (1400m), they sang a merry song when the Andrew Dale-trained Mojo Music prevailed in a thrilling four-way finish. Taking on the $18,000 feature on the...

EAMONN’S Memory was rewarded for a consistent preparation with a victory in last Saturday’s Griffith Cup (1350m). Hoop Billy Owen parked in behind the leader before proving too strong down the straight to salute by around half a length. The win continues an...

SPRING has nearly sprung and racing is cranking up. Andrew Dale Racing has a busy weekend ahead with runners at Canberra synthetic (Friday), Wangaratta (Saturday), Berrigan (Saturday) and Wagga (Monday). A good crop of chances will feature at Canberra today with Kiss...

As a new racing season officially begins, we caught up with trainer Andrew Dale to take a look back at a successful 2023/24 season that saw Andrew Dale Racing take out the Wangaratta Turf Club's Trainer’s Premiership. How does It feel to win the Trainer's Premiership?...

THE Wangaratta Turf Club’s Into Our Hands Community race day saw three locally trained horses claim victories. Andrew Dale cashed in with More Importance ($7.90) taking out race seven’s Garry Nash & Co Community Fund Handicap (1100m) by half a length. That wasn’t...

Eamonn’s Memory made it back-to-back wins with a strong victory in race seven’s benchmark 64 handicap (1300m) at Wangaratta on Thursday. After saluting in a benchmark 58 at Benalla on May 7, the five-year-old gelding continued his rich vein of form on his home track...

AS the 2023/24 racing season hits the final four months, ADR currently sits at 38 winners. With ADR targeting 50 winners by season’s end, three winners in the past two weeks sees the training operation sit at 38 with a healthy winning percentage of 11%, along with a...

Shooting For Stars returned to form with a 1.35L victory in race three’s benchmark 66 (1000m) at Wagga on Thursday. After a credible third at Albury last start, the four-year-old mare was given the perfect ride by Billy Owen, sitting off the leader in ADR’s Sheila,...

Chairman’s Choice gave apprentice jockey Brittany Button a day to remember. Riding at her first race day as a jockey, Button landed the first winner of her career aboard the eight-year-old gelding in race seven’s benchmark 58 (1200m) at Towong. The pair settled just...

ANDREW Dale's Shooting For Stars made a triumphant return to the stable, winning her first start back. Dale’s Shooting For Stars justified her $3.70 favourite odds in race eight’s benchmark 66 handicap (1175m) at Albury on Sunday, running home to victory by a head....

ANDREW Dale’s Eamonn’s Memory finally broke through, claiming his first country cup. After second place finishes in the Tumut and Carrathool cups in consecutive weeks last year, a third in the Deniliquin Cup, as well as attempts in Berrigan and Balranald's features,...

ANDREW Dale struck early at the Wangaratta Turf Club's meeting on Thursday. Hells Son snapped a streak of four third place finishes in a row in race four's Ovens Kia Wangaratta Maiden Plate (1170m) by a length. After drawing gate 14 of 14, hoop Lachlan King settled in...

Legal Zou was rewarded for effort when he saluted at Benalla on Sunday in race four’s 0-58 handicap (1406m). The six-year-old gelding put in a mighty effort from gate 12 to win by a head after settling wide at the back of the field. The galloper and hoop Connor...

ANDREW Dale Racing’s nine hour round trip to Grenfell paid dividends on Saturday. The local horse racing stable made the decision to target Grenfell’s Cup meeting and it proved to be a great move coming away with victory in three of the six races. Crimosa kicked off...

WANGARATTA-based trainer Andrew Dale has become the first trainer from outside the Southern District Racing Association (SDRA) to claim the trainer’s premiership. Dale and Albury’s Mitch Beer went into the final meeting of the season at Corowa deadlocked on 36 winners...

COROWA was once again a happy hunting ground for Andrew Dale Racing. It was a stable quinella in race five (BM66) with Chairman's Choice ($12) edging out stablemate Turnaquid by two lengths. It’s been a tough month for all trainers in the area with constant rain...

Wangaratta trainer Andrew Dale has landed another win in the CopRice Leeton Cup (1600m), with Garros proving too good for his rivals on Saturday.   The ever-consistent eight-year-old started a $5 chance with Josh Richards in the saddle, and he finished strongly...

Andrew Dale’s strong 2022/23 season continued at Balranald on Saturday, with the Wangaratta conditioner training a double, while he combined with Brad Vale to win the Balranald Cup with Legal Zou.   The $14,000 Balranald Cup was the feature race on the six-race...

Reckless Bay’s first outing for Andrew Dale Racing has resulted in a maiden win with victory at Carrathool.   With just one placing from his first 13 career starts, jockey Bradley Vale was able to steer the four-year-old gelding to narrow win in Saturday’s Maiden...

Three-year-old filly Lotus Land made it back-to-back wins with victory on Tumut Cup Day last Saturday.   Two weeks after saluting at Tumbaramba Lotus Land claimed her third career win with victory by half a length in the Class 2 Handicap (1400m).   With 300...

Last weekend Wangaratta-based trainer Andrew Dale loaded up his float with nine horses and headed 210 kilometres to Tumbarumba in the Snowy Mountains in New South Wales, where he scored a winning treble.   On Saturday, he will head in the other direction to...

Recent Andrew Dale Racing acquisition Crimosa has saluted in his third start for the stable.    Stepping up to Benchmark 66 grade at Corowa on December 28 the five-year-old gelding held on for victory in a photo finish over 1200 metres.   It was Crimosa’s...

Lotus Land has broken through on the quick back-up to collect the first win of her career.   The three-year-old followed up an encouraging third at Wangaratta on December 22 with a comfortable victory in the Maiden Plate (1000m) at Tumut on Boxing Day.   The...