Today at Eagle Farm Racecourse, in Brisbane Queensland, they ran the final Group 1 race of the 2013/2014 Racing Season.  The race is called the Tattersall's Tiara.   Much to my relief they decided against sending "CJ" up north for the race.  I was actually happy they kept the mare here, because the risk of injury and the travel could have ruled her out of the Spring Carnival.  I'm desperate to see her race in Melbourne this Spring.  Yes, I'm being a little bit selfish here because if she ran in Queensland I wouldn't be photographing it, however here in Melbourne is a completely different matter. The race was won by a little filly trained by Gai Waterhouse.  She's called Cosmic Endeavour and she has been partnered by the brilliant young Tommy Berry, who has of course touched our hearts following the terrible death of his twin brother Nathan earlier this year.  I've only photographed Cosmic Endeavour once.  She was sired by ...

I thought long and hard about what to write when it came to Tommy Berry's emotional win in the Chairman's Handicap yesterday at Royal Randwick.  I've been looking forward to The Championships beginning after working closely with the team at Racing NSW for some 7 months now.  The weather was bitterly disappointing and of course no one could have possibly foreseen the heartbreak that was Nathan Berry's death just before the Golden Slipper. I felt tears prickle my eyes when Tommy Berry drove The Offer past me, and I had to fight them back when he raised his hands in a blown kiss to the heavens.  Instead of trying to come up with words of my own, I will leave you with the words of former Prime Minister, the Hon Paul Keating.  "His father died suddenly at the age of 60. He’d walked down the street to put a bet on the races and “he died sitting on the side of the road" .  Keating was washing the car when someone came along looking for his father’s house. It ...