Edging ever so closer to 250 career wins (currently 247), Theresa Bateup landed her second victory of the 2025/26 season when training the quinella of the 1660m Benchmark 58 Handicap at Moruya on Tuesday. A gutsy Sir Sublime (Pierre Boudvillain) led them up in the final event of the card, before Miss Bariloche (Jess Taylor) stormed home to land […]
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Racing’s dynamic duo, Theresa Bateup and Jess Taylor, can edge closer to a shared century of winners when the trainer and jockey combine at one of their happier hunting grounds on Tuesday. Their current tally of wins across the board is 87 with exactly 200 placegetters. Taylor’s four scheduled engagements for Bateup at Moruya today which will take
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Bound for the $3 million Big Dance on the first Tuesday in November, Direct Fire resumes at Rosehill Gardens today when contesting the 1200m Benchmark 72 Midway Handicap. Anna Roper takes the ride and offers a two-kilogram claim, meaning the 5YO Dracarys gelding will carry 55kg and jump from gate 5 in the $120,000 event.
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Spring has finally arrived and brought a welcome change in the weather. August was an exceptionally wet month, and then we had gale-force winds to contend with. A big shout out and thank you to our staff who turn up and work hard in these testing conditions. Both our ground staff and riders are to
Unwanted by punters, having drifted to 80/1 with the TAB, the Theresa Bateup-trained Prized Alwyns was still an eye-catching winner at Canberra on Friday. First-up for the stable in the 1750m Class One Plate, it was some sort of training effort as the 5YO Prized Icon mare put a streak of eight unplaced runs behind her to
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Bateup Racing finished off the 2024 /2025 racing season in great style with an impressive race-to-race double at Sapphire Coast, followed by a very close 2nd at Warwick Farm with Tartana on 30th July. Sir Sublime controlled the race throughout and was rated perfectly by Brock Ryan when leading all the way to win over 1600m at Sapphire on 27 July. In
Trainer Theresa Bateup believes Direct Fire and Tartana will give her one of her best chances to get to the $1 million Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championships showpiece on home turf at Kembla Grange on Saturday. Bateup will saddle up both chances in the $150,000 Provincial-Midway Qualifier (1400m) and believes the talented duo can make their presence
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The Leyland brothers have nothing on Theresa Bateup. The hard-working Kembla Grange trainer has “travelled all over the countryside” with her horses in the last week and a half. “In nine days I went to Gosford, Nowra, Albury, Goulburn, Wagga, Moruya and Port Macquarie,” she said. “Albury (where Bateup had success) and Port Macquarie were
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Tough as guts Kembla Grange galloper Direct Fire showcased his determination when holding on for a memorable victory in Sunday’s $80,000 Bega Cup. Ridden by Amy McLucas for trainer Theresa Bateup, the four-year-old worked hard for the lead in the 1600m Sapphire Coast Turf Club feature race, and turning for home, there was a wall of
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Theresa Bateup’s home track assault is in the hands of the Weather Gods again and is on the hunt for the sting of the ground for consistent campaigner Tartana if she gets the go ahead for Kembla Grange on Thursday. Tartana has been a great money spinner for the Bateup yard with three wins and
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