Button to relocate horses during crisis

Friday 27 March 2020, 3:00pm

Caloundra trainer Tom Button hopes to relocate some of his team to Rockhampton this weekend with Queensland separated into racing regions from next week.

Racing Queensland has announced plans for the state to be divided into five areas in an effort to limit horse and people movement during the coronavirus pandemic.

An RQ spokesman said horses could be transferred to other centres but only until regional racing started.

Anyone travelling with them would be subject to biosecurity restrictions.

Button is located in a region which restricts trainers to racing in Brisbane and the Sunshine Coast.

A multiple central Queensland premiership winner Button relocated to Caloundra last year.

He wants to have runners at the Capricornia Classic day at Rockhampton on Saturday week.

Rockhampton is in the central zone and the only way Button can have runners is to relocate them with a staff member for the entirety of the regional system being in place.

"I can send a staff member or I can relocate myself while this runs its course," Button said.

"I have Gypsy Toff in at Doomben on Saturday and after that I will decide who is going with how many horses."

"I will keep a team at Caloundra of those horses up to Brisbane class."

Gypsy Toff is aiming for three wins in a row in the Kirin Handicap at Doomben where she is rated a $5 chance.

– AAP

Latest News

Prime Thoroughbreds - We have a Host of Leaders in our Team

Tuesday, 29 June 2021

Prime Thor­ough­bred’s cur­rent rac­ing team is putt­ing to­gether quite a re­cord. We have 22 hors­es that have raced in our team at pre­sent. Six­teen of th­ese are win­n­ers in­clud­ing the Stakes win­n­ing trio Ru­bisa­ki, Fituese and Xtreme­time with Miss Di­vine Em and Miss In Charge run­n­ing 4th in Stakes races. This sees a stakes win­n­er to win­n­er ra­tio of 18.75% with a stake’s per­formed to win­n­er ra­tio of 31.25%. Th­ese are ex­cep­tio­n­al fig­ures.   More »

Freedmans land maiden Group One win

Saturday, 27 February 2021

Un­der-rat­ed fil­ly For­bid­den Love has emerged as an au­tumn car­ni­val smokey with a bril­liant per­for­mance to win the Sur­round Stakes at Rand­wick.  More »

Capriccio completes Damian Lane treble

Saturday, 27 February 2021

In a big day for coun­try-trained hors­es, War­r­nam­bool fil­ly Capric­cio has tak­en out the In­glis Dash for Daniel Bow­man.  More »

More news headlines »