The calm before the storm for Luke
November 23, 2021
WITH all their star performers primed and ready to go, Team McCarthy will have one of their quietest days of the year at Menangle today with just one starter. Yet premier reinsman Luke McCarthy will be kept busy with two all-too-rare ‘outside’ stable drives at the No 1 track... Read more
When the chips were down, they couldn’t beat ‘The Banta’
October 30, 2021
IT takes a brave punter to ever write off Luke McCarthy in a major race. And the premier reinsman showed why with a majestic effort to win the $150,000 Breeders Challenge for three-year-old colts and geldings with Bar Room Banta at Tabcorp Park Menangle tonight. When Bar Room Banta... Read more
Holiday is over . . . the champ’s back in town
August 31, 2021
HE’S a distant seventh in the state drivers’ premiership. Yet the five drivers sitting on the ladder above him will all be looking over their shoulders now that Luke McCarthy is back in town. The champion reinsman (78 wins) has been absent from the Sydney scene for most of... Read more
Looking to ‘Cash’ in on an old reputation
July 17, 2021
THE depth of the Belinda and Luke McCarthy stable has never been more evident. The Cobbitty-based stables will have triple-barrelled attacks on major races in both New South Wales and Queensland tonight. While the Group 1 $100,000 Garrards Sunshine Sprint at Albion Park is rightly their main objective, the... Read more
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