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LIGHTLY-RACED filly Rule Of Faith’s breakthrough victory at Orange today had a real local flavour about it. Hawkesbury trainer Steve O’Halloran was understandably pleased to score with the Hellbent three-year-old at $19, even if the result wasn’t so popular with punters. Image Courtesy of Laura Lebedeff Having only her fourth start and ridden by Mitchell Bell, Rule Of Faith upset fancied pair Sharbino ($3.30 favorite) and Sinister ($3.90) in the Maiden Plate (1400m). Rule Of

STEVE O’Halloran went back to basics – and it paid off! The skilled Hawkesbury horseman made a number of gear changes on a resuming Royalify, who burst back to winning form on Newcastle’s inner Beaumont track yesterday. Ridden by Winona Costin and starting at $8.50, Royalify upset Gosford trainer Jake Hull’s $2.20 favorite Lord Vettori in the Class 1 Handicap (1200m). To say the now five-year-old son of Justify has been something of an enigma is not telling an untruth. “Royal

STEVE O’Halloran was closely associated with a bevy of Gai Waterhouse’s Golden Slipper winners and another when Adrian Bott became her training partner . So it was fitting that the Hawkesbury trainer’s Saturday metropolitan breakthrough yesterday should also be at Rosehill Gardens, the home of the world’s richest two-year-old classic. Image Courtesy of Bradley Photos That came when the affable Irish expat scored in the Benchmark 78 Handicap (1100m) with Mal Coupe ($15), havin

THE luck of the Irish had nothing to do with it! Experienced Hawkesbury horseman Steve O’Halloran celebrated a city victory at Canterbury...

THERE’S no place like home! Hawkesbury trainers revelled in their home track’s second last meeting of the season today, capturing half...

NO matter the weather, Steve O’Halloran will bounce out of bed in the morning with a spring in his step. The experienced Hawkesbury...

HE’S well named and lucky to be alive, let alone racing and winning! Hawkesbury trainer Steve O’Halloran this evening told the story of...

STEVE O’Halloran used blinkers and an “old trick” to help Royalify finally shed his maiden status at Bathurst today. Having his...

STEVE O’Halloran rather reluctantly took Nymphadora to his home track yesterday, concerned initially she might not shape up. But shape up...

STEVE O’Halloran paid his mare Webejamin a nice tribute after she shed her maiden status at Newcastle today. After seven minor placings...

IT’S no wonder Steve O’Halloran called on Mitchell Bell to break his run of minor placings, at Bathurst yesterday. Bell has been the...

IT will be a pretty special result if Hawkesbury trainer Steve O’Halloran can win his first Saturday race in town at Royal Randwick...

STEVE O’Halloran is still scratching his head! After a cracking third at $101 in the $500,000 Inglis Nursery (1000m) at Royal Randwick...

STEVE O’Halloran never lost faith even though it took Rico Suave eight starts to break out of maiden class. The experienced Hawkesbury...

HAWKESBURY trainer Steve O’Halloran jokingly says he might have to let wife Steph deputise for him at more race meetings. O’Halloran...

ON a day when longshot winners ruled the roost at Kembla Grange, Hawkesbury trainers Ed Cummings and Steve O’Halloran joined the “party”....

HAWKESBURY trainer Steve O’Halloran had good news on two fronts today. Not only did he clinch an overdue winner at Wyong, but found his...

A troubled gelding who hasn’t raced for 39 weeks and underwent an operation to remove a bone chip can brush everything aside and return...

HAWKESBURY trainer Steve O’Halloran fielded a call last year from a Queensland owner he had never met, asking him to train an unraced...

UNBEATEN from two starts at the track! Albeit in weaker class, but it’s enough for Hawkesbury trainer Steve O’Halloran to have a “throw...