Morrow to watch Savoureux's semi-final before calling one
For David Morrow work comes first as rugby league reaches the pointy end of the season, so he will have to watch talented mare Savoureux on television in the Sheraco Stakes on Saturday.
For David Morrow work comes first as rugby league reaches the pointy end of the season, so he will have to watch talented mare Savoureux on television in the Sheraco Stakes on Saturday.
Good horses teach trainers but in turn a trainer often has to teach a good horse how to show its best.
Sydney race day preview at Rosehill.
Melbourne race day preview: Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.
Another Saturday, another group one race, another field studded with Darren Weir contenders.
The science is "overwhelming" that cobalt can act as a doping agent and is performance enhancing for racehorses, Racing Victoria's head vet maintains.
Spring racing gets underway at Canberra's Thoroughbred Park.
The 2016 breeding season is in full swing in the Hunter Valley with horse floats bustling to and from the major stud farms as thoroughbred players aspire to produce a future superstar. The exciting part of the first 10 days of the season has been a tremendous push for the freshmen stallions, hopeful of transferring their racetrack deeds to the breeding barn.
NSW horses dominate the nominations for the Australian horse of the year awards, which will be presented at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney on September 29.
The driver of Racing Victoria's cobalt rule believed there was no issue over the testing despite the racing labs lacking specific accreditation covering horse urine.
The long and much debated saga on Michelle Payne's return to the saddle is over after the Melbourne Cup winning jockey took a mount at the Sale race meeting next Sunday.
There is a pleasure in riding Southern Legend for Tim Clark, given it is trained by Melbourne Cup winner Les Bridge. The wily trainer has been a supporter of Clark's since he was an apprentice and it was Bridge's Hot Danish that helped earn him a Hong Kong stint.
Tommy Berry has won a Golden Rose, his first group 1 on Epaulette, but he has never gone into the race as confident as he is about Divine Prophet's chances at Rosehill on Saturday.
Adrian Bott is planning to wear his birthday present from training partner Gai Waterhouse, a tie that is "a bit flamboyant like her" to Golden Rose day and hoping it will be in the winning photos with either El Divino or Thronum.
Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey has blamed a backlog at the testing laboratory for the delays in telling trainers Danny O'Brien and Mark Kavanagh about their cobalt positives.
Top jockey Mark Zahra's insurance provider is being sued by WorkCover to recoup more than $1.4 million in costs and any ongoing expenses relating to a race fall at Moonee Valley in 2010.
Racing NSW has announced a horse welfare program to be funded by a levy on a new prizemoney package that was announced on Tuesday.
Premier trainer Chris Waller weighed up all the options for star filly Omei Sword before deciding to run her in Saturday's Golden Rose on her home track of Rosehill.
Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey admits the rules of racing were not "strictly" followed in testing for cobalt.
The long wait for connections of Lucky Liberty is almost over with the talented but injury-plagued gelding ready to race for the first time in 18 months at Sandown.
Silver Shadow Stakes winner Omei Sword is favourite for Saturday's Golden Rose after Chris Waller announced she would run on Monday.
Serial fashions on the field entrants are unhappy with changes to the event's format.
The loss of Dr Brian Stewart from Victorian racing is a massive blow in this state according to racing officials.
Sheik Fahad Al Thani of Qatar's ruling family could not have had a better introduction to Australian racing than winning the Melbourne Cup with Dunaden in 2011.
The Australian Turf Club already has several Melbourne trainers looking for stables at its tracks and the list is only going to grow with the prizemoney rise to be confirmed on Tuesday.
David Vandyke's worries have eased with Yankee Rose heading into Saturday's Golden Rose after a raceday gallop at Sunshine Coast.
Team Hawkes continued their great run with three-year-old and added another name to the watch list as Swear continued his unbeaten in the Ming Dynasty Quality at Randwick on Saturday.
Godolphin chief executive John Ferguson came out to Australia to check out the operation this week and was on hand for a winning double at Randwick on Saturday.
The Moir Stakes has been the personal fiefdom of that great old sprinter Buffering for the past few years, but Mark Kavanagh is aiming to not just see off the Queensland hero but also Australia's star sprinter Chautauqua in this year's contest at the end of Septmeber.
Awesome Rock blew away his rivals to guarantee himself a Cox Plate start with a storming two length win in the Group Two Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley, belying his $31 starting price and gaining a measure of compensation for his disqualification in the Australian Cup last season.
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