Lord of Canberra Cup confident greyhounds will live to race another day
Gunning trainer wins third Canberra Cup, confident it won't be the race's last run.
Gunning trainer wins third Canberra Cup, confident it won't be the race's last run.
She may be Queen of the Turf, but that is no guarantee Michelle Payne can produce a fairytale every time she takes to the track.
Jamie Lovett might not even get to Randwick on Saturday to watch Japanese import Tosen Stardom take on Winx in the Australian Bloodstock silks because Friday could be "a bigger day".
James McDonald labelled Astern "a freak" after his Golden Rose win on Saturday and international rating outfit, Timeform, agrees putting it alongsides Frankel's only run at 1400m as a three-year-old.
Imagine you are an apprentice carpenter, hairdresser or a trainee in an office occupation and your employer suddenly goes out of business.
Leading Irish trainers Aidan O'Brien and Willie Mullins saw some of their potential Melbourne spring carnival contenders fail to advertise their prospects in major races in Ireland and England over the weekend.
The Darren Weir juggernaut continues to roll on, the champion trainer landing a one two in the Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington to make it two out of two for the stable in Group One races run in Victoria so far this season
Flemington's famous "straight six" can be a trap for young horses, inexperienced youngsters used to running round a bend and taking a lead from a rail.
The Darren Weir juggernaut continues to roll on, the champion trainer landing a one two in the Group One Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington to make it two out of two for the stable in Group One races run in Victoria so far this season
Chris Waller left Rosehill with a winning treble and a series of group 1 contenders on Saturday. He had supplied a winning double for Hong Kong jockey Joao Moreira, who answered his Australian critics politely and with a smile.
Astern is a horse that intimidates his rivals before the race then destroys them in it.
Plenty of chances in what could an historic final running of the Canberra Cup.
In a period of jockey baking, Astern will require a Jim Cassidy special from James McDonald in Saturday's Golden Rose at Rosehill Gardens.
Wagga trainer Todd Smart is hoping to produce the next Fell Swoop or Single Gaze in Canberra.
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.
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