YouTube footage is all they've seen of him and and a statistical analyst for Nepal's cricket team has acted as the go-between, but Michael Clarke's mission to bring a 16-year-old spinner to play for his boyhood club is almost complete.
Bookmakers will explore offering betting on a quickfire form of horse racing set to be legalised in Queensland in an attempt to make up for revenue losses when NSW's greyhound racing ban takes effect.
Pound for pound there wouldn't be a breeder in Australia who has had as much success as John Camilleri in the last five years. Not that the man who produced Winx, Vancouver and El Divino will be shouting from the rooftops about it.
Australia's biggest owner-breeder Paul Wheeler has confirmed he will walk away from his multi-million dollar greyhound racing empire when the NSW industry shuts down next year.
Kerrin McEvoy has been entrusted with breaking a Golden Slipper curse spanning three years when Capitalist makes his return in the group 2 Missile Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.
Hugh Bowman should be staring down the barrel of losing the ride on Winx for the Warwick Stakes if suspension dates weren't a moving feast.
A winter full of winning machines had another leading candidate after Super Tycoon thrashed his rivals to fuel Greg McFarlane's confidence in expanding his Gosford stable.
Chris Waller's bottom lip quivered, but this time held strong. This was no time for champagne.
It was a couple of months ago connections wondered where it was all going wrong with Esteban. And if they could ever turn it around.
The Gai Waterhouse era is over. Well, sort of. The most recognisable face in Australian racing plans to train winners for many more years, but her succession plan at Tulloch Lodge will officially begin from Monday.
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