Australian racing authorities are set to strip champion mare Azkadellia of more than $1.5 million in prize money and are expected to impose bans on a prominent Victorian racing figure over claims he allegedly concealed ownership of the horse on behalf of serial fraudster Peter Foster.
It may be the season to be jolly, but it's hard to find anything heartwarming to say about the way the game is being administered.
A jockey has died after a race fall in New Zealand.
This time of year all roads in horse racing lead to Queensland, where the Magic Millions race day in early January offers millions of dollars in prizemoney for horses that, ordinarily, might not quite measure up to the top-class tests where the big stakes are usually found.
Bart Cummings knew from the very beginning that Saintly would be a very special racehorse and, with the master trainer's skill and dedication, that's what he became.
The net has been cast so wide into the James McDonald betting scandal that it appears there is far more than one jockey who has been in the crosshairs of Racing NSW stewards.
Kris Lees started the year winning the first big feature Randwick mile and finished it the same way.
It wasn't named the Christmas Cup for no reason. Race week rain, a heavy track and conditions tailor made meant Destiny's Kiss ended a drought stretching back to Australia Day at Randwick.
The 19-year-old rider is likely to remember Saturday's Flemington meeting as one of the most significant of his career.
She Will Reign shot to the top of Golden Slipper betting despite still not being guaranteed a run in the world's richest two-year-old race after destroying her rivals in the rich Inglis Nursery.
Reluctantly I became an actor in the long-running drama that is the Victorian racing cobalt case.
Under pressure from owners, trainers and jockeys to lift prizemoney to keep pace with the richer stakes on offer in NSW, Racing Victoria on Friday announced that $5 million in additional funding will be distributed across the industry as a result of a successful spring carnival.
A probe into whether Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie had disclosed sensitive information on cobalt investigations and misled the Racing Victoria board found the claims substantiated, Sal Perna, Victoria's Racing Integrity Commissioner, explained on Friday.
Heard of the jockey who confesses to often turning his back on the best ride in the race? Now you have. And he doesn't have one regret about it at all.
The trainer of She Will Reign's biggest rival in the Inglis Nursery has warned the Golden Slipper second favourite has a "massive unknown" to overcome, but has justified her short quote in the rich two-year-old sprint at Randwick.
It didn't take David Hayes long to realise the quirkiness of Dibayani who will on Saturday take on the $250,000 Villiers Stakes at Randwick.
Champion racehorse Saintly, winner of the 1996 Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate and a Bart Cummings favourite, has died at 24.
Even with the promise of an outstanding Royal Randwick Villiers meeting on Saturday the period, besieged with the whip being wielded on horse and human, spare a thought for Greg Hall, who as a jockey emitted confidence that your money was being carried in fully committed hands.
Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie resigned on Thursday night, making him another high-profile head to roll from the cobalt scandal that has dogged the state's racing sector for almost two years.
Making it to the top as a leading jockey is a tough business.
The RSPCA is adamant "the future of racing is without a whip". But they have made a surprise admission about its ongoing use in horse racing as debate following the harness racing decision heats up.
A preview of the Villiers Stakes Day meeting at Royal Randwick.
Syndicator Scott Darby has already enjoyed the highs of big-time racing with his bonny filly Yankee Rose, and a new band of racegoers can discover a similar exhilaration if She Will Reign lives up to her name in the $504,000 Inglis Nursery at Royal Randwick.
Knowing the odds are stacked against you? Fabrizio doesn't. And the horse which was lucky to be alive as a foal can rack up his biggest win in the Villiers Stakes.
She Will Reign smashed the clock on debut. But Gary Portelli doesn't want to read too much into the favourable comparisons with recent group 1 winners Global Glamour, Exosphere and English.
A midweek double has given Tulloch Lodge the perfect entree to Villiers Stakes day where it is set to produce well-supported favourite Fabrizio in the feature race.
Stewards will widen the net into the James McDonald betting investigation and will grill "a number of parties" this week after forensically scouring data stemming from the superstar jockey being a party to a wager last year.
Australian jockey Zac Purton dominated Hong Kong International day as he took a group1 double, winning the Sprint with Aerovelocity before steering Beauty Only to success in the Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday.
It was a day for winning doubles at Thoroughbred Park on Sunday.
It is, without question, one of the toughest events in international racing. A true test of endurance and stamina but also requiring street smarts and local knowledge.
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