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Scorse leaves national dreams behind to follow in father's footsteps
Patrick Scorse has given up his ambitions of representing Australian in equestrian to follow in the footsteps of his father John.
Patrick Scorse has given up his ambitions of representing Australian in equestrian to follow in the footsteps of his father John.
James McDonald was the fall guy for a soft penalty given to Damian Oliver in Victoria, which instituted a two-year mandatory sentence for jockeys guilty of betting.
Here's something not often written in these column inches: stewards got the James McDonald decision right. And he's going to have to live with it.
When is a group race not a group race? Boxing Day at Randwick, if Jason Attard is to be believed.
The James McDonald inquiry heard several jockeys acknowledged a controversial punter while parading before a major spring carnival race in Sydney. Was there a fix on?
Gerald Ryan has challenged his apprentice James Innes Jnr to etch his name alongside the likes of Hugh Bowman, Tommy Berry and Tim Clark in winning the Sydney apprentices' premiership - even though he is set to come out of his time before the end of the season.
Chris Waller has a strong strike rate in Victoria but says he will resist the temptation to expand his Melbourne base.
Champion trainer Chris Waller will take advantage of the programming for stayers in Victoria when he produces the Irish-bred Zourkhan at Sandown on Saturday.
Up to 15 Canberra horses could get a crack at $400,000 Provincial Champs at Randwick.
He comfortably earns more than Johnathan Thurston and Lance Franklin from his sporting prowess in any average year, but a paltry $1000 bet has destroyed the career of one of Australia's best jockeys.
Racing Minister Martin Pakula has created a historic opportunity to restore pride and integrity to Victorian racing.
Star Turn is the latest of the stellar crop of three-year-olds to find a home beyond the racetrack with Vinery Stud buying into the group 1 placegetter.
Gary Moore's best buy out of Adelaide's Magic Millions sale was a one-eyed horse which later scored an invite to one of the richest race meetings in the world – and the trainer himself suddenly developed his own imperfection on a recent visit to the city of churches.
Jay Ford couldn't get within lengths of the winner in a Nowra maiden back in April when he last rode Esteban. Yet somehow he's back on the spruik horse of the summer.
Magic Millions bloodstock manager Barry Bowditch has once again come to the party for Bloodline readers by naming his top 10 yearlings selling at the Gold Coast extravaganza beginning on January 11.
NSW premiership leader Brenton Avdulla has had a huge scare in the stewards' room after an early double at Warwick Farm on Wednesday.
No minister since the late 1950s has been given a greater mandate for change and wide sweeping uncompromised reform of the racing industry than Martin Pakula has been over the past five days..
The multiple Melbourne Cup-winning Williams family has thrown its weight behind the Andrews Government decision to throw out the board of Racing Victoria and create a new independent team to oversee the sport in this state.
Australia's world-renowned Hunter Valley thoroughbred region has been an industry leader for decades, with some of the world's leading racing operations, headed by Sheik Mohammed's Godolphin, Irish giants Coolmore and local flagship breeders such as Arrowfield making multi-million-dollar investments in regional NSW.
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.
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