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Vella opens with running double
Ominous rain drops doesn't discourage Canberra trainer's mare from saluting to set up back-to-back wins.
Ominous rain drops doesn't discourage Canberra trainer's mare from saluting to set up back-to-back wins.
He's rumbled with the turf greats of recent years in Black Caviar and Winx and has long seen off the Golden Slipper class of 2010, but how much longer can Decision Time keep going?
The performances of Snitzel in the past 12 months have been amazing, on and off the racetrack, and history should repeat when the yearling sales begin in earnest on the Gold Coast in a fortnight's time.
When Chris Waller likes a horse he usually gets it. If not the first time of trying, then maybe the second. So his persistence with a Not A Single Doubt filly at this year's Magic Millions sales wasn't misguided.
Canberra trainer Nick Olive is considering the $3 million Doncaster Mile and the Coolmore Classic for Single Gaze.
The Australian Jockeys Association fears the health of the state's riding population is being put at risk and heavyweight riders could lose up to a quarter of their income as a result of Racing NSW's bid to provide a greater spread of handicaps in non-feature races.
Rumours of her imminent retirement scotched by history-making jockey as she details big plans for herself and the industry.
There's nothing better than a cunning plan bearing fruit - especially when its executed through a rarely utilised loophole.
The Magic Millions hopes of beaten $1.30 favourite Hualalai went up in smoke as John Thompson nabbed just his third two-year-old winner since his Patinack Farm days with a horse bred by Nathan Tinkler's controversial horse racing venture.
Its been an extraordinary year for Michelle Payne, the history-making rider who became the first woman to win the Melbourne Cup in November 2015.
Naming a racehorse isn't the easiest of tasks - some have to think long and hard about it. For One Son, the task was pretty straightforward.
Red Excitement will hardly be remembered in the annals of great horses but few have been around so long – or adored so intensely.
She's got giant shoes to fill, but the stage is set for Black Caviar's first foal, Oscietra, to follow in her mother's footsteps at Flemington on Sunday.
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..
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