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Global Glamour cheers squad fly in to support their filly at Magic Millions
There might not be enough champagne on the Gold Coast if Global Glamour can win Saturday's Magic Millions Guineas as her owner converge from around the world.
There might not be enough champagne on the Gold Coast if Global Glamour can win Saturday's Magic Millions Guineas as her owner converge from around the world.
The mother of one of Australia's finest race mares, Black Caviar, has died at her owner's stud farm in northern Victoria.
Brenton Avdulla became famous for taking a bow when he won the VRC Oaks on Lasqueti Spirit at Flemington last year, but riding on the beach on Tuesday he decided to take it a bit further and have "a bit of fun".
Chris Waller-trained From Within has taken over as favourite for Saturday's Magic Millions Classic after drawing gate seven in a controversial barrier draw at Surfer's Paradise on Tuesday morning.
When Damion Flower signed for $1.6 million to buy a Snitzel colt at Magic Millions last year, which would become Chauffeur, there was only one thought in his mind.
Not even the deeds of champion race mare Winx could paper over the cracks that appeared in racing in Australian racing 2016. We define the key issues that must be dealt with this year.
The focus of the racing world will be the Gold Coast this week with the Magic Millions but it will quickly turn to Monday and Tuesday mornings in coming weeks as the stars including Winx return at the barrier trials.
In the first year former champion jockey Chris Munce has bought and prepared his own two-year-olds, he heads into Saturday's Magic Millions Classic with an unbeaten colt, Ours To Keep, and an unbeaten filly, Champ Elect.
Tim Clark could be more comfortable being the underdog heading to Magic Millions as Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott supply him with Invincible Star and dual group 1 winner Global Glamour to lift the Gold Coast features on Saturday.
The first week of 2017 been good to Blake Shinn in way of winners, but tempered by a suspension, which he has appealed.
Glyn Schofield ran a lap of Warwick Farm to make weight on Dal Cielo and then used an old school South African trick to make sure the four-year-old bounded from the gates. When Dal Cielo got away with them his talent was always going to ensure victory.
There is not much of Chicago Bull but it did stop the talented four-year-old beating the older horses in the Fremantle Pacing Cup at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
David Hayes' vast training operation took a tighter grip on some of Australia's most important two-year-old races after their high-class filly Catchy proved too dominant for her rivals in Saturday's Siggins Plate.
David Payne bought Colesberg at the Magic Millions last year, but there is no consideration of rushing to the Gold Coast next week after his strong debut win at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
Trainer Matt Dale confirms gelding Fell Swoop to make highly anticipated return in Melbourne next month.
During the wasting process Jack Thompson resembled a grasshopper while John Miller struck a praying mantis pose during their sauna sessions at the now defunct Giles Baths at Coogee.
Mathew Cahill or Matthew Dale is how Michael Travers remembers the Cowra Cup in recent years. But in the absence of both this year, who knows who will take out the $30,000 feature in the central west on Sunday?
It seems the domination of two-year-old races by trainer David Hayes just gets stronger and Saturday's meeting at Caulfield will be no exception.
Wilf Mula remembers being told he was a hex. A sport that was supposed to bring people together had friends sidestepping him at sales and parade rings. Wonder what they would think now?
It's the $2 million question Gary Portelli has been asked all week, but will Michael Hawkes be the one who will answer it for him?
Nearly two years ago, members of the media, Racing Victoria executives and senior Seven West officials gathered in the boardroom of the network in Melbourne to announce the birth of racing.com.
The Black Opal Stakes is looking to lure punters from Singapore and New Zealand.
Toby Edmonds is hoping Sundance's main Summer Sprint rivals will be vulnerable fitness wise as the canny Gold Coast trainer plots a potential Magic Millions swoop via Warwick Farm.
The performances of the progeny of Frankel were an outstanding feature of racing in 2016. The hype is about to land Down Under big time.
Racing Australia's contentious whip policy is having the final touches applied after an exhaustive review. But don't expect jockeys to have their use further restricted.
In a significant twist to the James McDonald betting inquiry senior NSW integrity officers are now hopeful that a pivotal witness may give evidence.
After being a late withdrawal at Randwick on Boxing Day, group 1-winning former New Zealander Dal Cielo is scheduled to head back to town for the Summer Sprint at Warwick Farm.
Pocket rocket Destiny's Kiss closed to within one more win of being a million-dollar marvel as the horse shunned in a sales ring and not big enough to be exported to Hong Kong continued to defy father time.
Lindsay Park senior trainer David Hayes may have been disappointed with Oscietra's third at her Flemington debut but he's happy in the knowledge the stable has two ready-made replacements.
So you've bought this horse who could not be better connected.
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