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Maturing Tavago to eat up the BMW challenge
Tavago is already an Australian Derby winner but co-trainer Trent Busuttin knows he has a different horse, a better horse, heading in the BMW at Rosehill on Saturday.
Tavago is already an Australian Derby winner but co-trainer Trent Busuttin knows he has a different horse, a better horse, heading in the BMW at Rosehill on Saturday.
The 39-year-old man accused of carrying a sawn-off shotgun outside Saturday's Golden Slipper Stakes event will remain behind bars after he did not apply for bail on Sunday.
Forgive me, master, but Winx is capable of doing what few other champions could achieve – win major events from the metric six furlongs to 3200 metres.
Just over 40 years ago, Garry Bachell would go early every Saturday afternoon to tackle the arduous task of mowing his grandmother's spacious back yard lawn.
Chris Waller is amazed by Winx on the track and is starting to get used to her being lauded off it as well.
There is a beauty in the brutality of Winx being the best, as she runs away from her rivals.
The Melbourne Cup has had winners trained in Ireland, France, Germany and Japan in the 23 years since Irish training maestro Dermot Weld revolutionised Australia's greatest race by sending out Vintage Crop to win on a rainswept day in November 1993.
A blistering pace at Thoroughbred Park on Saturday saw Running Broke set a class record.
Russian Revolution overcame a dose of pre-race drama and his dogged stablemate Redzel to win his first group 1 race and seal a career as a future stallion.
Ben Melham's belief in She Will Reign ends with daring Golden Slipper win at Rosehill on Saturday.
It's all about horses for courses.
If Saintly was the horse from heaven, the racing gods must have a new favourite.
On Golden Slipper morning, Scott Darby and Mark Holland prayed. Over and over and over again. Someone was listening.
They paid a late-entry fee and won the New Zealand Derby and now the owners of Gingernuts will look to do the same in the Australian Derby after another powerful staying performance in the Rosehill Guineas on Saturday.
Top 100 companies and major ATC sponsors The Star and Tabcorp are among eight buyers of slots in The Everest.
The wait was worth it for Our Ivanhowe as he revelled in the heavy conditions to score an easy win in the Ranvet Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.
Jeff Lloyd has ripped up Australian racing's record books since a mini-stroke in 2013 when those closest to him told him he was mad to consider a comeback. Just don't feel sorry for him.
Warwick Farm trainer Gary Portelli has dreamed of winning a Golden Slipper and his wife Kellie has dreamed of owning Rolex - now both could come true in 70 seconds at Rosehill on Saturday afternoon.
Gerald Ryan is looking for the first Black Opal-Golden Slipper double since Frank Cleary's Catbird in 1999.
Racing Victoria has been left bemused after a two-year campaign to convict racehorse trainers Danny O'Brien and Mark Kavanagh on cobalt charges collapsed on Friday morning when VCAT said the case had to be dismissed.
The result of a clash with Winx in Saturday's George Ryder Stakes will not change Chautauqua in the eyes of co-trainer Michael Hawkes but it will decide his next run in The Championships.
Bjorn Baker bought Impavido for a race like Saturday's Rosehill Guineas but he admits there have been times when he "thought he was useless".
This is the wet day Hall Of Fame trainer Lee Freedman has waited more than two years for with his German stayer Our Ivanhowe.
A weight-for-age Caulfield Cup is a gamble worth taking while my gut feeling is Houtzen is the horse I would love to be riding in the Golden Slipper, writes Hugh Bowman.
A Victorian tribunal has dismissed cobalt charges against Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien.
Even deluge-affected ground cannot dim the brilliance of the Golden Slipper program, the best in Australia so far this season.
With the Melbourne Autumn carnival slowly coming to an end it would seem Darren Weir is intent on finishing the way he started and that's with big race winners.
Gai Waterhouse is not one to ever talk down the performances of any of her horses, so some punters might have taken it as a bit of typical Gai hyperbole when she forecast a big future for her three-year-old gelding Farson after his recent win at Caulfield.
Australian wonder mare Winx has conquered the world - and backing her with a miserly $100 could have returned a head-spinning sum which would help crack Sydney's out of control real estate market.
There is always confidence around Gai Waterhouse when it comes to Golden Slipper day, but this year it is restricted to The Galaxy with a former Slipper runner-up in English.
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