Visa crackdown to bring racing industry 'to its knees'
The Australian racing industry is on the brink of being "brought to its knees" by Malcolm Turnbull's crackdown.
The Australian racing industry is on the brink of being "brought to its knees" by Malcolm Turnbull's crackdown.
Murray Baker may have plundered the Australian Derby-Oaks double - and another horse schooled under the canny Kiwi horseman is in line for the Randwick carnival scraps. Only this time the most successful New Zealand trainer in Australian group 1s won't be picking up the cheque.
The Australian Turf Club has already discussed semi-permanent measures such as a lighting or siren system that could be installed at Randwick within weeks in order to prevent a repeat of the bizarre Sydney Cup confusion.
The architect of The Championship John Messara has a Queen Elizabeth Stakes with It's A Dundeel but the win of Shoals in Saturday's Percy Sykes Stakes left him so emotional he couldn't go to the presentation.
Chris Waller won his first group 1 race with a horse other than Winx in more than a year as filly Foxplay beat her older rivals in the $1 million major at Randwick on Saturday.
There is a touch of Bart Cummings in Murray Baker, who wanders around after winning group 1s like he has nothing better to do.
Racing stewards were forced to call off the Sydney Cup mid-race after Almoonqith collapsed on the first lap, breaking its leg.
How does science comprehend the almost unrivalled dominance of Winx?
Lee Curtis remembers sitting in near darkness eating Chinese behind a card table waiting to load a 100-1 bolter on to a float bound for Melbourne for the Victoria Oaks. So what's changed for one of racing's good guys in the six months since?
She beat two subsequent group 1 winners at just her second start and for so long has been regarded as the nearly horse, but Noel Mayfield-Smith has raised expectations Unequivocal will have her best preparation yet before resuming at The Championships.
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