Queensland Oaks moved away from Eagle Farm
Racing Queensland has bowed to a chorus of complaints from owners, trainers and jockeys and moved the Queensland Oaks away from Eagle Farm to Doomben on Saturday.
Racing Queensland has bowed to a chorus of complaints from owners, trainers and jockeys and moved the Queensland Oaks away from Eagle Farm to Doomben on Saturday.
Eagle Farm raced as expected on Saturday – poorly – and Brisbane racing officials have to learn from the past and take decisive action at the end of the winter carnival.
Serial fraudster Peter Foster has been recorded discussing links between himself, a champion horse and a prominent trainer.
Just 24 hours after one of his most memorable jumping victories, Darren Weir was calling on all racing enthusiasts to get behind the jumping industries of Victoria and South Australia.
Former cricketer Simon O'Donnell and business partner Terry Henderson are making waves overseas as racehorse owners and syndicators.
Premiership leader Brenton Avdulla has "had enough of Eagle Farm" and will focus his effort on Sydney for the remainder of the season.
Leading trainer Chris Waller will seek urgent talks with Racing Queensland administrators into the standard of the Eagle Farm track surface.
Goulburn trainer Kurt Goldman will consider a Stradbroke start with filly Eckstein but is likely to keep her to her own sex after her classy win in the Glenlogan Park Stakes at Eagle Farm.
While Kris Lees was understandably elated with a second group 1 victory in just seven days when Clearly Innocent scored in the Kingsford-Smith Cup at Eagle Farm the trainer however wanted to take a low profile position moments after the race.
The Darren Weir juggernaut continues to roll on and set new benchmarks, with the champion trainer on Saturday saddling a Sandown hat-trick, which meant he has equalled Lee Freedman's record of 115 metropolitan winners in a season.
Cressfield Stud boss Bruce Neill could have easily given up on Kingsford Smith Cup winner Clearly Innocent before he even got to a trainer.
Flat bred horses. They can't jump, won't stay the distance and are wholly unsuitable for fences and hurdles. Or so say those critics of Australian jumps racing, who routinely argue that there is no place on the sporting calendar for races over obstacles, especially not at metropolitan tracks.
Godolphin had to wait for Kementari to be ready. Now they have to decide if he is ready for a late-season grab at a group 1 in the JJ Atkins in Brisbane next month.
French superstar Bold Eagle will race at a mile for the first time in his career as he tries to lift Europe's biggest race, the Elitloppet, at Solvalla in Sweden on Sunday.
Robert Price admits he has reinvented local Tradtri on many occasions since buying him from New Zealand and hopes the latest version is good enough to win the Nowra Cup on Sunday.
An apprenticeship jockey shuffle through the stable's doors has helped Canberra training duo Keith Dryden and Scott Collings bag a running double.
There might be more stylish riders than John Allen, but there are surely none with his versatility and all-round horsemanship.
Robert Smerdon is normally measured and calm when he approaches major racedays that his team is involved in, however Saturday's Australian hurdle and steeple day at Sandown is an exception.
Arguably one of Australia's best weight-for-age performers, Black Heart Bart, has crossed the nation to start in Saturday's rich group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup at Eagle Farm.
Sportsbet would "absolutely" be interested in a retail wagering business if the licence conditions were right, a tribunal heard on Thursday
James Cummings is used to pressure. It comes with the famous family name in game where there are more knockers than backslappers.
Adrian Bott's first season training in partnership with Gai Waterhouse has to be rated a success, but it is what is to come that excites the young man still learning his craft.
The China Horse Club's investment in Australian racing and breeding has reached extraordinary heights since its involvement commenced just on four years ago, and its stallion portfolio and broodmare collection will be out in force for the 2017 breeding season.
Randwick trainer John Sargent has been eying the Brisbane carnival for a while with two-year-old Easy Go Easy Win, but it is another juvenile Regine, bred to northern time, is out to make history as she runs in the Grand Prix at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
Godolphin's interim trainer Darren Beadman racked another winning double at Canterbury on Wednesday and his eye will turn to group 1 glory when three-year-old Impending takes on the older horses in the Kingsford Smith Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday.
One of Australia's most powerful racing administrators, Peter V'landys, who was due to give evidence at Tuesday's competition hearings into the merger between Tabcorp and Tatts was withdrawn from giving evidence just minutes before flying to Melbourne.
For the past few years Anthony Cummings has been trying to get his head around being in direct opposition to his young son James, in the tough uncompromising world of horse training.
Anthony and Edward Cummings want to move their stable into Leilani Lodge to maintain the family connection with famed Randwick stables after James Cummings was announced as Godolphin's trainer on Tuesday.
Godolphin announced James Cummings as its new Australian head trainer on Tuesday.
Godolphin will confirm James Cummings as its head Australian trainer to replaced John O'Shea as early as Tuesday.
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