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Galileo and Frankel continue to soar
Two of Bloodlines' favourite racehorses/stallions are Galileo and Frankel; their achievements never cease to amaze. So the past week of racing has hardly been surprising.
Two of Bloodlines' favourite racehorses/stallions are Galileo and Frankel; their achievements never cease to amaze. So the past week of racing has hardly been surprising.
Anthony Cummings openly admits he thought he had a Golden Slipper filly on his hands in Kanga's Eye after the Gimcrack Stakes in the spring.
Joe Cleary has been to a Highway Handicap before with Cliff and had to play second fiddle, it something he doesn't want to do again at Rosehill on Saturday.
Kris Lees has dominated the Queensland carnival at group 1 level getting Clearly Innocent and Sense Of Occasion to rise to the challenge of the top level. The Newcastle trainer wants to make it a group 1 hattrick with Danish Twist in the Tatts Tiara, a challenge that has been in the planning for a couple of months.
One of Australia's most decorated horse trainers of the past 30 years, Lee Freedman, is poised to move to Singapore in the next three months and purchase one of that country's most lucrative training operations.
Australian Turf Club has started a tender process for its Everest spot as one slot holder is coming to terms with missing out on Hong Kong sprinter Lucky Bubbles, which will head to Japan rather than Randwick in October.
As racehorses go, Arch Fire comes from a privileged background, in human terms an Eton student bound for a career studying at Cambridge in England.
Lachlan King, the 18-year-old son of former champion rider Steven King – who won the cups double on the mighty mare Let's Elope back in 1991 – knew he would have big shoes to fill.
Slow and steady is Lloyd Williams' carefully planned pathway back for 2016 Melbourne Cup winner Almandin.
A horse trainer who went missing for three days in bushland prompting a large scale search will allege she was pushed in the chest four times, grabbed by the arm and threatened by Taree racing officials on her own property in a case set to be heard in the Newcastle District Court.
A power play by the Racing Queensland board has forced the Queensland Oaks and Stradbroke meetings to be moved from the maligned Eagle Farm racecourse to Doomben.
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.
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