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Plumptre admits 'serious bullying issue' clouded strangles call
Henry Plumptre admitted a "serious bullying issue" clouded his judgement in the non-reporting of strangles condition.
Henry Plumptre admitted a "serious bullying issue" clouded his judgement in the non-reporting of strangles condition.
Kris Lees doesn't doubt the effectiveness of his Missile Stakes duo Le Romain and Invincible Gem despite the prospect of unfamiliar racing roles back in the field in the Missile Stakes.
Cobbie's gone but scratch the surface and there are still characters, the Carrot Cake Kid for instance, on the turf.
Crack Newcastle sprinter Le Romain returns to racing on Saturday at Randwick in the group 2 Missile Stakes and his record is hard to fault.
Tony Krushka had to wait 20 years to win as an owner-breeder the group 1 he should have won as a trainer.
The Godolphin jockey merry-go-round? Glyn Schofield doesn't say it in these exact words, but you sense he'd like to climb aboard and ride the carousel for as long as he can.
Not every Sydney sprinter is going to end up with a slot in the $10 million Everest - and that suits Gerald Ryan just fine.
With Aussie supermare Winx owning the Cox Plate, Canberra trainer Nick Olive will set Single Gaze for the Caulfield Cup.
Godolphin's former head trainer John O'Shea will be asked to answer a charge of giving false or misleading evidence to stewards while Sheikh Mohammed's ex-Australian boss Henry Plumptre also faces sanctions before the resumption of the strangles inquiry later this week.
They came in all shapes and sizes, ages and colours, they arrived in some very old horses floats and some very new trucks. People from across the racing world converged on Geelong racecourse on Tuesday morning for a horse's birthday with a difference.
Champion Canberra gelding Fell Swoop is raring to go ahead of the world's richest race on turf - The Everest.
Four-time premiership winner Hugh Bowman doesn't wear the Godolphin blue often, but don't be surprised if that changes a bit in the new season.
Hugh Bowman revealed his premiership prod came via a swipe from a Melbourne Cup-winning owner as he sealed a fourth premiership - then fell foul of stewards when losing a race on protest which will mean he starts the new season on the sidelines.
While strong gale force winds moved Racing Victoria stewards to post-pone Saturday's Caulfield race meeting, the flagship race on the programme the Bletchingly Stakes and supporting races may yet survive.
It was almost two years between drinks, but Shiraz vindicated Kim Waugh's patience when he broke through in the Winter Challenge at Rosehill.
Caulfield trainer Robert Smerdon is hoping that his late season rush of winners continues into the rich Spring Carnival.
Port Macquarie, Mudgee and Wagga Wagga are all big winners out of the new Country Championships schedule after Racing NSW announced prizemoney for the final will jump to $500,000.
With Jason Coyle having so many female jockeys winning races, it took me back to the era when females were shunned in the saddle.
A Black Opal Stakes day race will be named the Riharna Thomson Bracelet in honour of the late track word rider.
Legendary figure Kevin Newman will have a race named after him on Bathurst's Breeders Challenge regional finals day as the industry comes to terms with the sudden death of a harness racing history maker.
Gary Moore plans to take a stranglehold on the Winter Challenge in the early stages and never relinquish it with the free-striding Classic Uniform, which is eyeing a second stakes win at Rosehill.
David Payne will campaign for more late season two-year-old races over further ground as he plots the downfall of the heavily-backed D'Argento in the final city meeting on the racing calendar at Rosehill.
The former Hawk star made his name in Melbourne tackling the likes of John Nicholls, but these days his focus is on horse welfare.
All eyes are on the one-time world champion.
Trainer Nick Olive is hoping for a final-day draw with Keith Dryden in the ACT Trainers' Premiership
Jockey Craig Newitt has been aboard Lankan Rupee enough times during the one-time world champion sprinter's career to know that Saturday's $150,000 Bletchingly Stakes is an achievable goal.
Brenton Avdulla won't raise the white flag yet, but the long-time premiership leader has conceded it's "highly unlikely" he can halt Hugh Bowman's irresistible charge to a fourth Sydney jockeys' title on the final day of the season.
If you'd told Jason Coyle at the start of the year his own premiership position would be higher than that of his beloved Bulldogs, he might have laughed. Then maybe cried. But it's a sign of his stable on the rise and a football team in freefall how things have panned out in the past six months.
Inglis' Riverside Stables at Warwick Farm – the new venue for Australia's biggest bloodstock auction – command a breathtaking location and promise to become one of the world's great thoroughbred amphitheatres.
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