Racing writer for The Age
World champion race mare, Winx, is set to make her Flemington debut in this year's rich $2 million Emirates Stakes on the fourth day of the Melbourne Cup carnival in an appearance that could attract a crowd larger than Australia's greatest race.
Victorian racing TV channel in multimillion-dollar play for South Australian rights.
The VRC's bid to stimulate staying races in Victoria has begun well after a high-class filly took out Saturday's Byerley Handicap.
If the lightly raced Balcazar can repeat his astonishing performance in the three-year-old final a fortnight ago, he will be an undeniable chance in Saturday's Trainers Handicap.
Former leading jockey Peter Mertens is proud that son Beau has become a highly successful jockey, but it brings out his protective side.
The VRC will race at Flemington during Royal Melbourne Show week for the first time in a bid to showcase racing to a new audience.
Some of Japan's most powerful and influential stables are eyeing Australia's three most important Spring Carnival events, the Cox Plate and the Caulfield and Melbourne cups.
It wasn't the normally reserved Mick Kent that emerged to meet the media after his gifted stallion Supido toyed with his opposition in winning the weight for age Monash Stakes on Saturday.
While the cut and thrust of major spring races is still a way off, Saturday's weight-for-age event for the upcoming carnival always gives some genuine insights.
Victorian racing bodies are undecided if they will back CrownBet and the ACCC in appealing the Australian Competition Tribunal's approval of the $11 billion Tabcorp and Tatts merger.
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