Why I'll be wearing budgie smugglers at Warwick Farm
As a protest to declining garb at the Australian Turf Club's inner-sanctum, we will be wearing budgie smugglers at Warwick Farm today.
As a protest to declining garb at the Australian Turf Club's inner-sanctum, we will be wearing budgie smugglers at Warwick Farm today.
NSW teenager Ellen Rixon is looking forward take on some of her idols in Kate Gath and Kerryn Manning in the inaugural Australian Female Drivers Championships in Launceston next month.
The navy blue dominance of European racing has made Coolmore a world power and Australian boss Tom Magnier has always wanted to replicate that supremacy down under.
Canberra trainer Nick Olive is hoping Single Gaze can start with a place, but she'll be at her best in Sydney.
Siege Of Quebec is more like a Jackson Pollock than Leonardo da Vinci but beauty comes in different forms and as long as you're winning.
Some of Victoria's leading trainers are urging the Melbourne Racing Club to sufficiently water the Caulfield surface for Saturday's first group one meeting of the year.
Champion jockey Hugh Bowman will be fitted with a microphone and a camera to talk punters through a special gallop, which is being called the Winx rehearsal at Randwick on February 17.
All Chris Waller wanted to be was a reasonable trainer when he started in the tough game of preparing racehorses in his homeland of New Zealand. On Friday night, he will become a Hall of Famer.
There has always been something about smart colt Assimilate that has grabbed Paul Snowden's eye.
The emerging force of the partnership between jockey Jason Collett and trainer Bjorn Baker will attempt to own their home turf at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
I Am Invincible is the feature stallion at the first Inglis Classic Yearling Sale at the state-of-the-art Riverside Stables which starts at 6pm on Saturday after the Warwick Farm meeting.
When Brad Widdup arrived as the master of Platinum Park, he sat down with owner Damion Flower and looked at the two-year-olds and the sales-based races.
Gifted Melbourne sprinter Nature Strip has had to be withdrawn from Saturday's $250,000 Inglis Sprint after coming down with a mystery virus.
The first group one race of 2018 will be run at Caulfield on Saturday when Black Heart Bart looks to make it back to back wins in the Orr Stakes.
Chris Waller will use Winx's Chipping Norton Stakes return as a test run for the mare's possible first-up run at a mile in the United Kingdom later this year after delaying her reappearance at the track until Hugh Bowman is back in the saddle.
A tentative date has been given by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board to hear charges against those involved in the Lovani case, described as "potentially the biggest racing inquiry" in memory.
There's no guarantee she'll even head to the UK, but British bookmakers are already braced for the prospect of Winx adding a Royal Ascot success to her glittering resume.
Hugh Bowman has failed in his bid to have a careless riding suspension reduced, all but ending the jockey's hopes of teaming up with wonder mare Winx for the Apollo Stakes at Randwick on February 17.
There was a touch of the old and new about the Inglis Riverside Stables which were opened at Warwick Farm on Monday.
Gary Portelli is wary of the step up to the group 1 sprinting for Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign this autumn and believes he has found the perfect starting point for her in Saturday's Inglis Sprint at Warwick Farm.
The return of Winx in the Apollo Stakes later in the month appears dependant on Hugh Bowman winning appeals from two careless suspensions this week.
Champion trainer Colin Hayes will see two of his most valued lieutenants set to carry on his great work in the coming months around Australia..
Everyone wants to see Hugh Bowman on Winx in the Apollo Stakes but that shouldn't be considered when he fronts the NSW Appeals panel on Monday hoping for a reduction from his Australia Day careless-riding suspension.
The Australian Turf Club plans to regenerate Warwick Farm racecourse into a multi-million dollar centre of excellence.
Tony McEvoy's remarkable record of producing high-class two-year-olds this season continued again at Caulfield on Saturday when the trainer produced Kinky Boom to win the $250,000 Inglis Premier.
Winona Costin has rarely been happier to return a winner than on Bye See at Rosehill on Saturday.
Trapeze Artist has a Golden Rose and added a weight-for-age Expressway Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday, but his biggest challenge could be the next start.
There is no doubt that Performer is Golden Slipper quality colt but his narrow win in the Canonbury Stakes didn't change his place in the market.
Driver Robert Morris believes Dance For Glory can go quicker again on the Towac Park grass at Orange on Sunday after running an Australian record to qualify for the Watson Corporate Final.
Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones will defend their home ground in Sunday's Bega Cup with Almost Court and Rock On Zariz from an interstate raider with plenty of local support and a group 1-winning jockey.
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