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Racing
Race-by-race tips and preview for Coonamble on Sunday
An eight-race card in the NSW Central West wraps up the week for Racing NSW.
- by Brad Gray
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Horse racing
'Half-hearted': Stewards grill McDonald after promising day turns sour
Champion James McDonald had a dirty day at Randwick. He didn't ride a winner and was the centre of stewards' attention for his ride on Threeood.
- by Chris Roots
Spring Racing Carnival
Front Page hogs the headlines while Egan, McNeil take riding honours
Country trainer Geoff Duryea landed a rare Flemington winner when his promising sprinter Front Page scored.
- by Michael Lynch
Opinion
Horse racing
Flouting the whip and Cojuangco's passing show racing's depth of change
Jockeys using a ball and chain, like medieval jousting, will be the only way a protest will be upheld in Australia for whip abuse this weekend.
- by Max Presnell
Horse racing
Smith launches tri-state attack looking for the right races
Matthew Smith has stable charges travelling far and wide as he looks for winners in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane on Saturday.
- by Chris Roots
Horse racing
Race-by-race tips and preview for Randwick on Saturday
It’s a nine-race card at headquarters this week and Brad Gray of Racing NSW has all you need to land a winner at Royal Randwick.
- by Brad Gray
Horse racing
King Of Hastings looking for stakes win
McNeil Stakes runner-up King Of Hastings is searching for his first stakes win in Saturday’s listed Creswick Stakes for three-year-olds at Flemington.
- by Damien Ractliffe
Racing integrity
Chief steward calls urgent meeting over whip rules
Racing Victoria's chief steward Robert Cram has called an urgent meeting with Victorian Jockeys' Association boss Matt Hyland in an attempt to iron out issues with the whip rules.
- by Damien Ractliffe
Racing integrity
Horse tests positive to cocaine after maiden win
Caulfield trainer Brendan McCarthy says he will defend any charges arising out of irregularities to cocaine in the post-race sample of his Pakenham winner Vladking.
- by Damien Ractliffe
Horse racing
McDonald needs four more for another Sydney ton
The magic three figures of wins is within touching distance for James McDonald for the second season in a row in Sydney, and it could come on Saturday.
- by Chris Roots
Horse racing
Freedmans look to Exhibition to continue solid two-year-old run
Exhibition looks to be the latest two-year-old to roll off the Freedman brothers production line at Randwick on Saturday.
- by Chris Roots