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Winx has an easy work-out at Randwick

Friday 29 July 2016, 8:36am

Champion mare Winx has made her first public appearance since the autumn, running a comfortable fourth in a Randwick barrier trial.  Read more »

Williams has upperhand in title race

Friday 29 July 2016, 7:17am

Craig Williams has rides on five early favourites at Caulfield as he closes in on a fifth Melbourne jockeys' premiership.  Read more »

Blake Shinn wins appeal against ban

Friday 29 July 2016, 7:14am

Blake Shinn has succeeded in having a one-month ban overturned for his handling of a horse in a race at Rosehill.  Read more »

Kate Nipperess improving after accident

Friday 29 July 2016, 6:38am

Doctors say injured track rider Kate Nipperess is improving and will not need a second spinal operation after an accident at Warwick Farm.  Read more »

Williams gets to enjoy movie this time

Thursday 28 July 2016, 5:26pm

Craig Williams goes to Caulfield on Saturday with the Melbourne jockeys' premiership in his hands.  Read more »

Wide draw no concern for Fast 'N' Rocking

Thursday 28 July 2016, 4:29pm

David Hayes expects Fast 'N' Rocking to be finishing strongly down the outside from a wide barrier in the Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield.  Read more »

NZ horses hit by suspected strangles

Thursday 28 July 2016, 4:19pm

Horses in a stable on New Zealand's South Island are suspected to have caught strangles, a contagious respiratory tract infection.  Read more »

Comeback to try his luck at Caulfield

Thursday 28 July 2016, 4:13pm

After 10 second placings prior to a last start maiden win at Mildura, Comeback now heads to town for a 2000m race at Caulfield.  Read more »

Luxury wweight for Choice Bro at Doomben

Thursday 28 July 2016, 3:47pm

Tony Sears has high hopes for Choice Bro at Doomben with Josh Oliver's claim bringing the horse's weight down to 53kg.  Read more »

Chris Waller with 13 hopes to break record

Thursday 28 July 2016, 3:16pm

Trainer Chris Waller is confident jockey Hugh Bowman will be able to give High Mist a winning hope despite a wide barrier.  Read more »

Trackwork rider injured in head-on crash

Thursday 28 July 2016, 3:11pm

A Sydney trackwork rider has been taken to hospital with multiple injuries following a head-on collision with a riderless horse.  Read more »

Eurell excited to move into new stabling

Thursday 28 July 2016, 3:07pm

Trainer Greg Eurell has moved horses into new stabling on-course at Cranbourne's training centre and believes it will be a big benefit for his team.  Read more »

Josh Parr returns a winner at Gosford

Thursday 28 July 2016, 3:00pm

Josh Parr's first ride in more than seven months following hip surgery has been a winning one aboard Alaskan Wolf at Gosford.  Read more »

Cummings Dynasty to continue at Rosehill

Thursday 28 July 2016, 1:55pm

Trainer James Cummings is looking for Ruling Dynasty to hit the line strongly when he resumes in the Winter Challenge at Rosehill.  Read more »

Brave Ali can delay retirement at Doomben

Thursday 28 July 2016, 1:38pm

Trainer Tony Gollan will assess veteran Brave Ali's future after the nine-year-old runs in an open handicap at Doomben.  Read more »

Qld trainer fined for anti-bleeding agent

Thursday 28 July 2016, 1:08pm

A Queensland trainer has been fined $7000 after he pleaded guilty to adminstering a banned anti-bleeding agent to his winning racehorse.  Read more »

Yasnat heads to Caulfield to extend streak

Thursday 28 July 2016, 1:02pm

Matthew Dale has picked the 1200m contest at Caulfield for Yasnat instead of travelling to Sydney for an 1100m race at Rosehill.  Read more »

Birchley looking at G! for O'Reilly Cyrus

Thursday 28 July 2016, 12:50pm

Brisbane trainer Liam Birchley is looking to Group One racing with talented filly O'Reilly Cyrus who resumes at Doomben.  Read more »

Punctured lung for jockey Patrick Keane

Thursday 28 July 2016, 11:49am

Jockey Patrick Keane has suffered a punctured lung in a two-horse fall at Sandown while Jake Bayliss has escaped relatively unscathed..  Read more »

Payne fall an accident: stewards

Thursday 28 July 2016, 7:10am

As Michelle Payne makes a low-key return to trackwork, the fall in which she suffered a serious injury has been declared an accident.  Read more »

Mahuta early favourite for Bletchingly

Thursday 28 July 2016, 6:43am

Mahuta is the early favourite to win the Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield, the final Group race of the Australian racing season.  Read more »

Waller edges closer to training record

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 5:58pm

Trainer Chris Waller's two winners at Canterbury have edged him closer to breaking his own Sydney training record.   Read more »

Croston-trained horse in cobalt positive

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 5:48pm

A horse trained by Monica Croston has returned a cobalt reading above the allowed level in a race at Sandown in June.  Read more »

Dwayne Dunn goes winless at Sandown

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 5:44pm

Dwayne Dunn needs to ride four more winners than rival Craig Williams at the final metropolitan meeting to land a first Melbourne jockeys' title.  Read more »

Lloyd almost certainly secures title

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 5:36pm

Unless Jim Byrne can ride six winners on the last day of the season, 55-year-old Jeff Lloyd will become the oldest Brisbane premiership winner.  Read more »

Rawiller hopes for big spring from Mahuta

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 4:57pm

Jockey Brad Rawiller has ridden Mahuta to four wins from five rides on him and is looking forward to continuing the association in the Bletchingly Stakes.  Read more »

Clearly Innocent heads towards Epsom Hcp

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 4:35pm

Trainer Greg Bennett says Country Championship winner Clearly Innocent is about to return to his stable for a Group One preparation.  Read more »

Waller saddles three in Winter Challenge

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 4:28pm

Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller will take a three-pronged attack into the final stakes race of the Sydney season at Rosehill.   Read more »

More Than Ready touches down for his 16th year in Australia

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 4:03pm

The champion dual-hemisphere sire More Than Ready hasn’t missed a flight to the Hunter Valley since retiring to Vinery Kentucky in 2001. He touched down and entered quarantine on Tuesday morning after a couple of delays en route in Chicago and Honolulu.  Read more »

Multi-tasking Wynne scores at Sandown

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 3:33pm

Sally Wynne has guided Secret Sequin to an all-the-way victory at Sandown, a day after working as the clerk of the course at Pakenham.  Read more »

Qld court quashes racing trainer's ban

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 3:25pm

The Supreme Court has quashed Racing Queensland's decision to disqualify trainer Justin Abbott for two years after he allegedly assaulted a steward.  Read more »

Dylan Dunn to win apprentices' premiership

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 3:23pm

Dylan Dunn will win this season's Melbourne apprentices' premiership after second-placed Michael Dee lost an appeal against a careless riding ban.  Read more »

Sally Taylor after another training first

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 2:48pm

Grafton Cup-winning trainer Sally Taylor is taking Rednav to Brisbane to try to win her first metropolitan race.  Read more »

Stewards adjourn inquiry into Sandown fall

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 2:47pm

Apprentice Jake Bayliss and senior rider Patrick Keane have been taken to the Alfred Hospital following a fall at Sandown.  Read more »

Awake In Grinzing shines in wet track win

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 2:25pm

Awake In Grinzing could progress to the Victoria Derby for Danny O'Brien after his debut win at Sandown.  Read more »

Highway races get prize money boost

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 12:29pm

Country trainers will have the chance to share in $60,000 in Highway races staged in Sydney on Saturdays.   Read more »

Dalakhani retired from stallion duty

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 12:19pm

Dalakhani, the sire of dual hemisphere Group One winner Reliable Man, has been retired from stallion duty.  Read more »

Spirit And Fire not assured of start

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 11:56am

The highly anticipated debut of Spirit And Fire may have to wait with the colt the second emergency for his planned Doomben debut.  Read more »

Bindi Cheers found near Newcastle

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 11:15am

Racehorse trainer Bindi Cheers has been taken to Maitland Hospital in a stable condition after being found near where she was last seen four days ago.  Read more »

Dee loses appeal, Dunn champion apprentice

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 11:00am

Michael Dee has lost his appeal against suspension leaving Dylan Dunn unchallenged in Melbourne's apprentices' premiership.  Read more »

First Foal for Whittington

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 9:44am

Former brilliant juvenile Whittington retired on a high note with a scintillating win in the Listed BRC Lightning Handicap last year and proved very popular last spring at Grandview Stud in Queensland covering 102 mares.  Read more »

Popular Shuttler Dalakhani Retired from Stud Duty

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 9:40am

A popular shuttler to Cornerstone Stud in South Australia for the past three seasons, top class sire Dalakhani (IRE) has been retired from stud duty at age 16.  Read more »

McDonald stars at Goodwood

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 8:59am

Champion Sydney jockey James McDonald has piloted Dutch Connection to victory in the showpiece Lennox Stakes at the Goodwood Festival.  Read more »

Crucial day for Dunn at Sandown

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 8:10am

Dwayne Dunn will need to make the most of his rides at Sandown if he has any chance of a first Melbourne jockeys' premiership.  Read more »

Moody to work for Rosemont Stud

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 7:45am

Suspended trainer Peter Moody has been appointed racing manager for Victoria's Rosemont Stud.  Read more »

Ladbrokes, Coral to offload betting shops

Wednesday 27 July 2016, 7:31am

The proposed merger of Ladbrokes and Coral will depend on the closure of between 350 and 400 betting shops.  Read more »

Paralysed jockey JT McNamara dies

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 7:41pm

Former jumps rider JT McNamara has died aged 41, three years after breaking his neck in a fall at the Cheltenham festival.  Read more »

Magnapal to make Bletchingly return

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 5:28pm

Surgery to remove bone chips looks to have been successful as Magnapal prepares for his return at Caulfield.  Read more »

Single Gaze on G2 Stocks Stakes path

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 5:20pm

The Group Two Stocks Stakes at Moonee Valley will be an early spring target for Group One-winning mare Single Gaze.  Read more »

Explosive Scene firing up for Sydney race

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 5:17pm

Explosive Scene is preparing for another Sydney race after he finished second behind King's Officer.  Read more »

Horses thriving in McFarlane's new set-up

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 4:09pm

Trainer Greg McFarlane believes Super Tycoon will be a middle distance horse, but may wait before testing his theory.  Read more »

Lord Of The Sky and Oliver team up again

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 2:47pm

Damien Oliver and Lord Of The Sky are yet to taste success together but will get their opportunity in the Bletchingly Stakes at Caulfield.  Read more »

Ryan hopes Monsoon stars at Canterbury

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 2:08pm

Star Of Monsoon begins his journey to Group One racing when he makes his return in a midweek maiden at Canterbury.  Read more »

Jungle Edge after city success at Sandown

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 1:57pm

After placings over 1000m at his past two starts in town, Jungle Edge rises to 1200m for his next assignment at Sandown.  Read more »

Prime Dispatch Edition 119

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 1:49pm

This week's edition of the Prime Dispatch compiled by Joe O'Neill  Read more »

More international success for Victorian sire Reward For Effort

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 12:12pm

Australian-bred Gem Eagle (Reward For Effort) made it two wins from as many starts in Macau with a gutsy effort in Sunday’s feature Racing Journalist’s Cup (1050m) on the sand.  Read more »

Debut winner for Moshe

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 12:09pm

Sun Stud’s exciting young sire, MOSHE, has maintained his handy lead in the Victorian First Season Sires’ premiership with a first and third in the 980m juvenile race at Swan Hill on Monday.  Read more »

First Singapore Winner for Stryker

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 11:22am

The foundation sire at Three Bridges Thoroughbreds, Stryker has had a great season siring the Group I New Zealand Derby winner Rangipo and some 34 Australian winners, but the son of Fastnet Rock broke new ground on Sunday when siring his first winner in Singapore.  Read more »

Search continues for missing NSW trainer

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 9:24am

The line search for popular NSW racehorse trainer Bindi Cheers is expected to carry into a fourth day as police wait for first light on Wednesday.  Read more »

Vic racing minister calls for unity

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 9:06am

Martin Pakula says the time has come to get the thoroughbred racing industry leaders together for a heart-to-heart meeting.  Read more »

Lonsdale Cup next for Trip To Paris

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 9:06am

Trainer Ed Dunlop has the Melbourne Cup among the options for last year's fourth placed Trip To Paris who will run in the Lonsdale Cup.  Read more »

Antiquarium to miss Goodwood Cup

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 7:17am

Leading Sydney jockey James McDonald will bid to end his English riding stint on a high at the Goodwood Festival.  Read more »

Michael Dee appeals suspension

Tuesday 26 July 2016, 7:08am

Apprentice Michael Dee will appeal a 10-meeting careless riding suspension in an attempt to continue his bid for Melbourne's junior premiership.  Read more »

Stokes hopes mare will Star in Bletchingly

Monday 25 July 2016, 5:43pm

Runway Star has won three stakes races in Adelaide and will be chasing a first Melbourne stakes win in the Bletchingly.  Read more »

Winx listed to trial at Randwick

Monday 25 July 2016, 5:37pm

Champion mare Winx and Golden Slipper winner Capitalist head a star-studded line-up at the Randwick barrier trials.  Read more »

Zin Zan Eddie looking for Listed win

Monday 25 July 2016, 5:17pm

Matthew Snmith would prefer a wet track for Zin Zan Eddie but still believes the six-year-old will make his presence felt in the $150,000 Winter Challenge.  Read more »

Ron Steiner edging towards Sydney winner

Monday 25 July 2016, 4:50pm

Wagga Wagga trainer Ron Steiner is hoping Miss Farloo, one of two horses he trains, can give him his first Sydney winner at Rosehill.  Read more »

Nikolic gets October riding licence case

Monday 25 July 2016, 4:15pm

A Victorian tribunal will hear Danny Nikolic's attempt to regain his riding licence in October.  Read more »

Beirut unlikely for Bletchingly Stakes

Monday 25 July 2016, 3:31pm

Beirut looks set to bypass the Bletchingly Stakes and instead chase black type in either the Aurie's Star Handicap or Spring Stakes the following week.  Read more »

Vergara to race in New Zealand

Monday 25 July 2016, 2:55pm

Group Three winner Vergara will race in New Zealand, before and possibly after she is served by Tavistock.  Read more »

Jye McNeil returns to trackwork

Monday 25 July 2016, 1:42pm

Apprentice Jye McNeil has taken the next step in his comeback from injury, returning to trackwork for the first time in just over four months.  Read more »

Former jockey Hopwood joins Sky Racing

Monday 25 July 2016, 12:12pm

Libby Hopwood is set to become a presenter on Sky Racing almost two years after the former jockey suffered career-ending injuries in a race fall.  Read more »

Songbird takes her record to 9 from 9

Monday 25 July 2016, 11:53am

Champion filly Songbird has stretched her record to nine wins from nine races with victory in the American Oaks at Sarataoga Springs.  Read more »

First Stakes-Winner for Harbour Watch

Monday 25 July 2016, 11:52am

A two season shuttler to Emirates Park in 2013 and 2014, Acclamation’s brilliant son Harbour Watch (IRE) posted his first stakes-winner overnight in France with an impressive win in the Group II Prix Robert Papin for Tis Marvellous.  Read more »

Search for Bindi Cheers suspended

Monday 25 July 2016, 11:00am

Popular racehorse trainer Bindi Cheers has disappeared, with her car and horse float found in the Newcastle suburb of Beresfield.  Read more »

Prime Success with Newhaven Park Purchase

Monday 25 July 2016, 9:24am

It's been a long time between drinks for handy Commands mare Awasita, who carried the Prime Thoroughbreds colours to a well-earned win at Canterbury on Saturday.  Read more »

Snitzel equals 40-year-old record

Monday 25 July 2016, 9:21am

On 28 July 1976, Lindsay Park's great sire Without Fear set an Australian and world record of 30 2YO winners in a season when the filly Point Blank scored at Gawler in South Australia. The Australian record has been much harder to crack but, almost exactly 40 years later, Snitzel has equalled it.   Read more »

Americain's first starter wins in Canada

Monday 25 July 2016, 6:40am

Folk Magic, the first foal to race by 2010 Melbourne Cup winner Americain, has made a winning start to her career at Woodbine in Canada.  Read more »

Frankel filly Fair Eva dazzles in G3 win

Sunday 24 July 2016, 6:08pm

Fair Eva has given her sire Frankel his first Group Three winner in the Princess Margaret Stakes at Ascot.  Read more »

Sea King, Zanteco win feature jumps races

Sunday 24 July 2016, 5:47pm

Sea King and Zanteco have won the feature jumps races at Bendigo for trainers Patrick Payne and Darren Weir respectively.  Read more »

California Chrome wins San Diego Hcp

Sunday 24 July 2016, 4:45pm

California Chrome has made a winning comeback in the San Diego Handicap, his first start since his Dubai World Cup triumph.  Read more »

Charmed Harmony to be aimed at Memsie

Sunday 24 July 2016, 3:54pm

Charmed Harmony will be aimed at a Group One race over his favourite distance on his favourite track.  Read more »

Clipperton itching to get to Hong Kong

Sunday 24 July 2016, 3:36pm

Young Sydney jockey Sam Clipperton cannot wait to get to Hong Kong where he is contracted to ride until December.   Read more »

Sacred Master to make Australian debut

Sunday 24 July 2016, 3:18pm

Leading trainer Chris Waller will try to end the season with a stakes victory in the Listed Winter Challenge at Randwick.  Read more »

Hammersly and O'Dea a winning team

Sunday 24 July 2016, 3:15pm

Jockey Paul Hammersley and trainer Steve O'Dea have formed a successful combination in recent months with the promise of more to come.  Read more »

Mahuta to resume in Bletchingly

Sunday 24 July 2016, 2:37pm

Mahuta has already won six races this season and could add another when he resumes in the Bletchingly Stakes.  Read more »

Jim Byrne hasn't given up on title

Sunday 24 July 2016, 9:58am

Jeff Lloyd holds a commanding lead in the race for the Brisbane jockeys' premiership but Jim Byrne has not thrown in the towel just yet.  Read more »

Highland Reel wins King George at Ascot

Sunday 24 July 2016, 9:40am

Highland Reel has claimed his first European Group One and could head back to Australia where he finished third in the Cox Plate.  Read more »

Melb Victory claim Juventus scalp at MCG

Saturday 23 July 2016, 9:30pm

Melbourne Victory goalkeeper Lawrence Thomas has given his side a penalty shoot-out triumph over Juventus in the International Champions Cup.  Read more »

Williams, Dee suspended at Flemington

Saturday 23 July 2016, 7:15pm

Premiership-leading jockey Craig Williams has been suspended at Flemington but is free to return for the final city meeting of the season.  Read more »

Long shot gives trainer 1st Flemington win

Saturday 23 July 2016, 6:00pm

Alan Hunter wanted to give Astro Castro a start in town before he turned four and the $101 outsider has scored a shock Flemington win.  Read more »

Au Revoir forms part of Weir double

Saturday 23 July 2016, 5:37pm

Premier trainer Darren Weir has brought up a winning double at Flemington, taking his season tally of metropoltian wins in Melbourne to 105.  Read more »

Slots a winner as racing career winds down

Saturday 23 July 2016, 5:17pm

Slots, a $1700 filly, has taken her career earnings past $320,000 by winning at Canterbury.  Read more »

Akavoroun should stay in Brisbane: Meagher

Saturday 23 July 2016, 5:10pm

Trainer John Meagher will ask friend Ciaron Maher to leave Akavoroun in Brisbane following the gelding's return to form in the Queensland capital.  Read more »

Redzel shows clean pair of heels in Sprint

Saturday 23 July 2016, 4:38pm

Redzel has run his rivals off their feet in the July Sprint at Canterbury to set the tone for his coming campaign.  Read more »

Price surprised by win of Mighty Like

Saturday 23 July 2016, 4:20pm

Mighty Like has improved on his already impressive first-up record by claiming the Bruce Gadsden Handicap at Flemington.  Read more »

Thompson wins Rising Stars Final

Saturday 23 July 2016, 3:25pm

Ben Thompson has won the Rising Stars Final at Flemington on Savannah Moon, but Beau Mertens has taken out the overall series win.  Read more »

King's Officer in command at Canterbury

Saturday 23 July 2016, 3:06pm

King's Officer has stretched his winning sequence to four with victory at Canterbury under Tommy Berry.  Read more »

Emotional win for Litts at Canterbury

Saturday 23 July 2016, 3:02pm

Song And Laughter has scored a tough win at Canterbury, defeating one-time Caulfield Cup hopeful Singing.  Read more »

Londehero, Fradd combine for another win

Saturday 23 July 2016, 2:45pm

Londehero and veteran jockey Robbie Fradd have had another successful outing together, this time winning the Tattersall's Open Handicap at Doomben.  Read more »