News

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 »