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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 »