Horse Racing
Miki Nakao’s first city winner has carried on a 50-year-old record for her master Pat Duff.
Jason Benbow has been injured in a race fall at Sale with the jockey taken to hospital.
Prominent racehorse owner Damion Flower is seeking bail in a Sydney court as he fights accusations he helped import cocaine into Australia.
Horse racing is an industry focused on speed and precocity, but a couple of 10-year-olds will buck that trend when they contest a stakes race at Rosehill.
Trainer Toby Edmonds hopes at least one horse above Tyzone in the ballot will drop out, giving him a Stradbroke Handicap start.
Begood Toya Mother will chase a fifth straight win at Caulfield before a break and a return for bigger spring riches.
The Ipswich Turf Club says it is all systems go to run its Cup meeting with 10,000 pre sales already despite construction on a new grandstand.
“Breeders have been losing million of dollars annually for far too long, from not knowing the Foetal Sex that their mares are carrying”
Winning Ways, who was raced by the late Paul Makin, will carry the successful owner’s colours in the Queensland Oaks.
A full field of 16 plus five emergencies is set to contest the Group One Queensland Oaks at Doomben.
Queensland stewards have indicated they will take a tougher stance on arsenic cases, fining two trainers.
Champion mare Winx is to be honoured at Doomben’s Queensland Oaks meeting to mark her first Group One win .
The sales ring at the National Broodmare Sale at the Gold Coast has lit up with the sale of Fastnet Rock mare Missrock for $2.3 million.
Last-start Scone winner King’s Champ will take on a strong late season field of two-year-olds at Rosehill.
Santa Ana Lane and Steel Prince will head to the spelling paddock with trainer Anthony Freedman to plan their paths to the spring.
European champion Roaring Lion, who will stand at New Zealand’s Cambridge Stud in the spring, is fully subscribed for his first season.
An ugly vet’s report did not deter trainer Scott Cameron from taking a punt on Bag Raider who is set to run over 1600m at Caulfield.
Anthonyt Van Dyck, a half brother to a New Zealand champion sprinter, is among the leading contenders for the Derby at Epsom.
Mr Quickie is set to travel to Brisbane for the Queensland Derby after impressing trainer Phillip Stokes with his right-handed gallops at Pakenham.
Disqualified trainer Sam Kavanagh has had his sentence reduced on appeal and could be back as soon as October.
Group One winner Manuel has earned himself a crack at the Stradbroke Handicap by winning a Gold Coast trial.
Ten-year-old Destiny’s Kiss will be out to defend his title in the Listed W J McKell Cup at Rosehill.
After two solid trials, Romancer is set to have his first run for Grahame Begg when he lines up in a heat of the VRC-CRV Winter Championship at Caulfield.
Paul Makin, the owner of dual hemisphere Group One winner Starcraft, has died aged 82.
The cancellation of the Cranbourne barrier trials means Stars Of Carrum will go to Brisbane to run in the P J O’Shea Stakes ahead of the Queensland Derby.
Trainer Matt Cumani is Brisbane-bound as he chases the Queensland Oaks/Derby double with three-year-olds Dunlani and Declares War.
The Bostonian faces a task at the weights if he is to complete a treble of Brisbane’s major sprint races in the Stradbroke Handicap.
Australian Derby winner Jon Snow will stand at Clearview Park Stud in New Zealand’s South Island.
Hermosa has completed a Classic double, waltzing away with the Irish 1000 Guineas at the Curragh.