Racing News
The Gold Coast Turf Club hopes to have 10 metropolitan-standard Saturday meetings by 2022.
Queensland’s drug testing facility has increased its ability to scan for a wider range of substances with an upgrade.
Kentucky Derby favourite Omaha Beach has drawn barrier 12 with his main opposition, Game Winner, to start from 16.
Jockey Michael Hackett, injured in a race fall in country NSW, remains in intensive care as doctors slowly reduce his sedation.
A group of owners from the Symon Wilde stable have struck it rich for the fourth successive year following the win of Ginny Ann at Warrnambool.
Clinton McDonald is planning to run Causeway Girl in the Group Two Euclase Stakes in Adelaide but will also accept for the filly in a race at Flemington.
Lightly raced Super Ex will resume at Randwick for his first start since September while younger stablemate Splintex will chase a maiden win on the program.
Bit Of A Lad has had to survive a protest to give his co-trainer a fourth win in the Brierly Steeplechase on the opening day of the Warrnambool carnival.
Sydney trainer Bjorn Baker will start Music Magnate’s Queensland campaign off at the Gold Coast after electing to miss Eagle Farm.
Following a lacklustre flat performance at Flemington, Self Sense has undergone a programming switch to take in the Galleywood Hurdle at Warrnambool.
Australian Oaks runner-up Scarlet Dream will have a barrier trial at Warwick Farm ahead of a Brisbane campaign which could include both the Qld Oaks and Derby.
All-Star Mile contestant Man Of His Word has been freshened ahead of an assault on the feature sprint at the Warrnambool carnival.
In his only two rides for the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable, jumps jockey Shane Jackson has the perfect record.
Champion Sydney trainer Chris Waller again dominates the nominations for the Brisbane Group One races at the winter carnival.
Amangiri is the early favourite for the Australasian Oaks in a capacity field while Spright headlines the 15 runners in the TAB Classic at Morphettville.
Multiple Group One-winning jockey Damian Browne has announced his retirement from riding after battling health problems.
Promising two-year-old Couldn’t Refuse is headed to the Ken Russell Memorial at the Gold Coast after trainer Desleigh Forster opted to bypass Eagle Farm.
Master Of Reality has produced a fine front-running display to cause a major upset in the Vintage Crop Stakes at Navan.
Surprise Baby starts his bid for a free entry into the Melbourne Cup when he has his first run since the Adelaide Cup over 2600m at Flemington.
Trainer Gerald Ryan is looking ahead to Randwick but first is keen to see how Menari performs in a race day gallop after returning from stud.
Injured jockeys Braidon Small and John Keating have been released from their respective hospitals to recover from race falls at home.
Locally trained Gold Medals is attempting back-to-back wins in the Brierly Steeplechase on the opening day of Warrnambool’s three-day carnival.
After a campaign netting two Group One wins, three-year-old filly Sunlight is heading to the paddock before being prepared for The Everest.
Talented filly Outback Barbie will race in blinkers and be ridden for the first time by Jeff Lloyd in the Silk Stocking at the Gold Coast.
Michael Hackett, one of three jockeys injured in a fall at Tomingley, remains in an induced coma in a Sydney hospital.
The new Robert Heathcote and Chris Anderson training partnership has six runners at the Eagle Farm midweek meeting.
Santa Ana Lane has finished fourth in his bid for an international Group One win in the Chairman’s Sprint Prize in Hong Kong.
Michael Hackett remains the most seriously injured of three country NSW jockeys involved in a fall at Tomingley.
Jockey Ryan Maloney has been taken to hospital after a fall in the straight at the Sunshine Coast.
