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TALK of jockey Jim Cassidy calling it quits is premature, despite the grand-slam-winning rider being banned for three months yesterday after failing a drugs test.
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TRAINER Mike Moroney fears the wet ground more than any rival with his Crown Oaks favourite Brazilian Pulse.
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One of the three Encosta de Lago fillies engaged to run in the Group I VRC Oaks on Thursday has been heavily backed.
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Australia's champion racehorse So You Think is unlikely to race in this country again following confirmation that global racing and breeding giant Coolmore Stud has purchased a majority share of the four-year-old.
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AMERICAIN has stormed to victory in a French triumph in the 150th running of the Melbourne Cup.
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Runaway Rosehill winner Saramenha has given young sire Snitzel an excellent start with his second crop of runners.
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Flemington trainer Danny O’Brien says exciting colt Star Witness could be an international straight-track specialist after the three-year-old’s outstanding win in the Group I Coolmore Stud Stakes (1200m).
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Although the rain was falling and the sky grey, Rick Worthington’s smile said it all after his five-year-old gelding Whitefriars delivered a tough knock out blow to his rivals in the Group 2 Seppelt Salinger Stakes at Flemington on Derby day.
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A crowd of approximately 10,000 racing enthusiasts attended the Wuhan International Equestrian Festival on mainland China yesterday, enjoying an eight card program of thoroughbred racing ranging in distance from 400m to 5000m.
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Whitefriars had long promised to win a good race and that came to fruition today when he proved too good in the Flemington mud in the Group 2 Salinger Stakes.
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Some fantastic winners and races have occurred since the VRC swapped the Danehill Stks over and ran the Ascot Vale on Derby day.
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Racing NSW today announced that acceptances for Saturday metropolitan meetings will come forward 24 hours for a three-month trial commencing 1 December 2010.
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Bart Cummings is expected to be back where he belongs next Tuesday, at Flemington for the Melbourne Cup
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Two year's ago on Derby Day Highgrove Stud's Ron Gilbert, the breeder of Wanted eagerly tuned into the oncourse monitors at Flemington to watch the colt win his debut at Rosehill impressively.
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Brilliant sprinter Starspangledbanner has been retired from racing and is scheduled to commence stud duties in Ireland in 2011.
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