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.
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.
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.
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.
Racing NSW today announced that acceptances for Saturday metropolitan meetings will come forward 24 hours for a three-month trial commencing 1 December 2010.
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.
GUY Walter has had to wait more than a decade for the chance to avenge former champion Tie The Knot's luckless defeat in the Victoria Derby.
He gets the chance with Digital Fortress in the $1.5 million classic at Flemington on Saturday.