Success in thoroughbred breeding requires planning for the future, and producing that envisaged champion was executed perfectly by the breeders of Black Caviar and So You Think who had purchased their respective dams at an Inglis Broodmare Sale.
AUSTRALIAN Turf Club chairman John Cornish is "in no hurry" to sign a deal to settle the broadcast rights dispute flaring again between rivals Sky Channel and TVN.
Darley based Dubawi (IRE) is currently the leading second season sire in the UK and Ireland this year and posted his second Australian winner when the Patinack Farm owned colt Inadequate scored at Canterbury on Wednesday.
The ACT racing industry is mounting a public campaign in a bid to overturn the ACT Government's intention to deny clubs a share of revenue raised from race fields fees paid by wagering operators.
THE Federal Productivity Commission report yesterday challenged the turnover-based model being proposed by Racing NSW and also criticised the TAB's monopoly in the wagering market.
The Australian Racing Board Chairman has today said that two essential elements of public discussion on the industry’s future were the need for fact-based analysis and a realisation that some change was necessary.
Discussions yesterday between Racing Victoria [RVL] and the Australian Trainers Association [ATA] has seen an agreement made that further consultation is required before achieving a “achieving mutually acceptable reform to the structure of trials for unraced horses”.
Prominent US owner-breeder Jess Jackson (Majority owner of the world's top-rated horse Curlin) has triggered major debate in the US by telling thoroughbredtimes.com: "The industry has a broken economic model".
The recently announced changes to the timing of the Inglis 2008 yearling sale's to be conducted in Melbourne and Sydney have been met with such high approval by breeders that additional sessions have been added to both sales to accommodate the record entries that are still being received.