The $19.4million The Championships at Royal Randwick on 4 and 11 April has expanded this year to include the inaugural Country and Provincial Championship Series.
Australian bred and Inglis sold speedster Amber Sky had a successful Australia Day on Sunday. The four-year-old bolted away with the Hong Kong Group 1 Kent & Curwen Centenary Cup over 1000m at Sha Tin.
IT TAKES something special for a crowd estimated at 105,000 to collectively hush. But hush they did for as long as three minutes at Flemington yesterday as judge Bill Quin pored over the photo finish between Dunaden and Red Cadeaux following the 151st Melbourne Cup.
Brighton trainer Terry Evans has his former smart galloper Winter Guest to thank for his latest stable star Pittenweem, winner of the $50,000 Tasmanian Sires Produce Stakes in Launceston last Thursday night.
Major feature film The Cup wraps this week and producers are offering the props for auction on Sunday November 21 at Oaklands Complex beginning at 11.00 am.
International trailblazer Dermot Weld has unearthed another contender for this year’s historic 150th Emirates Melbourne Cup following last night’s (AET) win of Rite Of Passage in the prestigious Ascot Gold Cup (4000m) at Royal Ascot, UK.
RACING'S latest fairytale is over but for thoroughbred cult hero Takeover Target it was not a happy ending. The Hollywood movie with blockbuster credentials can now begin.
THE fairytale story that is Takeover Target could be headed for Hollywood with Warner Bros, one of the world's largest producers of film and television, interested in bringing the tale to light.
The field for Saturday week's $250,000 MVRC Inglis Juvenile on Tatts Cox Plate Day is beginning to take shape with the announcement that Sydney fillies Our Joan Of Arc and Sheeznodoubt, first and fourth respectively in the Keeneland Gimcrack Stakes (LR) are headed to Melbourne for the inaugural running of the event.