Popular jockey Michelle Payne has been honoured with the Victorian Wakeful Club’s annual Lady in Racing award. Victorian racing minister Denis Napthine presented the award to the 25-year-old at a celebratory luncheon on Wednesday. Payne has been one of Australia’s most successful women riders with her achievements including a Group [...]
The Australian Racing Board (ARB) will at its March meeting consider the approval of a second racing laboratory to conduct arsenic testing following the outcome of a Racing Victoria (RV) stewards’ investigation. The RV integrity sub-committee announced on Monday that it would not pursue the trainer whose winner returned an [...]
The Australian Turf Club has announced a new sponsor for the Sydney autumn carnival, car company BMW. The deal means BMW will hold naming rights to the ATC’s flagship carnival, which will be known as the `BMW Sydney Carnival’, along with backing Doncaster Mile Day on April 21. It also [...]
Efforts to reschedule Saturday’s Warwick Farm races have failed and the meeting has officially been abandoned. Heavy rain throughout the week and again overnight left surface water on the track making it unfit for racing. Officials from the Australian Turf Club and Racing NSW contacted all trainers with runners to [...]
Racing officials will monitor Sydney’s weather with a view to holding Saturday’s washed out Warwick Farm meeting on Monday. But Australian Turf Club chief executive Darren Pearce admitted there would have to be a dramatic improvement in the track to attract trainers. Surface water on the track prompted Racing NSW [...]
Leading apprentice Tim Bell has declared his fitness and is fully focused ahead of his metropolitan comeback at Eagle Farm following a short hospital stay and a mystery stomach bug. Bell, who has four rides on Wednesday, was serving a careless riding suspension when admitted to hospital with pneumonia earlier [...]
Just Horse Racing was able to locate a video showing the protest video and replay of the interference between Gai Waterhouse trained runners No Looking Back and Driefontein in Saturday’s Magic Millions 2yo Classic.
Queensland’s chief steward Wade Birch has confirmed officials will view television footage of Gai Waterhouse talking to stable jockeys Nash Rawiller and Tommy Berry before Saturday’s controversial Magic Millions protest.
The Queensland government has pledged more than $35 million towards the redevelopment of the Gold Coast racetrack.
Gai Waterhouse and Katie Page have launched a $500,000 incentive aimed at attracting women to racehorse ownership.