The race which has become a gilt-edged form reference for the Melbourne Cup is in line for an upgrade in status after figuring in a major prizemoney increase. The Geelong Cup will carry $300,000 in stakes this year – up from $225,000 in 2011. It’s a lift which the Geelong… Read More »
The rugby league State of Origin decider will be shown live on the mega screen at Rosehill Racecourse. The Australian Turf Club (ATC) will open the course free to the public for the match from Brisbane on July 4. The screen, which was officially launched during the autumn carnival, is… Read More »
The combined might of the NSW and Victorian thoroughbred racing industries has secured a broadcast rights deal to take the sport into a new era. The thoroughbred industry-owned television company TVN will now control who broadcasts vision of all NSW and Victorian racing until 2028. Under the previous arrangement the… Read More »
The Australian Racing Board has doubled the number of individual owners allowed to share in the ownership of a racehorse. From next season, up to 20 owners will be permitted per horse, up from the previous maximum of 10. The change is the result of a request by the Australian… Read More »
A new trackside hotel to be built at Royal Randwick will give guests a view down the home straight and club members another spot to wine and dine on carnival days. The Australian Turf Club (ATC) and the NSW Government on Thursday unveiled plans for the four-star hotel complex which… Read More »
Additional money raised at a function to support trainer John O’Shea will be split between two racing families who are doing it tough. The families of injured jockey Kristy Banks and late trainer Pat Quinn will share the $115,000 raised above the $175,000 target. The event was staged in Sydney… Read More »
Brisbane Racing Club chairman Kevin Dixon has resigned to take up a position as a board member of Racing Queensland Limited. Dixon’s decision is expected to ultimately lead to him taking up the vacant role as chairman of Queensland’s governing race body from May 1. BRC board member Bill Sexton,… Read More »
The board of Racing Queensland Limited (RQL) is expected to put forward a transitional plan to the Queensland government this week. RQL chairman Bob Bentley said his board was due to meet on Tuesday to discuss the new Queensland government’s racing policy. However, Bentley refused to speculate on his own… Read More »
The Australian Turf Club has received a major boost ahead of one of its biggest meetings of the year with prestige wine and spirits group Moet Hennessy signing a five-year sponsorship deal. Darren Pearce, chief executive of the ATC, said the merger of the Sydney race clubs had made sponsorship… Read More »
Racing Victoria has confirmed it will adopt the same turnover-based model on rights fees as its NSW counterpart. The decision comes on the heels of the High Court verdict last month which ruled wagering operators Betfair and Sportsbet must pay a 1.5 per cent fee on turnover to Racing NSW… Read More »
Racing Victoria has approved a Cox Plate eve race meeting for the Moonee Valley Racing Club featuring its premier sprint, the Group One Manikato Stakes. The Manikato moves from the club’s AFL grand final eve meeting in late September to headline the program on the Friday night before the Cox… Read More »
Bauer, beaten just a nose by Viewed in the 2008 Melbourne Cup, will become a clerk of the course horse on metropolitan tracks. Clerk of the course Graeme Salisbury will pick him up on Friday to begin preparing him for his new career. The nine-year-old grey gelding, prepared by Luca… Read More »
Victorian prizemoney will rise to $160 million next season with an $18.7 million funding injection of which 63 per cent will be allocated to country meetings. The across-the-board increases to minimum prizemoney levels will take effect from August 1 with country minimums up from $12,000 to $15,000, showcase races up… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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… Read More »
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.
