Breaking

• Silent no longer

  THE disappointment of Hong Kong has been erased for trainer Grahame Begg after Palacio De Cristal scored a slashing win in the Inglis Villiers Stakes.

   
• Tye aiming high

  AFTER an all-the-way win on Scouting Wide in last Saturday’s Listed Christmas Cup (2400m) at Rosehill, Angland will head north to steer Voice Commander at Doomben.

   
• Heathcote still on his training wheels

  WHEN most blokes suffer a midlife crisis they might go out and buy a flashy sports car or a boat. Not Robert Heathcote – he applied for a licence to train racehorses.

   
• King of the stable

  IF EVER a horse could talk it would be Parfumier, according to trainer Wayne Webster.

   
• Goodbye to the Cat

  APACHE Cat – arguably Australia’s most popular racehorse due to his white markings and sprinting powers – has been retired after he was injured in Hong Kong.

   
• NSWHRC to rule on night trial

  THE possibility of trialling Friday night racing at Canterbury will be decided by the board of the NSW Harness Racing Club today.

   
• Corey’s Christmas plans in the air

  COREY Brown – the nation’s leading jockey – is preparing to sacrifice Christmas with his young family to retain the ride on racing’s “next big thing”.

   
• Amelia will miss Nursery

  THE failure to lodge a $2200 bonus race entry fee payment has left boom two-year-old filly My Amelia ineligible to start at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

   
• Apache Cat has been retired

  APACHE CAT, one of Australia’s most popular racehorses, has a fractured near fore sesamoid bone and has been retired, trainer Greg Eurell confirmed today.

   
• A Gai old time at the gee-gees

  NEED A patron for what is hailed as the world’s first gay and lesbian horse racing event? Look no further than Sydney’s own  Gai Waterhouse.

   
• Denham a quiet achiever

  THE phone call that owners Geoff and Beryl White had been dreading came early yesterday morning.

   
• Wide in with Summer Cup chance

  TRAINER Tim Martin has revealed he is leaning towards keeping exciting Christmas Cup winner Scouting Wide in training for the Group Three $125,000 Summer Cup at Randwick.

   
• Trainer Jack Denham dies

  LEGENDARY Hall of Fame trainer Jack Denham has died aged 85 in a Sydney hospital.

   
• Prebble the toast at Sha Tin

  IT WAS an Australian triumph of sorts but not the one most punters expected, with Brett Prebble and Darren Beadman riding the quinella in the Hong Kong International Sprint.

   
• Shocking news is welcome

  TRAINER Mark Kavanagh has given Sydney race fans an early Christmas present by revealing plans to take Shocking and Whobegotyou to Dubai next autumn have been abandoned.

   
• Joku will now feature in Doomben

  GAI Waterhouse will send the under-rated Joku interstate and rely on stable stars Rabbuka and Rockwood in next Saturday’s Group Two Villiers Stakes at Royal Randwick.

   
• A cracker for Scouting Wide

  THE riding instructions for Tye Angland on Scouting Wide were simple – lead at all costs and turn the race into a survival of the fittest.

   
• Gai’s baby steps

  THE giant has stirred. Gai Waterhouse had her first city juvenile winner of the season with Extreme Mover at Rosehill.

   
• Snowden steals the show

  PETER Snowden gave his chances of winning an elusive Sydney trainers’ premiership a huge boost with a quartet of winners at Rosehill Gardens.

   
• An early Chrissy present for Cave

  TRAINER Paul Cave is aiming for his seventh win in the Listed $100,000 Christmas Cup (2400m) at Rosehill Gardens today with rank outsider Dothis Dothat.