Racing industry participants are crying out for a change in direction from Queensland’s integrity watchdog, saying they need to appoint a “racing person” to the commissioner role following the resignation of some high-profile police officers from the job. The Queensland Racing Integrity Commission has been without a full-time commissioner since the resignation of Ross Barnett last year with Mark Ainsworth […]

Essendon or Western Bulldogs rivalries will be parked on Tuesday at Pakenham as a cohort of Bombers rely on Dogs fans and trainers Ben and JD Hayes to cap a four-year dream with a win. Bombers star Zach Merrett, who went to Melbourne Grammar with JD, will join a select group of footballers as an owner-breeder when Fight In The […]

The Jones/Joseph clan are preparing for a bittersweet debut win for their exciting galloper Giddy Up Gidleigh at Mourya on Tuesday in the race named in honour of family patriarch Lou Joseph who passed away last week aged 98. Mr Joseph was the father-in-law of the Queen of Bombala, Barbara Joseph who co-trains Giddy Up Gidleigh with her sons, Paul […]

Miracle man Jason Taylor will return to race riding at the Gold Coast on Saturday after a horror incident in the barriers had him fighting for life earlier in the year. The popular jockey suffered nine broken ribs and two punctured lungs in February when the horse he was riding stood in the air and flipped on top of him […]

Trainer Gerald Ryan says he plans to nominate Mallory ‘for everything’ but has the Princess Series and potentially a berth in the $2m Invitation at the top of hit list for the classy filly this spring. The Group 3 winner is back in work and is set to be put on a path to the Group 1 Flight Stakes on […]

Top Sydney trainer Bjorn Baker expressed disbelief that his classy stayer She’s Ideel is as much as $101 in early markets for the Melbourne Cup. “I must say I can’t believe you can get $101 for her when Realm Of Flowers is a $15 chance and The Chosen One is $34,” Baker said. “We beat them home in the Sydney […]

Impressive Goodwood winner Migration may have Pattern races as well as more top handicaps on his agenda this season – but is likely to stick to his best trip of 10 furlongs. Trainer David Menuisier reports the five-year-old to have emerged from his Chesterfield Cup victory on day one of the Goodwood Festival as if he did not even have […]

THE time-honoured Darwin Cup, first run in 1956, will be run and won on Monday on a huge 11-race program at Fannie Bay in the Top End. Here is a look at every race to help you find a winner. Race 1 Trainer Garry Lefoe will unleash another Top End debutant in Wild Rover who looks well placed win. The […]

These days, James McDonald is the undisputed king of the Sydney’s jockey’s room but he’ll have to try and continue his dominance while facing the best version of Hugh Bowman this new season. McDonald is coming off his third-straight Sydney jockeys' premiership and in that time Bowman has been riding plenty of winners but not reaching the heights he was […]

As of yesterday, French-bred blueblood Pontmain is an eight-year-old Wagga maiden winner. It’s a CV that in no way matches his talent or gets close to the regard in which he is held by his trainer Tim Donnelly. ‘’Honestly he would probably be, ability-wise, the best horse I’ve had since I’ve been at Wagga,’’ Donnelly says. “It’s just a shame […]