As October and November unfold what is expected to be Australia’s greatest racing spring is due to open up before us.  (more…)

John Ferguson paid €950,000 for the sales topper on Day 2 of Goffs Orby Sale, (more…)

A feast of racing at its highest level happens worldwide this weekend in Australia; we have the Group I Turnbull Stakes at Flemington, the Epsom and Metropolitan Handicaps at Randwick.  On the other side of the world in France the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe and in Japan a leg of the Global Sprint Challenge, the Sprinters Stakes is decided at Nakayama. (more…)

 HOLLOWLEA, one of the best Queensland bred 3-year-olds seen out so far in 2010-11, has a powerful pedigree close up, but in tail female traces back to an early colonial mare whose descendants at one time were excluded from the Australian and New Zealand Stud Books. (more…)

The Bart Cummings-trained Precedence is the key mover in the updated orders of entry for the $2.5m BMW Caulfield Cup and $6m Emirates Melbourne Cup that were released on Wednesday evening. (more…)

THE new Werribee International Horse Centre has received the thumbs-up from the handlers of the growing number of visiting horses for the 2010 Spring Racing Carnival. (more…)

YACKI, a length-and-three-quarter trial winner for juveniles at Townsville on September 15, is from the first crop of a sire who has the qualities and the opportunity to spearhead a neighbour of the Queensland breeding powerhouse Glenlogan Park in the Innisplain valley quickly to the top. (more…)

  OWNER BREEDER Ray Gall, his racing partners and their trainer, one of Australia’s most respected horsemen, Ron Quinton, could be in for an era of success on the racetrack replicating that they enjoyed in the mid1990s with the top grade mare Mamzelle Pedrille. (more…)

Breeze up clips for lots to go under the hammer at next month’s Magic Millions National Horses in Training Sale are now available for viewing online. (more…)

One of the many 150th Melbourne Cup celebrations is the official portrait exhibition celebrating the Photo Finish. (more…)

Lively trade on the opening day of the Goffs Orby Sale saw 33 yearlings make six figure sums, (more…)

First Command showed he was on track for a good spring campaign when he resumed with a stylish win at Caulfield on Sunday afternoon. (more…)

Seriously Good gave his Caulfield Guineas hopes a great boost on Sunday when he scored an impressive win over 1440 metres at Caulfield. (more…)

It was a good-news week for exciting young stallion Foreplay. (more…)

Singapore Sling made her second career win a valuable one with an exceptional performance in the Listed Soliloquy Lodge Stakes (1400m) at Ellerslie in New Zealand. (more…)

Vinery is a stud which is always very much on the move.   In the first of a two part series Stallions, Graeme Kelly, spoke (more…)

Many horses that break a cannon bone or a pelvis never race again, let alone win a stakes race.     (more…)

Energized by a new format which generated active trade from a broad mix of buyers, the Keeneland September (more…)

More Joyous became a racetrack millionaire in the most dazzling circumstances posting her seventh straight win after making Saturday’s prized Group 1 AJC George Main Stakes at Randwick a one-act affair. (more…)

Racing Victoria Chief Handicapper, Greg Carpenter, has issued a 1.5kg penalty to Precedence (Zabeel - Kowtow)  following his decisive victory in the Group 3 Tatts JRA Cup (2040m) at Moonee Valley on Friday night, thus taking his weight to 52kg for both the BMW Caulfield Cup and Emirates Melbourne Cup. (more…)