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Bary hoping son of Zed will bring A-game on Derby day

Trainer John Bary

Chris Roots John Bary has an impressive derby record, not necessarily for winning them but for having the favourite.

Horseracing

Control is what Waterhouse is really fighting for

Gai Waterhouse

Chris Roots Gai Waterhouse is a master of getting it right.

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Endurance key to giving Demi more success in fillies' shootout

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Chris Roots TOUGHEST is becoming a hallmark of Dear Demi and she will be mentioned in the same breath of some great fillies should she win the Queensland Oaks at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

More Joyous inquiry shows stewards are up to the task

Max Presnell

Max Presnell The tradition of tough justice by Racing NSW must be dispensed in the More Joyous case, unlike the watered-down Victorian version emphasised in the debacle concerning champion jockey Damien Oliver.

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Horseracing

Perceptions of conflict of interest a 'very big deal'

Waterhouse

Chris Roots The racing lawman who ran the Fine Cotton and ''Jockey Tapes'' inquiries, John Schreck, believes the inquiry concerning John Singleton and Gai Waterhouse's public stoush should start behind closed...

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Your Song top of the pops for Gooree

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John Holloway The contribution to Australian racing by Gooree Park's Eduardo Cojuangco has been huge over the past 55 years and another chapter unfolded this week with the pending retirement of his home-bred...

Family business: Waterhouse-Singo stoush reignites old argument

Trainer Gai Waterhouse

Andrew Wu When John Singleton dropped the bombshell that he would be ending his ?association with Gai Waterhouse, he reopened criticisms levelled at Waterhouse before she even became a trainer.

Randwick's new theatre shows plenty of promise

Max Presnell

Max Presnell Somewhere between the Gwabegar wheat silo and Royal Ascot were descriptions of ''The Theatre Of The Horse'' at Royal Randwick, or more ''Stables at the Cross'' than the Opera House.

Racing

True champions don't deserve comparison, only recognition

Max Presnell Back at Royal Randwick and with a champion's presence on Saturday, does it get any better?

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Champ's crescendo gets theatre rocking

Max Presnell The horse, Black Caviar, overwhelmed the theatre, at Royal Randwick on Saturday.

Horseracing

No Randwick racing over Easter is too hard to bear for traditionalists

Max Presnell Call it progress but the Easter weekend without Royal Randwick is like losing hot-cross buns.

Horseracing

Ingham brothers' legacy lives on

Max Presnell "J.H. (Jack) and R.W. (Bob) Ingham are well known for their brand of frozen chickens but are even better recognised for their endless supply of winners on the racecourse," - The Story Of The Golden...

Racing

All eyes on the Randwick Guineas

Kyle Mackey-Laws - Lucky Lobster

Kyle Mackey-Laws This year's Guineas is an absolute cracker.

Moody's moment again

Kyle Mackey-Laws Who needs Black caviar when there's Moment of Change?

Michael Lynch

O'Brien finds that caviar is an acquired taste

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Michael Lynch Danny O'Brien has notched up 11 metropolitan winners at the halfway point of the season.

Horse racing

How tweet it is: blistering form silences critics

Brad Rawiller

Michael Lynch IN THE old days, jockeys regularly copped sprays from disgruntled punters.

Horseracing

Le Roi anointed at Rosehill

Rosehill Racecourse Race 6 winner Le Roi ridden by jockey Glyn Schofield.
26th December 2012
Photo: Wolter Peeters
The Sydney Morning Herald


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Chris Roots LE ROI has kept surprising trainer Tony McEvoy, he admitted after the former German stayer's easy Summer Cup win at Rosehill on Wednesday.

Sales time: roll up, take a punt and bring your dreams, too

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Chris Roots The truth in racing comes in various forms. Self-interest usually determines how and what is revealed.

Seniors day at the Farm a sign of times

Max Presnell

Max Presnell Even when horses were getting more steroids than carrots, old-timers hardly had the impact in Sydney as this era.

Young sires have the numbers at next year's leading auctions

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John Holloway Widden Stud's Nicconi, a winner of two of Australia's toughest group 1 sprints, spearheads the tally of freshman sires to go under the microscope at the biggest yearling sales in Sydney and the Gold...