Safety

Waller takes the safety-first course with smart baby Champagne Cath

Chris Roots CHRIS WALLER is not taking any risks with impressive two-year-old Champagne Cath on the way to next month's $2 million Magic Millions Classic, but admits he is ready to end the preparation if she is...

Horse Racing

Six-metre hole opens up in middle of racecourse

A jockey and his horse had a lucky escape at Auckland's last race meeting of the season when a six-metre-deep hole opened up underneath them, sending the pair tumbling down the track.

Jumps Racing

Smerdon believes the jumps is in renewal mode

Patrick Bartley Robert Smerdon has forgotten more about jumps racing than most of his rival trainers know.

Smerdon confident a new spring has returned to jumps racing

Michael Lynch Robert Smerdon has forgotten more about jumps racing than most of his rival trainers know.

Horseracing

Payne gain: young Kiwi makes big impression in the city

Chris Roots New Zealand apprentice Courtney Van Der Werf came to Australia chasing a dream and Dowdstown Charlie helped her take a big step towards that dream.

Racing

Win boosts Black Opal

David Polkinghorne There's a rising chorus for Canberra's Black Opal Stakes to be elevated to group 3 status.

Racing

Popular Gold Coast-based jockey dies after race fall

Gold-Coast-based jockey Ashlee Mundy has died after a fall at the Kurow races in New Zealand.

Racing

Brown secures win but faces early surgery to fix shoulder

Chris Roots CHAMPION jockey Corey Brown will have surgery on his left shoulder on Wednesday after starting the year by winning the Tattersalls Club Cup on Moriarty and getting suspended at Rosehill yesterday.

Poor Honest Vic weighed in light in the tooth stakes

Max Presnell Self-titled ''Poor Honest Vic'', the trainer who cut his teeth on the pony tracks, Sydney racing's subculture, did his steady drinking in the saloon bar at the Doncaster Hotel on the Kensington side...

Horseracing

Fractured ankle to keep Rawiller out of saddle

Michael Sharkie SYDNEY'S premiership-leading jockey, Nash Rawiller, faces an extended break from the saddle after X-rays confirmed he had fractured his right ankle in a trackwork mishap on Tuesday morning.

Horse Racing

Rawiller to miss key rides after trial mishap

Michael Sharkie Sydney's premier jockey faces extended break from riding after fracturing his right ankle.

Seniors day at the Farm a sign of times

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

Snowden trio add solid form to Festival puzzle

GOOD for trainers but a menace to punters, the stablemate quandary looms large in Saturday's features on opposite sides of Australia.

Albury posts record prizemoney for Gold Cup carnival

Tony White Albury Race Club have announced next year's Albury Gold Cup carnival on March 21 and 22 will offer a record $540,800 prizemoney and trophies.

Symons closes in on return to riding

Michael Lynch Injured jockey optimistic he might return to race riding in either January or February.

Horse Racing

Hoops saddle up to claim a super ride

Chris Roots Racing industry to be hit by multimillion-dollar superannuation claim from jockeys.

There's simply no one like Frankie

Michael Lynch The Melbourne Cup is the end of an era for Frankie Dettori - his last ride for Godolphin.

On the punt

Chris Roots, James Polson THE JACKPOT There is a $120,000 jackpot on the quaddie at Caulfield in addition to a $1 million pool guarantee.

Racing

British raider stakes strong claim for nation-stopper

Michael Sharkie Gatewood will attempt to become the fourth horse in 11 years to complete the Geelong Cup-Melbourne Cup double when he heads to Flemington in 12 days after sprinting to victory in yesterday's crucial...