Queanbeyan trainer Tony Sergi has settled with News Corp after issuing the media company with a concerns notice for calling him a dead mafia godfather.
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The settlement's confidential, but it has been resolved to Sergi's satisfaction.
News Corp published an apology across five of their mastheads -The Daily Telegraph, The Herald Sun, The Courier Mail, The Advertiser and The Mercury - the day after printing a story entitled "Mafia dons 'sitdown' to murder hero they hated", which was accompanied by a picture of Sergi labelled "The Godfather".
But the story was about a different Tony Sergi, who died in 2017 aged 82.
Meanwhile, Canberra Racing has again been forced to abandon a meeting due to the ACT's border restrictions preventing NSW jockeys riding at Thoroughbred Park.
They've been forced to abandon all-but-one of the races planned for this Friday, with the Federal benchmark 75 handicap (1000 metres) getting transferred to Queanbeyan - which already had a race meeting planned for September 6, but because of that the remainder of the races couldn't also be moved.
If the current restrictions remain in place until Canberra's next meeting, on September 17, the entire program will be moved to NSW and run in full.
Canberra trainers Ron Weston and John Nisbet took out the Highway Handicap (1400m) with Propose A Toast at Kembla Grange on Saturday.
The four-year-old gelding jumped well and led throughout, fighting off numerous challengers in the home straight to win by a short head.
Haven finished second, with Canberra trainer Keith Dryden's Emma's Gift third.
It's just Propose A Toast's second run for Weston and Nisbet, after he was transferred to the training duo following the death of iconic Queanbeyan trainer Neville Layt.
The gelding added the Highway win to his second at Canberra about two weeks ago.
Propose A Toast now has three wins and four placings from his 13 starts - doubling his career prizemoney with the Highway salute.