O'Brien revealed that Lordan had been champing at the bit to ride both Friday's narrow Oaks runner-up Whirl and Lambourn heading into the Derby meeting, and victory for the latter clearly came as a ...

Dashing has won his second feature race this campaign in a thrilling Swan Hill Cup, giving Aaron Purcell three wins and Declan Bates four on Sunday. The gutsy son of Magnus parked outside leader Not ...

Pat Carey likened his old mate and fellow trainer Robbie Laing to legendary artist Pro Hart in the unique way he approached his craft. Carey knew Laing for 50 years and said he was privileged to have ...

Tributes are flowing in for Group 1-winning trainer Robbie Laing, who passed away aged 66 overnight. Laing, who pulled off a multitude of upset wins in feature races through his career, has been ...

But Walsh, who gave up race riding in the UK only to rediscover his love for it Down Under, took the opportunity to have the surgery, go for a holiday and then return with a renewed hunger for racing, ...

Reflecting on his time in the UK, Noonan says the training regimes were definitely less cost-effective, but stables spend more time on each individual horse. However, while Noonan thoroughly enjoyed ...

After Jason Collett was double booked for the race, Mott ended up on Billy Healey’s Cosmic Fire ($21), who sprinted clear and held onto victory in the Listed Queensland Day Stakes from a ...

The victory of Marble Nine in the final race at Flemington, the VRC Country Race Day Sprint, proved to be a significant one in the careers of apprentice jockey Hannah Edgley and co-trainer Will Larkin ...

The Godolphin-owned Sovereignty left little doubt as to who is the best three-year-old in the United States when he took out the Belmont Stakes at Saratoga to give him two of the three legs of the ...

If Grahame Begg could add one trophy to his illustrious cabinet, he has no doubts about which it would be. The 13-time Group 1 winner is best known for his tough, rapid sprinters-milers, but achieved ...

Pre-race Harry Coffey suggested to the owners of Shockletz that it would be an easy watch for them taking out the Country Racing It’s Got It All Trophy (2000m, 3yo). As it turned out Coffey got the ...

It was a John O’Shea and Tom Charlton quinella in Saturday’s Group 1 Queensland Derby, as $21 roughie Maison Louis flew home to beat stablemate King Of Thunder. The son of Super Seth finished solidly ...