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Racing: 'King' $101 longshot to capture Queen
A horse whose name translates as "the King" will bid to capture the Queen Elizabeth Stakes after Le Roi confirmed his place in Saturday's field with a sharp exhibition gallop.
A horse whose name translates as "the King" will bid to capture the Queen Elizabeth Stakes after Le Roi confirmed his place in Saturday's field with a sharp exhibition gallop.
The notion that New Zealand form equals wet form is untrue for most of the Kiwi visitors to Sydney this autumn, including Oaks aspirant Miss Selby.
If one hour is a long time in horse racing, six months is 43 lifetimes.
Two of New Zealand's most promising pacing fillies clash at Cambridge tonight but with differing aims.
Terror To Love's chances of defending the $100,000 Easter Cup at Addington on Saturday have been dealt a blow by a disappointing trial.
Training great Mark Purdon has been forced to give up the drive on champion pacing mare Adore Me as he stretches stable resources to the limit.
Co-trainer Tony Pike is convinced that the dominant win of Kelly O'Reilly on Saturday is a sign she is ready to step up to the elite level over the next few weeks.
Nigel Tiley didn't celebrate Albany Reunion's $200,000 Manco Easter win on Saturday night. He says there was no adrenalin left.
He's bred to be a sprinter, but Criterion has lived up to trainer David Payne's belief he is a superior stayer with victory in the prestigious Australian Derby at Randwick.
They may be split over the Warriors' upheavals, but yesterday, club co-owners Sir Owen Glenn and Eric Watson shared the status of successful horse owners.
Steven Anderton and Steven Prince might not have performed a rain dance last night, but some rain might be their friend as they take on a multiple group one winner at Riccarton today.
If you ever hear John Hawkes say a sycophantic word about a jockey, check your pulse, something will be wrong.
Kiwi fears of a Harness Jewels takeover by Australians look set to be woefully misplaced.
Just two months ago Whitney Schofield walked down the aisle on the arm of her father Glyn on the happiest day of her life, her wedding to Sydney jockey Nathan Berry.
The race didn't go to plan and Hugh Bowman was forced on to the worst part of the track, but it didn't stop Lucia Valentina in Saturday's Vinery Stud Stakes at Rosehill.
Cambridge-born James McDonald wanted to be an All Black or a farmer.
Veteran jockey Trudy Thornton, laid up in Auckland City Hospital with a smashed hip from a race fall, is not about to quit the sport.
Cambridge-trained star It's A Dundeel has been battling lameness in the lead-up to the A$1.5 million BMW, Racing NSW stewards have revealed.
Cambridge 3-year-old El Roca has been confirmed as a starter in the Doncaster Mile on April 12 with Glen Boss booked to ride.
After the pressure cooker of Cheltenham, jump jockeys are looking forward to Aintree.
Boy, have we got plenty of thoroughbred talent to look forward to next season.
An Auckland horse breeder and member of the Racing Board must move his bloodstock business off land he sold for $3.1 million last year.
Victorian jockey Glen Boss is convinced Voleuse De Coeurs can be a serious contender against the big names in the BMW at Rosehill.
No decision has been made whether Puccini will remain in Sydney to tackle the Australian Derby after his flop in Saturday's Rosehill Guineas.
The bold decision to come to the other side of the world with Gordon Lord Byron had plenty of Irish eyes smiling at Rosehill.
New Zealand's most successful trainer Barry Purdon is not in the habit of warning punters not to back his horses, especially one as good as Pembrook Benny.