26/11/2008 | SMALLER south-west racing clubs will be asked to merge with their bigger counterparts under Racing Victoria Limited's streamlined vision for 2020.
The future of the region's clubs and training ...
25/11/2008 | JUMPS racing is facing an uphill battle to survive, Racing Victoria Limited conceded yesterday.
In an exclusive interview, chief executive officer Rob Hines revealed Racing Victoria was serious...
20/11/2008 | HISTORY has repeated itself for Yangery trainer Jarrod McLean.
The Fonz ($3.40) followed in the footsteps of Speedymac to give McLean a second consecutive 0-72 Handicap (1600 metres) on Ballarat Cu...
18/11/2008 | WARRNAMBOOL trainer Aaron Purcell has earned a well-deserved reputation for spotting a bargain at the tried horse sales.
Emerging restricted galloper Absolute Star, which capped a hat-trick of vict...
18/11/2008 | BRUCE Clarke does not know a life without harness racing.
When he was a young boy he sold race books at the Terang trotting track and later found fame in being a regular driver of two-time Inter Do...
14/11/2008 | BALLARAT trainer Melody Keegan has the chance to build a winning association with the popular Dunkeld picnic races today when she saddles up last-start winner Allenby's Mate.
8/11/2008 | SOUTH-WEST trainers Jarrod McLean, Bill Wilde and Symon Wilde have a hand in two of the feature races today at Flemington.
McLean, of Yangery, will saddle up Cargo Cult in the $1 million Emirates S...
7/11/2008 | A PRE-LOVED mare trained from the backyard of a Macarthur home produced the feel-good win of the Little Oaks race meeting yesterday in Warrnambool.
Ricemania, a six-year-old bay mare having her 30t...
7/11/2008 | NEWCASTLE trainer Kris Lees and Sydney jockey Hugh Bowman landed their first Melbourne group one win when star filly Samantha Miss ran away with yesterday's VRC Oaks at Flemington.
Samantha Miss (...
6/11/2008 | YANGERY trainer Jarrod McLean is bringing a leather-clad attitude to Flemington today.
Two days after Juggle The Books gave him a winner at the Melbourne Cup meeting, McLean will saddle up The Fonz.
6/11/2008 | THE boys are treading on girls' territory today in Warrnambool for the popular Little Oaks race meeting.
Without a suitable fillies and mares' race to run as the feature Little Oaks, Warrnambool Ra...
5/11/2008 | THE strongest contingent of European stayers ever assembled for the Melbourne Cup was thwarted yesterday by the man acknowledged as the best there is - Bart Cummings.
Bart Cummings stretched his r...
5/11/2008 | MASTER trainer Bart Cummings didn't forget his unplaced runner Moatize in yesterday's Melbourne Cup, or the four-year-old gelding's jockey Clare Lindop.
After presentations for his 12th cup winner ...
4/11/2008 | FORMER Terang trainer John Sadler will watch the weather patterns closely over the Flemington racecourse in the lead up to today's $5.5 million Melbourne Cup.
Sadler, who took over the training dut...
4/11/2008 | [EN] "His (Zipping's) form coming into this year's Melbourne Cup is better than last year."
Sadler admits the internationals will be hard to beat, particularly race favourite Septimus.
"He'...
3/11/2008 | CLARE Lindop is on the crest of a wave as she prepares to ride in her third Melbourne Cup tomorrow after the biggest win of her career on outsider Rebel Raider in Saturday's $1.5 million Victoria Derby (2500m).
The former Warrnambool jockey will ride Moatize in the $5.5 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) for master trainer Bart Cummings, who is attempting to win the race for a 12th time.
1/11/2008 | PROVEN group performer Tears I Cry will give part-owner Anne McGrath her first metropolitan runner as a trainer today at Flemington in a 1400-metres stakes race.
McGrath, of Orford, took over train...
30/10/2008 | THE eyes of a 10-year-old boy named Lawrie Boyden were glued to a movie on the big screen at the Ascot Vale cinema on Melbourne Cup day 1948.
Just down the road, tens of thousands had passed th...
30/10/2008 | THE international raiders tightened their stranglehold on the Melbourne Cup yesterday after last year's winner Efficient was ruled out through injury.
Leviathan owner Lloyd Williams still has Zipp...
29/10/2008 | WARRNAMBOOL galloper Baughurst will push ahead to the $5.5 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) with connections expected to pay up $45,375 for the final declaration by 5pm on Saturday.
With Baughurst...
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