The “Aquanita eight” doping scandal will again play out in court as four trainers including Robert Smerdon fight their disqualifications. Smerdon, Stuart Webb, Tony Vasil and Queensland trainer Liam Birchley's appeals begin in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Wednesday. The Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board declared the long-running systematic conspiracy to cheat using[...]

Trainer Patrick Keane hopes Shaquiana can help erase his bad memories of Sandown when she lines up in a three-year-old fillies race at the city track. A winner at Cranbourne last month when she downed a $1.28 hot-pot, Shaquiana runs in Wednesday's The Big Screen Company Handicap (1000m). A former jockey, Keane's career in the[...]

Connections of flying sprinter Tarzan want only one thing and that is a good barrier for the gelding at Doomben . Tarzan is set to take on star mare Houtzen in Saturday's Listed Bribie Handicap (1050m). The gelding's best form is at the Sunshine Coast where his seven wins on the track include the Listed[...]

Nominations have opened for Victoria's new $5 million All Star Mile at Flemington. Connections have five weeks to enter their horses with 10 of the 14-horse field to then be decided by public vote. The nominations close on January 15 with the raced run on March 16. After the popular vote is taken in to[...]

The prospect of Winx returning for an autumn campaign is tantalisingly closer with the mare in pre-training and soon to return to Chris Waller's stable, Waller said although the final decision had not yet been made, the likelihood was the champion would have one final campaign. After she won her fourth Cox Plate in October,[...]

Senior jockeys have given an endorsement for the new Eagle Farm track surface after a series of trials and jump-outs. Racing Queensland and the Brisbane Racing Club are expected to announce on Wednesday morning if the track is in good enough condition to hold a full race meeting on Saturday week. RQ's chief executive Brendan[...]

The heir apparent to champion Winx is close to returning to trainer Chris Waller to begin his autumn campaign which is likely to be his last. Triple Group One winner The Autumn Sun has, according to part-owner John Messara, strengthened during his break and is expected to return to Waller's Rosehill stable on December 24.[...]

Trainer Jerome Hunter will study final declarations before committing Our Luca to a start at Flemington as the sprinter chases a fourth straight win. Hunter has entered four horses in Saturday's open 1100m handicap and said Our Luca would be his only runner if he elected to start him. Our Luca stretched his winning sequence[...]

Anthony Cummings has no regrets about selling Montaigne, the horse now known as Beauty Generation and an international star. Cummings and his owners sold the 2016 Rosehill Guineas runner-up after his next start when he finished fourth in the BMW. “He showed Group One potential when he was here and it was a lot of[...]

Tony Gollan-trained three-year-olds Zoustyle and Outback Barbie will face a solid test when they take on Chess Star at Doomben. Gollan has given the provisional green light for the pair to contest the Listed Gold Edition Plate (1200m) at Doomben on Saturday after both won their last starts in feature races at the track in[...]

Australian Hall Of Fame trainer Lee Freedman has returned to the top of the tree to claim the Singapore premiership in his first full year there. Freedman moved to Singapore last year when he took over the bulk of nine-time premiership winner Laurie Laxon's stable. It was Freedman's first premiership success since he took the[...]

Trainer Jarrod McLean has been suspended over false statements he made about the stabling arrangement of Trap For Fools ahead of a race at Caulfield during the spring. McLean, who also acts as trainer Darren Weir's Warrnambool foreman, was suspended by Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board chairman Judge John Bowman until January 28 next year.[...]

Injured jockey Tye Angland has arrived back in Sydney from Hong Kong tp continue his treatment at the Royal North Shore Hospital. Two weeks ago, Angland was speared into the turf at Sha Tin when his mount appeared to stumble out of the barriers. The nature of Angland's injuries have not been made public. The[...]

Racing Victoria wants trainers Lee and Shannon Hope banned for five years for cheating by giving cobalt to three racehorses. But the father/son partnership has argued that special circumstances apply that would lead to their disqualifications being less than the mandatory three years. The appeal judge who found both trainers guilty over the deliberate and[...]