Fresh from bringing up a century of winners for the season, Jamie Mott has scored a satisfying win at Sandown on lightly raced two-year-old filly Humma Humma. Mott brought up his 100th and 101st winners of the season at Geelong on Tuesday and continued the momentum in the opening race on Wednesday on the John[...]

Picnic racing returns to Brisbane with about 5000 people expected to attend a meeting at the Deagon track. The Deagon picnic meetings were the brain child of the late racecaller Wayne Wilson who saw picnic meetings were a great success in NSW and Victoria. Deagon was one of Brisbane's main tracks until it was closed[...]

Planning is underway for a new all-weather synthetic training track at Randwick. The Australian Turf Club and Racing NSW have begun the process which means all four Sydney courses, Randwick, Canterbury, Rosehill and Warwick Farm will have synthetic tracks. The ATC and Racing NSW are also preparing plans for a full renovation of the main[...]

Trainer Symon Wilde will have a close look at the weather forecast before deciding if Inn Keeper runs in the All Victorian Sprint Series Final or waits for the Sir John Monash Stakes. Inn Keeper has won seven of his nine starts and is unbeaten in four races this campaign, the most recent the $100,000[...]

Jamie Mott has become the third jockey to reach 100 Victorian wins this season, bringing up the milestone at Geelong. Mott rode a double on Tuesday with the first of his winners for the day on three-year-old gelding Frankiedee in a maiden taking him to a century for the season. All of Mott's winners during[...]

Impeccably bred Skyray is scheduled to run at Canterbury but his trainer Clarry Conners has a few misgivings. Conners would prefer not to run him on the heavy track on Wednesday and is hoping it can improve with warmer weather in Sydney. He is also unhappy with his wide barrier in the TAB Handicap (1250m)[...]

Having put a space on his rivals at his most recent start, Magic Consol will now try to break his Flemington duck in the Listed Winter Championship Final. The eight-year-old gelding turned in a career-best win in the Travis Harrison Cup (1600m) at Moonee Valley on June 16, scoring by seven lengths. Craig Williams retains[...]

Racing Queensland is considering changes the qualifying system for various sprint and staying race series finals. The move follows recent examples when large numbers of horses in series finals have not run in a qualifying race. A suggestion is it would be mandatory for horses to have competed in a qualifier to be eligible to[...]

Reigning Melbourne Cup winner Rekindling and runner-up Johannes Vermeer are unlikely to line up in Australia's most famous race this year. Lloyd Williams won a record sixth Melbourne Cup as an owner last November when the Joseph O'Brien-trained Rekindling defeated the Aidan O'Brien-trained Johannes Vermeer at Flemington. Both Rekindling and Johannes Vermeer remained in Australia[...]