Chris Waller has a typically strong Group 1 representation in the Golden Rose (1400m) at Rosehill with five starters in the stallion-making contest.
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Outstanding young jockey Holly Nottle scooped both major honours at Monday night’s Apprentice Racing Awards, taking home both the Leading Rider and Damien Oliver Award.
WA has achieved its greatest-ever harness racing coup with megastar Leap To Fame confirmed by owner Kevin Seymour to compete in a Group 1 Gloucester Park double next year.
Correct Choice rebounded from a first-up disappointment to score in the $100,000 TABtouch Stakes (1600m) at Belmont, ending the winning run of Too Dardy.
Ben Melham enjoyed one of his finest days in an esteemed riding career when collecting both Group 1s at Caulfield on Saturday, claiming the Underwood and Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes.
Gloucester Park could be set for a new wave of interstate challengers for upcoming feature events later this year with subsidised flights offered for incoming horses.
Judgment Day has finally arrived for Cosmic Crusader and William Pike with proud Western Australian punters defending the Group 1 combination ahead of the Underwood Stakes against a social media onslaught.
Travelling WA galloper Cosmic Crusader is a warm favourite for the Group 1 $1 million Underwood Stakes (1800m) at Caulfield after nominations were confirmed for Saturday’s headline contest.
A former Dockers star has bought into Fremantle’s finals campaign by naming a horse Wharfie Time in honour of the team’s recent matchday tradition.
Immortal Bliss topped off his preparations for Kalgoorlie’s $1 million Golden Saddle (1200m) slot race with a decisive victory at Monday’s Belmont trials.
New research from Perth-based TeleMedVET has been accepted for one of the world’s leading scientific journals in their pursuit of greater animal welfare and the company are now focusing on available testing.
Haida Gwaii made lie of any doubts about her ability to run the 1200m of Belmont’s Nicopolis Stakes when she finished powerfully to land the $100,000 feature and beat Ginnivan for the second-straight start.
Sheza Alibi showed herself to be clearly one of the best horses in the land with a thumping success over topline opposition in the Group 1 Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.
Without Autumn Glow to rain on her parade, Sheza Alibi is poised to renew her Group 1-winning ways when she contests the Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday.
Veteran galloper Zadar Rock could be in line for a fitting farewell should he succeed in the $60,000 Carnarvon Cup (2000m) on Saturday.
Paddy Payne Sr, patriarch of one of the most famous Australian racing families, has died aged 90.
Undefeated Perth galloper Flip The Pattys landed in Hong Kong on Monday after being sold by young trainer Mack Hall in one of the great return-on-investment sales.
Jamie Mott and John McArdle celebrated a watershed Group 1 win in the Moir Stakes (1000m) at Sandown with bonny mare My Gladiola finishing powerfully to score.
Dual feature race acceptor Ginger Baker is likely to start in the Saturday’s Farnley Stakes at Belmont in favour of the Kalgoorlie’s Coolgardie Cup a day later.
Natural Fling will enter the Group 1 Moir Stakes (1000m) at Sandown on Saturday as a flyweight, carrying just 50kg as she bids to beat hardened rivals at just her fourth race start.
Ignite The Furnace appears a live prospect of providing hobby trainer Sarah Wall with a watershed moment in the sport when he starts a co-favourite for Friday’s Group 1 $215,000 2yo Westbred Final.
Boutique trainer Sarah Wall is staring down one of WA harness racing’s biggest juvenile prizes in a redemption date that extends back more than a decade.
WA greyhound heroine Miss Envy became just the second dog ever to win both a sprint and staying national title on Saturday, winning the Group 1 Distance Championship (715m) at Victoria’s Sandown Park.
Nash Rawiller delivered a front-running masterclass in the Group 1 Memsie Stakes (1400m) at Caulfield and did not let his rivals in with a sniff when saluting aboard Beiwacht.
