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Macau’s racing journey comes to an end

The Macau Jockey Club hosts its final race meeting on Saturday with a 14-race card, providing trainers, jockeys and hundreds of stable staff and administrators, who are facing career oblivion, one last chance to shine at Taipa. It’s almost certain that racing in Macau will end for good, having hosted thoroughbred racing since 1989, its... Read More

Feroce (NZ)

Feroce (NZ) 2 g Super Seth – Corinthia by O’Reilly O: Sutton Racing Pty Ltd B: Pencarrow Thoroughbreds Ltd T: Dom Sutton S: 2023 New Zealand Bloodstock Ready To Run Sale V: Kilgravin Lodge P: McKeever Bloodstock Ltd/ Sutton Racing, $160,000 W: Pakenham RC Battery Zone Maiden 2YO Plate, 1200m, March 21, Pakenham Dom Sutton... Read More

Number of factors conspired against HK sale as prices plummet

ong Kong racing all–rounder Apollo Ng suggests there’s no need to jump at shadows after a below par Hong Kong International Sale. A former Chinese language race caller, the media identity and bloodstock agent, among other roles, says a number of factors conspired against the Jockey Club’s 14-lot sale of three-year-olds where prices plummeted and... Read More

Dublin Down

It’s hard to find a good old bolter’s triumph story in the Golden Slipper. Two-year-old form being what it is – precocity rising to the early top, formlines exposed thanks to most entrants contesting the same handful of lead-ups – there haven’t been many winners to send the bookies wild. The biggest-priced winner of the... Read More

Roselyn’s Star (AUS)

2 c Shalaa – Dual Star by Starcraft Next month’s Kindergarten Stakes (Gr 3, 1100m) now looms as the next target for Roselyn’s Star (Shalaa) after the John O’Shea-trained colt got off the mark at the second time of asking at Randwick-Kensington on Wednesday. Having been beaten 0.8 lengths by Gatsby’s (Snitzel) on debut at... Read More

Meeting set to decide Goulburn’s future

On the Goulburn Race Club website it says its freehold racecourse and facilities allows it to be “in charge of its own destiny and has no constraints”. The relocation of the Goulburn racecourse, from Braidwood Road to Taralga Road, was funded in the mid-1990s by the then Fahey state Liberal government and the new course... Read More