Racing NSW listened to the jockeys'request on Wednesday,but only raised the minimum weight by one kilogram.
The head of a new horse welfare taskforce,Denis Napthine,has welcomed support from federal agriculture minister David Littleproud.
Family patriarch Bill Waterhouse,once the biggest bookmaker in the world,has died at the age of 97.
Japanese horses have taken the first two legs of Melbourne's big Spring Carnival treble,and Gai Waterhouse has her sights on the third with Hush Writer.
One of Sydney's top jockeys showed nerves of steel to squeeze along the fence on Kubrick to win the Bondi Stakes.
The Warwick Farm trainer is plotting a first-up success with a horse he is convinced can be a player in the Magic Millions Guineas.
The NSW Trainers Association wants intervention from Canberra and the sales companies to pay up on the eve of a formal meeting of state representative groups.
Peter V’landys might rule the NSW thoroughbred world with an iron fist,but it’s his combative approach to Melbourne’s spring turf supremacy that has the punters agog.
Dawn Passage will be looking to defy almost a decade of history on the way to September's $1 million stallion-making race.
If there was a meeting with chief Hugh Marks,nobody is letting on.
No less than three Morrison government ministers head off to Switzerland as the election season kicks off,leaving a fourth Liberal,Julie Bishop,behind.