Irish trainer Aidan O’Brien disagrees with the stewards who withdrew Jan Brueghel from the Melbourne Cup,and believes its absence is a stroke of fortune for the other runners in the race.
Darren Weir has lodged papers with the Supreme Court over a two-year ban that would keep him out of the sport until the 2026 spring carnival.
The powerful sports supremo has said he’s personally delivered more than $500 million in benefits to racing in NSW,while batting away criticism of how he runs Racing NSW.
The powerful regulator has been accused of acting as a “lawless organisation” as it faces claims it tried to identify whistleblowers to a parliamentary inquiry.
The Victorian Racing Tribunal has returned its verdict on Jamie Kah’s controversial ride at Caulfield last month. She was charged with failing to give her horse every chance to win.
Jamie Kah has scored a big win on a Melbourne Cup hopeful at Flemington,but it was her ride a fortnight ago that led to racing charges that still has everybody talking.
Jamie Kah,one of the headline acts of the coming spring carnival,faces a stint on the sidelines. She has been accused of not giving her horse every chance to win.
As Darren Weir’s daughters oversee the removal of more than 100 racehorses from his property,they say their father is being shut out of the industry for longer than he deserves.
Darren Weir’s bid to return to the training ranks has suffered a huge blow at the Victorian Racing Tribunal,and he now has just seven days to clear his pre-training property.
Aaron Goadsby has refused to comply with an order from NSW stewards to hand over his devices for an investigation and is taking his battle to the Supreme Court.
The owners of Black Caviar confirmed the news in a tragic postscript to the sprinter’s death.