Bren O'Brien

Independent MP Mark Latham was ejected from one of Randwick’s biggest racedays, with the Australian Turf Club confirming the former club member was not permitted within the members area of the racecourse due to ‘disciplinary proceedings’.

There aren’t many Frankels in Australia, but the champion European stallion’s progeny have achieved at a stellar rate in major races across the country and he has two three-year-old daughters in the Flight Stakes.

A Group 1 win in the $1.5 million Epsom Handicap with Pericles would further cement a new trainer-owner relationship between Bjorn Baker and Godolphin.

In a nod to the pioneers of Western Australia’s gold rush era, there will be a modern-day spin attached to the first running of the $1 million Golden Saddle on Saturday at Kalgoorlie.

Twelve months since a crucial meeting between Racing NSW and major breeders, tensions still simmer, but participants’ focus has turned to Pattern reform rather than the war of words surrounding the now failed sale of Rosehill.

International wagering giant Entain will divest its ownership of horses in training in New Zealand, eight months after the corporate bookmaker axed its Ladbrokes Racing Club in Australia.

Inglis isn’t panicking about the need for a last-minute switch to fill its Everest slot after Skybird was officially ruled out of the $20 million race due to injury.