Bren O'Brien

Skybird has upset Australia's best young sprinters to win the Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington while Fangirl has relegated her Cox Plate-winning stablemate Via Sistina into the minor placings in the Apollo Stakes at Randwick.

Andy Hoad, Racing Victoria’s latest recruit, helped Entain build an integrated media business from the ground up. But bringing Victoria’s racing media assets together into one functional business is a hill on which plenty of previous executives have faltered.

Angus Lamont is putting his faith in unbeaten two-year-old Shaggy continuing to be a poster boy for Kooringal Stud sire Sandbar.

The Inglis Classic Sale performed beyond expectations in most key metrics, but the volume of horses passed in across the first two Australian yearling sales of 2025 raises the question, are there too many yearlings being offered for public auction in Australia?

Magus Equine’s Willie Leung is hoping he’s bought a Hong Kong Derby horse after spending $520,000 on a colt by The Autumn Sun on the final day of the Inglis Classic Yearling Sale.

Mystery Downs’ Frank Cook enjoyed another successful day on racetracks around Australia last Saturday and the Sydneysider added to his huge team of racehorses at the Inglis Classic sale.

Nearly 200 hectares of Crown land occupied by racecourses at Port Macquarie, Inverell, Coffs Harbour, Queanbeyan and Armidale came under the management of Racing NSW in 2024.