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First-season progeny highlight Adelaide Yearling Sale
Magic Millions has released its catalogue for the 2025 Adelaide Yearling Sale with the progeny of 13 first-season sires figuring among 455 yearlings on offer.
Racetracks vs real estate - Gulfstream clouds overshadow Pegasus meeting
Gulfstream Park, which will host the Pegasus World Cup this weekend, is the latest American racecourse with significant doubts over its future, as the value of racetracks as real estate upends the global thoroughbred industry’s business models.
Run The Numbers - Timing your Slipper run perfectly
Wodeton may be a clear favourite for the Golden Slipper, but his 63-day path from debut to Rosehill glory would be the equal fourth fastest for a Slipper winner in the past 25 years. Run The Numbers looks at how a similar formula has been followed by recent winners Shinzo and Stay Inside.
Sabotage with no leads – Police hit dead end in Gold Coast turf poisoning probe
Queensland police are of the strong belief that the Gold Coast track was intentionally poisoned by a third party ahead of the Magic Millions but admit they have few leads as to who they culprit may be.
Rowe On Monday - Alan’s Green racing legacy, a Rising vision for Japanese success and Thai industry boost on agenda
In this week’s edition of Rowe On Monday, Tim Rowe chats to Bruce Elkington about the racing interests of the late Alan Green, to Kosi Kawakami about a Flemington upset and probes the possibility of a boom in the racing industry in Thailand.
'If you need an electrician, you don’t hire a plumber' – Ex-jockeys key to Queensland’s racing education revolution
Michael Cahill has become the latest jockey to turn his hand to the education of the next generation of riding stars. He knows it will not match the adrenaline of life in the saddle, but that it may be his most important legacy to the only industry he knows.
Select suits as Inglis approaches smallest Easter catalogue since 2017 with confidence in quality
Inglis is backing in the reputation of its marquee Easter sale to be sustained, while putting forward its smallest catalogue for the sale in eight years, with 421 yearlings to be offered across two days in April.