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🔒 🔒 Tasracing records $1.35 million loss and launches new 10-year strategy as funding deed nears expiry
Tasracing lost $1.35 million in 2025/26 as kennel cough, weaker thoroughbred margins and a full year of integrity costs outweighed higher government funding, while it has also signed off a 10-year industry strategy despite state funding beyond 2029 remaining unsettled.
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Angels Halo wins New Zealand 1000 Guineas for Hollie Elliot and Masa Hashizume
Proisir filly Angels Halo won the Group 1 New Zealand 1000 Guineas at Riccarton at $15, giving jockey Masa Hashizume his first Group 1 and Cambridge trainer Hollie Elliot her first since going out on her own.
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🔒 🔒 Tempted’s Champions Sprint assignment comes with global ambitions
Tempted has already beaten the world’s best sprinter, but her performance in the Champions Sprint at Flemington will help determine whether the mare, rated among the best Godolphin has produced in Australia, is destined for overseas challenges.
Straight Talk – A review of an historic Melbourne Cup feat. Will Bourne, plus off-track drama and stallions minted
This week, we dissect a history-making Melbourne Cup. chat to bloodstock agent Will Bourne about sourcing the future Cup winner from King Charles, examine the fallout from Cup week in the stewards’ room, and discuss Frankel’s growing Cup influence and the wagering headlines.
Point Of Law gives Frankel the Melbourne Cup sire honour that eluded Galileo
Point Of Law’s Melbourne Cup win gives Frankel his first winner of the race from 11 starts by his progeny, an honour his sire Galileo never achieved from 39 starts, and makes him Frankel’s fifth individual Australian Group 1 winner.
The workforce behind Flemington’s biggest Melbourne Cup crowd in a decade
Flemington drew nearly 100,000 racegoers to Melbourne Cup Day, its largest crowd since 2016. The VRC’s most recent workforce figure, more than 14,000 accredited staff across the 2024 carnival, gives the scale of the caterers, builders, security, cleaners, turf staff and broadcast crews behind the event.
