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🔒 🔒 Racing NSW maintains surplus as fresh challenges remain for new leadership
Racing NSW recorded a $13.63 million operating surplus for 2025/26, but as Peter V’landys bids farewell, flat wagering figures point to ongoing regulatory and market challenges in the wagering industry that fuel racing’s commercial strength.
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Point Of Law wins the Melbourne Cup as Maher trains trifecta in historic result
Point Of Law has won the 2026 Melbourne Cu, beating stablemates Zahrann and Juja Kibo to give trainer Ciaron Maher the trifecta in Australia’s greatest race.
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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.
Rowe On Monday – Hatton savours Derby victory as Kieran and Tom Moore complete rare family double
In this week’s Rowe On Monday, Ross Hatton’s reveals his broodmare band of 30 at his South Australian farm includes Rose Memory and Seracena, who are the dams of first and second in this year’s Victoria Derby, while Kieran and Tom Moore are enjoying their rare Derby connection and Louis Mihalyka says Militarize has proven to be a good moneyspinner despite his infertility.
🔒 🔒 Zakouma gives Begg a long-awaited place on racing’s biggest stage
Melbourne Cup heartbreak has twice denied Grahame Begg, but the veteran trainer is finally set to realise a lifelong ambition with Zakouma in the race that has captivated him since childhood.
