Bren O'Brien

Australia’s champion first-season sire in waiting, Too Darn Hot, will not be shuttling to Australia this season, Darley has confirmed.

BlueBet has completed its merger with betr while the Australian-owned company has also confirmed it has withdrawn from Indiana as it seeks to review the rest of its US operations.

Only seven sires with more than 50 winners have a higher strike rate than 50 per cent when it comes to winners to runners in Australia, with one-time Japanese shuttle stallion Real Impact leading the way.

A surge in complaints that bookmakers are utilising compliance processes to unfairly block or ban winning punters has led one racing authority to caution bookmakers that they may be breaching the law.

The Australian Capital Territory’s decision to raise its Point Of Consumption Tax to 25 per cent appears to have backfired, with the annual revenue created by the tax less than when the rate was at 20 per cent last financial year.

One of South Australia’s key two-year-old races has found itself a place at the end of the racing season, with the Group 3 SAJC Sires’ Produce Stakes to be the final juvenile stakes race of 2023/24.

Six months on from the shock announcement that the Australian Turf Club is considering selling Rosehill racecourse, The Straight has examined the project's status, what we know, and what we don’t know.