Bren O'Brien

Jun Zhang, the son-in-law of founder Zhang Yuesheng, will replace Vin Cox as general manager of global racing and breeding powerhouse Yulong.

MIXI, the Japanese company at the centre of a takeover bid for PointsBet, has built a profitable betting business in Japan’s highly regulated sports betting market in just five years. It is banking on its social betting focus making a similarly major mark in Australia.

The victories of French-bred pair Light Infantry Man and Deakin at Flemington continued a record-breaking season of success in Australia for horses with the (FR) suffix, which includes four Group 1 victories.

There was no income or benefit paid to Racing NSW chair Saranne Cooke from a Bathurst property which she on-sold to the regulator for $1 in 2022, the NSW government has been told.

At $330,000, Extreme Choice’s 2025 service fee is the same as his famous grandsire Redoute’s Choice at his peak. There are several very good reasons why Newgate’s Henry Field thinks he belongs in that territory.

Inglis has supersized the Australian Weanling Sale and will offer 574 foals over two days at Riverside in May, up over 25 per cent on the size of the 2024 catalogue.

Six months since joining the Victoria Racing Club, chief executive Kylie Rogers still has a lot of questions to answer but says she can now see her way through the clouds which had enveloped Flemington.