Bren O'Brien

Colin McKenna, the Western Victorian abattoir magnate turned Group 1-winning owner and the man who propelled Ciaron Maher’s training career, has died after a short illness.

Tasracing has confirmed its prize money for thoroughbred racing will increase 2.5 per cent over 2024/25, while the state’s two richest races, the Hobart Cup and Launceston Cup, have had their overall prize money dropped by $50,000 each.

The backstory of leading Cox Plate fancy Prognosis extends far beyond his home country of Japan to a humble chestnut mare, who found herself in the midst of a civil war in Libya, only to win a miraculous reprieve.

Bren O'Brien and Tim Rowe talk Magic Millions Horses in Training Sale, the latest on the Rosehill saga and the prospect of a national tote.

Nicky Wong has made the switch from Magic Millions to become Inglis’ international business development manager.

Chief executive-elect Gillon McLachlan has identified that Tabcorp requires a reset of team, culture and cadence to become a simplified and more focused organisation and has outlined a national tote as key to that strategy.

The possibility of 40,000 houses and a new Metro station led the Australian Turf Club down the path of its proposal to sell Rosehill racecourse. But questions remain over which key figures were discussed with whom before the idea was made public in December.