This week, we examine the contrasting financial fortunes of Australian racing through a series of annual reports and analyse the growing dominance of the Waller and Maher super-stables and much more.
World Pool has created an international wagering network, but while racing clubs welcome the financial benefits, Australian punters remain divided over its unpredictable dividends.
Centrebet, Tabcorp's Sun Bets, PointsBet, BlueBet's ClutchBet and Dabble each took an Australian betting business overseas by a different route. Their outcomes range from a takeover to costly closures, depending on the market they chose, the competition and the capital required.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The 2026 Melbourne Cup's 24 runners represent 23 sires, the most this century, while Shockletz could make Shocking the first Cup winner to sire a winner of the race since 1984.
For Armidale Stud’s David Whishaw, Needs Further was more than a horse who helped reshape Tasmanian breeding. The stallion's death at 19 has left a family and a farm grieving a close mate and facing the difficult task of finding his successor.
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