In today's Straight Shorts, our coverage includes the retirement of crack sprinting mare Bella Nipotina, news from the Golden Slipper draw and how day two unfolded at the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sale.

Things didn’t go to plan in the 1999 Golden Slipper for raging pre-post favourite Redoute’s Choice, but Yulong is hoping for better luck with the champion stallion’s great grandson Devil Night, the first colt to win a Blue Diamond at his second start this century.

The leading producer of stakes winners in Australia this season as both a sire and a broodmare sire, Arrowfield legend Snitzel and the performance of his daughters are in the spotlight in this week’s Run The Numbers.

In today's Straight Shorts, there have been more executive appointments at the Victoria Racing Club, a Written Tycoon filly tops day one of the Magic Millions Adelaide Yearling Sales, TAB NZ embraces new technology and Betmakers signs UK Tote deal.

In this week's Rowe On Monday, Tim Rowe talks to Jan Mackay about a decision to quit the breeding industry, reflects on a productive weekend for Newgate sire Capitalist, delves into the complex world of wagering on yearling sales and checks out the latest auction results from South Africa.

While the Australian Turf Club has sent out its case for its members to vote on the sale of Rosehill racecourse, a host of questions remain unanswered. The Straight asked chairman Peter McGauran many of these in a detailed interview.

In today's Straight Shorts, Queensland’s Canning Downs Stud will shut its doors after more than a century in business, a new general manager has been appointed at Cambridge Stud, I Am Me will run in the $5 million Quokka and Frankie Dettori has filed for bankruptcy.