In today's Straight Shorts, Racing Queensland stewards charge Noel Callow, how the barriers fell in the Stradbroke Handicap, winter star favourite for JJ Atkins and another juvenile winner for Snitzel.

A Melbourne Racing Club director has quit her role after raising concerns with chairman John Kanga about key executive appointments at the club.

Racing.com is set to extend its coverage to include Western Australian racing, after Racing Victoria negotiated a five-year extension to its broadcast deal with the Seven Network.

The art of pinhooking is not for the faint hearted, but while increasing costs have made margins for investors even finer, there was still profit to be had in returning horses to the Australasian market in 2025.

The average price of a race filly through public auction in Australia has increased 55.4 per cent in just two years with total investment in mares and fillies bought ‘straight off the track’ now surpassing live auction trade of mares-in-foal. Run The Numbers breaks down this trend.

Tom Reilly’s short tenure as CEO of Melbourne Racing Club has come to a sudden end, with chairman John Kanga announcing his departure on Monday night, four months after Reilly stepped into the role.

In today's Straight Shorts, Tabcorp's retail plans win the cautious support of two of Australian racing's most powerful executives, a Canterbury upset points the way forward for a promising Chris Waller colt and honours for racing figures in King's Birthday honours.