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Too Darn valuable - Darley's Hot young stallion won’t shuttle in 2024

Australia’s champion first-season sire in waiting, Too Darn Hot, will not be shuttling to Australia this season, Darley has confirmed.

Run The Numbers - Winners to runners - Making an Impact

Only seven sires with more than 50 winners have a higher strike rate than 50 per cent when it comes to winners to runners in Australia, with one-time Japanese shuttle stallion Real Impact leading the way.

Racing Victoria pushes back on bookies unfairly banning punters

A surge in complaints that bookmakers are utilising compliance processes to unfairly block or ban winning punters has led one racing authority to caution bookmakers that they may be breaching the law.

Decade-long Snowden family training partnership to dissolve

Paul Snowden will step down as co-trainer at Snowden Racing, leaving his father Peter to run the operation alone in the 2024/25 racing season.

A slice of the action - how Australian racing shares its prize money riches

Australian prize money levels are gold standard in world racing and on the eve of the final Group 1 race of the 2023/24 season, we examine who does it best when rewarding the winners of our best races.

What is the status of the sale of Rosehill racecourse?

Six months on from the shock announcement that the Australian Turf Club is considering selling Rosehill racecourse, The Straight has examined the project's status, what we know, and what we don’t know.

From King Island to King Charles, Henry Dwyer is a man on a mission

Henry Dwyer has chanced his hand everywhere from the roaring forties to Royal Ascot and deserves every plaudit for his sense of adventure, writes Matt Stewart.
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