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Leading journalist Tim Rowe joins The Straight
The Straight is delighted to welcome one of Australia’s most respected thoroughbred industry journalists, Tim Rowe, to the team as our new senior journalist.
Run The Numbers – Brightside builds for the third generation
With a seventh Group 1 victory for himself and 217th for the Hayes family, Mr Brightside belongs among the greatest horses Lindsay Park has trained, but it is what he is doing for the career for the Hayes brothers which is of the most significance.
Coolmore colt Espionage's spring plans abandoned
Coolmore Australia has put its hopes on recent acquisition Espionage on hold until the autumn after a mishap sent the three-year-old colt for surgery.
Racing Victoria slashes race fields fees in a bid to revive wagering
Faced with wagering on racing falling off a cliff, Racing Victoria has pivoted in its pricing strategy, dropping and simplifying the fees it charges bookmakers to try to push the market back into growth.
Spring-loaded: OTI Racing team shifts gears for Group 1 targets
Warmonger, an equal favourite to win the Caulfield Cup, will be given his first taste of weight-for-age racing when he resumes off a three-year-old campaign that delivered an astonishing Queensland Derby victory.
All the way with PVL - Cooke backs in V’landys as ‘the foremost sporting administrator in the country’
Racing NSW chair Saranne Cooke has fobbed off concerns over the conduct and power of CEO Peter V’landys, saying he had the board’s unanimous support and he remained the best person for the role he has served in for over 20 years.
Brickpit as racetrack venue would be ‘prohibited’: Olympic Park boss
The Rosehill parliamentary inquiry has heard there are significant planning and legislative challenges associated with the idea of building a racecourse at the Brickpit site at Homebush.