Racing Industry

Racing Victoria has come out strongly against disgraced trainer Darren Weir after footage showing him and two staff members using a “jigger” on three horses at Warrnambool seven years ago.

Amid the dust and the sun of Australia's racetracks and sales grounds, Sharon Lee Chapman is always looking for her next great photo. In the next instalment of Written In The Stars, the award-winning photographer talks to Jessica Owers about life behind the lens.

Thoroughbred superpower Yulong has given the bottle green light for Via Sistina and Treasurethe Moment to contest the Cox Plate in what will be the first meeting between the two glamour mares of Australian racing.

Three brothers have embarked on an epic road trip with their horses to this week’s Birdsville races, ticking off a bucket-list item. The lesson from their own hometown is that you can never take for granted racing will be there forever.

As David Eustace looks to build on his impressive first-season efforts in Hong Kong, the lessons learned in Australia in his time working in partnership with Ciaron Maher are at the forefront of his mind.

A planned monthly Racing Australia board meeting has been called off, adding to the growing frustration about the state of flux that the nation’s black type calendar is caught up in.

Australia’s two biggest stables, the Chris Waller and Ciaron Maher operations, have 33 per cent of the 120 entries received for the 2025 Melbourne Cup between them.