Racing Industry

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.

Playing devil’s advocate, Bren O’Brien has taken a scalpel to Australia’s feature race program to see what a schedule of 50 Group 1 races might look like.

The Racing Australia board will meet on Tuesday for its September meeting and one of the motions to be debated concerns the proposed implementation of Black Type Guidelines which would formalise the nation’s calendar of stakes races.

Via Sistina extraordinary 2024/25 season has seen her crowned Australian Racehorse of the Year, the first Northern hemisphere-foaled winner since Makybe Diva.

King Island Racing Club president Audrey Hamer has confirmed the decision had been made to abandon the Tasmanian club's upcoming season.

Unbeaten McGaw will be a headline act for Emma-Lee and David Browne on Memsie Stakes day but there will be no shortage of supporting talent stepping out for the co-trainers.

Chris Waller now has two more Bart Cummings Medals than his legendary fellow trainer has Melbourne Cups, with Waller again honoured as New South Wales racing’s biggest achiever.