The Newcastle Jockey Club received an unexpected boost to TAB turnover when Saturday’s Randwick meeting was called off.

Denim Wynen arrived at Rosehill on Saturday with mixed feelings about her decision to bring Monkhana and Sunshine Law to the races.

It was former race photographer Steve Hart who first floated the idea of a Sydney reunion to NSW Jockey’s Association CEO Tony Crisafi.

Finding somebody in Sydney racing who doesn’t admire the Lee family is much like the task confronting archeologists in their search for the tomb of Antony and Cleopatra.

Paul Murray was left scratching his head when Harry’s Bar missed a place as $3.00 favourite in a BM72 at Canterbury on June 18th.

You wouldn’t expect a twenty eight year old jockey to have heard of a German playwright called Carl Zuckmayer let alone one of his better known quotes.

Those who had visions of Brett Bellamy punching the air at Rosehill when Lordster won Saturday’s TAB Highway were wide of the mark.

Wangaratta based Andrew Dale turned in a strong performance for the month with five winners and eight placings generated by a team of just 25 horses.

Steve cranked up his dual purpose camera recently and flew to Brisbane to catch up with recently retired Larry Cassidy.

Mark Minervini is quietly chuffed with the way his boutique stable has been chugging along since the beginning of 2025. 

Most country trainers agree it’s no pushover to win a TAB Highway. For a start they have to identify the right horse for the job and plan their programmes meticulously.

There was a hint of nostalgia involved in Andrew Calder’s winning ride on Queen of Clubs at Rosehill Gardens.

“Horse training is a business fraught with disappointments interspersed by the odd pleasant surprise” is a quote attributed to a veteran NZ trotting horseman many years ago.

Nikki Pollock’s ten wins for the month of May was impressive enough. To achieve that figure with only twenty horses in work is perhaps the best performance we’ve seen

Brooke Stower’s sudden disappearance from the northern NSW riding ranks two years ago didn’t go unnoticed.

Dylan Gibbons has won more than 400 races in just under five years of race riding. He’s already visited the Gr 1 winner’s circle on two occasions and has thirteen other black type races on his CV.

The famous hit song “Some Days Are Diamonds” has struck many a chord with horse trainers since John Denver first propelled it to the top of the charts in 1981.

While farmers on the western side of the Great Dividing Range are already nervous about the possibility of an impending dry spell, NSW coastal dwellers are wishing the rain would go away.

 Patrick Murphy’s quartet of wins during April has earned him the Prydes Country Trainer’s Award.

With daylight savings behind us for another year the ten race Saturday programmes in Sydney are getting underway well before midday.