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.

Ever astute Mitchell Beer was obviously chuffed with Sunrise’s win at Kembla Grange on March 22nd but preferred to keep things in perspective.

The significance of Greg Hickman’s Midway win with Glounthaune (Ire) on Saturday was lost on many racing fans. It’s likely that Greg himself had forgotten he’d trained the winner of the very first Midway ever staged on July 3rd, 2021.

Most horse trainers agree there’s nothing more satisfying than having a long range plan come off without a hitch.

A veritable army of people performing specialist duties play a vital role in the running of high profile race meetings. From jockeys, trainers and strappers to general stable staff.

The thrill of a Doncaster win on Celestial Legend in the autumn of 2024 kept Tyler Schiller in a buoyant frame of mind for many months.

The opportunity to double his team numbers was the primary catalyst in Luke Pepper’s return to Canberra last November.

Everybody was talking about Private Harry long before Yulong Investments tied up fifty percent of his ownership under a deal reported to value the colt at sixteen million dollars.

Many commercial horse trainers drive themselves to the races while their horses are transported by major floating companies. Life’s a bit different for Rebecca Dunn.

When Vauban arrived in Melbourne for his first Cup mission in 2023, he’d raced fourteen times for seven wins, including three over hurdles.

Darryll Kell was still pinching himself on Sunday morning in the wake of Mahogany Girl’s gutsy win in the Polytrack Provincial-Midway Championship Qualifier at Hawkesbury.