It was Fannin's 16th win of the season to give him a buffer of five on the reigning champion Michael Mitchell.

Trainers Stephen Autridge and Jamie Richards believe it is only a matter of time before Shillelagh makes her mark at stakes level.

Fabulous winter racing is on the cards at Ruakaka today.

Robert Dunn hasn't given up on winning harness racing's national premiership, even though he might have to train 25 winners in six weeks to pull it off.

James McDonald has described the moment when he almost pulled off a huge Royal Ascot upset as one of the biggest thrills of his stellar career.

Unbeaten Kiwi pacing star Waikiki Beach has had his New South Wales campaign derailed by a nomination mistake.

The days of ringing up the TAB for a bet will soon be over for all but a few customers.

The Queen could have seven runners this week as she seeks a 23rd Royal Ascot winner to help fuel her 90th birthday celebrations.

Rosie Myers created her own slice of history when she won the Group Two Brisbane Cup aboard New Zealand stayer Benzini at Eagle Farm yesterday.

Harness racing driver Bob Butt pulled out of his one-race engagement to drive at the Rangiora meeting on May 29 after waking up feeling ill.

Pike's classy 2-year-old Sacred Elixir is favourite on both sides of the Tasman at $3.80 on the New Zealand TAB. The closest is James McDonald's mount Souchez at $4.60.

Selling alcohol to under-age buyer costs racing club a day of booze sales.

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing has launched an investigation into the deaths of three horses at Auckland's Ellerslie Racecourse on Monday.

There were four jumps races at Ellerslie. A horse was dead after all but one of them. It has sparked renewed calls for steeplechase racing to be banned.

All over Australia trainers of 3-year-old pacing fillies are wondering how they got so lucky.

You just have to love steeplechases when horses have the width of a cigarette paper between them. Even better when the pair are stablemates.

Monbet could soon join the great Courage Under Fire with a distinction his connections would prefer to miss.

It is easy to make the mistake of thinking the All Stars' domination of Jewels Day is boringly repetitive.

Twenty years ago when Jimmy Liu arrived in New Zealand from Mongolia broke and without friends, he lived opposite the gates of Avondale Racecourse.

Rocker Band's greatest performance may have been her last.

Taurus completed a perfect day for trainers Evan and JJ Rayner at Wanganui when he broke through for a deserved black type reward.

Provocative is guaranteed a run in the Group 1 Queensland Oaks, but she is no certainty to take her place.

Volpe Veloce's victory in the Listed Castletown Stakes proved hugely satisfying to Graham Richardson.

The least-talked about section of the races may prove to be the pivotal point of many of the Jewels at Cambridge today.

Naughty Knuckles in Race 1 is one of those. He has impressed this preparation and his Ellerslie win two back was terrific.

Trainer Tony Pike is perfectly relaxed about his class filly Provocative sitting and waiting her call-up for tomorrow's big race on the ballot.