As successful as the mega-rich championships were in Sydney - they were just fabulous - there is a call for change.

Christen Me last in comeback trial after mystery virus but trainer can afford a smile.

Stephen Marsh had an abrupt lesson on the back-to-reality element of thoroughbred racing yesterday morning.

Astunning Group One success capped a perfect day at Te Aroha for one of the country's leading nurseries.

The anguish of losing the New Zealand Oaks in the stewards' room was countered with the filly's win in the $1 million race.

Champion three-year-old pacer Lazarus completed an unbeaten season in record-breaking fashion in last night's $200,000 Derby.

If you analysed every race with a mathematical equation you'd end up with patches in your jeans.

Ricky May is not going to concede his best New Zealand Derby-winning chance to Lazarus at Addington on Friday night.

Graeme Sanders and Debbie Sweeney have a big team engaged at their home meeting at Te Awamutu today and they are optimistic of an early strike.

When the late, great Bart Cummings won the 1996 Melbourne Cup with Saintly he shed an uncharacteristic tear.

The connections of What's The Story are already looking forward to the spring and a return to Australia.

Exciting Cambridge galloper Enough won't be seen again until the spring after undergoing surgery to remove bone chips from a knee.

Tavago's upset victory in the Australian Derby could not have come at a better time for Cambridge trainers.

Luna Rossa rattled home to claim yesterday's Courtesy Ford Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes from Sicario with the winner's Cambridge stablemate Saracino a game third.

Promising filly Astara gained a deserved victory at Ellerslie and in the process she credited her sire Dalghar with his first Southern Hemisphere winner.

In-form stayer Maygrove could be in line for another trip across the Tasman later this year.

Ellerslie's Diamond Stakes holds the key to Saturday's $225,000 Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes at Awapuni.

New Zealand's second most successful ever reinsman has been hospitalised since Tuesday and will miss drives at Alexandra Park tonight.

Track conditions will determine where the unbeaten filly Romantic Maid steps out this weekend.

A new partnership will shortly head Ballymore Stables' racing operation at Matamata.

Corey Brown will replace the suspended Craig Williams on NZ lightweight hope Volkstok'n'barrell in Saturday's A$3 million group one Doncaster Handicap.

Peter Lock has an eye on the Brisbane winter carnival for his late bloomer Hiflyer.

One of the richest deals in New Zealand trotting history has fallen over, meaning exceptional trotter Monbet will be staying put.

Just past the 500m in Saturday's $100,000 Windsor Park Japan/New Zealand Trophy, Cambridge apprentice Brendan Hutton had to make a lightning decision at Tauranga.

New Zealand is targeting in beautifully on the A$1 million Australian Oaks, but the reign of Mongolian Khan may be over.

Kevin Chapman says he has the right horse to go to war with. The biggest battle of that war could be the $750,000 New Zealand Cup in November.

Wayne Hillis had pre-race worries on two fronts with Watch This Space at Tauranga, but neither amounted to anything as the four-year-old coasted to his first black-type victory.

If Rising Romance or Almoonqith wins the BMW, they will do something the greatest Lindsay Park racehorses couldn't.

The only jockey with a winning record on Stay With Me reunites with the filly in the A$500,000 Vinery Stud Stakes.