Teronado has done enough in two starts this season to convince Gold Coast trainer Bruce Hill he can once again take on the best in Sydney and Melbourne this campaign.

If Albany Reunion is to be a group one winner in Melbourne in the spring he'll be winning at Ruakaka tomorrow.

Don't expect a repeat of the Peak miracle trainer Tim Butt pulled off last season when Imperial Count makes his New Zealand debut at Addington tonight.

It is not the $5500 stake of his minor race that has lured exciting 3-year-old pacer Hughie Green to Cambridge tonight but the chance of a shot at group one glory.

Champion horseman Mark Purdon says a decision on who partners his two superstars Smolda and Adore Me in the New Zealand Cup won't be made for at least a month.

Trainer Mike Moroney is weighing up options for stayer Voleuse De Coeurs, who could be saved for the Underwood Stakes first-up.

The enormous smile John Wheeler wore at Ellerslie on Saturday was not one you would normally associate with a loser.

Yes, $100,000 Schweppes Great Northern Hurdles winner Wee Biskit was bought off Trade Me for $200.

Classy Cambridge mare Silent Achiever is rapidly looking like the No1 Australasian hope to repel the Northern Hemisphere A$6 million Melbourne Cup invasion.

Don't let Sunshield's early gallop last Friday put you off backing him at Alexandra Park tonight.

Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young could be forced to pit Cauthen up against the world's top-rated sprinter at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

Dissident, the least-fancied of trainer Peter Moody's two runners, has claimed the first group one event of the new Australian racing season.

Prominent jockey David Walker was yesterday charged with one of racing's most serious offences - deliberately holding a horse back from winning.

The New Zealand Racing Integrity Unit today charged jockey David Walker with betting on another horse to beat the one he was riding.

In 2003, Richard Eynon rode his first winner, a steeplechaser whose name he cannot remember, for trainer Kenny Rae.

The horse Melbourne trainer Mike Moroney considers his best chance of a first Caulfield Guineas win begins his campaign on Saturday.

Horse racing is a hard game with little room for the heart. Only on a strip of green they call a racetrack and in front of a piece of timber better known as a winning post.

On a weekend when Kiwis dominated the Australasian Breeders Crown, Cran Dalgety was the biggest winner of all.

Australian pacing hero I'm Themightyquinn has opened favourite in the first market for the New Zealand Trotting Cup.

New Zealand's glamour young pacers could hardly have fared better in the early chase for Breeders Crown glory.

Trainer Gai Waterhouse and Tommy Berry have set the tone for the Sydney spring carnival in winning the first group race with Sweet Idea.

There is just one thing you can do with the form from Pukekohe on Saturday - forget it. Totally.

Tiger Tees' class proved the difference at the end of the group three Aurie's Star Hcp at Flemington on Saturday.