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Racing: Pateman notches double

Brilliance is not without its hiccups for champion jumps jockey Steven Pateman.

Racing: Top mare in good order

Connections of superstar sprinter Black Caviar have asked not to know the sex of her first foal due in late September.

Racing: Broodmare future goes on line

Classy mare Vain Queen will be racing for more than just the lion's share of A$150,000 prize money in the All Victorian Sprint Series Final.

Racing: Track bias snares punters

We've seen track bias and track bias, but you need a good memory to come up with one more pronounced than at Te Rapa on Saturday.

Racing: Robl enjoys an early glimpse of what the future may hold for him

Injured Sydney jockey Peter Robl concedes his recent time working for the Walter stable has piqued his interest in becoming a trainer.

Racing: Positive indications for hurdler

What a fabulous trial for next week's big hurdle race in Melbourne by Indikator on Saturday.

Racing: Sprinter outstays cup field

Yearling catalogue pages can tell white lies.

Racing: Poor returns see Treloar shut stables

Trainer Len Treloar has stunned the Queensland racing industry by closing his stables last week, citing finances as the prime reason.

Racing: Lord Of The Sky aspires to new heights

Three-year-old Lord Of The Sky has passed his first weight-for-age test in the group three Sir John Monash Stakes to set the platform for a shot at bigger targets.

Jockey legend's last lap of Ellerslie

You'd think the sight of a coffin being driven around Ellerslie Racecourse would be weird. Strangely, it wasn't.

Racing community grieves after death

The racing community is grieving after death of a passionate racing enthusiast who died when the car she was driving hit a horse last night.

Legend makes last trip up the Hill

"Up the Hill the last time," is a term we've heard in Ellerslie steeplechase race calls for many decades.

Racing: Chiong weighs in for horsewomen

Asian apprentice Kei Chiong winning Saturday's $40,000 Kiwifruit Cup with Intransigent on Saturday brings us back to the story on women jockeys.

Racing: Bookmaker enjoyed Royal Ascot

After another succession of favourites won on the fifth day of Royal Ascot there was only one bookmaker up on the week and that was Paddy Power in his guise as an owner.

Baggy Hillis dies at 77

Two or three times in the past few years colleague Dennis Ryan called from Matamata to say: "Baggy Hillis is not too good. He may be on the way out."

Racing: Sharrock keen to have G1 shot

Allan Sharrock has one piece of unfinished business with Waikato Stud's record-breaking performer I Do before she joins the Matamata farm's elite band of broodmares.

Racing: $221k Tatt's Cup a step up for Military Move

Racing: Wilson helped Lee's career

It was when you had an inkling Tony Lee would make it as a race caller.