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Racing: Terror To Love fans can cash in
Has the gap between our two best pacers become this big?

Racing: Freckle Face spot on for midweek racing debut
Her debut might have been a belated one but there's no urgency to test well-bred mare Freckle Face in anything stronger than what she's eligible for.

Racing: Day of despair for Dettori
Top Italian jockey Frankie Dettori endured a jockey's ultimate nightmare when Treve, the filly he would have ridden but for fracturing his ankle in a fall last week.

Racing: Full speed ahead for McDonald
Trainer Colin Scott has snapped up James McDonald to ride Speediness in Saturday's Toorak Hcp after Craig Williams failed to beat a careless riding ban.

Racing: Happiness is recognition of effort
Happy Trails has produced a storming finish to claim the Turnbull Stakes in a performance his trainer Paul Beshara says will earn the horse the respect.

Racing: Tinsley picks up plum ride for feature
Yesterday Hayden Tinsley had the greatest slice of luck he'll have all season - he landed the ride on the favourite Survived in today's $250,000 The Turks Spring Classic.

Racing: Ruakaka track deemed unsafe
New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing made a timely decision last week to officially subsidise horses left stranded by a race meeting being abandoned.

Racing: Fiorente works well for Turnbull
Damien Oliver substituted for race jockey Nash Rawiller aboard Fiorente at trackwork at Flemington yesterday and delivered a glowing report on the likely Turnbull Stakes favourite.

Racing: Not ready for journey south
Spring carnival plans for Brisbane sprinter Better Than Ready are in disarray after he was injured in a trackwork scare.

Racing: Thrills, spills end jumps season
Sunday's meeting at Te Rapa was the last jumps meeting of the year.

Racing: Joostens enjoys bragging rights
When the field swung into the home straight in Saturday's $40,000 Just Juice Mitchelson Cup, Bragato's Otaki trainer Richard Joostens yelled to his wife.

Racing: Darley colt too strong
In a tantalising preview of the Spring Champion Stakes, Complacent came out on top at Rosehill on Saturday to stake his claim.

Racing: Bridgman casts net wider
Spellbinder won the $50,000 Allied Workforce Soliloquy Stakes by 6 lengths.

Racing: Jaccka Justy rounds off an enchanting weekend
Harness racing is not making an appearance at Wingatui until a dual-code meeting next March.

Racing: Back Prastiyou today
Malaysian-born apprentice jockey Doni Prastiyou is becoming a familiar face around the southern racing scene.

Racing: Piggy Back lands the bacon at Manukau
Star greyhound Piggy Back thrashed his rivals when he delivered his emphatic 6.5-length victory in Sunday's $21,000 Stitches Upholstery Waterloo Cup at the Manukau Stadium.

Racing: First find of EPO in NZ
A syringe full of the banned doping substance EPO found in an Ashburton racing stable last week is unlikely to be the only one in circulation in the country.

Racing: Kiwi racing fan still has his doubts
Even the man who thought he could make the NZ Warriors work isn't sure if horse racing can flourish in China.