Waikato horseman Craig Thornton does not remind you of Frankie Dettori. In personality, that is.

A lawyer has cast doubt on the validity of a racing horse's urine sample, which showed boosted amounts of a pain relief drug that can also improve performance.

A veterinarian is accused of giving a horse a boosted dose of a pain relief drug, capable of improving its speed, before the horse won a race.

If you're a finely tuned athletic specimen who is unlucky enough to get caught using human growth hormone peptides in Oceania, chances are you're a horse.

Bookmaker Tom Waterhouse will consider legal action against former family friend John Singleton over serious allegations.

Australia is being treated to another saga of power, wealth and politics as a feud within the aristocracy of racing and advertising spills into the glare of the nation's media.

The all-conquering McCarthy stable proved too strong for the Kiwis in the Miracle Mile yesterday, but not with the horse everybody thought would win.

Well, we can pretty much take it for granted now - the High Chapparal horses are not everyday types for a long, hard campaign.

The new order in Australian racing took shape at Randwick on Saturday.

Premier Sydney trainer Chris Waller, formerly from Foxton, has claimed his third Doncaster Mile with Sacred Falls beating glamour colt Pierro in the $2 million race at Randwick yesterday.