Margaret McDonald was born into racing, with her grandfather Fred Hoysted the trainer of Rising Fast and her father preparing the great Manikato. She married trainer Ross McDonald, who died in 2014, ...

Just two weeks out from Ka Ying Rising’s next race, his jockey Zac Purton is undergoing scans after a heavy fall at Sha Tin on Sunday ...

Flemington takes centre stage on Saturday with the running of the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes meeting. The feature is always a much-anticipated race, given it's one of the few 1000m Group 1 contests ...

Ciaron Maher headed a mainland clean sweep of Sunday’s group 3 Hobart Cup (2400m) with the country’s leading trainer preparing both the winner Strawberry Rock and the runner-up Promises Kept. Enjoying ...

Victorian racing has lost a second Sunday meeting in a row after stewards abandoned the Stony Creek meeting due to obvious track inconsistencies. Racing Victoria stewards ruled the Stony Creek surface ...

Ciaron Maher has bolstered his potential Blue Diamond Stakes line-up with stakes winner Icarian Dream making her way down to Melbourne to jump out at Cranbourne on Monday.

McDonald was in Melbourne on Friday morning to ride the Chris Waller-trained Switzerland in a star-studded jumpout at Flemington and the jockey was suitably impressed with the colt who did everything ...

Insurrection was racing for the first time since finishing fifth in a G2 race in Brisbane in June last year. “I was very happy with his run,” Freedman said of Insurrection. “He was first-up for eight ...

Twice beaten Melbourne Cup fancy Vauban will trial at Warwick Farm on Tuesday as work continues behind the scenes to overcome his race day “angst”.

I Wish I Win will continue his path to a return to racing when he jumps out at Pakenham on Tuesday. The star galloper won a jumpout at his home track on January 28 and his co-trainer Peter Moody said ...

Trainer Matt Cumani is getting set to unveil his new Italian import Tempesti. The well-bred gelding has raced exclusively in Italy, with an impressive career record of 19 starts for nine wins, six ...

While the Hayes team narrowly missed the Orr Group 1, the Lindsay Park stable did taste the ultimate success earlier in the day when the remarkable seven-year-old Here To Shock won the BCD Group ...