29/08/2008 | Australia's immediate cricket focus is on the Top End, but a tour of India by emerging players will have a major say on whether the world champions retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy this year.
29/08/2008 | Chris Guccione's confidence is high - and it needs to be.
29/08/2008 | Bennett takes diligent approach Leading driver Greg Bennett will need all his skill if he is to win his first Chariots Of Fire at Harold Park on Friday night with Be Diligent in the group 1 featur...
29/08/2008 | A-LEAGUE clubs are about to face a new raid on their best players as cashed-up Japanese clubs prepare to launch an assault on the popularity of the English Premier League in parts of Asia.
After 1...
29/08/2008 | WELL-TRAVELLED and injury plagued five-year-old Kiloton debuts for trainer Tim Martin in the opening race at Rosehill on Saturday while former promising stable representative Raheeb lines up as a riva...
29/08/2008 | AUSTRALIA'S world MotoGP champion and Young Australian of the Year, Casey Stoner, is being named and shamed in an aggressive campaign by anti-smoking groups which have labelled him as a "high-speed drug pusher."
29/08/2008 | John Messara told an enthusiastic crowd at Arrowfield Stud in Scone on Monday to expect "The King" to make a major comeback to the top of the Australian stallions' chart.
The King, bet...
29/08/2008 | VICTORIAN jockey Craig Newitt has no doubt Australian Cup winner Pompeii Ruler will run a big race in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield in which Weekend Hussler is expected to dominate.
Newitt combin...
29/08/2008 | THE MAIL Universal Colours has hit his straps since getting to the middle-distance events. He was a solid winner at Rosehill three starts back and has since finished second there and at Kembla Grange last time out when he flashed to the line. With Rod Quinn aboard again, Universal Colours can win the third event at Rosehill on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | JOCKEY-ROOM go-to man Peter Robl is set to play giant-killer again at Rosehill on Saturday.
The Benalla boy has called Sydney home for the past eight months, and Hall of Fame trainers Bart Cumming...
29/08/2008 | THE regally bred dam of untapped colt Dreamscape now resides in the Philippines, but Ashikaga's mother Tropical Dancer is roaming around Mudgee.
The tale of Gooree Stud's two producers giv...
29/08/2008 | Dr Geoff Chapman maintains he was offered $100,000 by John Messara to deter Messara's son, Paul, from a career training racehorses. Perhaps the Doc was having, as we say in the trade, a quiet run, but it was one of the few commissions from which he didn't get favourable results.
29/08/2008 | A rousing first-up performance from Gallant Tess has trainer David Payne eyeing off Saturday's $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill. The former champion South African trainer will start Stripper, B...
29/08/2008 | Gai Waterhouse: Enjoyed a great day at Warwick Farm last weekend when leading in four winners and is out to repeat the effort at Rosehill on Saturday. Waterhouse saddles up the unbeaten Ashikaga in t...
28/08/2008 | Football Federation Australia formally welcomes franchises into A-League fold.
28/08/2008 | Broncos forward says there's no signs of tension between Bennett and Henjak.
28/08/2008 | Cricket sledgers face yellow card system
28/08/2008 | Most of us would know why league has collected one of its worst black eyes this week. If you don't, Google the name Greg Bird. But the game does have a way of bouncing back - in this case, through the celebration yesterday of the career of Danny Buderus.
28/08/2008 | CRONULLA have attempted to distance themselves further from Greg Bird, yesterday removing the lock - charged on Monday with assaulting his girlfriend - from the club's official website.
28/08/2008 | ONE name sums up the action from Beijing's Water Cube. Sure, there was some spectacular racing and the setting of times only recently thought possible, due in part to high-tech swim suits.