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• Mount Nelson Triumphs

  Aidan O’Brian has been in the winners’ circle at the Group 1 Coral Eclipse Stakes previously with Hawk Wing, Oratorio and Giant’s Causeway. On Saturday, 5 July 2008, he was there for a fourth ...

• Suffolk Downs Purse Increase

  The stables at Suffolk Downs opened on the 28th of March 2008 and training sessions were in full swing by the end of the day on the 1st of April 2008. A month of preparation and planning will be ...

• Record Sale of Auckland Reactor

  Everyone in the harness racing community of New Zealand would agree that Auckland Reactor is probably the best three year old pacer that the country has seen in while. Sired by the legendary ...

• Gearing Up for Guineas Festival

  The horse racing industry is busy gearing up for the QUIPCO Guineas Festival, which is to be hosted at the Newmarket Racecourse on 30 April and 1 May 2011. It is the two Guineas races that will ...

• Regal Parade Victorious in Ayr Gold Cup

  The Ayr Gold Cup Festival was held at the Ayr Racecourse from the 18th to the 20th of September 2008. The highlight of the festival was the running of the Ayr Gold Cup on Saturday, as it has a ...

• Horse Racing Complex for China

  Approximately twenty minutes from Beijing lies the sixth largest city of China, namely Tianjin. With a massive urban land area and natural resources, such as the Yangtze River, Hai He River and ...

• Takeover Target earns well deserved ovation

  The story of Takeover Target reads like a fairy tale. Foaled in the year 1999, Takeover Target was bought by a taxi driver named Joe Janiak, who managed to scrape together $AUD1250, for the ...

• Barbaro…our new hope! – Horse Racing

  "Oh boy, is this great?" That's what Kent Dorfman said in Animal House many years ago. And it's that same adage that could be said right now about the eye-popping and heartwarming performance ...

• The Breeders Cup: How the Best of the Best are Selected

  Everyone in the horse racing world must dream of taking part in the Breeders Cup, a premier U.S. event every November. Television screens, satellites, and computers have made life easy for ...

• International Interest in Melbourne Cup

  The Melbourne Cup will be hosted by Flemington Racecourse in Australia on 4 November 2008, and it is one of the most prestigious events of the horse racing calendar. And now, as if an ...

• Silver Birch – Unexpected Grand National Champion

  At 33-1 odds, no-one would have thought that Silver Birch stood a change in winning the Grand National. Which proves that you should never underestimate any horse that enters such a prestigious ...

• Havre de Grace Wins Woodward, Aims for Beldame

  Horseracing enthusiasts no doubt remember the 2009 Woodward Stakes at Saratoga, where Rachel Alexandra thundered over the finish line becoming the first filly to take the number one spot for ...