Spring racing carnival
‘I’ve got her back’: Track rider’s near fatal fall and the quick-thinking staff who saved her life
Kendall Dickinson, 24, moved to Australia 11 weeks ago on a working trip of a lifetime, but her family say a heroic track manager is the only reason she’s still alive.
- by Danny Russell
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Does any horse deserve a stakes win? Bjorn Baker thinks he has one
He’s anxious he’s gone to the well one time too many, but Bjorn Baker is confident he can nab the Winter Stakes before Iknowastar’s spring campaign.
- by Adam Pengilly
Prices could be right on the money at Hawkesbury meeting
Training duo Luke and Robert Price look set for a winning day at the NSW feature meeting.
- by John Schell
Secret vets, private security and a US tycoon on the end of the phone: Inside filly’s $10m sale
It’s the most amount of money ever paid for a filly in the world, but does it guarantee she will be any good as a racehorse?
- by Adam Pengilly and Chris Roots
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Horse racing
‘It’s the perfect story’: Winx’s part-owner buys her foal for record $10 million
Debbie Kepitis outbid American tycoon John Stewart to secure the only surviving foal from Australia’s champion racehorse, which will now be prepared for racing by Winx’s trainer Chris Waller.
- by Adam Pengilly
‘A festival of adrenaline and food and drink’: Grand prix’s female-friendly focus
The Formula 1 grand prix is becoming like the Birdcage, say some attendees.
- by Stephen Brook
‘Like the Birdcage without horses’: Open celebrates Sunday funday
Tennis Australia chair Jayne Hrdlicka had a succinct phrase to sum up the official attitude towards the first Sunday match day: “Woo-hoo!”
- by Stephen Brook
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Racing integrity
Jamie Kah was ‘immature, irresponsible’, but white powder case dismissed
The star jockey will not face any penalties after footage of Jamie Kah cutting lines of white powder at her home was widely circulated.
- by Carla Jaeger
Thousand Guineas trophy on the plane to NZ
Businessman Brendan Lindsay’s confidence in filly Joliestar was fully justified when the Chris Waller-trained daughter of Zoustar proved too strong in Saturday’s Thousand Guineas.
- by Damien Ractliffe
Ride of the week, the fairytale and the horse to follow: Best of the Cup carnival
Flemington has enjoyed a carnival to remember, with mostly glorious weather greeting more than 260,000 spectators across the four days.
- by Damien Ractliffe
Flemington Wrap
Horse racing
McDonald the carnival king as Flemington misses a last-minute Oliver twist
James McDonald stamped himself as the king of the Melbourne Cup carnival by claiming the Champions Stakes, denying Damien Oliver a fairytale Melbourne finish.
- by Andrew Wu, Damien Ractliffe and Rob Harris
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