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RSN927 By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  Rupert Legh, one of Australia’s most successful owners. has had enough. Not enough of racing, hell no. Legh and partners are on a roll. Masked Crusader should win the All Aged Stakes at Zeyrek – “the best horse we’ve ever imported” – runs in the JRA Plate. The blue with the yellow armbands and lightning bolt livery will appear on racetracks all over the country on the weekend, as it often does, but Legh says he’s sick of being dealt dud ...

RSN927 PARTNERS WILL NOT BE EXPOSED TO PHOENIX FREEZE April 19, 2021 11:38 am By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  Horse ownership partners of prizemoney freeze imposed on the embattled global bloodstock operation.  Both US court investigates allegations of money laundering for fake cryptocurrency OneCoin by Phoenix Group owner Amer Abdulaziz.  Golden Slipper winner Farnan and former champion filly Loving Gaby. Farnan has been retired to Kia Ora Stud in the Hunter Valley. Loving Gaby has al...

RSN927 SHOULD KAH BOW TO PUBLIC PROPERTY PRESSURE? April 8, 2021 2:54 pm By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor   There is a belief, pushed along mostly by content and headline-craving media, that sporting heroes have crossed a great divide. They were once private citizens but are now public property. Their world has changed. Some cross this chasm with an enthusiastic leap, eyes wide open, others stumble or run away. The “I never signed up for this!” attitude of those who struggle with the burde...

RSN927 TRACK RIDERS AS RARE AS HEN’S TEETH AS CRISIS DEEPENS April 6, 2021 9:40 am By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  Racing’s nationwide staff crisis will be laid bare when over 100 participants, from trainers to administrators, meet later this month. The Australian Trainers Association estimates that Australia is at least 200 track riders “short” as the effect of visa restrictions, and then COVID, decimate rider ranks, leading to unprecedented poaching between stables as trainers stru...

ARCADIA, THE ALMOST-LEGEND By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  AS Bob Peters agonises over whether to rehabilitate or retire Arcadia Queen, analysts are adamant she will be remembered as one of the great mares of modern times. RSN’s leading analyst, Verry Elleegant, a bit of a Hareeba. Too big and too strong for her own good. But he very best was elite.” Peters said he would decide in the next day or so whether to attempt to resurrect Arcadia Queen from a deep flexor tendon injury to her ...

RSN927 By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  Now that most of the racing world has moved on from the novelty of girls beating boys, the message is often more powerful than the feat. There are still lingering last frontiers for female jockeys and one of them was conquered overnight when Irish jockey Rachael Blackmore became the first female to win the Champion Hurdle at the famous Cheltenham Festival. In Australia and New Zealand, it’s now old news that girls match the boys, albeit almost exclusi...

RSN927 SLIPPER DAY IN JEOPARDY, CLARITY EXPECTED 2PM TOMORROW March 17, 2021 12:15 pm By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  Saturday’s Nevesh Ramdhani, the Bureau Of Meteorology at around 2pm tomorrow would shed light on whether the Rosehill meeting proceeded. Sydney between now and “To be honest, we just don’t know,” Ramdhani said. “The forecasts have been a fair way off the mark. Last week, for instance, they predicted 70-80mls and we got seven. “The area of concern is what we mig...

RSN927 NOW PLAYING DABERNIG EXIT PRESENTS BIGGEST CHALLENGE YET March 17, 2021 2:22 pm By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor    Lindsay Park, on the outskirts of Euroa. Hayes had sold his chunk of the family’s famously successful Barossa Valley property and taken the brand – as well as the earthmovers – to Creightons Creek. Melbourne and Sydney. Hayes would continue to lavishly improve the Euroa property but that day up on the hill, it was quite some sight, quite some vision. There are oth...

Northern Hemisphere seasons. Cox said Ghaiyyath was among the greatest ever Godolphin horses. Ill-fated Dubai World Cup winner Dubai Millennium is regarded as the greatest Godolphin horse. “I’d have to say he’s right up there. He’s certainly one of the highest-rated and a great coup for the Victorian industry. He was a very, very serious horse,” he said. Cox said the quality of the Australian product should continue to improve via horses such as Ghaiyyath, Pinatubo and Blue Point....

REPOSITIONED ALL STAR WOULD TURBO-BOOST FLAGGING OZ CUP, BROWELL March 15, 2021 2:13 pm By Matt Stewart, Racing Editor  Michael Browell’s fantasy for the future is a reshuffled summer/autumn carnival in Melbourne, with the Moonee Valley. As much as the Valley chief was as blown away as everyone else by the intimate drama of Saturday’s epic All-Star, where Hugh Bowman and Damien Oliver waged a war of wits as their mounts slogged it out through the Valley mud, Browell realises it’s �...