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Trainer John O’Shea hasn’t won a Derby – but that can change at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Lion’s Roar is set to give O’Shea his first classic success in the Group 1 $2 million ATC Bentley Australian Derby (2400m). O’Shea has had plenty of success with three-year-olds at feature race level including two Golden Roses with Exosphere (2015) and Astern (2016), Doncaster Mile with Racing To Win (2006), Rosehill Guineas with Zabrasive (2010) and also Lion’s Roar in the Randwick Guineas...

Punters post-race: Australian Guineas day in review by James Lamb, Luke Sheehan & David Hocking Lunar Fox caused a boilover in the Guineas Image: Getty Verry Elleegant displayed all of her fighting qualities once again, while Lunar Fox became the longest-priced Australian G1 winner in history with victory in the Guineas. Star Performer Verry Elleegant in the Chipping Norton Stakes (Randwick R7) Her seventh Group One win was a customary tough display as the Caulfield Cup champio...

Experienced Newcastle trainer Paul Perry has put bridles on more than his share of high class horses and latest classy project Sky Lab tackles the older horses on Saturday in preparation for a possible upcoming Group 1 start. It’s almost four years since Perry visited the Group 1 winners stall with The Mission in the Champagne Stakes. The Mission’s Group 1 win was Perry’s 12th success at the ultimate level and followed on from major race successes with the likes of Australian racing grou...

Career change? Legendary ex-jockey Jim Cassidy enjoying learning tricks of training trade Horses by Ray Thomas 8th Feb 2021 6:02 AM Hall of Famer Jim Cassidy, one of the all-time great jockeys, is considering a switch to the training ranks. Cassidy has been working at the stables of Randwick trainers Jim and Greg Lee who are keen for the riding legend to join them in a training partnership. After retiring from riding in 2015, C...

Commander of first flight of space shuttle Challenger dies October 24, 2017 Commander Paul J. Weitz (far right) and the other NASA astronauts who will fly the new space shuttle Challenger — from left, Dr. Story Musgrave, pilot Karol J. Bobko and mission specialist Donald H. Peterson — attend turnover ceremonies June 30, 1982, at Rockwell Internationals final assembly site in Palmdale, Calif. Weitz, 85, who also flew on Skylab in the early 1970s, died Monday. (Doug Pizac/AP) PHOENIX (AP...

Over the years, it was 1 duringe during my active astronaut days, and against because of hurricane damage, we do live on the hurricane coast. the thing that is cool down here. the sitting area, this is where we have our memorabilia room. things that bring us back a lot of memories, is the bottles here each one has the crew -- on a mission and signed by individuals from that particular space crew. mercury was first, gemini, apollo, and sky lab. and then we got space shuttle, now. iss, internation...

Sky. theres a chance debris will hit the ground. its not the first time we have seen a space lab or a space station in uncontrolled decent. it happened in 1979 with the u.s.s sky lab. it happened again in 1991 with a soviet station known as the salute 7. its just kind of fascinating to see this piece of technology descending out of the sky and wondering where it may hit next. the predictions are that it could come down sometime between march 31st and april 1st. george and nally? >> that would be...

Thats why its out of control. nine tons. most of it we think is going to burn up. theres a chance all of it burns up. as ivan mentioned, the last space station in 2001 and 79, the sky lab which the u.s. government got fined $400 because the pieces landed in australia and they got fined for littering. this is what we expect. 80 kilometers up, then additional break continues. we are hoping for little pieces here. i put it right over the ocean so you dont panic and think it is coming to you. we hav...

Of the land. a lot of its desert and mountains so the likelihood -- >> bill: it still doesnt eliminate it. >> technically its not a zero possibility but not something we should worry about. >> bill: with the hubble -- >> it reminds me when i was a kid and sky lab was falling out of the sky. after that, what nasa did was when they were going to put up a big object like hubble or the space station they made the commitment they were going to not just let it fall out of the sky. they were going guid...

Safely in australia and engineers are expecting it. a spokesperson blamed a technical issue saying the safety of our guests is the utmost authority. and a harvard astrophysicists say chinas abandoned space station will crash into earth in a few months. the problem is, they dont know where or when. this space station weighs about eight tons, about the size of a small bulldozer. a rep for chinas space agency says most of it should burn up in the atmosphere but large chunks could hit the ground. sc...