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Tabcorp Park Menangle Harness racing fans have been handed an early Christmas present with the elite pacers surprisingly set to have an A$1million race to decide who is Australasia’s best. NSW harness officials confirmed yesterday the Miracle Mile set for Menangle outside Sydney on March 6 will be run for A$1million just months after they thought they may have to halve the stake. Already stakes in many key pacing races have been reduced due to the economic impact of Covid while the Inter Dominions which were to have been held in Sydney this month were delayed a year.

Sara Evans is planning three different shows for a three-night virtual tour set to begin on Thursday (Dec. 10). That doesn't mean she'll tweak the setlist and choose a different dress for the stage — each show will feature a totally unique concept, something that is taking a tremendous amount of preparation. This behind-the-scenes video, provided by Evans the night before her first show, shows how the hard work is coming together. Her version of "My Sharona" by the Knack plays as images of rehearsal zip by. "Almost all of the virtual shows we've done have been acoustic and with my scaled d...

Trish Dunell photo Two of Alexandra Park’s long lost sons could dominate the open class features at tonight’s premier meeting but that may have to do that the hard way. Sundees Son (R4, No.6) and Spankem (R7, No.8) share the quite incredible record of both having not raced at Alexandra Park since May 3 last year when they each won Group One races. When Sundees Son blew away his Rowe Cup trotting rivals that night and Spankem held Turn It Up at bay in the Messenger it would seem extremely unlikely neither would return to Alexandra Park until tonight.

Neighborhoods. >> you can see the flames just about maybe 20 feet away from that one fence. >> reporter: a small brush fire in simi valley spread quickly. hundreds of homes in its path. >> so we're on the northern end of the rustic fire that burned just about a month ago. how many acres burn? >> about 190 acres. >> how far are we from the reagan library. >> as the crow flies, just two miles. >> could we see fire like this up by the reagan library? >> absolutely. i was a young chief officer and we had the immy valley in 2003. we had 40-mile-an-hour santa and ma na winds. the jumped the road and...

>> could we see fire like this up by the reagan library? >> absolutely. i was a young chief officer and we had the immy valley in 2003. we had 40-mile-an-hour santa and ma na winds. the jumped the road and ran right by the reagan library. i'll never forget, i was sitting there, i'd been up for 36 hours and got a call from the deputy chief. he says, teddy, do not let the reagan library burn down. i said yes, sir. he said, by the way the fuselage from the plane is there. i said yes, sir, copy that, boss. >> you did a good job. >> reporter: when the library was built in the early '90s, it was lan...