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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 hands by a random barrier draw he does not trust. A week ago, Legh went public with his confusion an...

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 also been retired to broodmare duties.  Phoenix was involved in the purchase of 19 yearlings this sea...

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 burden of bright lights and clicking cameras is countered by “you earn a fortune, you owe the public �...

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 struggle to find capable staff. The recent drug sweep at Ballarat, where six of the 40 track riders wer...

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 near side front foreleg. “If she was three, you’d patch her up and go again because it’s an in...