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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 exclusively on the flat. Few females have turned their hand to the jumps. There has long been a perception ...

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 might get Saturday and we’re going to get a better indication from the BOM tomorrow than we would to...

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 other great training properties, but probably none like David Hayes’ masterpiece. Hayes was in a slum...

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. In recent years, locals have played second fiddle to imports. It was hammered home as recently as l...

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 “$1.04” that Racing Victoria would continue to rotate the race through the three city tracks. Br...