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Five horses from five stables tested positive to a breast cancer drug. No one knows why
The mystery of how traces of a breast cancer drug appeared in urine samples taken from five different thoroughbreds, trained by five different stables and racing at five different tracks, might never be solved.
- by Danny Russell
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Race-by-race preview and tips for Wednesday meeting at Gosford
Everything you need to make your selection for the NSW feature meeting.
- by John Schell
How a Sydney grandmother took the world of horse racing by storm
Debbie Kepitis paid a world-record $10 million for the firstborn foal of champion racehorse Winx to keep the filly in the family and in Australia.
- by Jonathan Drennan
Why $10 million for Winx foal could look like a bargain 10 years from now
The record investment by Debbie Kepitis and her family in the champion mare’s only foal could represent the birth of a racing dynasty.
- by Chris Roots
O’Shea confident Awesome Wonder can live up to her name
Trainer John O’Shea will send a strong team to Wednesday’s metropolitan meeting at Gosford, headed by Irish import Awesome Wonder.
- by John Schell
Place Du Carrousel ready for testing Queen Elizabeth tempo
The Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick on Saturday will be no place for the faint of heart, and the forecast fast pace will suit the imported mare.
- by Chris Roots
Race-by-race preview and tips for Tuesday meeting at Kembla Grange
Everything you need to make your selection for the NSW feature meeting.
- by John Schell
Secret vets, private security and a US tycoon on the end of the phone: Inside filly’s $10m sale
It’s the most amount of money ever paid for a filly in the world, but does it guarantee she will be any good as a racehorse?
- by Adam Pengilly and Chris Roots
Hickman and Namoi River chasing Kembla Grange success
The Warwick Farm trainer and fellow city horseman Joe Pride will have runners in action just south of Wollongong.
- by John Schell
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‘It’s the perfect story’: Winx’s part-owner buys her foal for record $10 million
Debbie Kepitis outbid American tycoon John Stewart to secure the only surviving foal from Australia’s champion racehorse, which will now be prepared for racing by Winx’s trainer Chris Waller.
- by Adam Pengilly
‘I won’t be outbid’: American tycoon vows to spend $9 million for Winx filly
The only foal from Australia’s champion racehorse will be offered for sale on Monday and an American has vowed to do almost anything it takes to secure her.
- by Adam Pengilly