A new pathway for young people to enter the thoroughbred industry has been established with Thoroughbred Breeders Australia (TBA) announcing the launch of a graduate program.  The scheme will give university leavers the opportunity to learn from some of the biggest names associated with racing, breeding and wagering. Those accepted on to the course will... Read More

Colin McKenna, the self-made meat processing billionaire, who also built a racing empire from Victoria’s western districts, died on Sunday after a short battle with illness. McKenna’s meat processing company, The Midfield Group, which he founded, advised of his death, aged 74. “It is with heavy hearts the McKenna family wishes to advise our founder,... Read More

Black type status for New South Wales’s list of 12 races supposedly given recent upgrades – including the four already run – have no recognition internationally, it has been confirmed, as the chaos surrounding Australia’s grade pattern continues. It comes as the influential Society of International Thoroughbred Auctioneers (SITA) expressed its severe disappointment that Australia... Read More

Australia will soon have a plethora of black type upgrades, all decided on race ratings alone and in the absence of a traditional pattern committee – a body said to be anti-competitive under legal advice understood to have been put to Racing Australia from New South Wales. As a potential clash with international authorities looms,... Read More

Further black type upgrades spark concern from sectors of the breeding industry News that 12 Sydney races will receive black type upgrades – aside from elite-status status for The Everest (Gr 1, 1200m) and Melbourne’s All Star Mile (Gr 1, 1600m) – has sparked a concerned reaction from sections of the breeding industry. Despite the... Read More