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Ten tracks chopped from New Zealand schedule
Ten New Zealand thoroughbred racecourses have been axed for next season as the rationalisation of the sport begins in haste due to the perilous financial state of the country’s industry. It had already been reported that Avondale, Auckland’s second venue alongside Ellerslie, would no longer host race meetings and New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing (NZTR) yesterday... Read More
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RITA to announce closure of New Zealand tracks
A major announcement is expected today that will likely see up to ten thoroughbred tracks throughout New Zealand closed, including the Auckland metropolitan track, Avondale. On top of the New Zealand government’s emergency support package announced earlier this week, such a shake-up could well have been expected as the new season calendar is expected to... Read More
Exceedance’s fee set at $38,500 to headline Vinery roster
Exhilarating sprinter Exceedance (Exceed And Excel) will stand for the same fee as two of his first season contemporaries after Vinery Stud yesterday confirmed the Group 1 winner would head the Hunter Valley farm’s 2020 roster of six stallions. Successful in last year’s Coolmore Stud Stakes (registered as Ascot Vale Stakes) (Gr 1, 1200m), Exceedance’s... Read More
Bidding in pyjamas: how the online Inglis Easter sale went for one British agent
Tom Pritchard-Gordon of Badgers Bloodstock, one of the few entities who successfully bid on lots in this week’s online Inglis Easter Yearling Sale from the northern hemisphere, is still recovering from staying up two nights in a row to follow the action in Australia but has hailed the process as “relatively pain free” and is... Read More
Racing Victoria latest jurisdiction to cut prize-money
Racing Victoria will cut prize-money and stand down staff in a bid to reduce expenditure during the coronavirus pandemic. From tomorrow, RV said 40 per cent of its permanent staff would be temporarily stood down or required to work reduced hours. The RV board and executive team have voluntarily agreed to a reduction in pay... Read More
Queensland winter carnival scrapped
The Queensland winter racing carnival has been scrapped as the state moves to racing in five separate regions. The winter carnivals in all three codes, thoroughbreds, harness and greyhounds, have been abandoned for the first time in a century and they will be replaced by standard metropolitan race programming with selected feature races. “Given the... Read More