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Asian Racing Review: Joao Moreira’s Randwick redemption?

Michael Cox and Andrew Le Jeune break down last weekend's monster Dubai World Cup meeting and look ahead to Day One of the Championships at Randwick, where Joao Moreira makes his long-awaited Sydney Group 1 return.

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Bren O’Brien

Exchanging fortunes: does Betfair have a retail future in Australia?

Betfair has ridden a roller coaster of fortunes in its 18 years in Australia. Bren O’Brien looks at the role of the betting exchange in the past, present and future of the Australian wagering landscape.

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David Morgan

Hong Kong interest in Communist, Freedman just wants a lightweight

The Randwick Guineas winner has attracted informal enquiries from Hong Kong but the three-year-old has plenty of lucrative incentives to keep him in Australia.

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Bren O’Brien

State of play: the key challenges at the heart of Tasmanian racing

With increases in prize money, wagering, government support and yearling prices, thoroughbred racing and breeding in Tasmania looks to be in rude health, but dig a little deeper and there are significant challenges in the island state.

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Michael Cox

Mick Tubman and the $15,000 ‘Fairytale Filly’, Chance Bye

When small-time trainer Mick Tubman made a spontaneous decision to go to the 2009 Inglis Classic Yearling Sale, he found a low-flying bargain that would claim the G2 Silver Slipper on her way to winning more than half-a-million dollars.

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【初露鋒芒】John Messara談「滿樂時」 評價日本種馬表現

這位阿羅非爾德育馬場的掌舵人談及與社台的深厚關係,以及日本產種馬能揚威國際的獨特之處。

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David Morgan

John Messara talks Maurice, diluting Danehill, and Japan’s influence

The Arrowfield Stud supremo relates his long association with Shadai and extols the qualities that make Japanese horses and their bloodlines such a force in world racing.

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Bren O’Brien

The Australian tote is dying, but does anybody care?

With data indicating that parimutuel win bet turnover on Australia’s major meetings has more than halved over the past 12 months, the future looks grim for the ‘TAB’ in the birthplace of the totalisator.

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Costa Rolfe

‘She was dynamite’: remembering Hot Danish, punters’ princess

Tim Clark speaks to Asian Racing Report about his star mare Hot Danish, whose bombproof racing style and grit in a close finish made her greatly admired among Australian racing fans.

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Michael Cox

COMMENT | Late finishes, early starts and no days off: what gives in racing’s staffing crisis?

Nighttime and twilight meetings may please the beancounters and feed the turnover machine but the human cost is becoming evident and in a competitive market, chronic staff shortages are the norm, writes Michael Cox.

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Michael Cox

Dismissed globally, diminished domestically: The Melbourne Cup’s identity crisis

A second-tier global event or a domestic race with declining popularity? The Melbourne Cup could be at a turning point.

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David Morgan

Sydney’s Doncaster Mile is on Serifos’ radar

Lightly-raced Japanese miler Serifos could head to Hong Kong and next year Australia after missing out this month on a lucrative challenge down under.

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Costa Rolfe

Stewards’ room drama: Australian racing’s five most controversial protest decisions

As a rule punters tend to have long memories, but never so long as when they lose a race in the stewards’ room… Behold, five of Australia’s most infamous protest decisions.

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Bren O’Brien

Risk delivers reward for Godolphin as Anamoe charts history

The decision to press on with Anamoe into a four-year-old campaign has already paid Group 1 dividends for Godolphin, but it is not without its challenges.

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Bren O’Brien

COMMENT | Target 50: What an Australian racing calendar looks like with 24 fewer Group 1s

Ahead of the first of 74 Group 1s this season, it is clear that there are too many Australian races run at the elite level. So what does the Group 1 calendar look like cut back to 50?

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Michael Cox

Where are the Japanese? Work to do to entice Asian participation in spring carnival

Not for the first time a virus has stalled momentum on Japanese participation in Melbourne’s spring carnival.

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Costa Rolfe

The five most underrated Australian racehorses of the last 25 years

So many incredible thoroughbreds have graced the Australian turf over the last 25 years that – perhaps due to quirks of the collective psyche, or just sheer weight of numbers – some are, inevitably, more readily forgotten than others. 

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Bren O’Brien

OPINION: State of bliss as Newgate’s pivot strikes paydirt

State Of Rest’s Royal Ascot win in Wednesday’s Prince Of Wales’s Stakes was another feather in the cap of Newgate Farm when it comes to making the right decisions.

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