29/08/2008 | Australia's immediate cricket focus is on the Top End, but a tour of India by emerging players will have a major say on whether the world champions retain the Border-Gavaskar Trophy this year.
29/08/2008 | THE girlfriend of Cronulla rugby league star Greg Bird says her immediate concern is to recover from an eye injury and not clear the air about the night he allegedly hit her with a glass.
29/08/2008 | Graffiti painters may like leaving an elaborate signature on their creations, but now the chemical signature of the paint may prove their undoing.
29/08/2008 | Chris Guccione's confidence is high - and it needs to be.
29/08/2008 | Bennett takes diligent approach Leading driver Greg Bennett will need all his skill if he is to win his first Chariots Of Fire at Harold Park on Friday night with Be Diligent in the group 1 featur...
29/08/2008 | A-LEAGUE clubs are about to face a new raid on their best players as cashed-up Japanese clubs prepare to launch an assault on the popularity of the English Premier League in parts of Asia.
After 1...
29/08/2008 | WELL-TRAVELLED and injury plagued five-year-old Kiloton debuts for trainer Tim Martin in the opening race at Rosehill on Saturday while former promising stable representative Raheeb lines up as a riva...
29/08/2008 | NO BABY elephant has ever been born in Australia - but now three elephants are pregnant at zoos in Sydney and Melbourne.
29/08/2008 | John Messara told an enthusiastic crowd at Arrowfield Stud in Scone on Monday to expect "The King" to make a major comeback to the top of the Australian stallions' chart.
The King, bet...
29/08/2008 | VICTORIAN jockey Craig Newitt has no doubt Australian Cup winner Pompeii Ruler will run a big race in the Memsie Stakes at Caulfield in which Weekend Hussler is expected to dominate.
Newitt combin...
29/08/2008 | ANY chance of full-on power privatisation died yesterday, with the Opposition refusing to give the Government the support it needed to get the legislation through Parliament.
29/08/2008 | THE first time Emily Chapman tried to end her life in Cumberland Hospital's psychiatric unit, she saved herself at the last minute by pressing the emergency button. But the response she received was far from compassionate.
29/08/2008 | THE MAIL Universal Colours has hit his straps since getting to the middle-distance events. He was a solid winner at Rosehill three starts back and has since finished second there and at Kembla Grange last time out when he flashed to the line. With Rod Quinn aboard again, Universal Colours can win the third event at Rosehill on Saturday.
29/08/2008 | Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard turned up the heat on the education unions yesterday with the Prime Minister telling them it was time to move into the 21st century.
29/08/2008 | JOCKEY-ROOM go-to man Peter Robl is set to play giant-killer again at Rosehill on Saturday.
The Benalla boy has called Sydney home for the past eight months, and Hall of Fame trainers Bart Cumming...
29/08/2008 | THE Federal Government is threatening to axe nearly one million individual dental services under its new program unless the Opposition gives way in the Senate and votes down the existing Medicare dental scheme for the chronically ill.
29/08/2008 | THE regally bred dam of untapped colt Dreamscape now resides in the Philippines, but Ashikaga's mother Tropical Dancer is roaming around Mudgee.
The tale of Gooree Stud's two producers giv...
29/08/2008 | Dr Geoff Chapman maintains he was offered $100,000 by John Messara to deter Messara's son, Paul, from a career training racehorses. Perhaps the Doc was having, as we say in the trade, a quiet run, but it was one of the few commissions from which he didn't get favourable results.
29/08/2008 | A rousing first-up performance from Gallant Tess has trainer David Payne eyeing off Saturday's $1 million Golden Rose at Rosehill. The former champion South African trainer will start Stripper, B...
29/08/2008 | Gai Waterhouse: Enjoyed a great day at Warwick Farm last weekend when leading in four winners and is out to repeat the effort at Rosehill on Saturday. Waterhouse saddles up the unbeaten Ashikaga in t...