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Smart Melody has maintained her unbeaten record with a strong on-pace victory in the Thousand Guineas Prelude at Caulfield. Jumping from 1100m to 1400m on Sunday, Smart Melody was sent …

Chris Waller says champion Winx is in perfect shape ahead of her racing return in Melbourne in the Turnbull Stakes at Flemington. It will be her first start in Victoria …

A return to Caulfield has brought out the best in Native Solider who outgunned his rivals to win the Caulfield Guineas Prelude. A winner over 1200m at Caulfield earlier in …

Lloyd and Nick Williams’ Macedon Lodge stable is starting to strike top form as the spring carnival gets into full swing. The Taj Mahal won his way into 2018 Caulfield …

Queensland mare Houtzen will have a short freshen-up and be set for the Group One Manikato Stakes. Houtzen was fifth in the Group One Moir Stakes at Moonee Valley on …

Cameron Munster’s hopes of claiming the Kangaroos’ No.6 jersey could be dashed as he faces a nervous wait to see if he is charged for kicking the Sydney Roosters’ Joseph …

The choice seemed obvious but retiring Melbourne great Billy Slater reckons he can’t find a clear Test successor, baulking at handing over the Kangaroos No.1 jersey to James Tedesco. Sydney …

An unimpressed Cameron Smith says Billy Slater deserved more respect from fans after they booed the retiring Melbourne great throughout the NRL grand final at ANZ Stadium. Smith cut a …

It was the double-bluff to back-up the single bluff. Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson revealed he had planned to use Mitchell Aubusson at halfback if Cooper Cronk had not played …

Sydney Roosters coach Trent Robinson described Luke Keary best as “a man possessed”. How, with the rugby league world crumbling around him and everyone writing the the Tri-colours off, the …

STATS THAT MATTERED IN SYDNEY ROOSTERS’ NRL GRAND FINAL WIN *Luke Keary is the first five-eighth to win the Clive Churchill Medal since Greg Inglis in 2007. He had 12 …

The prospect of back-to-back AFL flags is already on the minds of some West Coast players, but will Andrew Gaff, Scott Lycett, and Mark LeCras be part of the premiership …

Perhaps Phil Gould summed it up best. “It’s one of the best non-performances I’ve ever seen,” the two-time premiership-winning coach said of Cooper Cronk on the Nine Network. “He’s repaid …

Cameron Smith has ruled out defecting to a rival club as the Melbourne skipper remains unsigned and undecided about his NRL playing future. While it seems unfathomable, Smith may have …

Denied back-to-back titles by the Sydney Roosters, Melbourne say they can still be proud after a testing NRL season. The Storm were comprehensively outplayed by the Roosters in their 21-6 …

Former skipper Jesse Bromwich may miss New Zealand’s rugby league Test match against Australia this month with his wife due to give birth. Bromwich was set to return to the …

Reaction to Collingwood runner Alex Woodward’s AFL grand final gaffe shows why social media is “an absolute nightmare of a system” that ridicules people who don’t deserve it, Jeremy Howe …

World No.1 and top-seed Simona Halep has retired from her first-round contest at the China Open in Beijing due to a back injury. Romania’s Halep lost the opening set to …