JustHorseRacing

Australia’s cricket hierarchy hold no fears for Michael Clarke’s long-term future despite injury costing him a chunk of the looming West Indies tour. Coach Mickey Arthur was awaiting results from …

Israel Folau is likely to again be offered a hefty promotional wage by the AFL as chief executive Andrew Demetriou looks to keep the rugby league convert in the game …

Beautifully-bred filly Plucky Belle has landed her first metropolitan win at Sandown and leading trainer Peter Moody believes she will graduate to stakes class given time. The three-year-old is a …

Wests Tigers NRL coach Tim Sheens denies the club’s surprise decision to let Mitch Brown join Canterbury has left them short of fullback options. The season-ending knee injury to rookie …

British Olympic officials have washed their hands of the team’s head doctor who has advised Britain’s athletes to avoid the traditional handshake during the London Games. British Olympic Association (BOA) …

World champion lightweight rowers Anthony Edwards and Sam Beltz have put a down payment on Olympic selection by sensationally trumping Australia’s best heavyweights at the national titles in Perth. Edwards …

Anxious to make up for last week’s Wangaratta debacle, St Kilda will take a full-strength squad to Perth to face West Coast on Saturday. The Saints were reduced to playing …

Shellshocked Australian coach Mickey Arthur has gone back to the drawing board to devise tricks to defeat Sri Lanka in Thursday’s tri-series decider. Arthur has bluntly told Australia’s players of …

Melbourne NRL coach Craig Bellamy says Canberra coach David Furner must think the Storm are a “bunch of hillbillies” if he believes the players are taught to tackle around the …

Jamal Idris looms large, but so does Gold Coast’s fortress of Skilled Park when Canberra take on the Titans in their second round NRL clash on Saturday. Halfback  Josh McCrone …

Two new faces feature in the Hurricanes Super Rugby team named to take on the Western Force in Perth on Friday. Jeffery Toomaga-Allen will start at tighthead prop and TJ …

Chiefs coach Dave Rennie has kept the same starting team which dismantled the Blues 29-14 last week for Friday’s third-round Super Rugby match against the Crusaders in Napier. The only …

Flemington trainer Dean Lawson is taking it one race at a time with Mr Chard who resumes following an injury-enforced layoff of a year in Saturday’s $1 million Newmarket Handicap …

Injured Australian captain Michael Clarke will be joined on the sidelines by paceman James Pattinson for Thursday’s tri-series decider against Sri Lanka. Pattinson has strained a buttock muscle and will …

The outside barrier for Cox Plate winner Pinker Pinker wasn’t in the script for trainer Greg Eurell but it hasn’t dented his confidence ahead of Saturday’s Chipping Norton Stakes. Pinker …

The Ringmaster will have his final dress rehearsal for the Listed Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba later this month when he lines up at Doomben on Saturday. Almost every Toowoomba trainer …

New Zealand’s hopes of exploiting helpful conditions and running through South Africa have fallen flat in the opening session of the first cricket Test in Dunedin. South Africa were 1-86 …

A meeting of supporters and potential investors has Gold Coast United players and staff clinging to hope the team could remain in the A-League next season. Gold Coast United interim …