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NEWSTAR Racing, the Australian charity racing syndicate that raises money for the McGrath Foundation, is moving into the UK market.

Gay Kelleway, one of Britain’s leading horse trainers, has joined forces with the Australian-based charity racing club, founded by Bryan Martin OAM, to become the first overseas trainer of the Newstar Racing Club.

 

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DEATH OF RACING’S MOST CELEBRATED AUTHOR DICK FRANCIS

THE British Racing Post reports that ‘friends and family of Dick Francis on Sunday (February 14) celebrated the life of an extraordinary man’ as the legendary jockey and best-selling novelist died at the age of 89.

Crowned champion jockey in 1954, Francis was one of the most successful post-war jump jockeys, with a tally of over 350 triumphs to his name and was famously aboard the Queen Mother's Devon Loch in the 1956 Grand National when he collapsed yards from the line and well clear of the field.

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STUNNING ‘DRUG CLAIMS’ AGAINST MORONEY STABLE BY NZ INVESTIGATORS

New Zealand Thoroughbred Racing investigators have described the leading Matamata stable of Paul and Mike Moroney as ‘dysfunctional’ and claimed it ‘has a culture of excessive drug use by both staff and horses’.

Here is a report run by the award winning news and information website, Stuff.co.nz, which uses the vast resources of Fairfax New Zealand Ltd, involving several hundred journalists around the country providing a single on-line publication.

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QUEENSLANDERS triumphed across ‘the ditch’ when Sister Havana won the Karaka Million at Ellerslie on Sunday for trainer Liam Birchley and jockey Stathi Katsidis.

The win was a consolation for Birchley who finished an unlucky second with Sarge In Charge in the two-year-old classic in New Zealand last year behind The Heckler.

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THOROUGHBRED racing took a massive leap into the future last night (Wednesday - January 28) when the Dubai Racing Club unveiled the new showpiece of the Sport of Kings – the $2 billion Meydan complex.

Meydan – a combination of state-of-the-art racing facilities and world class hotel accommodation and hospitality - provides a horse racing experience unlike any other in the world.

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IN a new service for followers of the letsgohorseracing web-site we plan to run a regular round-up of global racing news which we feel sure will be of interest to our readers.

We run this courtesy of many horse racing news services throughout the world and wish to record our thanks for the opportunity to reproduce these stories from so many wonderful sources.

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READ WHAT ERIC O'KEEFE HAD TO TELL THE WORLD ABOUT OZ RACING

ERIC O’Keefe, author of The Cup, the dramatic story of Damien Oliver’s epic journey to the winner’s circle in the 2002 Melbourne Cup penned this article yesterday on his return to America from Australia.

It was headlined: ‘American Thoroughbred Racing Needs a Lifeline – and the Answer Could Be Found in Australia.’ We are delighted to run this article with thanks to Mr O’Keefe.

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SEA THE STARS EARNS PLACE AMONG RACING'S IMMORTALS

IRISH champion, Sea The Stars, earned his place among racing's immortals with a stunning victory in the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp on Sunday.

The Racing Post reports that Sea The Stars, already a dual Classic winner, scored an astonishing win in Europe's biggest flat race by a couple of lengths over the gallant Youmzain, which took the runner-up spot for the third year running.

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MONGOLIA'S ANSWER TO THE MELBOURNE CUP

IF you thought the two miles of the Melbourne Cup was a grueling test of stamina for the top stayers, spare a though for those that contested what has been billed ‘the world’s longest horse race’ in Mongolia.

Agence France-Presse reports that more than two dozen horsemen raced across the finish line in Mongolia after a test of endurance that would have impressed even Genghis Khan.

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MAN ARRESTED FOLLOWING BLAZE THAT KILLED TEENAGE RIDERS

THE British racing industry has been rocked by the death of two teenage apprentice jockeys in a fire in a block of flats that was allegedly deliberately lit.

North Yorkshire detectives have arrested a man following the fire which claimed the lives of teenage apprentices, Jamie Kyne and Jane Wilson, on Sunday (Australian time).

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