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Natika Riordan on Fiendish before the $24,000 Paddy Byrne Handicap (1200m) at the Kalgoorlie-Boulder Racing Club on Sunday, June 22, 2025.

RACINGCommentsPremiumNatika Riordan gets biggest win in Kimberley Cup

Natika Riordan booted home the biggest winner of her fledgling career when guiding Divine Mercy to victory in the $35,000 Roebuck Bay Hotel Kimberley Cup (2070m) at Broome.

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Sensessional wins with William Pike aboard

RACINGCommentsPremiumSuper Sensessional takes stakes beyond half-a-million

Grant and Alana Williams’ training juggernaut has commenced this season where the last left off, claiming the $100,000 Jockey Celebration Day Stakes (1400m) at Pinjarra with Sensessional. 

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Sunlit Fresco and Alex Hearn taking Monday's trial earlier this week.

RACINGCommentsPremiumCrosby’s Gi Gi Pops set to serve it up to Williams’ Terratif

Hobby trainer Tim Crosby saddles up Justify four-year-old Gi Gi Pops for her return run in Saturday’s third event at Pinjarra with live winning claims to overturn favourite Terratif.

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Sensessional wins at Ascot for jockey Clint Johnston-Porter

RACINGCommentsPremiumChampion trainers set to take Pinjarra feature

Recently crowned as WA’s champion trainers for the fourth time, Grant and Alana Williams have a stranglehold over Pinjarra’s $100,000 Jockey Celebration Day Stakes (1400m) with three of the top four in betting.

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Sisu Warrior wins at Pinjarra for jockey Clint Johnston-Porter

RACINGCommentsPremiumWilliams’ claim fourth premiership and start 25/26 with boom

Grant and Alana Williams have secured their fourth State premiership and will have hot prospects of beginning their season where they last left off in the $100,000 Jockey Celebration Day Stakes.

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Arcadia Park wins at Belmont’s reopening meeting last week.

RACINGCommentsPremiumWhy racing’s been moved away from Belmont AGAIN

Belmont’s racing return was short-lived, with this Saturday’s card transferred to Pinjarra just a week on from their first race in two months. Here’s why.

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Chanel Cooper after riding her third winner, Kervette.

RACINGCommentsPremiumCooper takes midweek treble en route to maiden metro triumph

In search of a maiden Saturday metropolitan-class victory, apprentice jockey Chanel Cooper will hit this weekend’s Belmont meeting in peak form after a treble at the circuit’s Wednesday fixture.

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Shayne Williams (left) poses with Iconic Jet after a Mandurah triumph.

RACINGCommentsPremiumIconic Jet throws down the gauntlet to WA’s fastest chasers

Iconic Jet has laid claims to being WA’s fastest greyhound in recent weeks, shattering a Northam track record and inching closer to the Mandurah mark over the last month.

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Sunlit Fresco and Alex Hearn taking Monday's trial.

RACINGCommentsPremiumHobby trainer’s trio delight at trials

Untapped sprinter Sunlit Fresco led a three-strong team of promising horses from Tim Crosby’s barn on show at Monday’s Lark Hill trials with a taking victory.

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Pike steers King Of Light to a convincing win at Belmont on Saturday.

RACINGCommentsPremiumPike set to claim eighth Australian Jockey Premiership

Champion jockey William Pike has surged to a surely unassailable lead in the Australian Jockey Premiership, blasting eight-and-a-half wins clear of Blake Shinn with just four days left in the season.

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Zadar Rock wins for jockey Keshaw Dhurun at Ascot.

RACINGPremiumCocivera quinellas $50,000 TABtouch Roebourne Cup

After going around as one of the favourites and finishing an eighteen-length seventh last year, Zadar Rock did not let his supporters down a second time by clinching the $50,000 Roebourne Cup (2200m).

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Arcadia Park wins with Clint Johnston-Porter aboard

RACINGCommentsPremiumArcadia Park stays out Belmont Classic strongest

Touted as a match race between the best staying filly and gelding over recent weeks, Arcadia Park put the boys on top when holding off Fancy Red to salute in the Listed $125,000 Belmont Classic (2200m).

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Stephanie Tierney riding trackwork.

RACINGCommentsPremiumNew hoop gets first taste of Bundaberg

A one-time West Aussie will begin a new phase of her career when she makes a belated start to a jockey career and takes her first mounts at Queensland’s Bundaberg racetrack on Saturday.

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Trainer Dan Morton has good odds of victory.

RACINGCommentsPremiumKing Of Light’s stranglehold over Belmont reopening clash

King Of Light will be one of the shortest-priced favourites in metro racing memory when he contests the opening event at Belmont’s return to racing on Saturday.

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Sherpa Express wins with Brad Parnham aboard.

RACINGCommentsPremiumSire Blue Point’s chance at rich and surprising WA double

Blue Point two-year-old Sherpa Express gave the sprinting sire a chance at a lucrative and surprising WA double in the coming days by scoring a maiden victory at Northam on Thursday.

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Arcadia Park wins the 2025 Aquanita Stakes for jockey Clint Johnston-Porter

RACINGCommentsPremiumRecent top staying filly and colt to meet in Belmont Classic

The top staying filly and colt of recent weeks will meet in the Listed $125,000 Belmont Classic (2200m) when Fancy Red and Arcadia Park clash.

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Just Leroy wins with Troy Turner aboard

RACINGCommentsPremiumJust Leroy redeems at Pinjarra after recent disqualification

Just Leroy scored a redeeming victory at Pinjarra on Wednesday, two weeks after being disqualified from an event at the same track.

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Joseph Suvaljko and Longreach Bay take flight to cross and lead the field.

RACINGCommentsPremiumYoung gun Joseph Suvaljko riding crest of a wave

Promising reinsman Joseph Suvaljko is riding the crest of a wave having driven more winners in the opening six months of this year than his first five years in the sulky.

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Shmoov Moova wins at Ascot for jockey Chris Parnham.

RACINGCommentsPremiumBelmont back on the cards for Classic weekend

Following extensive testing and successful trials on Monday morning, Belmont racetrack has been given the all clear to resume racing this weekend for the running of the Listed $125,000 Belmont Classic (2200m).

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Chris Lewis salutes to the sky as Petes Honour wins the Vale Mark Lewis.

RACINGPremiumLegendary sportsman Chris Lewis wins race honouring late son

No one could perfectly capture nor describe the emotions Chris Lewis felt when saluting aboard Petes Honour in the Vale Mark Lewis Pace. So no one tried; they merely combined in a symphony of united applause.

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Chris Lewis salutes to the sky as Petes Honour wins the Vale Mark Lewis.

RACINGCommentsPremiumLegendary sportsman Chris Lewis wins race honouring late son

No one could perfectly capture nor describe the emotions Chris Lewis felt when saluting aboard Petes Honour in the Vale Mark Lewis Pace. So no one tried; they merely combined in a symphony of united applause.

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Wind And The Lion wins with William Pike aboard.

RACINGPremiumPike goes like the Wind with four-timer and Bolton Sprint

Another three-year-old has trumped some of WA’s most hardened speedsters, this time with Wind And The Lion claiming a gritty win in the Listed $125,000 H G Bolton Sprint (1200m) at Bunbury.

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Ethereum Girl’s trainers Ben Hayes and JD Hayes celebrate after Little Brose won the Blue Diamond.

RACINGCommentsPremiumEthereum Girl lands maiden black-type success in Sires’

Ethereum Girl cashed in her maiden big-race triumph in the Group 3 $150,000 South Australian Sires’ Produce Stakes (1400m) at Morphettville, turning the result around after a narrow defeat last start.

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Giaan O'Donnell celebrates after Charleton Eddie's Derby Sprint win

RACINGPremiumO’Donnell cracks it for first win in a big way

Having just her 13th race ride, Giaan O’Donnell broke through for her first career victory aboard Charleton Eddie in the CMC Derby Sprint (1120m), one of the day’s features at the iconic north-west racetrack.

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