Uk Giants Chasing Danny

ENGLISH Super League powerhouses Leeds and Wigan are believed to be in a two-horse race for the prized signature of champion Newcastle and NSW captain Danny Buderus.

Subsidy Deal 'unfair'

A MILLERS Forest horse trainer has accused the State Government of placing more financial burdens on horse owners who have already suffered huge losses as a result of equine influenza (EI).

Horse Flu Hits Kiama Show Bid For Record

HOPES for a record crowd at the 160th Kiama Show were thwarted by circumstances beyond the organisers' control at the weekend.

Love At First Sight: Colt's Debut Win For Moraitis

BIG-TIME owner Nick Moraitis was in raptures yesterday when Dubai To Sydney, a horse he was setting eyes on for the first time, gave John Hawkes his first city winner since splitting as trainer for Bob Ingham's Crown Lodge.

Cowboy Mourns A Mate

ADAM Sutton, the Central Coast horse wrangler who inspired Heath Ledger to play a gay cowboy in Brokeback Mountain, spoke yesterday about the loss of his good mate on Wednesday.

High-class Colt Off Table Among Choice Offerings

Australia's most expensive stallion, Redoute's Choice, has again been the headline horse of the week with startling news from both sides of the Tasman, relating to the Karaka Premier Sales beginning on Monday and the Inglis Yearling Sales in mid-April.

Maher Expects Joy From Tears I Cry

CIARON Maher is under no illusion about the task facing his Western District pin-up horse Tears I Cry in the coming weeks, but the Warrnambool trainer suspects the gelding will prove this autumn that he is anything but a one-hit wonder.

End Of Xcellent Career

THE racing career of the horse Mike Moroney suspects will be the best thoroughbred he will ever train officially ended yesterday with confirmation Xcellent had received serious suspensory and fetlock damage on Saturday.

Moroney Crushed As Injuries End Xcellent's Career

THE racing career of the horse that Michael Moroney suspects will be the best thoroughbred he will ever train was officially finished yesterday with confirmation that Xcellent had sustained serious suspensory and fetlock damage.

Horse Flu Clearance Hope High

ALMOST 35,000 horses, donkeys and zebras have been vaccinated against the equine influenza and the Department of Primary Industries said yesterday it was hopeful the state could be free of the deadly flu by mid March.

Loch Ness Lassie

REVIEW WATER HORSE: LEGEND OF THE DEEP (PG) Director: Jay Russell Stars: Emily Watson, Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin, David Morrissey, Brian Cox Screening: general release Rating: * *

Gallopin Towards The Spring Cups

THE most obvious sign that trainer Danny O'Brien rates Bagot Handicap favourite Gallopin a spring cups horse came last Friday at acceptances for today's Flemington meeting.