If Price Is Right, Ruler Is Ready To Rumble

A year ago, the big red horse was crippled. Now he's being set for the cups, reports Patrick Bartley.

Getting Ready For The Bounce That Will Be Heard Around The World

IT'S not usual that aspiring AFL footballers wear their failings as a badge of honour, but when it involves coming off second-best to the Brownlow medallist, well, it's kind of like a royalist being bowled over by Prince Charles on his polo horse.

Confident Gai Has A Fight On Her Hands

GAI Waterhouse will send her "Victoria Derby horse" to Kembla Grange in the form of Fight And Defend for the Hollymount Bloodstock Maiden Handicap (1400m) today.

Nolen Gets Back On The Horse

The jockey is fully recovered from a horror fall, Stephen Howell writes.

Gai's Horse Of Year Trialling For Return To Racing

FRESH from being crowned Horse of the Year at Thursday night's NSW Racehorse Owners Association awards, Gai Waterhouse's group 1-winning mare Tuesday Joy steps out on the trial track at Warwick Farm on Friday as a return to racing looms.

Weekend Hussler On The Improve And On Target For Liston

THE odds of Weekend Hussler clashing with the unbeaten Light Fantastic at Caulfield on Saturday shortened yesterday when an abscess on the off foreleg of the horse-of-the-year elect burst.

Women To Lead The Charge

PECULIARITIES of the selection system mean that Australia's two best medal hopes, former high bar champion Philippe Rizzo and pommel horse specialist Prashanth Sellathurai, are sitting out the Olympics.

Girls Back A Winner In Syndicate

NEWCASTLE Jockey Club has come up with a winner by putting together a syndicate of the club's women members to race a horse.