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I have recently returned from a trip to Hong Kong where racing is the king of sport, not just the sport of kings. In…
On the first Tuesday in November a nation stops to watch the Melbourne Cup - a horse race. Thousands of ordinary Australians are bitten…
Selecting the winner of the Melbourne Cup is not easy. The horse has to be sharp on the day, handle the track conditions, get…
I like to watch the horses all year round - not just spring and autumn - and I generally follow the major racing carnivals…
After the Flemington Makybe Diva Stakes meeting we have had a couple of weeks to assess the Spring hopes of many of the leading…
The best performed young footballer in the AFL in 2012 is ineligible to win the NAB Rising Star Award including a $20,000 investment portfolio.…
The issue of AFL clubs allegedly “tanking” for higher draft picks has reared it's ugly head again this week after Carlton player Brock McLean…
It's a great Australian horse racing story - a young filly bought cheap and raced on country tracks with success. Then, the horse takes…
The AFL first introduced the sub-rule into the season proper in 2011 to “lower the injury rate.” It later admitted the three-and-one interchange system…
AFL premierships are hard to win. Just ask Ross Lyon and Nathan Buckley. But there are three critical steps football clubs must take in…
With 18 teams the AFL season is not getting any shorter. Four preseason, 22 home and away and four weeks of finals matches can…
On six occasions this season, Geelong and the Western Bulldogs (both 4-4) have faced a team with a shorter break. For North Melbourne (3-5)…
Lets face it, State of Origin football in the AFL is dead. The last time AFL players played the traditional format was in 1999.…
Under current AFL rules, a player is eligible to be drafted by the club of his 'biological father' where the father played more than…
After his stellar start to the 2012 AFL season Sydney's clearance-specialist Josh Kennedy has tumbled in from $251 to as low as equal $7…
