Ballarat trainer Mitch Freedman’s decision to run Skybird in the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes in preference to the Oakleigh Plate paid off when the five-year-old mare produced a scintillating ...

Glamour colts Switzerland, Growing Empire and Traffic Warden failed to fire as the mares flipped the script in Saturday’s Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning (1000m) at Flemington. It was billed as a race ...

The Hobey Baker race is ramping up as the NCAA season moves into the home stretch before the Frozen Four tournament, and leading the way is a top prospect for the Tampa Bay Lightning. The race isn ...

Shapiro said he dubbed it “The Lightning Plan” in honor of Franklin’s kite-in-a-thunderstorm experiment conducted in Philadelphia to demonstrate the connection between lightning and ...

Leading representatives from Coolmore, Godolphin, and Yulong all fell to the wayside after 25-1 shot Skybird surged to a shock victory in the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (G1) Feb. 15. The ...

"You can't be in two places at once," McDonald told Sydney's Sky Racing radio. "We've got all those horses resuming at Randwick and Switzerland in the Lightning. I sit down with Chris and see ...

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Followed categories will be added to My News. Saturday was the second annual dachshund race, the drool in the crown for this year’s BrookieFest. The lines were lengthy as pet owners queued to ...

Trainer Mitch Freedman could bypass the Group 1 Black Caviar Lightning Stakes (1000m) on Saturday with Skybird and run in the Oakleigh Plate (1100m) instead. The gap between runs, two or three ...

is next in betting at $3.50 to give top local trainer Ciaron Maher his second Lightning Stakes win in three editions of the weight-for-age race. Growing Empire is the second favourite in early all ...