The oldest active jockey in Australia has officially retired, reports Racing Post. 71-year-old Keith Ballard rode his first winner in 1969, and closed out his career on Saturday with another winner in ...

After a short-loved retirement because of weight struggles, young jockey Campbell Rawiller is loving life as a senior jockey in South Australia and he wants to become one of the best in the state.

The 41st Breeders’ Cup is precisely what the founders aspired to in the early 1980s when they set it up under the then slightly optimistic and, at the time, dubious slogan “World Thoroughbred ...

Ten-time Group One winner and home-grown apprentice have been granted short-term licences for the back end of the season Prominent Australian jockey Ethan Brown and home-grown apprentice Nichola Yuen ...

In a week where the world’s best horses, jockeys, and trainers are on show, few have attracted more attention than James McDonald—the reigning Longines World’s Best Jockey whose partnership with Hong ...

MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Jamie Melham rode Half Yours to victory in the 165th Melbourne Cup on Tuesday to become the first female jockey to win a historic Australian racing double. A decade after ...

Queensland jockey Luke Tarrant has been remanded in custody after being refused bail on a series of serious criminal charges. Tarrant appeared before the Caloundra Magistrates Court last week, where ...

Lewis German, a former jockey in Australia, has officially been banned from the sport for 10 years, reports racing.com. German reportedly rode to lose on select mounts between April 21 and Aug. 31, ...

Apprentice jockey Caitlin Forrest died on Wednesday after a fall at Murray Bridge race course near Adelaide, the second female jockey to die this week in Australia. Forrest's mount Colla Voce fell, ...