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A horse vaccine against the Hendra virus is to be rolled out in Australia this month, starting in Queensland and northern New South Wales.

An absence of reserve prices has ensured a big clearance rate at a mass sale of horses owned by mining magnate Nathan Tinkler as creditors circle his mining, sports and racing businesses.

The veteran New Zealand equestrian Andrew Nicholson has capped off a top year with victory at a three-day event in Pau, France. Riding his Olympic mount Nereo, Nicholson became the...

Ocean Park, a New Zealand racehorse ridden by Glen Boss, won the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley in Melbourne on Saturday. Boss is now the winner of three Cox Plates and three Melbourne Cups.

The Caulfield track manager Jason Kerr says his course will be in perfect order for the Caulfield Cup in Melbourne but he will not be doing the international horses any...

Frankel, the world's highest-rated thorughbred racehorse, heads into his probable racecourse farewell this weekend "better than ever and still improving" according to his trainer Henry Cecil, but…

Legislation allowing the establishment of charter schools passed its first reading in Parliament on Thursday afternoon.

The favourite for Saturday's Caulfield Cup in Melbourne has drifted in the market after faring poorly at the barrier draw. The front-running Glencadam Gold has drifted to $4.50 from $3.50...

One of the strongest fields in history will lineup in the Caulfield Cup in Melbourne on Saturday. Thirteen Group One winners are in the field, including two Melbourne Cup winners...

British food and clothing retailer Marks and Spencer has recognised a Hawke's Bay deer farming couple's sustainable farming practices.

The New Zealand equestrian Andrew Nicholson has scored another top win, this time at the Boekelo Military International Horse Trials in The Netherlands this morning. The event also saw New...

US football player turned actor Alex Karras, who played Mongo in Mel Brooks' 1974 comic western Blazing Saddles, has died.

The fiery Australian jockey Danny Nikolic has been banned from horse racing for two years for making threats against Victorian Racing's chief steward. A racing tribunal last month found the...

Red zone ID and security passes, uniforms and order books were stolen from the Christchurch suburb of St Albans on Friday night.

Westpac Bank says it will target customers from its rival National Bank who could be unhappy that the black rearing horse will be no more.

ANZ New Zealand says it has made no decision about whether to drop its National retail bank brand as yet, amid renewed speculation about the future of its black horse moniker.

Apples' latest iPhone 5 is slated to hit New Zealand stores on Friday, and judging by the frenzy it's already generated in the US that may not be soon enough for some.

Sixteen members of a breakaway group from the Amish community in the United States have been convicted of hate crimes for a series of attacks in which they forcibly cut the beards and hair off fellow…

Jessica Springsteen, the 20-year-old daughter of the American rock music legend Bruce, has bought the London Olympic champion showjumper champion Murka's Vindicat. The Dutch-bred horse was ridden by…

Black Caviar has been named Australian Horse of the Year for a second straight year at an awards ceremony in Melbourne. The world champion sprinter raced nine times for as...

The racing horse Mufhasa has been named horse of the year at the New Zealand Thoroughbred awards in Hamilton. It's the second time the horse has taken out the prestigious...

Archaeologists in England searching for the body of King Richard III beneath a parking lot in Leicester say they have found a skeleton which could be that of the monarch, who was killed at the Battle… Audio

Scientists who found well-preserved woolly mammoth remains in a remote part of Russia last week hope they might contain material necessary to clone the beast, which is long extinct.