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Kerrin McEvoy on hot streak

INTERNATIONAL jockey Kerrin McEvoy proved he had re-adjusted to Australian racing with a brilliant winning treble at Rosehill. The hoop's great day in the saddle followed a Boxing Day double at Randwick courtesy of Serenissima and Referees, both for Darley Australia's head trainer, Peter Snowden. McEvoy landed the treble and a race-to-race double on the Adam Spitzer-trained Smart Punch after wins on Chiamaka for Paul Perry and Altavilla for Snowden. And it was Snowden who was happi...

Lleyton Hewitt and Casey Dellacqua to lead Australia

CASEY Dellacqua will unleash a new service action next week, which, she hopes, will preserve her career. Just when Australian tennis needed a shot of optimism, Lleyton Hewitt and Dellacqua will team to make their comebacks at next week's Hopman Cup in Perth. Hewitt returns to court for the first time since hip surgery in August, and Dellacqua hasn't played since September because of a torn ligament in her shoulder. While Dellacqua's early exit from the Beijing Olympics was blamed on a c...

Josiah wins his third successive race in Australia

KUALA LUMPUR: Josiah Ng chose to race instead of taking a Christmas break and it paid off with a third successive win in the Latrobe Carnival in Tasmania yesterday. Josiah got the better of Australian national team rider Jason Niblett and his Melbourne-based Malaysian team-mate, Azizul Hasni Awang, in the keirin final. Another member of the Australian sprint team, Scott Sunderland, was placed fourth. The respective winners of the heats advanced to the final and Josiah was pleased to have ...

Clarke proves he has mettle to lead

IF there was ever any doubt that Michael Clarke would be Australia's next captain, he dispelled it with the most cool and calculating Test innings of his life at the MCG. Clarke has expensive tastes - buying fiancee Lara Bingle a $300,000 Aston Martin for Christmas - but he also has common sense in spades. His rise from Pup to Top Dog is assured after he provided the batting glue (88 off 208 balls) that stuck Australia's wonky top order together in the most important Test match of the year...

Wild Oats XI wins record fourth Sydney-Hobart yachting race

HOBART, Australia (AFP) — Australian maxi yacht Wild Oats XI won the 64th Sydney to Hobart race for a record fourth time Sunday, just narrowly missing out on breaking its own race record time. The 30-metre maxi finished the 628-nautical mile race down the Australian eastern seaboard in one day 20 hours 34 minutes and 14 seconds. Wild Oats XI holds the race record of one day 18 hours 40 minutes 10 seconds set in its 2005 win. The record was under threat up until early Sunday when the pr...

3-D bowlers put Australia back in the picture

As Chris Read might solemnly swear, cricket is a game of three dimensions. But batting, bowling and fielding do not exist in isolation: rather they seep into each other on an individual and collective level. There is a school of thought, for example, that the highest run-scorers in Australia's history are Glenn McGrath and Shane Warne, while on the second day at the MCG the reverse was true: as Australia took a firm grip on the second Test against South Africa, their greatest wicket-takers were ...

Red Bull’s Mark Webber breaks leg in bike accident but could be fit for first F1 race in Melbourne

The 32-year-old, who drives for the Red Bull racing team, was competing in his own charity event on the Australian island of Tasmania when he collided head-on with a car. Tasmania police said Webber was airlifted to hospital where he is being treated for a broken leg and other injuries. His condition is believed to be serious but not life-threatening. The accident happened on a remote road south east of the capital city Hobart at about 12.40pm local time, police said. Webber was taking ...