Two of Australia’s best jockeys have been hospitalised after a horror accident at Flemington on Saturday.

An unbeaten Queensland horse could be stripped of its win in a $200,000 race in Brisbane last year after returning a bombshell drug result.

The Australian racing community is in deep mourning following the death of revered industry identity Deane Lester, aged 54.

In a sport blessed with an abundance of young talent, harness racing wound back the clock at Melton on Saturday night with a remarkable trifecta of octogenarians finishing the huge Summer of Glory meeting.