Cruising Speed picks up the pace and other top stories.

• Cruising Speed picks up the pace

  SAVABEEL filly Cruising Speed is rewarding connections for their patient approach and according to co-trainer Chris Meagher, the best is yet to come. Cruising Speed made it three wins in five starts when producing a powerful finish to land the Class 3 Plate at Doomben on Saturday.She counts Emancipation as her third dam and was an $80,000 purchase out of New Zealand for Grant Morgan’s On-Track Thoroughbreds.“I thought we stole her at the time and the pedigree has improved further since,” Morgan ..

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• Litfin chases golden boot award

  

  YOUNG Gold Coast City striker Ben Litfin is keen to take advantage of the absence of designated penalty-taker Roman Hofmann to build his strike rate. Litfin, 21, has scored 11 times this NPL Queensland season and sits third on the goalscoring list behind James Carroll (FNQ, 13) and Rhys Meredith (Brisbane Strikers, 12).A game away to South West Queensland in Toowoomba tonight presents Litfin with a golden opportunity to make up ground, especially after he scored four goals in a 7-1 win the last ..

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• Teams battling for finals berths

  

  A WIN in their next fixture against Toowoomba on July 29 can clinch a home final in the Queensland Basketball league for Logan Thunder’s women’s team.The Thunder is almost certain to meet the Gold Coast in their first finals clash despite three games remaining in the regular season.While both teams have already sealed a postseason berth, Logan Basketball operations manager Luke Cann said the fixture was almost locked in.“Any finals game is hard so there’s no ideal match up,” Cann said. “It’s abo..

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• Akavoroun should stay in Brisbane: Meagher

  Mark Oberhardt Brisbane Saturday 23 July 2016, 5:10pm Melbourne trainer Ciaron Maher will be asked to leave Akavoroun in Brisbane after the gelding broke his long winning drought at Doomben.Akavoroun ($5) scored his first victory in 741 days when he beat Brettan ($8) by 1-1/2 lengths in the Listed Tattersall's Mile (1600m) on Saturday.The gelding was Maher's first winner this winter but he did have several stakes minor-placed horses, including his mare Azkadellia in the Group One Doomben 10..

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• Rookie pilot pulls man from burning car

  

  Erin Edwards - Yahoo7 News on July 22, 2016, 11:23 pm Video Pilot risks life to save man from burning car A student Army pilot who risked her life to pull a man out from a burning vehicle says she has no doubt she would do it again.Oakey cadet Ingrid Dylan was out on her final training mission on Thursday night when she and her instructor spotted a fire.The duo orbited back to the scene near Blackbutt, north of Toowoomba, where she saw a man trapped inside the car through ..

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• Why cruise ship in Wollongong is a landmark moment

  

  Destination Wollongong boss Mark Sleigh tells us why a cruise ship in Wollongong is a landmark moment for the region. The final in a two-part Q&A. Why cruise ship in Wollongong is a landmark moment Royal Caribbean's Radiance of the Seas which will sail into Port Kembla on October 30. The Nan Tien Temple will be just one of the attractions passengers will be able to tour. The area near the grain terminal at Port Kembla where the Radiance of the Seas will dock..

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• Base metals dragged lower by strengthening greenback

  

  Benchmark nickel slid 3.2 per cent to close at $US10,420 per tonne, after gaining 1.7 per cent on Thursday when it hit a 10-month high of $US10,900. Bloomberg A stronger US dollar knocked industrial metals prices on Friday while nickel was also hit as some investors locked in profits from a recent rally.Aluminium bucked the weaker trend and ticked higher as industrial consumers took advantage of recent declines to make purchases.The dollar index..

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• Jaffas and daredevils: life on the world's steepest street

  

  Most people take 10 minutes to climb the world’s steepest residential street. But Bindi Bezar, who works in a pop-up gift shop near the bottom, does it in seven. “I have angina and climbing 276 steps is cheaper than going to the gym,” said Bezar. Baldwin Street, located on the north face of Signal Hill in Dunedin, New Zealand, is booming. Related: Pokémon Go: man quits job to become full-time Pokémon hunter Since being listed in the Guinness Book of Records for its exhausting 1:3 gradient,..

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• What does the future hold for Guvera?

  

  With Guvera limping on despite mounting debts, executive departures and a failed bid to float, Steve Jones looks at how it got into this position and what the future holds for the brand-funded Aussie streaming service. July 23, 2016 12:21. by Steve ...

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• Harrowing video shows trainer zapping greyhound with 6000-volt cattle prod

  

  Yahoo7 News on July 23, 2016, 8:48 am Video Trainer caught using cattle prod on greyhound WARNING, DISTRESSING FOOTAGE: In the wake of the announcement greyhound racing will be banned in New South Wales, shocking video footage has emerged of a dog being zapped by an electric cattle prod before a race.The video, released by the ABC, appears to show a trainer repeatedly shocking the animal as it waits in the starting box ahead of a race.A video, believed to be taken in 2012, appears to sh..

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Young army pilot pulls elderly man from burning car near Toowoomba .	Toowoomba win paves way for national title .
LNP likely to secure Toowoomba south seat as counting continues .	Woman stabbed in face, neck in Toowoomba street brawl .