• Megan Levy

A well-known horse trainer has disappeared after attending a weekend race meeting at the Hawkesbury Race Club in Sydney's north-west, police say.

• Patrick Bartley

 Some of Australia's most astute form analysts believe that the Queen Elizabeth-owned Dartmouth could well become outright favourite for the $6 million Melbourne Cup if the horse makes the trip this spring.

• Adam Pengilly

Yes, it's wet in winter. But has it been so wet that more than $2 million worth of races have been lost or repositioned through 18 meetings in less than two months?

• Adam Pengilly

The Australian Turf Club has built a near million-dollar war chest to grow Sydney's autumn carnival internationally in the coming years as it prepares to have three of its biggest races exported into Japan.

• Adam Pengilly

Perhaps unfairly, Redzel has always been that horse. The one that shines brighter than anything else on a midweek morning when they race for nothing at the trials, but he has now finally showed up when it counted.

• Chris Roots

Ricky Blewitt has the best strike rate of any jockey in NSW this season but few would have heard of the champion picnic jockey, who got the thrill of his life at Bong Bong last year.

• Adam Pengilly

Tommy Berry is one of the coolest customers in the business. But a line of questioning from chief steward Marc van Gestel almost tipped him over the edge after he rode beaten favourite Thronum at Canterbury.

• Chris Roots

Steph Burley had to wait a while for her first winner as driver but it took her only about a half-hour for a second as she notched a winning double at Bathurst on Wednesday.

• Max Presnell

"They breed thoroughbreds to the tune of 30,000 a year so for every stakes winner there might be 200 draggers who get shipped off to the meat works when they can't earn their keep on the track. Being a groom is a special vocation – you're here in a lifesaving capacity. The breeders are breeding bigger horses on weaker legs, the owners rarely live around the horses and most are in it for the money or bragging rights, the trainers and vets are shooting them up with drugs and running them injured and the jockeys are making big bucks on their backs. You'll hear them all say they love their horses but as far as I'm concerned the only ones to earn the right to say that are the grooms. You feed the horse, you brush the horse, you pet the horse and then you can say you love it. We have an old saying in this sport. Treat the horse as your friend you're your slave." – The Sport Of Kings (4th. ESTATE, London) by C.E. Morgan.

• Megan Gorrey

A former jockey who became a paraplegic after a race fall at Queanbeyan has failed in his bid for damages. 

• Chris Roots

Tommy Berry has only been on Thronum for about 10 minutes in his life but it only took 60 seconds for Gai Waterhouse-trained Snitzel colt to impress him before his Randwick win earlier in the month.

• Chris Roots

Australian Bloodstock's Jamie Lovett has his tickets booked for Berlin to watch Protectionist next month, but first, a two-year wait will end with a horse which holds form around the Melbourne Cup winner at Canterbury on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Gabrielle Englebrecht has been waiting for a while for Cannyescent to show he is the man she thinks is. She believes the rime has come starting at Canterbury on Saturday.

• John Holloway

The countdown is on for the three-year-old $1 million group1 Golden Rose at Rosehill Gardens as the industry looks for another exciting stallion prospect, with seven of the last eight winners finding new careers at some of the country's major breeding establishments in NSW and Victoria.

• Chris Roots

Michael Keegan gives all the credit for Seventhchic to his wife, Helen – not the past 15 years he has spent looking for a good racehorse.

• Chris Roots

Rory Hutchings knew what he wanted to do, but he never told his boss.

• Chris Roots

Shoalhaven Heads trainer Terry Robinson has been surprised at the way King's Officer has taken to the soft winter tracks.

• Patrick Bartley

Senior racing officials are outraged by an alleged comment from Melbourne Racing Club chief executive Brodie Arnhold that he could help remove two of Australia's highest-profile racing integrity officers.

• Patrick Bartley

Victoria's fourth metropolitan racecourse, Sandown Park, has again proved to be inadequate after officials were forced to abandon its eight-race fixture on Wednesday, triggering yet another please explain from the industry.

• Patrick Bartley

One of Australia's most powerful racing bodies, the Thoroughbred Racehorse Owners' Association, have been highly critical of the new proposed Ride Guide, horse-tipping service.

• Patrick Bartley

Racing authorities fear jockeys could resort to industrial action if they are denied the chance to be a part of the controversial Ride Guide video launched last week.

• COMMENT
• Chris Roots

Greyhound racing in NSW needs to be given a chance with strong leadership.

• Patrick Bartley

Stewards in Victoria and NSW have warned jockeys could be in breach of rules if money is being exchanged for race pointers after new online tipping guide launched.

• Chris Roots

David Vandyke is not locked into certain races on certain days for Sires Produce Stakes winner Yankee Rose.

• Chris Roots

It is the time of year when Mondays and Tuesdays get has much focus as Saturday race meetings as the stars of the turf return at barrier trials in preparation for the spring.

• Chris Roots

Damien Oliver has wasted no time getting back into the winners' circle after a short break.

• Patrick Bartley

It didn't take long for champion jockey Damien Oliver to remind us just how good a tactician he is after a heady ride on Flemington mare Wild Rain to win the Sir John Monash Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.    

• Chris Roots

It was the right day for Oxford Poet in the Winter Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

There are ways of grabbing attention, winning three on end is one way, but doing by margins totalling 21 lengths, like Esteban, makes the trainer, punters and owners think what's next.