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Burradoo finished last in his last start but his trainer is not worried.

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   Rarely do we see Spring Carnival plans being hatched in the depths of a Melbourne winter but Caulfield trainer Mick Price is insistent that his lightly raced Yu Long Sheng Hui who was successful at Caulfield on Saturday can return to that track in four months time to compete in the rich group 1Caulfield Guineas.    Price, has always been noted for his careful planning of his vast team at Caulfield, but the trainer maintains a strong argument for the two-year-old attempting more lofty heights in months to come.    "He's a very nice horse and he's showed that at his first race start. Although he's very inexperienced and I'd like to keep him going to knock a few of the rough edges off him I do think he's Caulfield Guineas material.    "He's a very impressive type but once he gets to the front he wants to pull up, but that's just immaturity," Price said.    It was an important victory for Price as the owners of Yu Long Sheng Hui are new clients of Price who have a property at Bayles near Pakenham.    Yu Long Sheng Hui is Chinese for jade dragon, the million dollar Caulfield Guineas is known to be a stallion maker something that would not be lost on the colt's connections and Price believes there'll be significant improvement left in him.    Jockey Dale Smith was just as effusive about Yu Long Sheng Hui's future after Saturday's victory.    "He was three deep and Mick Price told me he was confident that the horse would run well on his home track but the horse is a bit of a `lad'.    "He takes a little bit of riding to keep his mind on the job," Smith said.    The short priced favourite Tenappy Ladies was a beaten commodity on the home turn. However stewards recorded that the horse had a slow recovery rate minutes after the race.    And, the connections of the first winner nearly made it a winning double when Yulong Baby finished second to Pin Your Hopes in the Ale Hcp at Caulfield. Honest middle distance galloper Duke Of Brunswick gave trainer Mick Price a winning double.   Under-rated three-year-old Ocean Embers will head across the border to Adelaide later this month in search of Black Type recognition after she scored a powerful win in yesterday's Sheen Group Plate at caulfield.    Trainer Shea Eden said that he'd been pleased with Ocean Embers' work despite the filly having a throat operation since she last raced.    Her effort will see Ocean Embers head to Morphettville in South Australia for the Lightning Stakes a 1000m Listed event near the end of the racing season.    While Ocean Embers was impressive the performance of runner-up Carterista who came from well back to finish bravely to be second at only its first race start.    The well fancied Lady Esprit and Anatola couldn't match the winning performance of the first two over the concluding stag  And, earlier in the day the Hawkes' training establishment registered their 100th victory for the season when the honest Longeron won the Dunne Plate.    Ironically, when the Hawkes-trained five times the numbers they have today with bases in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane they established a national record of 334 victories.  

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Peter Robl knows Ninth Legion well. He has ridden him for four wins, including a Villiers Stakes, and now he has prepared him for another two stakes wins in the twilight of his career after saluting in the Civic Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

Tim Martin knew what he had on his hands when he rang owner Reg Kemister and told him not to send Pindan Pearl to the broodmare sale earlier in the year.

Jockey Damien Browne had a great end to the Queensland carnival and will comes home to the Sunshine Coast with a stack of confidence on Saturday.

All the winners on Winter Cup day at Rosehill.

All the action from the Caloundra Cup day race meeting on the Sunshine Coast.

The second most powerful man in NSW could have washed his hands of the racing portfolio by now. But Troy Grant argues there is still much to be done after being forced to "sift through the bullshit" of an industry ruled by self-interest.

Chris Waller has a strong hand in the Winter Cup with Brisbane Cup place-getter Junoob and Loophole. The latter is out to become second only to Winx for wins this season for the stable.

Peter Robl has only been at the training caper for six months, but has already racked up an impressive list of black-type successes with a relatively small team.

When talented mare In A Wink arrived at Alan Scorse's stable she had been retired and needed to overcome fear.

At this time of year leading trainers like David Hayes fill a similar position to that of an AFL list manager, sifting through their strengths and weakness for the coming season.

One of the biggest days in racing for trainer Adam Wadick was tempered by his mentor and Crown Lodge pioneer Vic Thompson being in hospital after a heart attack on Wednesday.

Sarah Moody, the wife of suspended trainer Peter Moody, has been fined $1500 for posting a tweet about chief steward Terry Bailey.    

Marialite has earned a Caulfield Cup berth with her upset win in the Takarazuka Kinen.

The national stewards panel will consider making it mandatory for all jockeys to hand in their mobile phones on arrival at a race meeting after serial offender Kathy O'Hara was heavily sanctioned for being caught red handed at Warwick Farm earlier this month.

With the full effects of the Brexit result still being felt across England, the country's falling pound, which hit a 30-year low, may have opened the way for potential Australian horse owners to exploit the widening gap in currencies.

The winning group 1 rides which landed Hugh Bowman and Tommy Berry in hot water during the autumn carnival will form the basis for changes to the controversial whips rules.

It's the final week of the election campaign and racing, one of the biggest industries in the country, has hardly got a mention

Chris Waller, Hugh Bowman and Winx have topped the group 1 tables for season 2015-16 and are set to continue their dominates in next season.

Kelly Schweida has missed one of the biggest days of his training career as Miss Cover Girl scored an upset win in the group 1 Tattersall's Club Tiara.

​Winona Costin admits her goal of out-riding her claim might be out of reach despite coming back and winning on Rock On Zariz in the Highway Handicap at Randwick on Saturday.

Peter Snowden already has the Golden Slipper winner Capitalist back in work for the Golden Rose but the support team keeps getting bigger as Russian Revolution maintain his unbeaten at Randwick on Saturday.

A hat-trick of winners on Friday has all but assured Matt Dale his first Canberra Trainer's Premiership title.

Champion jockey Robert Thompson believes the renovation at Port Macquarie has made the biggest change to a racing surface he has seen in his career.

Todd Smart chases "bigger and better things" with Attainment, while Matthew Dale continues to dominate.

Track bias, the blight of the turf, is a contentious issue with Azkadellia in the Tatts Tiara, the final group one of the season, at Eagle Farm today.

When Kelly Schweida walked up to pick the barrier for Miss Cover Girl in the Tatts Tiara, only gates three and nine remained, he choose the bigger number and his immediate thought "I'd like the other one".

John Sargent sent Elusive Runner to Hong Kong a couple of years ago a baby and he has returned a teenager, still with plenty of untapped potential.