• Patrick Bartley

While Darren Weir's vast resources of quality racehorses will be on display this Saturday in the $500,000 Memsie Stakes at Caulfield, another trainer from over the border will be hoping that his sole entrant can return to his best in the first group one for the season.  

Victoria Police are making a new bid to ban controversial jockey Danny Nikolic from race tracks.

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• Patrick Bartley

After only a year with Victoria Racing's big online investment, CEO Scott Perrin has left the operation.

• Patrick Bartley

At rain-soaked Ballarat on Sunday, one of the nation's finest fencers won a second Grand National steeple.

• Chris Roots

Fresh from a first-up win on Winx, Hugh Bowman will join the next generation of the family when he rides El Divino in Saturday's Run To The Rose at Rosehill as a lead into next month's Golden Rose.

• Chris Roots

Winx is a box office gold mine and if she keeps putting on a show like she did in Saturday's Warwick Stakes, punters should turn out in record numbers at Randwick in the next month.

• Chris Roots

After producing brilliant finishes at Randwick on Saturday, Divine Prophet and Omei Sword were lifted to the top of Golden Rose betting but neither are assured of starting in next month's group 1.

• Chris Roots

There wasn't a moment of doubt with Winx in the Warwick Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Brenton Avdulla has positioned himself to be the lightweight jockey for Godolphin and the Chris Waller yard and it delivered a black type double at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Harness Racing NSW will commence construction on another stable block at Menangle next month after the house full went up on the training centre.

• Patrick Bartley

While Darren Weir is convinced that his sprinting three-year-old Ken's Dream, who was victorious in Saturday's $120,000 McKenzie Stakes, has a bright future the trainer maintains it may not be this Spring that we see the best of the youngster.

• James Hall

Canberra's Fell Swoop topped off a break-out year for Matt Dale's stable.

• Max Presnell

Champions, an exclusive club in which the outstanding Winx is seeking entry, can be gained more by worthy defeat than success over Bum of the Month opposition.

• Patrick Bartley

Bob Skelton, known as one of Australasia's most gifted distance riders and who endured deplorable conditions to win the 1976 Melbourne Cup on Van Der Hum, has died at the age of 81. 

• Chris Roots

There are a couple of things that came to Gary Portelli's mind as Rebel Dane prepares to take on the mighty Winx in the Warwick Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

David Hayes and his team have worked out a way to split their three-year-old riches and decided Derryn is the right option for the Golden Rose in Sydney.

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"I got it completely wrong and thought they'd all make three-year-olds, which shows what I know." So said Angus Gold, one of the  foremost yearling buyers in the world at the opening session of the Arqana Premier Yearling Sales at Deauville, France, last Sunday, regarding his initial thoughts of the progeny of the Frankels.

• Patrick Bartley

Ahead of the much anticipated return to racing of world class race mare Winx, her trainer has admitted that he won't be distracted by lucrative overseas races in the coming six months.

• Chris Roots

Most people in racing wait a lifetime for a horse like Winx. Trainer Chris Waller knows it, so does jockey Hugh Bowman, but owner Peter Tighe has waited longer than both of them to find not only a champion but a group 1 winner.

• Chris Roots

Christian Reith believes Randwick Guineas winner Le Romain has taken the steps he needs to be competitive at the top end during the spring.

• Chris Roots

Michael Costa has only been at the training caper for five years and just ticked over the $1 million mark in prize money, but he has been waiting for a filly such as Manaya.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin-retained jockey James McDonald left Australia for Europe after the Brisbane carnival needing to escape. He wasn't enjoying his job, mainly because he wasn't living up to his own expectations, but he knew he wasn't matching others' expectations either.

• Chris Roots

The return of Winx in Saturday's Warwick Stakes at Randwick coincides with the return of champion jockey Hugh Bowman, who is looking forward to being back at the races after an extended break through suspension.

• Mark Oberhardt

​Star filly Yankee Rose will begin her ambitious spring campaign in the Group One Golden Rose without a lead-up race.

• Patrick Bartley

Australian Racing officials have welcomed the news that the first American-trained stayer could compete in this year's $6 million Melbourne Cup.

• Patrick Bartley

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Michelle Payne has been offered the ride on Group 1 winner Azkadellia when the mare competes at the Breeders' Cup meeting in the United States.

• Chris Roots

Punters have never been better informed than in 2016 but the more information people get the more they want.

• Chris Roots

Winx has certainly changed Chris Waller's life in some ways, but in other ways things are pretty much the same as she gets set to begin her spring preparation in Saturday's Warwick Stakes at Randwick.

• Chris Roots

When Testashadow took out the Spring Preview at Rosehill on Saturday, Gary Portelli had to ponder what it previewed.