• Chris Roots

Premier trainer Chris Waller weighed up all the options for star filly Omei Sword before deciding to run her in Saturday's Golden Rose on her home track of Rosehill.

Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey admits the rules of racing were not "strictly" followed in testing for cobalt.

The long wait for connections of Lucky Liberty is almost over with the talented but injury-plagued gelding ready to race for the first time in 18 months at Sandown.

• Chris Roots

Silver Shadow Stakes winner Omei Sword is favourite for Saturday's Golden Rose after Chris Waller announced she would run on Monday.

• Melissa Singer

Serial fashions on the field entrants are unhappy with changes to the event's format.

• Patrick Bartley

The loss of Dr Brian Stewart from Victorian racing is a massive blow in this state according to racing officials.

• Michael Lynch

Sheik Fahad Al Thani of Qatar's ruling family could not have had a better introduction to Australian racing than winning the Melbourne Cup with Dunaden in 2011.

• Chris Roots

The Australian Turf Club already has several Melbourne trainers looking for stables at its tracks and the list is only going to grow with the prizemoney rise to be confirmed on Tuesday.

• Chris Roots

David Vandyke's worries have eased with Yankee Rose heading into Saturday's Golden Rose after a raceday gallop at Sunshine Coast.

• Chris Roots

Team Hawkes continued their great run with three-year-old and added another name to the watch list as Swear continued his unbeaten in the Ming Dynasty Quality at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin chief executive John Ferguson came out to Australia to check out the operation this week and was on hand for a winning double at Randwick on Saturday. 

• Michael Lynch

The  Moir Stakes has been the personal fiefdom of that great old sprinter Buffering for the past few years, but Mark Kavanagh is aiming to not just see off the Queensland hero but also Australia's star sprinter Chautauqua in this year's contest at the end of Septmeber.

• Michael Lynch

Awesome Rock blew away his rivals to guarantee himself a Cox Plate start with a storming two length win in the Group Two Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley, belying his $31 starting price and gaining a measure of compensation for his disqualification in the Australian Cup last season.

• Chris Roots

There was no Winx at Randwick on Saturday, Hartnell provided a star performance in the Chelmsford Stakes.

• Michael Lynch

It's not often Darren Weir goes into a Melbourne metropolitan race mob-handed and fails to land a winner, never mind a placed horse.

• Max Presnell

Her Majesty The Queen, the owner of Bold Sniper who is taking the low road to the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups in Saturday's Signs Handicap at Moonee Valley, was a cog below royal reserve when Bob Hawke rode home a result with unabated enthusiasm at Canberra in 1988.

• James Hall

Queanbeyan trainer Joe Cleary was given one request by the owners of Chaquinta; win a country picnic.

• Chris Roots

The Cleaner has won the past two Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes and is unbeaten over the mile at Moonee Valley but it will prove his "defining race" for the spring when he steps out on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

James Cummings  had a couple of reasons to smile as the rain fell on Friday, it favours his three-year-old Prized Icon, which takes on the older horses in Saturday's Chelmsford Stakes and it may mean super mare Winx isn't at Randwick.

• Chris Roots

Racing NSW is set to take prizemoney into another stratosphere to the rest of the country as a result of a multi-million-dollar package fully-funded by increases to the race fields fees to be announced next week.

• Michael Lynch

Caulfield might have staged the first group 1 race of the season with last week's Memsie Stakes, but with spring officially getting under way on Thursday, Moonee Valley's Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes meeting on Saturday could be said to be the day on which the carnival action begins to really heat up.

• Melissa Singer

The campaign to promote this year's spring racing carnival is artistic, colourful and 'on-trend' but the nudity has upset a few people.

• Chris Roots

Chris Waller is once again preparing for the  longest couple of minutes of the week as Winx heads out for Saturday's Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick. That  is jockey Hugh Bowman's time with the star mare.

• Chris Roots

Kerrin McEvoy believes Orbec will find the 2100 metres of the Wyong Cup to his liking on Friday and if it is wet, all the better. The French import finished midfield with McEvoy in the saddle first-up in the Premiers Cup Prelude and follows the same path as last year, when he ran third in the Wyong Cup.

• John Holloway

Team Hawkes has experienced a sensational start to the 2016-17 season with definite contenders in next week's group 1 $1 million Golden Rose and the stable confidence must be high after Tuesday's Rosehill barrier trials where they exhibited a number of exciting black-type prospects.

• Tom Hackett

Racing preview of Chelmsford Stakes day at Randwick

• Chris Roots

My Country will always have the honour of being the first winner on the new Eagle Farm circuit and that trip away to Brisbane has her ready to take the next step in the spring.

• Tom Hackett

Preview of Dato' Tan Chin Nam Stakes day at Moonee Valley.

• Melissa Singer

Racing Victoria's official advertising campaign features topless models and jockeys body-painted with 'on-trend floral wallpaper prints'.