• Michael Lynch

She may be Queen of the Turf, but that is no guarantee Michelle Payne can produce a fairytale every time she takes to the track.

• Chris Roots

 Jamie Lovett might not even get to Randwick on Saturday to watch Japanese import Tosen Stardom take on Winx in the Australian Bloodstock silks because Friday could be "a bigger day".

• Chris Roots

James McDonald labelled Astern "a freak" after his Golden Rose win on Saturday and international rating outfit, Timeform, agrees putting it alongsides Frankel's only run at 1400m as a three-year-old.

• Michael Lynch

Imagine you are an apprentice carpenter, hairdresser or a trainee in an office occupation and your employer suddenly goes out of business.

• Michael Lynch

Leading Irish trainers Aidan O'Brien and Willie Mullins saw some of their potential Melbourne spring carnival contenders fail to advertise their prospects in major races in Ireland and England over the weekend.

• Chris Roots

The Darren Weir juggernaut continues to roll on, the champion trainer landing a one two in the Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington to make it two out of two for the stable in Group One races run in Victoria so far this season 

• Michael Lynch

Flemington's famous "straight six" can be a trap for young horses, inexperienced youngsters used to running round a bend and taking a lead from a rail.

• Michael Lynch

The Darren Weir juggernaut continues to roll on, the champion trainer landing a one two in the Group One Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington to make it two out of two for the stable in Group One races run in Victoria so far this season 

• Chris Roots

Chris Waller left Rosehill with a winning treble and a series of group 1 contenders on Saturday. He had supplied a winning double for Hong Kong jockey Joao Moreira, who answered his Australian critics politely and with a smile.

• Chris Roots

Astern is a horse that intimidates his rivals before the race then destroys them in it.

• David Polkinghorne

Plenty of chances in what could an historic final running of the Canberra Cup.

• Max Presnell

In a period of jockey baking, Astern will require a Jim Cassidy special from James McDonald in Saturday's Golden Rose at Rosehill Gardens.

• James Hall

Wagga trainer Todd Smart is hoping to produce the next Fell Swoop or Single Gaze in Canberra.

• Chris Roots

For David Morrow work comes first as rugby league reaches the pointy end of the season, so he will have to watch talented mare Savoureux on television in the Sheraco Stakes on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Good horses teach trainers but in turn a trainer often has to teach a good horse how to show its best.

• Mark Mazzaglia

Sydney race day preview at Rosehill.

• Mark Mazzaglia

Melbourne race day preview: Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

• Michael Lynch

Another Saturday, another group one race, another field studded with Darren Weir contenders.

The science is "overwhelming" that cobalt can act as a doping agent and is performance enhancing for racehorses, Racing Victoria's head vet maintains.

• James Hall

Spring racing gets underway at Canberra's Thoroughbred Park.

• John Holloway

The 2016 breeding season is in full swing in the Hunter Valley with horse floats bustling to and from the major stud farms as thoroughbred players aspire to produce a future superstar. The exciting part of the first 10 days of the season has been a tremendous push for the freshmen stallions, hopeful of transferring their racetrack deeds to the breeding barn.

• Chris Roots

NSW horses dominate the nominations for the Australian horse of the year awards, which will be presented at the Four Seasons Hotel in Sydney on September 29.

The driver of Racing Victoria's cobalt rule believed there was no issue over the testing despite the racing labs lacking specific accreditation covering horse urine.

• Patrick Bartley

  The long and much debated saga on Michelle Payne's return to the saddle is over after the Melbourne Cup winning jockey took a mount at the Sale race meeting next Sunday.

• Chris Roots

There is a pleasure in riding Southern Legend for Tim Clark, given it is trained by Melbourne Cup winner Les Bridge. The wily trainer has been a supporter of Clark's since he was an apprentice and it was Bridge's Hot Danish that helped earn him a Hong Kong stint.

• Chris Roots

Tommy Berry has won a Golden Rose, his first group 1 on Epaulette, but he has never gone into the race as confident as he is about Divine Prophet's chances  at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Adrian Bott is planning to wear his birthday present from training partner Gai Waterhouse, a tie that is "a bit flamboyant like her" to Golden Rose day and hoping it will be in the winning photos with either El Divino or Thronum.

Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey has blamed a backlog at the testing laboratory for the delays in telling trainers Danny O'Brien and Mark Kavanagh about their cobalt positives.

• Patrick Bartley

Top jockey Mark Zahra's insurance provider is being sued by WorkCover to recoup more than $1.4 million in costs and any ongoing expenses relating to a race fall at Moonee Valley in 2010.