• James Buckley

Astern clashes with Capitalist on Saturday at Randwick before heading south for the spring carnival.

• Michael Lynch

The weather in Europe over the next few days will have a key bearing on the participation – or otherwise – of two of Coolmore's flagship horses in Australia's major races this spring.

• Patrick Bartley

Kalgoorlie builder Kim Renner is lately a little less indignant at how his small group of life-long friends shunned him at their regular drinking session at a hotel back in 2012.

• Michael Lynch

To win big races, horses not only have to be good they have to be lucky in running. But more than anything, they have to be sound.

• Chris Roots

Sydney trainers would rather keep their horses at home for longer in the spring but the lack of group 1 options is forcing them south.

• Chris Roots

John Thompson only took over the training of Sir John Hawkwood for Waratah Thoroughbreds this spring but all the signs are he might have a group 1 winner after Saturday's Metropolitan at Randwick.

• Chris Roots

Hauraki, Dibayani, Happy Clapper and Sons Of John have finished in the shadow of Winx over the Randwick mile in the past year and will look for their time in the sun in Saturday's Epsom Handicap.

• Patrick Bartley

Former Western Australian Black Heart Bart has added another vital dimension to this year's group one Cox Plate.

• Michael Lynch

Black Heart Bart's jockey Brad Rawiller rode through the pain barrier to pilot his partner to another group 1 win in the Underwood Stakes and then declared that he could not wait to take on the country's top rated horse, Winx, next month.

• Chris Roots

Tim Martin has Moral Victory in career best form and he made two wins from as many starts this campaign as he took out the Shannon Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday. But instead of backing-up in the Epsom, Martin will wait for next month's Toorak Handicap at Caulfield to chase a group 1. "He has never gone better, his target is the Toorak and his win last start and today he is well and truly on song," Martin said. "I just want to thank Mark Warlters he and I bred the horse and it has been a tough road with the breeding and it's nice to get a good win. He have had that plan with him and there is no reasn to change it."

• Michael Lynch

At 36 Caulfield based Ciaron Maher has long since gone beyond the "promising young trainer stage".

• Chris Roots

Peter Snowden has always been there for Josh Parr and once again the winning combination struck with Tycoon Tara in the Golden Pendant at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

James McDonald never wanted to be where he was on Impending in Saturday's Stan Fox Stakes, but sometimes things turn out surprisingly good.

• Michael Lynch

The New Zealand trained horse is a serious contender for classic honours.

• Chris Roots

There is family trait that frustrates Chris Waller when it comes to Counterattack, favourite for Saturday's Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield, it takng him a while to win a group 1.

• Tom Hackett

Race 1 is a typical Sydney staying race and it should come as no surprise that Chris Waller has a very strong hand.

• James Hall

Ron Weston and John Nisbet's Inchcape Rock caused a minor boilover at Thoroughbred Park on Friday.

• Tom Hackett

Super Cash will return to the races on Saturday and has opened as a clear favourite in the opening race.

• Max Presnell

Godolphin, looking good with Impending in today's Stan Fox Stakes at Rosehill Gardens, is a possible target for the desecration of sacred Hunter Valley land.

• Chris Roots

It seems a lifetime ago that Tim Martin was at the top of his game, training the great Exceed And Excel to group 1 glory. Now he is on the comeback trial.

• Chris Roots

The Stan Fox will end any debate, which is the best colt between Impending, Divine Prophet and Good Standing in a small but elite contest over the Rosehill 1500m on Saturday.

• Michael Lynch

Winning the apprentice jockeys' title is a tremendous achievement in itself. 

• James Hall

Mother and son training partners look to dominate their own race day at Thoroughbred Park.

• Patrick Bartley

For the connections of Sydney sprinter Counterattack the $300,000 prizemoney on offer for winning Saturday's Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield will be a small part of a much larger financial windfall if he can take out his first group 1 event.

• John Holloway

Oh, for the good old days. Those were the memories that flooded back at the official Randwick two-year-old barrier trials last Monday as we recalled some of the great babies that made their first public racetrack appearances.

• Chris Roots

Team Hawkes has a group of three-year-olds that would make other stables green with envy, but they still have to put the results on the board at the highest level.

• Chris Roots

The purple of Star Thoroughbreds has become familiar in the winner's circle of Sydney racecourses again after a lean stretch, and Chris Waller hopes for more black-type success for the syndicate at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Joe Cleary isn't worried about the big names as he brings Chaquinta to town for the Queen's Cup at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

David Pfieffer might not have the biggest stable in Sydney but when he gets the right horse, especially a mare, he has made a habit of finding the right race.