• Chris Roots

It was a red-letter day at Caulfield for the Hayes family training partnership and top jockey Dwayne Dunn, who landed, respectively, a four-timer and a hat-trick.

• Chris Roots

Wallabies halfback George Gregan once taunted the All Blacks with a "four more years" sledge in a World Cup semi-final victory. Divine Prophet's owner Tony Falcone knows how long four years can be – and has found out how sweet victory can be after the wait.

• David Polkinghorne

Canberra trainer Matthew Dale to decide where to next.

• Michael Lynch

Any lingering dreams Michelle Payne had of repeating her Melbourne Cup heroics aboard Prince of Penzance are over after the seven year old received a serious injury at Caulfield, ruling him out of the spring carnival.

• Michael Lynch

It was a red-letter day at Caulfield for the Hayes family training partnership and top jockey Dwayne Dunn, who landed a four-timer and a hat-trick respectively.

• Chris Roots

The expectation with Winx is that she should win. She did that again in the Caulfield Stakes, which started as a Saturday stroll and worked to a crescendo, exactly what Hugh Bowman and Chris Waller had wanted.

• Michael Lynch

When fillies hit form in spring, there is no predicting what they can do - and there is no better authority than Gai Waterhouse for knowing when a three year old filly is poised to bloom and blossom.

• David Polkinghorne

Canberra trainer confident going into g2 Schillaci Stakes.

• Chris Roots

New Zealand horseman Murray Baker knows what it takes to win an Australian group 1 with a three-year-old and this kiwi is not into wasting his time when he crosses the Tasman.

• Max Presnell

Forgive me for not dwelling on the three horse Caulfield Stakes, another disappointing Michelle Payne chapter, or whether Sydney horses, including Impending in the Caulfield Guineas, can get around the difficult circuit on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Rory Hutchings wants to seize his opportunity on Veladero in the Spring Champion Stakes at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

The numbers aren't actually stacked up against super mare Winx in Saturday's Caulfield Stakes, only Black Heart Bart and He Or She are rivals, but history of small fields makes for unusual results.

• Patrick Bartley

 Tiny race fields aren't necessarily a bad thing.

• Jim Bourke

The 2016 spring carnival is pending and ready to take the back page.

• Michael Lynch

To describe Caulfield trainer Stuart Webb as hands on is probably an understatement.

• Chris Roots

The Cox Plate has become racing's big blue with queen Winx to be challenged by Godolphin's Hartnell in a clash which invokes memories of great racing rivalries at Moonee Valley later in the month.

• James Hall

Canberra racing stalwart Barbara Joseph said she was "gobsmacked" to receive the Special Recognition Award at the NSW Country and Provincial Awards.

• Patrick Bartley

As debate swirls around the benefits or otherwise of having a field of just three in this year's $600,000 Caulfield Stakes, the possibility of approving the European practice of allowing stablemate pacemakers remains a distant prospect.

• Chris Roots

Thunder Fantasy is probably the best horse at Randwick on Saturday and will carry a good horse's weight of 63kg as he returns to racing after 18-month break.

• Patrick Bartley

The massive Godolphin racing operation have confirmed that last Sunday's impressive Turnbull Stakes winner Hartnell will not contest Saturday week's Caulfield Cup, and instead will go straight to the Cox Plate.

• Chris Roots

James Cummings knows how deep the talent pool runs with the three-year-olds this season, but he also knows he has a couple of extra good ones in Prized Icon and Good Standing.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin-retained jockey James McDonald wishes he could be in two places at once on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Matt Dale believes there is a group race in stable acquisition Rocket Commander and it could come as early as Saturday's Angst Stakes at Randwick.

• John Holloway

Pin-hookers came to the fore at the Inglis Ready2Race Sale for two-year-olds at Newmarket in Sydney, and thanks to a huge investment from Asian buyers the sale grossed almost $9 million with a $64,000 average despite 80-odd yearlings failing to reach their reserve prices.

• Chris Roots

There are only a couple of horses brave enough to take on Winx as she looks for her 12th consecutive win in the Caulfield Stakes on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

While David Hayes is quietly rejoicing about earning more than $50,000 for a track gallop in Saturday's Caulfield Stakes, the trainer is not writing off He Or She's chances of winning the group 1 race.

• Patrick Bartley

  Leading trainer Chris Waller maintains that a fear of the Caulfield racecourse was the furthest thing from his mind when he braved the cold conditions on Wednesday morning to give his champion race mare Winx her first look at the track.

• Chris Roots

Melbourne Cup winning jockey Michelle Payne will not be able to ride in NSW after taking out dual training and riding licence in Victoria.

• Adam Cooper

A Sydney-based gambler linked to an investigation into match fixing in the NRL set up a company with suspended jockey Danny Nikolic as its director, a tribunal has heard.