• Michael Lynch

The chairman of the Melbourne Racing Club has hit back at suggestions that this year's renewal of the $3 million race will lack quality and drama because it lacks a star galloper and may not have a capacity 18 horse field.

• Chris Roots

Lee Freedman has learned a bit about travelling horses and it is attention to detail that makes the difference for Caulfield Cup contender Exospheric – and that comes down to feed.

• Chris Roots

Articus was specked in betting at $51 early on and is now on the fourth line of betting at $11.

• Patrick Bartley

World champion sprinter Chautauqua is one of a number of high-class sprinters nominated for Perth's $1 million weight-for-age Winterbottom Stakes in November.

• Chris Roots

Rosemont Stud boss Anthony Mithen knows the commercial reality of breeding is "fast horse, fast return", but he has to level it against the reason he fell in love with racing – to win a Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup.

• Adam Pengilly

A betting option trumpeted by wagering operators to add interest to a three-horse race featuring wonder mare Winx will not be permitted in NSW in the autumn.

• Patrick Bartley and Chris Roots

The Caulfield Cup, one of the great handicaps of the Australian turf, could have its first non-capacity field since Leilani won it in 1974 as trainers look for different options to get into the Melbourne Cup.

• Chris Roots

For Kerrin McEvoy pulling on the Godolphin blue, when he rides Scottish, will bring back years of good memories and he thinks he can add another one in Saturday's Caulfield Cup.

• Michael Lynch

Michelle Payne's dream of defending her Melbourne Cup crown on Prince of Penzance might now be over following the horse's serious leg injury – but could another young woman jockey, Kate Mallyon, follow in her hoofprints and take out Australia's greatest race just 12 months later?

• Patrick Bartley

Racing Victoria are poised to add considerable financial aid to distance races in the future.

• Michael Lynch

With 12 straight wins and a career total of eight at group 1 level Australian wonder mare Winx is starting to take on the characteristics of Pegasus, the mythological horse whose wings allowed him to fly quickly and cover more ground than any galloper before or since.

• Chris Roots

Anthony Cummings is marshalling his spring forces and is looking further afield than Melbourne with Thunder Fantasy, which will have an inoculation booster this week with a view to December's Hong Kong International meeting.

• Chris Roots

The debate over which state is the powerhouse in Australian racing will be decided over the next month, but Sydney made a great start when the northern horses arrived in force for the start of the Caulfield carnival on Saturday.

• Chris Johnston

An oldtime racehorse trainer from the Mornington Peninsula, Mick Crawford, first met the allegedly crooked jockey Danny Nikolic when the kid was just 14, in 1988.

• Patrick Bartley

While Winx took a tighter grip on this year's group 1 Cox Plate after winning the Caulfield Stakes, the news for defending Melbourne Cup winner Prince Of Penzance was grim.

• 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.