Leading trainer Chris Waller believes that his world-champion race mare Winx's main weapon in defending her title in Saturday's $3 million Cox Plate is her unique ability to absorb the incredible pressure the race creates.
Canberra trainer happy to take on the world's best with his stable star.
Jameka will have to set a Melbourne Cup weight-carrying record for a four-year-old mare if she is to be successful on the first Tuesday in November after Ciaron Maher's Caulfield Cup winner was penalised 1.5kg on Monday.
Racing NSW chairman John Messara has quit as the state's top thoroughbred racing administrator just 10 months into a three-year term.
Caulfield Cup-winning mare Jameka will carry 53.5 kilograms in the $6.2 million Melbourne Cup.
It is the most eagerly anticipated race for years. But there is one factor which threatens to cast a shadow over the Cox Plate showdown between Winx and Hartnell.
Hartnell is on course for a unique slice of modern day Melbourne Cup history if he takes Winx's scalp in the Cox Plate.
When John Camilleri turned Winx out of the breeding yard and into the hands of a new owner, never did he think he would be up against her in the Cox Plate.
Warrnambool is celebrating Colin McKenna's success after Cup victory for Jameka.
Anyone hoping to snatch Winx's Cox Plate crown, look out. Hugh Bowman says Sydney's mighty mare is actually a better horse in Melbourne and Moonee Valley might just be her favourite track.
Saturday's $3 million Cox Plate could be one of the most important and celebrated weight-for-age races run on the world calendar this year.
Chautauqua is set to offer the first part of Moonee Valley's one-two punch in the Friday night's Manikato Stakes.
Any plans Matt Cumani had hopes of staying under the radar with imported stayer Grey Lion after disappeared heading to Wednesday's Geelong Cup.
The state of disarray at Racing Victoria is in direct contrast to the go-ahead nature of the sport in NSW.
The 2016 whip rules would have taken the zing out of Octagonal, according to Darren Beadman who took him into greatness in his vintage three-year-old season.
His owners had every intention of retiring him heading into the race, but Junoob showed there's plenty of life left in the old legs - if needed - with a commanding win in the listed City Tattersalls Club Cup at Randwick on Saturday.
John O'Shea could celebrate with Peacock at the end of Saturday's Gothic Stakes at Caulfield but Godolphin's other two runners made excruciating viewing as he watched the replay.
It was appropriate in the week the state's imminent greyhound ban was reversed, Garry Frazer won at Randwick.
James Cummings and Blake Shinn had each experienced how hard it was to face the breeze and win going into Saturday's Caulfield Classic, so it was the last place they wanted to be with Good Standing was in front.
Racing is a sport of risk and reward, but when Ciaron Maher saw "an exquisite filly" he knew he just had to have her.
Caulfield Cup winning mare Jameka who is now second favourite for the Melbourne Cup will have to defy a weight carrying record if she is to clinch the elusive double.
Australian mare Jameka repelled a strong field of international challengers when she was given a perfect ride by Nick Hall to win the Caulfield Cup for Caulfield based trainer Ciaron Maher.
The sky is blue and the fascinators are pinned on tight as a windy beginning kicks off celebrations at the 2016 Caulfield Cup.
Trainer Chris Waller believes that several options are now open for Vanbrugh after his win at Saturday's Coongy Cup at Caulfield.
Race results and dividends from the 10-race meeting at Caulfield on Caulfield Cup day.
If ever there was an appropriate winner at Caulfield on Cup day it was the three-year-old New Zealand-trained filly Eleonora, partnered by Damien Oliver.
At carnival time they come from everywhere; it's an added difficulty for punters trying to weigh up the form lines from Melbourne and Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth.
Superstar galloper Octagonal, one of the top racehorses of the past 30 years, has died at the age of 24.
The Cox Plate favourite produced a stunning piece of work.
Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie has stood aside from his position pending an ongoing investigation by racing integrity commissioner Sal Perna.
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