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.
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.
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.
It was appropriate in the week the state's imminent greyhound ban was reversed, Garry Frazer won at Randwick.
Horse trainer by day, sometimes greyhound trainer by night. And it's hard to imagine Garry Frazer managing to enjoy success in both in the space of a few hours.
Three years after he rode Hawkspur when favourite in a Caulfield Cup, Jim Cassidy opens up on his sometimes volatile relationship with Australia's leading group 1 trainer Chris Waller in his new book - including the sledge which riled the Hall Of Famer moments after last year's Sydney Cup win.
Favourite Jameka continued to be on the nose with punters in the final 48 hours before the $3 million Caulfield Cup as bookmakers tread cautiously around the European contingent headed up by Scottish.
The man who led Australia's charge in its rout of the recent World Amateur Championships has decided to turn professional before the start of the country's summer of golf.
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