• James Hall

Carly Frater hopes her third serious injury is her last.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin as a team had a great day on Saturday. But the Australian component of team from the John O'Shea yard started to roll out the next generation with Veranillo stamping himself as a horse to watch for the Golden Slipper with a winning debut at Rosehill.

• Michael Lynch

They came, they saw, and, with three major exceptions - the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups and Cox Plate - they completely conquered.

• Michael Lynch

Anything Charlie Appleby can do, John O'Shea can to. 

• Michael Lynch

Newmarket trainer Charlie Appleby won't move permanently Down Under, but with the success he has had in Melbourne during the spring he must surely be tempted to.  

• Max Presnell

It's election time. The USA's is done but there's one coming up at the ATC, on the verge of being dollar-rich and Saturday-field size poor.

• Chris Roots

Tim Martin has a deep link to Moral Victory and his family, which continues to grow into the next generation.

• Patrick Bartley

On Saturday night the huge horse float carrying the four international stayers from there day at Sandown races will journey along Dandenong Road heading for the Werribee quarantine station for the last time this spring.

• Thomas Hackett

Preview of Zipping Classic Day

• Thomas Hackett

Race 1

• Chris Roots

The imperious performance of Winx in last month's Cox Plate has earned her the place as the world's best horse on turf in latest Longines World's Best Racehorse rankings released on Friday.

• James Hall

Gundagai's Snake Gully Cup has been a happy hunting ground for Canberra's trainers but Paul Jones is yet to taste success at the main race of the popular two-day event.

• Chris Roots

Leading harness owner Harvey Kaplan has been banned from owning horses for 12 months and fined $20,000 on an improper conduct charge for a text message he sent to trainer-driver Nathan Jack, who is faced with a show cause notice relating to a Goulburn race on Australia Day in 2015.

• Patrick Bartley

Robert Smerdon concedes that his classy sprinter Under The Louvre's hopes of  a significant spring success will hinge on next Saturday's meeting at Sandown however the horse's trainer can see no fault with the Under The Louvre condition or form not to register a  victory..

• Chris Roots

The Patinack connection with Ben Lawrence has already delivered John Thompson an Oaks placegetter in Honesta, and handy sprinter Nieta could be the next to step up to black type for a group of Queensland owners.

• Chris Roots

Team Hawkes has plenty of two-year-olds by All Too Hard and they are showing the right signs to be factors as juveniles. Groundbreak, which won a barrier trial at Rosehill on Monday, steps out as the Hawkes' first runner by their former star on his home track on Saturday.

• John Holloway

Frankie Dettori cannot crack it for a big-race winner in Australia but captured his 12th Breeders' Cup winner on English-bred mare Queen's Trust at Santa Anita.

• Michael Lynch

When Australian wonder mare Winx walloped the Cox Plate field by eight lengths and more on that stormy Saturday in Melbourne some three weeks ago she was not just galloping into the Australian record books: she was putting herself on a par with the previous queen of the Australian turf, Black Caviar.

• Chris Roots

Cessnock trainer Todd Howlett doesn't get surprised anymore by wide draws for Nic Vendetta, he is just used to them.

• Chris Roots

It might be too much to hope for but Tim Clark would love it if he jumps on Infra Dig looking for a fifth winner of the afternoon again at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

One of the most successful broodmares in Australian racing  over the past two decades, Circles Of Gold, has died at the age of 25.

• Chris Roots

Warwick Farm trainer Matthew Smith has an eye towards The Championships with Faraway Town has she takes on the boys in the Sandown Guineas on Saturday.

• Nino Bucci

The organiser of a Victorian punters club has been accused of defrauding $129 million from the syndicate members.

Melbourne Cup winner Almandin will not run at Sandown with owner Lloyd Williams ruling out a start in the Zipping Classic.

• Patrick Bartley

Next Saturday's $300,000 Zipping Classic proves a lure, overseas entrants will boost final day of spring carnival.

• Chris Roots

Bookmaker Eric Conlan shut his bag for the last time and was given a guard of honour off Canterbury on Saturday.

• Adam Pengilly

What if Bryce Heys quickly wiped away the few tears he shed and charged into the stewards room to lodge a protest in the Darley Classic on the grounds Ben Melham used his whip to excess on eventual winner Malaguerra?

• Michael Lynch

The Sheikh Mohammed-owned Godolphin Racing operation will try to sign off from the Spring Carnival in style next weekend at Sandown when it plans to back up Qewy in the Sandown Cup.

• Adam Pengilly

Racing Victoria's chief steward Terry Bailey has conceded Australian authorities are powerless to detect which European stayers targeting the spring carnival riches might arrive Down Under with a history of bleeding attacks after a scare for Melbourne Cup runner-up Heartbreak City.