Lees' Sense Of Occasion spot-on after bookending Randwick miles
Kris Lees started the year winning the first big feature Randwick mile and finished it the same way.
HORSE RACING
Christmas Destiny fulfilled as wet-tracker salutes
It wasn't named the Christmas Cup for no reason. Race week rain, a heavy track and conditions tailor made meant Destiny's Kiss ended a drought stretching back to Australia Day at Randwick.
Bayliss gets early Christmas present as star apprentice rides out his claim
The 19-year-old rider is likely to remember Saturday's Flemington meeting as one of the most significant of his career.
Why She Will Reign still has plenty of work to do to make Golden Slipper
She Will Reign shot to the top of Golden Slipper betting despite still not being guaranteed a run in the world's richest two-year-old race after destroying her rivals in the rich Inglis Nursery.
Bartley: How I became entangled in the cobalt saga
Reluctantly I became an actor in the long-running drama that is the Victorian racing cobalt case.
Racing Victoria hikes stakemoney thanks to carnival riches
Under pressure from owners, trainers and jockeys to lift prizemoney to keep pace with the richer stakes on offer in NSW, Racing Victoria on Friday announced that $5 million in additional funding will be distributed across the industry as a result of a successful spring carnival.
Integrity probe finds Moodie disclosed information and misled RVL
A probe into whether Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie had disclosed sensitive information on cobalt investigations and misled the Racing Victoria board found the claims substantiated, Sal Perna, Victoria's Racing Integrity Commissioner, explained on Friday.
Why Parr is proud to have given up winning rides
Heard of the jockey who confesses to often turning his back on the best ride in the race? Now you have. And he doesn't have one regret about it at all.
She Will Reign's 'massive unknown' fuelling McEvoy's confidence
The trainer of She Will Reign's biggest rival in the Inglis Nursery has warned the Golden Slipper second favourite has a "massive unknown" to overcome, but has justified her short quote in the rich two-year-old sprint at Randwick.
Irish galloper finds Sydney more to his liking
It didn't take David Hayes long to realise the quirkiness of Dibayani who will on Saturday take on the $250,000 Villiers Stakes at Randwick.
Melbourne Cup champ Saintly goes back to 'heaven'
Champion racehorse Saintly, winner of the 1996 Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate and a Bart Cummings favourite, has died at 24.
Greg Hall reveals battle with alcohol
Even with the promise of an outstanding Royal Randwick Villiers meeting on Saturday the period, besieged with the whip being wielded on horse and human, spare a thought for Greg Hall, who as a jockey emitted confidence that your money was being carried in fully committed hands.
Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie resigns
Racing Victoria chairman David Moodie resigned on Thursday night, making him another high-profile head to roll from the cobalt scandal that has dogged the state's racing sector for almost two years.
Thompson picks up major awards as cream of state's apprentices graduate from RVL
Making it to the top as a leading jockey is a tough business.
RSPCA makes surprise admission about whip in horse racing
The RSPCA is adamant "the future of racing is without a whip". But they have made a surprise admission about its ongoing use in horse racing as debate following the harness racing decision heats up.
Royal Randwick: Villiers Stakes Day preview
A preview of the Villiers Stakes Day meeting at Royal Randwick.
She Will Reign aims to bring more success to Darby Racing
Syndicator Scott Darby has already enjoyed the highs of big-time racing with his bonny  filly Yankee Rose, and a new band of racegoers can discover a similar exhilaration if She Will Reign lives up to her name in the $504,000 Inglis Nursery at Royal Randwick.
Lost his mother at birth, but Fabrizio keeps defying odds
Knowing the odds are stacked against you? Fabrizio doesn't. And the horse which was lucky to be alive as a foal can rack up his biggest win in the Villiers Stakes.
Better than Global Glamour, Exosphere and English? Portelli Reigns on hype
She Will Reign smashed the clock on debut. But Gary Portelli doesn't want to read too much into the favourable comparisons with recent group 1 winners Global Glamour, Exosphere and English.
Tulloch Lodge in form ahead of Villiers
A midweek double has given Tulloch Lodge the perfect entree to Villiers Stakes day where it is set to produce well-supported favourite Fabrizio in the feature race.
Stewards widen net into McDonald betting scandal
Stewards will widen the net into the James McDonald betting investigation and will grill "a number of parties" this week after forensically scouring data stemming from the superstar jockey being a party to a wager last year.
Payday as Purton earns group 1 double in Hong Kong
Australian jockey Zac Purton dominated Hong Kong International day as he took a group1 double, winning the Sprint with Aerovelocity before steering Beauty Only to success in the Mile at Sha Tin on Sunday.
Stable expects big future for filly Penultimate Star
It was a day for winning doubles at Thoroughbred Park on Sunday.
What Sydney can learn from Hong Kong racing carnival
It is, without question, one of the toughest events in international racing. A true test of endurance and stamina but also requiring street smarts and local knowledge.
Racing Victoria not keeping its promises with track riders
Just two years after the tragic death of two young international track riders on a Melbourne training track, some in the industry are concerned that Racing Victoria the state's central body has stalled on some of it's planned safety reforms.
Whip ban a brave decision to keep up with modern times
The brave decision by Harness Racing Australia to ban whips from next September show a racing code that is finally in touch with modern standards.
Highway Handicap has 'given country racing a lifeline'
Goulburn trainer Danny Williams wins his third Highway Handicap.
O'Farrell to walk into whip storm after historic harness racing ban
Barry O'Farrell will walk into a storm over the use of whips in horse racing when he heads up the code's peak body after the RSPCA hailed trotting administrators for the imminent ban on their use in the country.
Smith wins again ... on the track
Australian captain Steve Smith's confidence might be sky high, but so is that of his horse.
First winner could not be sweeter
Apprentice Jack Martin looked anything but a novice as he rode the perfect staying race on Goathland.