• Michael Lynch

When the big boys are away, the kids get the chance to play.

• Chris Roots

Gary Portelli thought he had run fourth.

• Chris Roots

Prime Thoroughbreds arrived to Magic Millions with the most runners of any syndicator but it took Flying Jess to put them in the headlines.

• Chris Roots

Gerald Ryan got more than he expected from Menari as he scored on debut at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Orange will host the first grass track harness meetings in NSW for more than 30 years as the carnival of cups rolls into town in February.

• Chris Roots

Racing NSW stewards are continuing investigations into a modified whip used on the Marc Quinn-trained Far Out at trackwork before the Port Macquarie meeting on January 7.

• Chris Roots

A new power of Australian racing brought the top priced colt from traditional power Arrowfield Stud as James Harron paid $1.3 million for son of Redoute's Choice at Magic Millions on Friday.

• David Polkinghorne

Queanbeyan trainer hopes it's "same bat time, same bat channel" for War Jet in the $1 million Magic Millions Sprint.

• Chris Roots

Joe Pride looks at Butterboom as the kind of horse that is always going to give you a sight.

• Chris Roots

Jeff Lloyd continues to do things he isn't supposed to do.

• Max Presnell

The elderly find it hard to get a seat at the extravaganza on the Gold Coast but Jeff Lloyd, at 55, is riding like few others.

• Patrick Bartley

In the 1990s the Magic Millions concept, intended to help create two major bloodstock companies, began to founder and was on its knees and in administration.

• Patrick Bartley

There is no doubt the punting capital of Australia will be the Gold Coast racecourse on Saturday with $10 million in prizemoney on offer in a meeting littered with interstate stables.

• John Holloway

A highly anticipated weekend of spectacular performances by the rags-to-riches stallion I Am Invincible during the Magic Millions carnival could have the Yarraman Park-based sire standing alongside the likes of Fastnet Rock and Snitzel as Australia's most sought-after performers Down Under.

• Chris Roots

Gai Waterhouse won the Golden Slipper with Sebring before he went on to become a star stallion and hopes his brother could emulate him after paying $1.3 million for him at the Magic Millions Sale on Thursday.

• Tom Hackett

Chester Manifold Stakes day preview at Flemington

• Chris Hammer

Kris Lees has learnt to stick with his plans and even winning the Villiers Stakes didn't change the goal for Sense Of Occasion, which has always been Friday's Gosford Cup.

• Chris Roots

John Thompson declares Thewayweare and Invincible Knight are the sort of horses you like having in the stable: "They are winners."

• Chris Roots

Gary Portelli has two races to keep his eyes on in Saturday's Magic Millions Classic with Falconic. He is not counting out winning both, but the women's bonus would be a more-than-handy consolation.

• Chris Roots

Goulburn trainer Kurt Goldman has always had the highest of opinions of emerging filly Eckstein, it just took time for her learn how to fulfil it.

• Tom Hackett

Magic Millions day racing preview.

• Patrick Bartley

While Kelvin Bourke is excited by the challenge of  resurrecting one-time world-class sprinter Divine Ten he is under no illusions that to repatriate an injured  tendon in any racehorse is not easy.

• Chris Roots

There might not be enough champagne on the Gold Coast if Global Glamour can win Saturday's Magic Millions Guineas as her owner converge from around the world.

• Patrick Bartley

The mother of one of Australia's finest race mares, Black Caviar, has died at her owner's stud farm in northern Victoria.

• Chris Roots

Brenton Avdulla became famous for taking a bow when he won the VRC Oaks on Lasqueti Spirit at Flemington last year, but riding on the beach on Tuesday he decided to take it a bit further and have "a bit of fun".

• Chris Roots

Chris Waller-trained From Within has taken over as favourite for Saturday's Magic Millions Classic after drawing gate seven in a controversial barrier draw at Surfer's Paradise on Tuesday morning.

• Chris Roots

When Damion Flower signed for $1.6 million to buy a Snitzel colt at Magic Millions last year, which would become Chauffeur, there was only one thought in his mind.

• Patrick Bartley

Not even the deeds of champion race mare Winx could paper over the cracks that appeared in racing in Australian racing 2016. We define the key issues that must be dealt with this year.

• Chris Roots

The focus of the racing world will be the Gold Coast this week with the Magic Millions but it will quickly turn to Monday and Tuesday mornings in coming weeks as the stars including Winx return at the barrier trials.