• Patrick Bartley

Just two years ago, horsewoman Penny Crowley was on the lookout for an inexpensive weanling to prepare for the Sydney summer sales.

• Andrew Webster

Chris Waller's mare equalled Phar Lap's unbeaten record with commanding win in the Apollo Stakes

• Chris Roots

Hugh Bowman took care of business on Winx in Monday's Apollo Stakes at Randwick as firefighters, including his dad Jim, protected his Dunedoo property from raging bushfires.

• Patrick Bartley

Jockey Josh Cartwright has been suspended for 18 months after stewards described his reckless riding at Morphettville last month as "the worst [they had] ever seen in Australia".

• Chris Roots

Newcastle trainer Kris Lees arrived at Randwick on Monday with "a really good horse" and an emerging one and left satisfied and surprised by a group 3 double.

• Patrick Bartley

Leading jockey Craig Williams has elected to ride the unbeaten Catchy in Saturday week's $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield.

• Chris Roots

Trainer Joe Pride was delighted when the storms hit Randwick last week but the delay of the Triscay Stakes until Monday has worked against Queen Of Kariba.

• Chris Roots

Champion four-year-old Lazarus did what was expected by winning Saturday's Chariots Of Fire at Menangle but trainer-driver Mark Purdon thinks he will go faster in the Miracle Mile.

• Chris Roots

Rick Worthington knows what a good horse is and from the time he got his hands on Honesty Prevails he has thought she is one of the best he has had.

• Patrick Bartley

While Craig Williams still ponders which of his high-class offers to accept for Saturday week's $1.5 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield, it seems that some of the world's finest international jockeys are preparing to accept some of his knock-back mounts in the group 1 event.

• Michael Lynch

It was multiples all round for the leading jockeys and trainers as the autumn carnival kicked into gear at Caulfield on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

Co Trainer Wayne Hawkes has rallied behind his  stables world champion sprinter Chautauqua' after the horses defeat in Saturday's Rubiton Stakes with some  suggesting  the amazing racehorse is struggling to retain his best.

• Michael Lynch

Age might not weary him, but it could well have blunted his finishing kick.

• Patrick Bartley

Just minutes after  Black Heart Bart reestablished his position as one of Australia's most honest weight for age gallopers when winning the $500,000 Orr Stakes at Caulfield the victory however moved trainer Darren Weir to heap lavish praise on race day jockey Brad Rawiller.

• Chris Roots

The gates will be thrown open for the return of the world's best turf horse Winx at Randwick on Monday as the racing industry counts the cost of the postponement of the Apollo Stakes program from Saturday which could run to $5 million.

• Michael Lynch

Craig Williams looks to have a lock on the $1.5 million Blue Diamond after steering home the two winners of the Preludes at Caulfield on Saturday - but he is fast running out of time to decide which of the multiple two-year-old contenders he will ride.

• Chris Roots

While Winx is preparing to equal Phar Lap's record of 14 straight wins, master trainer Chris Waller is preparing for the day his mare's winning run comes to an end.

• Chris Roots

Coffs Harbour trainer Cathleen Rode will take her entire stable to the rescheduled Grafton meeting on Monday with her star Free Standing trying to earn his way into the Country Championship Final.

• Chris Roots

Robbie Morris chalked up his 1000th winner in just eight years in the sulky this week but he will get a new experience as he steers Mojo Master in the Banjo Paterson Cup at Orange on Sunday.

To avoid a direct clash with Monday's revised Randwick race meeting, Inglis has altered the selling schedule for the 2017 Classic Yearling Sale.

• Chris Roots

Fairytale filly Lasqueti Spirit challenged Winx for the moment of the spring as Brenton Avdulla took a bow at Flemington, but there is lilttle doubt who will win when they in Saturday's Apollo Stakes at Randwick.

• Chris Roots

Racing NSW stewards have moved Randwick's Apollo Stakes meeting from Saturday to Monday because the heatwave conditions.

• David Polkinghorne

Canberra trainer Nick Olive backs Fire Stoker to run a good race in the Inglis Classic.

• Max Presnell

Winx is the best drug-free racehorse in the world because US superstars, Arrogate and Californian Crome, were loaded up on home territory with Lasix, the diuretic and performance enhancer.

• Patrick Bartley

Former champion Sydney jockey Ron Quinton believes he's slowly managing to put his life back together after the sudden loss of his wife Margaret of nearly four decades passing early last month.

• Michael Lynch

There was a time that Ben Melham could have become the answer to the ultimate trivia question: who rode the great Black Caviar when the mighty mare won her first group one race.

• Patrick Bartley

It seems nothing's changed at the top end of racing at Caulfield on Saturday with Darren Weir looking likely to take honours in the first group 1 race of the autumn.

• Chris Roots

Apprentice jockey Deanne Panya will have to apply to Racing NSW to be allowed to serve a month-long ban for a failed drug test while on workers' compensation.

• Patrick Bartley

Saturday's rich Orr Stakes meeting at Caulfield will not only give a valuable insight into the coming major races in Melbourne and in Sydney, it will also allow some autumn hopefuls to prove themselves worthy of international preparations later in the year.