• Patrick Bartley

Michael Freedman, the youngest brother of Hall of Fame trainer Lee Freedman, has been granted a training licence in Hong Kong.

• David Polkinghorne

Queanbeyan trainer Joe Cleary excited about the Canberra horses not competing in this year's Country Champs.

• Michael Lynch

Flying Artie, the favourite for the Lightning Stakes, is the highest rated three year old in action at Flemington on Saturday with a rating of 110.

• Patrick Bartley

The straight track at Flemington has always been the source of much intrigue, and at times annoyance for those in racing attempting to conquer the turnless stretch of grass that stages some of our most important sprint races each year.

• Chris Roots

Peter Snowden has believed he has a colt to go a long way into the autumn in Khan since his Breeders Plate win, but whether he can match the sheer speed of She Will Reign in Saturday's Silver Slipper, he has his doubt.

• Chris Roots

There are five Ps to becoming stallion in Australia and Star Turn ticks nearly every one leading into Saturday's Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington.

• Tom Hackett

Hobartville Stakes day Randwick racing preview

• Tom Hackett

Black Caviar Lightning Stakes day preview

• Patrick Bartley

Joe Pride knows his tough sprinter Terravista has endured a long, and at times worrying, drought of raceday victories, but the trainer believes a return to the Flemington straight track can rekindle his winning record.

• Chris Roots

Syndicator Scott Darby admits he might have found his second freak in two years as She Will Reign lines in Saturday's Silver Slipper at Rosehill.

• John Holloway

The last Classic Yearling Sale at William Inglis' Newmarket complex finished in a blaze of glory, with a record-breaking turnover around $36 million and 21 yearlings selling for $200,000 or more.

• Chris Roots

Anthony Cummings believes by the time the Inglis Chairman's Sale comes around at the end of March, Man From Uncle "will sell himself."

• Chris Roots

Gun sprinter Terravista will attempt to erase one of Joe Pride's worst memories as he returns to the Black Caviar Lightning Stakes at Flemington on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Canberra trainer Nick Olive has waited 10 months to have Single Gaze right to race and is confident his group 1 winning mare is ready to recapture her best form starting in the Millie Fox Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Don't fall in love with them is often the advice to breeders but there something about Villa Carlotta that attracted the man who sold Winx, John Camilleri to keep her.

• Chris Roots

A dead-heat has allowed jockey Hugh Bowman to keep the ride on superstar Winx after the jockey was found guilty on Wednesday of failing to ride out his mount for the second time in a month.

• Michael Lynch

Even the leading jockeys are not immune from self doubt and reflection, particularly when they get a public bake from their main retainer.

• Mathew Toogood

Trainer Mick Price is out to make Flying Artie the first three-year-old in more than a decade to win the Lightning Stakes.

• 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.