• COMMENT
• Michael Lynch

Move the Melbourne Cup. Revamp the spring carnival. Junk more than a century of Caulfield Cup tradition.

• Patrick Bartley

Blue Diamond Stakes trainer David Hayes will now have four runners in Australia's most important race for two-year-olds.

• Chris Roots

The drawback to having a perfect Doncaster preparation is taking on Winx in Saturday's George Ryder Stakes for Kris Lees and John O'Shea with Le Romain and Hauraki.

• Chris Roots

Gold Coast trainer Toby Edmonds has learnt from the best, Peter Snowden and Neville Begg, and he will look to join them as a Golden Slipper winner with Houtzen on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Winx will be given her own moment on Golden Slipper day as Australia's biggest group 1 race day will have two crescendos at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

The state government and Victorian Racing Club insist that the Melbourne Cup will continue to be held on the first Tuesday in November.

• THE MAIL
• Chris Roots

William Buick started his Australian stay copping a black eye from clod at the barrier trials on Thursday but had a winning double to take home after winning on Spectrocope and It's Somewhat at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Tim Martin is a hard man from the bush but even he had to shed a tear after Heavens Above completed his comeback by winning the Coolmore Classic at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Kerrin McEvoy admitted he was more nervous about galloping Winx at Rosehill on Saturday than for his book of rides.

• Michael Lynch

There are not many better feelings in racing than when a long range plan to target a group 1 race comes off.

• Patrick Bartley

ust ten months ago David Hayes was presented with one his toughest training challenges in years, and on Saturday the trainer was rewarded with a history making Newmarket Handicap win with Redkirk Warrior at Flemington.

• Michael Lynch

Peter Morgan is a group 1 performer when it comes to finding new clientele.

• Chris Roots

Gary Portelli finally has Single Bullet performing to potential after the two-year-old earned his place in the Golden Slipper by winning the Pago Pago Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Wagga trainer Trevor Sutherland is the king of Carrathool after he trained the six-race card at the once-a-year meeting.

• Chris Roots

Female drivers around the country have raised more than $100,000 for the Ovarian Institute in the Teal pants team over the past six weeks.

• Patrick Bartley

A barrage of social media concerning the wellbeing of Australian Cup favourite Humidor sent shockwaves through the Australian racing world on Saturday morning.

• Hugh Bowman

Hugh Bowman might be riding arguably the world's best horse, but in his first column for Fairfax Media he explains why a trip back to his fire-ravaged home has put it all in perspective before his return to riding this weekend.

• Max Presnell

Gai Waterhouse reckons Global Glamour will glide across the Rosehill wet in Saturday's Coolmore, Australia's best race for fillies and mares.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Fell Swoop is out of the Newmarket Handicap but is preparing well ahead of the $2.5 million TJ Smith Stakes.

• Chris Roots

Even before Adam Hyeronimus jumps on Ecuador for the biggest ride of his career in Saturday's Australian Cup at Flemington, it might have been usurped.

• Chris Roots

There is one thing that is missing from the family of Euro Angel – a group 1 victory, which she will go about fixing in the Saturday's Coolmore Classic at Rosehill.

• Patrick Bartley

Life could have been very different for one of the world's best jockeys.

• Michael Lynch

Mourinho jockey Anthony Darmanin knows better than most what The United States is capable of when the chips are down.

• Patrick Bartley

If, and that's a fairly important if high class galloper Humidor brings his A-grade game to Flemington on Saturday he will no doubt be the bet of the day.

• Chris Roots

The horseman in Tye Angland feels he is on two group 1 horses at Rosehill but Antonio Giuseppe and Heavens Above still have prove it on the track.

• Patrick Bartley

Mark Carter is one of those New Zealand breeders who applies a measured approach to preparing a yearling for a major horse sale.

• Chris Roots

Tim Martin has drawn back on his early years in Sydney to plan the Golden Slipper assault of Limbo Soul, using what he learned from mentors Les Bridge and Tommy Smith.

• Chris Roots

Joe Pride will be on weather watch for New Tipperary and Ball Of Muscle in Sydney as he heads to Melbourne looking for back-to-back group 1s with Terravista in the Newmarket Handicap at Flemington on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Chris Waller has a rich selection of three-year-old fillies this season - Omei Sword, Foxplay and Dawn Wall and has been able to separate them on type and form this week.