• Chris Roots
• 43 mins ago

There is a beauty in the brutality of Winx being the best, as she runs away from her rivals.

• Michael Lynch
• 53 mins ago

The Melbourne Cup has had winners trained in Ireland, France, Germany and Japan in the 23 years since Irish training maestro Dermot Weld revolutionised Australia's greatest race by sending out Vintage Crop to win on a rainswept day in November 1993.

• Eamonn Tiernan

A blistering pace at Thoroughbred Park on Saturday saw Running Broke set a class record.

• Adam Pengilly

Russian Revolution overcame a dose of pre-race drama and his dogged stablemate Redzel to win his first group 1 race and seal a career as a future stallion.

• Chris Roots

Ben Melham's belief in She Will Reign ends with daring Golden Slipper win at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Michael Lynch

It's all about horses for courses.

• Adam Pengilly

If Saintly was the horse from heaven, the racing gods must have a new favourite.

• Adam Pengilly

On Golden Slipper morning, Scott Darby and Mark Holland prayed. Over and over and over again. Someone was listening.

• Chris Roots

They paid a late-entry fee and won the New Zealand Derby and now the owners of Gingernuts will look to do the same in the Australian Derby after another powerful staying performance in the Rosehill Guineas on Saturday.

• Adam Pengilly

Top 100 companies and major ATC sponsors The Star and Tabcorp are among eight buyers of slots in The Everest.

• Chris Roots

The wait was worth it for Our Ivanhowe as he revelled in the heavy conditions to score an easy win in the Ranvet Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Adam Pengilly

Jeff Lloyd has ripped up Australian racing's record books since a mini-stroke in 2013 when those closest to him told him he was mad to consider a comeback. Just don't feel sorry for him.

• Chris Roots

Warwick Farm trainer Gary Portelli has dreamed of winning a Golden Slipper and his wife Kellie has dreamed of owning Rolex - now both could come true in 70 seconds at Rosehill on Saturday afternoon.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Gerald Ryan is looking for the first Black Opal-Golden Slipper double since Frank Cleary's Catbird in 1999.

• Michael Lynch

Racing Victoria has been left bemused after a two-year campaign to convict racehorse trainers Danny O'Brien and Mark Kavanagh on cobalt charges collapsed on Friday morning when VCAT said the case had to be dismissed.

• Chris Roots

The result of a clash with Winx in Saturday's George Ryder Stakes will not change Chautauqua in the eyes of co-trainer Michael Hawkes but it will decide his next run in The Championships.

• Chris Roots

Bjorn Baker bought Impavido for a race like Saturday's Rosehill Guineas but he admits there have been times when he "thought he was useless".

• Chris Roots

This is the wet day Hall Of Fame trainer Lee Freedman has waited more than two years for with his German stayer Our Ivanhowe.

• Hugh Bowman

A weight-for-age Caulfield Cup is a gamble worth taking while my gut feeling is Houtzen is the horse I would love to be riding in the Golden Slipper, writes Hugh Bowman.

• Michael Lynch

A Victorian tribunal has dismissed cobalt charges against Mark Kavanagh and Danny O'Brien.

• Max Presnell

Even deluge-affected ground cannot dim the brilliance of the Golden Slipper program, the best in Australia so far this season.

• Patrick Bartley

With the Melbourne Autumn carnival slowly coming to an end it would seem Darren Weir is intent on finishing the way he started and that's with big race winners.

• Michael Lynch

Gai Waterhouse is not one to ever talk down the performances of any of her horses, so some punters might have taken it as a bit of typical Gai hyperbole when she forecast a big future for her three-year-old gelding Farson after his recent win at Caulfield.

• Adam Pengilly

Australian wonder mare Winx has conquered the world - and backing her with a miserly $100 could have returned a head-spinning sum which would help crack Sydney's out of control real estate market.

• Chris Roots

There is always confidence around Gai Waterhouse when it comes to Golden Slipper day, but this year it is restricted to The Galaxy with a former Slipper runner-up in English.

• Patrick Bartley

While Darren Weir went close to achieving the much-coveted Newmarket Handicap and Australian Cup double last week, it would seem the trainer will have a lot less difficulty winning the final major race of the VRC Autumn carnival on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Tommy Berry won the Australian Derby and TJ Smith on the first day of The Championships last year, but it could potentially be left in the shadows by his book for Golden Slipper day in 2017.

• Chris Roots

Chris Waller has watched Winx put a winning streak of 15 together with a remarkable ease but believes she has something in hand to rise to any challenge that might come in the George Ryder Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Tom Kelly was like anyone else who goes to yearling sales when he bought Frolic out of the Inglis Classic Sale last year. He was looking for a two-year-old type from a cross he thought would give him an edge.