Golden Slipper winning jockey Ben Melham will miss the final two days of the Sydney carnival after being suspended for 14 days and fined $2000 after hitting Assign 15 times before the 100 metre mark as he won Saturday's Neville Sellwood Stakes at Rosehill.
Trained turned television commentator Peter Moody had a hand in all three Vinery Stud placegetters as the father-and-son training partnership of Leon and Troy Corstens scored just their second group 1 win in a messy Vinery Stud Stakes.
Ciaron Maher will take on the world with Jameka but admits he doesn't know where she could take him, "maybe even an Arc [de Triomphe]".
Mick Bell reckons he had an angel on his shoulder, but wore it too right across his chest. And the same angel might be telling him to find the $55,000 to go in search of a first group 1 win next Saturday.
The hour trip from Sydney airport to Rosehill makes Darren Weir sigh. It is probably one of the reasons why the champion trainer has never been to the races in Sydney.
Expectation is too high on our young riders and we need to provide better support mechanisms for the industry's elite athletes, writes Hugh Bowman.
At the beginning of autumn jockey Regan Bayliss marked the Vinery Stud Stakes day as perhaps his best chance for a first group 1.
The British trainer has shown he is not afraid to think outside the square.
Difficult to tell if it's been done before, an Adelaide Cup winner that has managed to back up and win the Mornington Cup after a break of just two weeks.
Randwick trainer Les Bridge believes Zenalicious is reaching her top but his confidence about the filly's chances in the Emancipation Stakes has been lower proportionally by the state of the Rosehill track on Saturday.
Scone trainer Rod Northam wants his horse After All That to return to next week's Country Championships final at Randwick, but he will need a dry track for Sunday's wildcard to achieve the dream.
Lee Freedman, producing a strong cast in Saturday's BMW at Rosehill Gardens with Our Ivanhowe and Exospheric, has played to mixed reviews on the same stage previously even with classic performers like Makybe Diva and Super Impose.
Scott Darby will sign an agreement with Yu Long Investments for Golden Slipper winner She Will Reign to represent their slot in the Everest.
The Queanbeyan trainer has only ever been to Albury once - for one winner.
Ben Melham is within touching distance of 1000 winners in his career, which has spanned 14 years, but the past three months have been a whirlwind sweeping him to the top of his profession.
Moonee Valley authorities are hoping for a bumper finale to their night racing season when a hot field of sprinters take to the track for the last group 1 race of the season in Victoria.
Form analyst Nathan Snow is the first to admit he can be a pain on Twitter but it is the reason he as become a mentor, even coach, to jockey Brenton Avdulla.
Ben Hayes trains like his father, sounds like his father and might even look like him one day. But the newest member of the Lindsay Park partnership wasn't always going to be a racehorse trainer.
Perth breeding buff Nino Tufilli looks at Echo Effect differently from nearly every other horse he has owned, and his Doncaster dream is still alive.
Frank and Christine Cook's love of racing has taken them on a fascinating journey and they have eight group 1 wins to reminisce about, with possibly another to come soon.
Champion trainer Murray Baker knows what it takes to bring a New Zealand staying three-year-old over for the Australian Derby – think Mongolian Khan, It's A Dundeel and Nom Du Jeu – and rates this year's crop as good as any.
Jason Collett is hoping the wait for his elusive first group 1 winner ends in the Vinery Stud Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.
Danny Nikolic has lost a legal bid to get his riding licence back, with a tribunal member saying she does not believe the former jockey has changed enough to return to work following a history of abusive exchanges with officials.
Big businesses that snap up a slot in The Everest will be given approval to splash their brands on jockey colours as multiple free-to-air networks wrangle to broadcast Sydney's new $10 million race.
Canberra trainer Matthew Dale has booked the world's best jockey for a tilt at the $2.5 million TJ Smith.
Tavago is already an Australian Derby winner but co-trainer Trent Busuttin knows he has a different horse, a better horse, heading in the BMW at Rosehill on Saturday.
The 39-year-old man accused of carrying a sawn-off shotgun outside Saturday's Golden Slipper Stakes event will remain behind bars after he did not apply for bail on Sunday.
Forgive me, master, but Winx is capable of doing what few other champions could achieve – win major events from the metric six furlongs to 3200 metres.
Just over 40 years ago, Garry Bachell would go early every Saturday afternoon to tackle the arduous task of mowing his grandmother's spacious back yard lawn.
Chris Waller is amazed by Winx on the track and is starting to get used to her being lauded off it as well.
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