Are Australasian racegoers about to witness another Bonecrusher when Kiwi three-year-old Gingernuts shoots for his biggest success in the Australian Derby at Royal Randwick this weekend?
The $10 million dream of Racing NSW and Australian Turf Club is reality with all 12 Everest slots sold and a quarter of the slots already earmarked for horses.
A mid-year national stewards conference will discuss whether concussion protocols for jockeys will be tightened and made uniform across different states after it emerged NSW and Victoria had different requirements for when a rider could return to the saddle after a fall.
Australian jockeys, trainers and senior racing executives have come out in full support of the proposed $11 billion merger between TabCorp and Tatts.
The group 1 shadow of Winx hangs over perhaps one of the best Doncaster Mile's this century with a half-dozen runners having been consigned to runner-up status by the mighty mare during her winning streak.
Fell Swoop has secured the perfect barrier draw ahead of the TJ Smith Stakes on Saturday.
Doncaster Mile favourite Le Romain has drawn well in barrier eight for the $3 million race.
Could Jameka succeed where globetrotting Australasian gallopers such as Balmerino, Strawberry Road and, more recently, So You Think, have failed and win Europe's most prestigious race, the Prix de l"Arc de Triomphe?
Chauatauqua hasn't won in Australia since last year's TJ Smith but such is his star quality he will be the leading act on the first day of The Championships at Randwick on Saturday.
It has certainly been advantage Melbourne since the direct focus of racing has turned to Sydney in the past couple of weeks. It has been like what happens in the spring only reversed.
Tony McEvoy is hoping the weather forecast for the rest of the week in Sydney will hold true as he sends Australian Guineas winner Hey Doc north for Saturday's Doncaster Mile.
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.
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