New Zealand trainer Mandy Brown was left "gobsmacked" the last time she went to Randwick on a raceday with La Bella Diosa and she is hoping for a similar feeling after Saturday's Australian Oaks.
The gavel crash of John Inglis followed by the wail of "sailo", the call to auction, still reverberates. "Every time it struck I lost a leaf," commented the Moreton Bay Fig, who has stood long and proud at Newmarket Stables, Randwick, for more than a century.
Training a horse that's always expected to win brings untold pressure, as Waller is finding out with superstar Winx.
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The creme de la creme of Australian racing might be on display at Randwick this weekend but what the Caulfield card might lack in outright quality it more than makes up for in competitiveness.
Canberra Racing preview with Philip Courtney
Highclere Racing will hope it is third time lucky in the Sydney Cup with trainer Chris Waller, when Libran steps out at Randwick on Saturday.
The tour de force of Winx is set to continue in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick but where does the queen of racing sit in terms of history?
Gwenda Markwell has been the Queen of Kembla Grange for the past 14 years, winning premierships after premiership, but it has been a while since she had a horse like Pomelo.
It had always about been the three of them for Sam Clipperton. Ron Quinton , his wife Margaret, and Sam.
Doubt I'm Dreaming was a star from the first time he made his way to a yearling sale in Melbourne at the 2015 Inglis Premier Sale. The only thing which prevented him taking his place in the sale was a second broken jaw!
Lee Curtis remembers sitting in near darkness eating Chinese behind a card table waiting to load a 100-1 bolter on to a float bound for Melbourne for the Victoria Oaks. So what's changed for one of racing's good guys in the six months since?
Winx will be used as the measuring stick for next month's QE II Cup in Hong Kong by The United States, Exospheric and Hartnell in Saturday's $4 million Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick.
Champion jockey Hugh Bowman believes the partnership of Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman can join greats Clarry Conners and Tommy Smith if Bonneval can win the Australian Oaks at Randwick on Saturday.
She beat two subsequent group 1 winners at just her second start and for so long has been regarded as the nearly horse, but Noel Mayfield-Smith has raised expectations Unequivocal will have her best preparation yet before resuming at The Championships.
Stuart Ramsey knows he can bank "a couple of million" from Glenall when he wants but the best horse he has bred deserves more.
Chris Waller has reinforced the wall of Winx's off-fore hoof as she looks for a 17th consecutive win in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick.
Racing NSW stewards investigate the Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable for horse substitutions.
If Rupert Legh next turns up at the races to cheer home his champion sprinter, Chautauqua, clutching a teddy bear named Johnny don't be surprised.Â
Racing NSW has boldly declared they want The Championships to feature a staggering 18 group 1s across both race days "as soon as possible" in a major shake-up to Sydney's signature two-day carnival.
With a performance that will be rated with Royal Randwick's greatest, Chautauqua saved Doncaster-Derby day, paper brilliant but disappointing on turf.
Godolphin will have runners from both sides of the world attempting to stop Big Duke from riding away with Saturday's Sydney Cup at Randwick.
The presence of Winx shooting for her 17th straight victory has other trainers talking about second in Saturday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes as they look at her with awe.
Chautauqua owns the Randwick 1200m after a remarkable third TJ Smith victory on Saturday.
Buying and selling gallopers might just be a numbers game for Hong Kong-based horse trader David Price, but the figures are certainly starting to stack up where his smart two-year-old Property is concerned.
Godolphin's English import It's Somewhat led from pillar to post under Hong Kong-based Australian Zac Purton to land the $3 million Doncaster Handicap for John O'Shea at Randwick on Saturday.
There was always something about Invader that kept the Snitzel colt under Peter Snowden's eye.
There is something effortless about Winx at work until you look at the clock.
The King was dead. Lost his zip. Can't stretch out to a mile. No-man's land, they said. But did you see that? Once, twice, three times a winner of the richest sprint in Australia (for now). Last-to-first each time. Somehow the next better than the previous. Chautauqua is not dead. Not by a long way.
At Randwick on Saturday, Jon Snow eclipsed his famous namesakes in spectacular style.
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