• Chris Roots

An afterthought for Fabrizio could parlay into a Brisbane winter campaign after his comfortable win in the Hawkesbury Cup

• Chris Roots

John O'Shea will leave his post as Godolphin's Australian trainer after three years and take an extended break from racing.

• Patrick Bartley

While John Price knows his sprinting three-year-old Wise Hero is a horse of the future, the trainer will resist the temptation to travel for rich and more lofty assignments in South Australia next week.

• Chris Roots

Shillelagh left behind the frustrations of autumn as she proved too strong for favourite Daysee Doom in the Godolphin Crown at Hawkesbury on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Scott Singleton's first memories of the Hawkesbury track are next to the bull ring as a five-year-old as his grandfather trained horses. His best came on Saturday as Shazee Lee exploded through late to take the Hawkesbury Guineas.

• Chris Roots

Muswellbrook trainer Justin McIntosh is hoping being reunited with old mate In A Wink will provide his fledging career with a massive boost, starting in Sunday's Tamworth Cup.

• Chris Roots

Melbourne Cup winning jockey Kerrin McEvoy will carry the bandaid on his nose at Hawkesbury on Saturday after having a sun spot cut out and wants to spread the word for jockeys to get checked.

• Chris Roots

Grace Panella took out the champion of champions at the NSW Mini Trots Championships at Tamworth over the Easter weekend, but it was the Harris family from the Riverina that starred in two categories

• Chris Roots

Hugh Bowman has a big lead early in the world's best jockey standings and will look to extended it when he rides Werther in the Sunday's Queen Elizabeth Stakes in Hong Kong.

• Michael Lynch

With Warrnambool on the horizon next week the racing focus will turn to the jumps horses, who take centre stage at the three-day carnival.

• Max Presnell

While the possible impact of 457s and early starts on the turf holds prominence, Saturday's Hawkesbury Guineas, the race that launched Chautauqua, will have the best ground for a Saturday around Sydney for two months.

• Patrick Bartley

With the major South Australian races approaching, Saturday's meeting at Morphettville looks like an excellent lead-in to their carnival.

• Chris Roots

Ron Quinton is a master of bringing his horses through the right races and he believes Hawkesbury's Godolphin Crown is just that for Daysee Doom.

• Patrick Bartley

It has always amazed even her most ardent and dedicated followers just how jockey Linda Meech manages to find the time and the energy to criss-cross the state seemingly on a daily basis.

• Chris Roots

Hawkesbury trainer Garry White wants to complete the box set of feature races at his home track's stand-alone meeting with Generalissimo in Saturday's Hawkesbury Guineas.

• Chris Roots

Bloodstock agent Guy Mulcaster liked what he saw when a Snitzel colt out of Bramble Rose walked into Inglis' parade ring at Newmarket last year.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin blue dominates the top of betting for Saturday's Hawkesbury Gold Cup and trainer John O'Shea believes the market has it right with Spectroscope leading the way.

• John Holloway

A downturn in the Karaka Select Sales at the 2017 New Zealand Bloodstock Sales has resulted in the company introducing a new format for Karaka 2018.

• Chris Roots

Bathurst harness racing trainer Nathan Turnbull was won the right to continue to train despite a first sample taken from Destiny Warrior showing a irregularity to cocaine after he won at Dubbo in February.

• Patrick Bartley

Anthony Cummings and his new training partner son Edward are hoping that the training deeds that ignited their remarkable family dynasty over half a century ago in Adelaide, can again assist them when they arrive in South Australia later in the week.

• Michael Lynch

Whatever the future for the St Leger, Caulfield trainer John Moloney and connections of Dornier were revelling in the win on Tuesday.

• Patrick Bartley

The huge Godolphin racing outfit were elated with their first Sydney Cup success on Saturday, the stable was still firmly focused on winning this year's Melbourne Cup.

• Caden Helmers

Samara Johnson rode As Easy As to glory for her seventh win from 10 starts aboard the eight-year-old mare.

• Chris Roots

The battle between traditionalists and progressives is once again going to played out after the reason for early morning trackwork times was questioned by premier trainer Chris Waller this week.

• Chris Roots

Most Sydneysiders are sick of the sight of rain but Hawkesbury trainer Jason Attard would like it to stick around for one more week.

• Chris Roots

The Sydney carnival delivered on the track and in the record books, even fighting a losing battle against Mother Nature.

• Chris Roots

Polarisation proved that his victory in the first running of the Sydney Cup two weeks ago was no fluke when repeated the effort in a re-run of the race at Randwick on Saturday.

• Caden Helmers

Almost a year to the day after the worst moment of his career trainer Nick Olive savoured one of his sweetest victories.

• Chris Roots

Jockey Tim Clark was forced to ask "where's the chopper [shot]" as he explained how favourite I Thought So was beaten at Randwick on Saturday.