Joe Pride is optimistic that his stayer can claim the Listed Lord Mayor's Cup (2000m).

High Church has given Darren Weir a fourth-straight win in the Warrnambool Cup, the feature flat race of the famous three-day carnival.

Top Of My List impressed in the Group 3 JRA Plate (2000m) at Royal Randwick last month.

Envy Of All and Passage Of Time are in the infancy of their racing careers but James Cummings predicts bright futures for both horses.

A racehorse has been euthanised after falling during a jumps race at the Warrnambool carnival, less than a month after the same thing happened in South Australia.

• EXCLUSIVE
• Patrick Bartley

Disgraced Australian jockey Danny Nikolic, banned from attending racecourses and the Melbourne Casino, has been allowed permission to ride in Malaysia next Saturday and Sunday.

• Michael Lynch

Jockey could barely suppress a smile as he cantered his horse down to the start for the Brierly Steeplechase.

There has been no shortage of compelling horse racing storylines in recent years but Patch could top them all when the one-eyed underdog sets off in the Kentucky Derby for the first leg of US thoroughbred racing's Triple Crown.

• Patrick Bartley

This year's $6 million Melbourne Cup is poised to become the direct beneficiary of a number of high quality stayers that competed in arguably the world's toughest 3200m race, The Tenno Sho, run at Kyoto in Japan on Sunday night.

• Michael Lynch

As a jumps jockey, Steven Pateman has won everything there is to win at the famous Warrnambool May carnival.

• Patrick Bartley

The Asian Racing Federation will later next month create one of the most powerful "Anti-Illegal Betting Task Forces" in a bid to outlaw the haemorrhaging of billions of dollars of betting money to underground bookmakers.

• Chris Roots

Hawkesbury will take the next step towards completing a polytrack training surface this week, a project Anthony Cummings is looking to use as he upgrades the training facilities at Princes Farm.

• ROOTS & ALL
• Chris Roots

The departure of John O'Shea from Godolphin will be completed this week once financial terms are agreed, but debate has already turned to who will take the job.

• Chris Roots

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott have English, maybe the second best sprinter in the country, fit and ready for the challenge of the Robert Sangster Stakes at Morphettville on Saturday.

• Michael Lynch

Jumps racing takes centre stage in Warrnambool this week, though there's also plenty of flat racing on offer.

• 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.