• Max Presnell

With the Scone carnival in full swing it's appropriate that Betty Shepherd gets a run here alongside the whip controversy and the changing of the guard at Godolphin.

• Chris Roots

Glyn Schofield got unfriendly welcome back to the saddle when Silk Topper split his cheek on Wednesday, he hoping it will turn friendlier with a couple of winners at Scone on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

The dream start for Darren Beadman as the trainer in charge at the Godolphin team continued as Duca Valentinois swept to victory in Friday's Scone Cup to give him a stakes win in his first week.

• Patrick Bartley

It would seem that the Flemington-trained Odeon has enjoyed the perfect preparation for Saturday's $600,000 South Australian Derby.

• Chris Roots

Canberra trainer Matt Dale arrived in Queensland last year hoping his star Fell Swoop could finally break through for a group 1 victory and nothing much has changed in 12 months, just his bank balance.

• Patrick Bartley

It's nearly a decade now since a jockey - trainer combination crossed the border from South Australia and raised the eyebrows of racing's aristocracy by taking out one of Australia's most cherished classics the Victoria Derby.

• Chris Roots

It is the job Darren Beadman has spent a lifetime preparing for but "never really wanted".

• Chris Roots

The relationship between Peter and Paul Snowden as trainers, the China Horse Club and Newgate Farm's boss Henry Field is one of the strongest in racing.

• John Holloway

A wonderful array of equine stars captured headlines worldwide last weekend, with group 1 races here, there and everywhere. But it was perennial superstar Galileo which shone brightest with his European exploits.

• Chris Roots

There is a similarity between stud-bound stallion Rebel Dane and emerging juvenile Lipizzan that is not lost on trainer Gary Portelli, and it's one of which he is rightfully proud.

• Eamonn Duff

Michelle Steele and Dennis Mitchell were hit with a string of charges, under the Australian Rules of Racing, following a Racing NSW inquiry into alleged horse cruelty and mistreatment at the Australian Turf Club's Mounted Security Division.

• Patrick Bartley

Senior racing officials are concerned that ongoing debts incurred by the caretaker Racing Victoria board will leave the new regime to not only shoulder the unnecessary expense but maybe forced to close other initiatives.

• Michael Lynch

The champion trainer, who hasn't had a trainee jockey indentured to his stable for some years now, is contemplating taking another youngster on in the near future.

• Chris Roots

Richard Freedman has been jumping the queue in front of Darren Beadman since they were teenagers catching the bus together at Yass and once again on Wednesday, he took a brief lead on him with the first winner of his comeback to training at Canterbury.

• Beth Harris

Always Dreaming has splashed through the mud to win the Kentucky Derby, giving trainer Todd Pletcher and jockey John Velazquez their second victories in the race but their first together.

Admire the form of hard-working Envy Of All.

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.