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.
It is the job Darren Beadman has spent a lifetime preparing for but "never really wanted".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As a jumps jockey, Steven Pateman has won everything there is to win at the famous Warrnambool May carnival.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jumps racing takes centre stage in Warrnambool this week, though there's also plenty of flat racing on offer.
An afterthought for Fabrizio could parlay into a Brisbane winter campaign after his comfortable win in the Hawkesbury Cup
John O'Shea will leave his post as Godolphin's Australian trainer after three years and take an extended break from racing.
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.
Shillelagh left behind the frustrations of autumn as she proved too strong for favourite Daysee Doom in the Godolphin Crown at Hawkesbury on Saturday.
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