• Patrick Bartley

Senior Australian racing officials are maintaining that Racing Victoria's recent raft of prize money changes is merely a bid to counter New South Wales' dominance of the Australian industry, rather than enhancing the local spring carnival..

• Patrick Bartley

The Victorian racing industry's broadcaster, racing.com, have lined up with CrownBet and other corporate bookmakers to oppose the merger of Tatts and Tabcorp.

• Chris Roots

The job of Godolphin head trainer remained a major point of discussion over the Scone weekend as the global giant continues its search for a replacement for John O'Shea but the stable continues to be successful under Darren Beadman.

• Chris Roots

Malaguerra has been the horse that has changed the profile of the Moe stable of Peter Gelagotis stable and he will be out to add to his reputation in the Goodwood at Morphettville on Saturday.

• Michael Lynch

Moonee Valley racing chiefs are seeking urgent meetings with Racing Victoria after the inner city race club largely missed out in the latest round of prizemoney hikes.

• Chris Roots

Paul Snowden arrived with what he thought was the winner of the Scone Guineas but it wasn't France, which upset punters and surprised the stable with stunning late burst to victory on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

o most of his rival trainers it's known as the "Weir factor" and that same remarkable trait was again on display on Saturday in South Australia when the trainer secured the city's local $600,000 Group 1 Derby with a relative unknown.

• Michael Lynch

Apprentice Beau Mertens took another giant step towards a history making jockeys' premiership win at Caulfield on Saturday, but incurred the wrath of the stewards as he punched home three winners to take him to the top of the standings.

• Chris Roots

One of the key arts of training can be waiting for your horses to mature and Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott got rewarded for that kind of patience at Scone on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Goulburn District Race Club chief executive Robyn Fife has announced the Graeme Spackman Memorial will become a feature of Goulburn's Anniversary Cup meeting in November.

• Chris Roots

Usually when your dad tells you as a young fella, "you can do that when you grow-up", it doesn't take until you're a 45-year-old to get around to doing it.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Matt Dale believes Fell Swoop can still deliver in his sixth consecutive Group 1 race at Doomben.

• 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).