Champion mare Winx has joined Black Caviar and Sunline by being inducted into the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame during her racing career, while Lloyd Williams' love for the sport was rewarded by induction into the associate section.
CEO Simon Love stands down from the VRC after taking over in 2015.
Group One performer Fell Swoop will take no further part in the Brisbane carnival with Canberra trainer Matt Dale turning his attention some of his up- and-coming stablemates.
Counsel for Tabcorp and Tatts pointed to the extraordinary rise of cashed up corporate bookmakers to highlight competition in wagering to justify their proposed merger.
Trainer Ciaron Maher has been accused of concealing ownership of a champion mare on behalf of conman Peter Foster.
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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Matt Dale believes Fell Swoop can still deliver in his sixth consecutive Group 1 race at Doomben.
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.
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.
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.
It would seem that the Flemington-trained Odeon has enjoyed the perfect preparation for Saturday's $600,000 South Australian Derby.
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.
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.