• Patrick Bartley

While Kris Lees was understandably elated with a second group 1 victory in just seven days when Clearly Innocent scored in the Kingsford-Smith Cup at Eagle Farm the trainer however wanted to take a low profile position moments after the race.

• Michael Lynch

The Darren Weir juggernaut continues to roll on and set new benchmarks, with the champion trainer on Saturday saddling a Sandown hat-trick, which meant he has equalled Lee Freedman's record of 115 metropolitan winners in a season.

• Chris Roots

Cressfield Stud boss Bruce Neill could have easily given up on Kingsford Smith Cup winner Clearly Innocent before he even got to a trainer.

• Michael Lynch

Flat bred horses. They can't jump, won't stay the distance and are wholly unsuitable for fences and hurdles. Or so say those critics of Australian jumps racing, who routinely argue that there is no place on the sporting calendar for races over obstacles, especially not at metropolitan tracks.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin had to wait for Kementari to be ready. Now they have to decide if he is ready for a late-season grab at a group 1 in the JJ Atkins in Brisbane next month.

• Chris Roots

French superstar Bold Eagle will race at a mile for the first time in his career as he tries to lift Europe's biggest race, the Elitloppet, at Solvalla in Sweden on Sunday.

• Chris Roots

Robert Price admits he has reinvented local Tradtri on many occasions since buying him from New Zealand and hopes the latest version is good enough to win the Nowra Cup on Sunday.

• David Polkinghorne

An apprenticeship jockey shuffle through the stable's doors has helped Canberra training duo Keith Dryden and Scott Collings bag a running double.

• Michael Lynch

There might be more stylish riders than John Allen, but there are surely none with his versatility and all-round horsemanship.

• Patrick Bartley

Robert Smerdon is normally measured and calm when he approaches major racedays that his team is involved in, however Saturday's Australian hurdle and steeple day at Sandown is an exception.

• Patrick Bartley

Arguably one of Australia's best weight-for-age performers, Black Heart Bart, has crossed the nation to start in Saturday's rich group 1 Kingsford Smith Cup at Eagle Farm.

• Patrick Bartley

Sportsbet would "absolutely" be interested in a retail wagering business if the licence conditions were right, a tribunal heard on Thursday

• Chris Roots

James Cummings is used to pressure. It comes with the famous family name in game where there are more knockers than backslappers.

• Chris Roots

Adrian Bott's first season training in partnership with Gai Waterhouse has to be rated a success, but it is what is to come that excites the young man still learning his craft.

• John Holloway

The China Horse Club's investment in Australian racing and breeding has reached extraordinary heights since its involvement commenced just on four years ago, and its stallion portfolio and broodmare collection will be out in force for the 2017 breeding season.

• Chris Roots

Randwick trainer John Sargent has been eying the Brisbane carnival for a while with two-year-old Easy Go Easy Win, but it is another juvenile Regine, bred to northern time, is out to make history as she runs in the Grand Prix at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin's interim trainer Darren Beadman racked another winning double at Canterbury on Wednesday and his eye will turn to group 1 glory when three-year-old Impending takes on the older horses in the Kingsford Smith Cup at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

One of Australia's most powerful racing administrators, Peter V'landys, who was due to give evidence at Tuesday's competition hearings into the merger between Tabcorp and Tatts was withdrawn from giving evidence just minutes before flying to Melbourne.

• Patrick Bartley

For the past few years Anthony Cummings has been trying to get his head around being in direct opposition to his young son James, in the tough uncompromising world of horse training.

• Chris Roots

Anthony and Edward Cummings want to move their stable into Leilani Lodge to maintain the family connection with famed Randwick stables after James Cummings was announced as Godolphin's trainer on Tuesday.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin announced James Cummings as its new Australian head trainer on Tuesday.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin will confirm James Cummings as its head Australian trainer to replaced John O'Shea as early as Tuesday.

• Chris Roots

The elevation of Winx into the Hall Of Fame drew some criticism but it gives racing's greatest honour relevance and allows comparison with her fellow inductees.

• Chris Roots

Racing NSW is set to boost stakes for feature races around the state as part of a review to increase returns to racing and bring back a community focus with the first move to hold next year's Provincial Championships heats on Saturdays.

• Patrick Bartley

Tabcorp and Tatts must merge in the interests of Australian industry, says RWWA boss.

• Chris Roots

Owner Geoff Grimish is hoping for a perfect group 1 finale for classy sprinter Counterattack in Brisbane before he returns home to Kitchwin Hills for life as a stallion later in the year.

• Chris Roots

David Hayes and the connections of impressive Goodwood winner Vega Magic are looking at The Everest in Sydney next spring following the galloper's stirring success in the million dollar event at Morphetville.

• Michael Lynch

Victorian trainers and jockeys dominated – as is now so often the case – on the biggest day of the South Australian racing calendar when they won seven of the eight races.

• Michael Lynch

David Hayes and the connections of impressive Goodwood winner Vega Magic are looking at a tilt at The Everest in Sydney in spring following the former West Australian  galloper's stirring success in the $1million dollar sprint at Morphettville on Saturday.