• Patrick Bartley
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Egg Tart and Kenedna, the high-class fillies who bravely fought out the South Australian Oaks, appear set to quinella the Queensland Oaks on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Running a massive stable like the Chris Waller yard takes planning. It is also about making the most of opportunities for now and the future and that's what he is doing on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

A prediction made by Sportsbet CEO, Cormac Barry, last year, that operators like Tabcorp and Tatts wouldn't exist in five years may come back to haunt them.

• John Holloway

Two of Bloodlines' favourite racehorses/stallions are Galileo and Frankel; their achievements never cease to amaze. So the past week of racing has hardly been surprising.

• Chris Roots

Anthony Cummings openly admits he thought he had a Golden Slipper filly on his hands in Kanga's Eye after the Gimcrack Stakes in the spring.

• Chris Roots

Joe Cleary has been to a Highway Handicap before with Cliff and had to play second fiddle, it something he doesn't want to do again at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Kris Lees has dominated the Queensland carnival at group 1 level getting Clearly Innocent and Sense Of Occasion to rise to the challenge of the top level. The Newcastle trainer wants to make it a group 1 hattrick with Danish Twist in the Tatts Tiara, a challenge that has been in the planning for a couple of months.

• EXCLUSIVE
• Patrick Bartley

One of Australia's most decorated horse trainers of the past 30 years, Lee Freedman, is poised to move to Singapore in the next three months and purchase one of that country's most lucrative training operations.

• Chris Roots

Australian Turf Club has started a tender process for its Everest spot as one slot holder is coming to terms with missing out on Hong Kong sprinter Lucky Bubbles, which will head to Japan rather than Randwick in October.

• Patrick Bartley

As racehorses go, Arch Fire comes from a privileged background, in human terms an Eton student bound for a career studying at Cambridge in England.

• Michael Lynch

Lachlan King, the 18-year-old son of former champion rider Steven King – who won the cups double on the mighty mare Let's Elope back in 1991 – knew he would have big shoes to fill.

• Michael Lynch

Slow and steady is Lloyd Williams' carefully planned pathway back for 2016 Melbourne Cup winner Almandin.

• Adam Pengilly

A horse trainer who went missing for three days in bushland prompting a large scale search will allege she was pushed in the chest four times, grabbed by the arm and threatened by Taree racing officials on her own property in a case set to be heard in the Newcastle District Court.

• Chris Roots

A power play by the Racing Queensland board has forced the Queensland Oaks and Stradbroke meetings to be moved from the maligned Eagle Farm racecourse to Doomben.

• Patrick Bartley and Chris Roots

Racing Queensland has bowed to a chorus of complaints from owners, trainers and jockeys and moved the Queensland Oaks away from Eagle Farm to Doomben on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Eagle Farm raced as expected on Saturday – poorly – and Brisbane racing officials have to learn from the past and take decisive action at the end of the winter carnival.

• Cameron Houston

Serial fraudster Peter Foster has been recorded discussing links between himself, a champion horse and a prominent trainer.

• Patrick Bartley

Just 24 hours after one of his most memorable jumping victories, Darren Weir was calling on all racing enthusiasts to get behind the jumping industries of Victoria and South Australia.

• Michael Lynch

Former cricketer Simon O'Donnell and business partner Terry Henderson are making waves overseas as racehorse owners and syndicators.

• Chris Roots

Premiership leader Brenton Avdulla has "had enough of Eagle Farm" and will focus his effort on Sydney for the remainder of the season.

• Patrick Bartley

Leading trainer Chris Waller will seek urgent talks with Racing Queensland administrators into the standard of the Eagle Farm track surface.

• The Mail
• Chris Roots

Goulburn trainer Kurt Goldman will consider a Stradbroke start with filly Eckstein but is likely to keep her to her own sex after her classy win in the Glenlogan Park Stakes at Eagle Farm.

• 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.