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HORSE RACING

Cressfield forges links with champion Frankel

Pure class: Frankel gaps the field in the Anne Stakes during Royal Ascot in 2012.

Attention Frankel lovers: here is another chapter on the champion racehorse/stallion and the impact he has had on one of Australia's best boutique thoroughbred nurseries – Cressfield, situated about 10 kilometres north of Scone.

Move set to raise stakes for spring carnival

Hugh beauty: Hugh Bowman and Winx are set to call Randwick home this spring.

Sydney's spring carnival will be moved back, more than $1 million in stakes will be added to the prize pool and there will be a greater focus on pathways to big Melbourne races, meaning champion Winx is likely to stay at home right up to her crack at a third Cox Plate.

'No truth to Waterhouse split': Bott

Co-trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott at Randwick racecourse in August.

Adrian Bott is adamant his training partnership with Hall of Famer Gai Waterhouse won't be wound up, brushing off a report which suggested the Tulloch Lodge union will unravel before the new season.