• Chris Roots

Being a jockey comes naturally to Rachel King, but it didn't come easily. The 26-year-old has found her way to Sydney Saturday meetings this month, riding doubles on the first two weekends of June.

• John Holloway

The Great Southern Sale is the final opportunity for Australasian breeders to top off their 2018 sale-ring representatives.

• Patrick Bartley

Australian racing officials confident Michelle Payne can jump British immigration bar to ride at Royal Ascot.

• Chris Roots

Hugh Bowman has a chance to ride the most Australian group 1 winners in a season if he wins the Tatts Tiara in a fortnight and is arguably the world's best big race jockey at the moment.

• Chris Roots

Stephen Jones is thinking that Warwick Farm on Monday could form part of a pathway to next month's Ramornie Handicap for stable newcomer Akasaki and kick start his move back to NSW.

• Chris Roots

Ciaron Maher took one final look at Ruthven as Hugh Bowman got on him for Saturday's Queensland Derby and thought "that's the best his looked" but not even he was expecting the demolition job that followed at Doomben.

• Chris Roots

Darren Beadman has won 86 group 1 around Australia but he has never ridden one as hard as he rode Impending from his lounge chair in Sydney to get his first group 1 as a trainer in Saturday's Stradbroke.

• Patrick Bartley

Ben Thompson arrived at Flemington on Saturday a little downcast following the scratching that morning of one of the leading apprentices best rides on the program.

• Chris Roots

Tommy Berry knows little gestures mean big things to children.

• Chris Roots

Barbara Joseph and Paul Jones will officially open their Sapphire Coast stables on Sunday and look to celebrate by winning the Merimbula Cup with Darts Away.

• Chris Roots

Harness Racing Australia will continue to work toward whip-free racing but the target to start at the new season has had to be reassessed.

• Patrick Bartley

One of the world's finest trainers of stayers, Andreas Wohler, has produced another class distance galloper that is now a new Melbourne Cup favourite.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Single Gaze's stellar Queensland campaign will draw to a close at the Brisbane Cup on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Ciaron Maher had his eye on this day back in the spring with Ruthven. The Queensland Derby, he figured, would be when the raw talented three-year-old could become man and a group 1 winner.

• Chris Roots

Josh Adams was in danger of becoming one of silent statistics that the drug ice claims in Australia every year.

• Patrick Bartley

There's a fair chance, in fact nearly a one in two probability of Saturday's group 1 Queensland Derby being won by a three-year-old who is trained with a sir name starting with W.

• Max Presnell

Hugh Bowman on Clearly Innocent will be out to do a Jim Cassidy in Saturday's Stradbroke Handicap at Doomben, the major Queensland race in which local greats have failed to leave their mark.

• Chris Roots

Kris Lees had a smile on his face this week when he watched the video of Winx's first win three years ago.

• Chris Roots

Tim Clark took one look at the weight for Broadside in Saturday's Stayers Cup and thought it might be a bit too much.

• Chris Roots

Bjorn Baker thought he had "at least a Magic Millions filly" in Champagne Cuddles after her debut, but sometimes as a trainer you are forced to wait.

• Michael Lynch

Leading racehorses from five different countries will have an all-expenses paid trip to Australia to encourage them to topple local superstar Winx.

• Chris Roots

During his hall of fame as a jockey career, Darren Beadman never won a Stradbroke, it is something he could set right as the trainer of Impending at Doomben on Saturday.

• John Holloway

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.

• Chris Roots

A statewide move to take official fluctuations from a quorum of corporate bookmakers has seen metropolitan on-course bookmakers stop offering high-end clients top fluctuation as a product.

• Patrick Bartley

Jessica Harrington could "train a rusty bike to win a group 1 race," according to one leading trainer.

• Chris Roots

Winning the Melbourne Cup can open up opportunities. Just ask Kerrin McEvoy.

• Michael Lynch

Fresh from setting a new record for winners in a season in Victoria, champion trainer Darren Weir is now setting his sights on winter gold in Queensland.

• Patrick Bartley

Racing.com has ambitions to create a racing channel for hotels and clubs in competition with the long-standing Sky racing service, it has been revealed.

• Chris Roots

The fastest horse to grace the Ballydoyle gallops, Caravaggio, could be heading for the $10 million Everest after a royal appointment at Ascot this month.