• Chris Roots

Oxford Poet and Shiraz are both more than a year past their last win, but trainer Kim Waugh is expecting their best on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

While the cut and thrust of major spring races is still a way off, Saturday's weight-for-age event for the upcoming carnival always gives some genuine insights.

• Patrick Bartley

Victorian racing bodies are undecided if they will back CrownBet and the ACCC in appealing the Australian Competition Tribunal's approval of the $11 billion Tabcorp and Tatts merger.

• Chris Roots

There is a will to win about Supply And Demand, with an edge of toughness from a Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott preparation, that has now delivered four consecutive wins after he led all the way in Thursday's Grafton Cup.

• Chris Roots

Trainer Jason Coyle knows there are reasons punters wouldn't want to support his filly Insensata at Rosehill on Saturday, but to him those negatives are positives.

• Chris Roots

Gai Waterhouse believes Siege Of Quebec could develop into the her latest winter gem after a patience approach with the brother of Bull Point.

• Patrick Bartley

After celebrating his most successful season at his new state-of-the-art base at Euroa, north of Melbourne, David Hayes is maintaining the new season could bring even more success to the training establishment.

• Chris Roots

It is just over 12 months since Mark Newnham had his first runners as a trainer and he will finally get to start a horse he targeted in his own name at the beginning of his career.

• John Holloway

Last week Bloodlines highlighted the group 1 Belmont Derby Invitational as a race which could catapult the Japanese-bred Yoshida to stardom.

• Patrick Bartley

Former champion Western Australian jockey Alana Williams is hoping that the remarkable strike rate of top sprinters from her home state that venture to the east coast of Australiua can continue at Caulfield on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Everest slotholder Max Whitby has won the biggest races in the country but there is one race he covets above all – the Grafton Cup.

• Chris Roots

The Australian Turf Club is building a $3 million synthetic training track at Canterbury for the expected arrival of unbeaten Irish sprinter Caravaggio for the Everest as it plans for the future of the inner city track.

• David Polkinghorne

The Canberra trainers will meet with Racing NSW next week to state their case to remain in lucrative Highway Handicaps.

• Chris Roots

Champion trainer Peter Snowden has a couple of good memories from Grafton with the Ramornie Handicap wins of Pinwheel and Jerezana, but there is another day there he will never forget as a teenager jockey.

• Melissa Singer

Luxury jewellery will also take over naming rights to Oaks Day.

• David Polkinghorne

Racing NSW is set to ban Canberra trainers from taking part in the Highway Handicap.

• Patrick Bartley

Racing Victoria will throw a spectacular birthday bash for all retired racehorses, at Geelong Racecourse on horses' birthday, August 1.

• Chris Roots

The lost generation are spoken of in quiet terms, racing needs to win new hearts and minds.

• Chris Roots

Apprentice Mikayla Weir didn't dare to believe she was riding in Sydney until the fields with her name next to Nic's Vendetta in Saturday's Highway Handicap appeared, but she got the whole fairytale with a victory that broke favourite backers' hearts.

• Chris Roots

The canny horseman in Hugh Bowman has played a key role in his late charge for the Sydney jockey's premiership title after he completed a winning double on Sayed and Liapari at Warwick Farm.

• Michael Lynch

It's the unkindest cut of all, the ultimate gear change. But it must be said that a gelding operation has made a man of emerging sprinter Ability.

• Chris Roots

It was the perfect start to James Cummings' time as Godolphin's Australian trainer on Saturday.

• Michael Lynch

There's an old saying in racing that all horses go fast past trees.

• Chris Roots

Harness Racing NSW chief executive John Dumesny says there will be racing at Newcastle Paceway for at least the next couple of years despite a proposed sporting precinct around Hunter Stadium not including a racetrack.

• Chris Roots

The success of the Highway series will be celebrated at Randwick on Everest day as the Anniversary Highway Handicap worth $200,000 will give country trainers a spring focus for their stable stars.

• David Polkinghorne

Norm Gardner says the $200,000 Anniversary Highway race will have country trainers checking their paddocks.

• Chris Roots

A long preparation has mellowed Heavenly Anna and has Kembla Grange trainer Kerry Parker convinced she is ready to run a mile at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

PUNTERS TREATED TO A DAY OF EXCITING FINALS

• Max Presnell

Ron Quinton is following in the Theo Green tradition, the knack developing jockeys that Bart Cummings had with Melbourne Cup winners, emphasised by Hugh Bowman and Andrew Atkins chasing this season's premierships.