Racing NSW is expecting October's Everest to be Sydney's biggest betting race for the year, with lotto-like jackpots for punters to chase that will fuel the $10 million sprint being raced for $15 million or even $20 million in coming years.
Some of Japan's most powerful and influential stables are eyeing Australia's three most important Spring Carnival events, the Cox Plate and the Caulfield and Melbourne cups.
It was a 68th birthday to remember for Godolphin boss Sheikh Mohammed when his speedster Harry's Angel scorched down the track to win Newmarket's July Cup.
It wasn't the normally reserved Mick Kent that emerged to meet the media after his gifted stallion Supido toyed with his opposition in winning the weight for age Monash Stakes on Saturday.
Adam Hyeronimus paid credit to Tim Martin after a winning treble at Rosehill on Saturday, including victories with Pick Me Up and Hunter Jack, both from the yard where he has been working hard.
Jason Coyle has been waiting for more than two years for Slightly Sweet to return to the winner's circle and things finally held her way in the Winter Stakes at Rosehill on Saturday.
Tommy Berry got off Siege Of Quebec and headed straight for Coolmore representative Seb Hutch and said: "You've got my number - I'll come to ride him in anything."
Windsor has few prestige races yet it provides a cheery experience. Hen parties cluster on the lawns, sharp suited likely lads who spend more on their hair cuts than a case of pinot noir chat up lasses with cheery banter amid queues from better-than-average food shacks and the access to the parade ring and winner's enclosure is ultimately informal."
To what degree the Darren Weir magic, so effective with Black Heart Bart, works on Chocolate Holic will be seen in John Monash at Caulfield, billed down south as the best race in Australia today.
Canberra jockey Brodie Loy will spend the next month riding in New Caledonia marking his first time overseas.
Oxford Poet and Shiraz are both more than a year past their last win, but trainer Kim Waugh is expecting their best on Saturday.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gai Waterhouse believes Siege Of Quebec could develop into the her latest winter gem after a patience approach with the brother of Bull Point.
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.
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.
Last week Bloodlines highlighted the group 1 Belmont Derby Invitational as a race which could catapult the Japanese-bred Yoshida to stardom.
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.
Everest slotholder Max Whitby has won the biggest races in the country but there is one race he covets above all – the Grafton Cup.
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.
The Canberra trainers will meet with Racing NSW next week to state their case to remain in lucrative Highway Handicaps.
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.
Luxury jewellery will also take over naming rights to Oaks Day.
Racing NSW is set to ban Canberra trainers from taking part in the Highway Handicap.
Racing Victoria will throw a spectacular birthday bash for all retired racehorses, at Geelong Racecourse on horses' birthday, August 1.
The lost generation are spoken of in quiet terms, racing needs to win new hearts and minds.
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.
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.