• Chris Roots

A suspension that Brenton Avdulla thought would cost him his shot at a first Sydney jockeys' premiership might become a refocusing point for his title aspirations.

• Chris Roots

Australian Turf Club chief executive Darren Pearce is focused on $150 million in infrastructure projects to deliver better facilities across the club's four tracks and take racing into the 21st century.

• John Holloway

Last Monday brought another marvellous set of barrier trials at Rosehill, with a selection of rising three-year-olds who celebrate their birthday in 10 days time and a large number from Gerald Ryan's stable doing themselves proud.

• Chris Roots

Kris Lees has had his best season as a trainer and will look to close it on a high with an old favourite, Felines, and a horse for the future, Sound Proposition, at Randwick on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

The VRC will race at Flemington during Royal Melbourne Show week for the first time in a bid to showcase racing to a new audience.

• Chris Roots

Harness Racing NSW has decided to maintain the whip in racing, rejecting a national ban.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Patrick Bartley

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.

• Michael Lynch

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.

• Patrick Bartley

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.

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• Chris Roots

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.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Chris Roots

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."

• Max Presnell

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."

• Max Presnell

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.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Canberra jockey Brodie Loy will spend the next month riding in New Caledonia marking his first time overseas.

• 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.