World champion race mare, Winx, is set to make her Flemington debut in this year's rich $2 million Emirates Stakes on the fourth day of the Melbourne Cup carnival in an appearance that could attract a crowd larger than Australia's greatest race.
Chris Waller has given Hugh Bowman the green light to chase rides away from Australia's leading group 1 stable to further his jockey's premiership cause.
Veteran racing journalist and trainer Neville Prendergast has died aged 88.
Godolphin Australia boss Henry Plumptre has quit as Sheikh Mohammed's top man Down Under just over a week before the dramatic strangles inquiry is due to return before stewards.
Winx preserved her bizarre record of never winning a barrier trial, but Australia's champion racehorse is back bigger and better than ever as she bids to win a record-equalling third Cox Plate.
Champion jockey Hugh Bowman's week will begin with superstar Winx on Monday before progressing to the final two meetings of a premiership battle and end on a different track at Kokoda.
The emergence of apprentice Rachel King during the past two months on Sydney Saturdays as vindicated her choice of jobs at Tulloch Lodge and the eventual judgement of Gai Waterhouse.
Victorian racing TV channel in multimillion-dollar play for South Australian rights.
Brenton Avdulla will hope Argent D'or's victory over the Hugh Bowman-ridden favourite Spending To Win by a nose can be replicated in the Sydney jockeys' premiership in the final week of their title stoush.
Newcastle trainer Kris Lees has an unbeaten record with Sound Proposition in two runs and is set to give the former Kiwi a shot at a feature race in his new hometown after a fighting win at Randwick on Saturday.
The VRC's bid to stimulate staying races in Victoria has begun well after a high-class filly took out Saturday's Byerley Handicap.
Rachel King and Memes have enjoyed a great relationship - a winning one - as they have come through the grades together.
Shane and Lauren Tritton are expecting a new arrival any day and also have another baby, My Sweetchilliphilly, ready to make her return at Menangle on Tuesday.
The trifecta from the Country Championships final – Free Standing, After All That and Not For Export – will be given direct entry into the $200,000 Highway Anniversary Handicap to be run over 1400 metres on Everest day.
Max Presnell has spent more than 60 years in racing - and he's now put it all down in a book.
Racing NSW have deferred a decision on Canberra's future in Highway Handicap for three months.
The unbeaten rise of Pelethronius this preparation has taken trainer David Pfieffer by surprise.
Jockey Blake Shinn might have already won a Melbourne Cup, but he believes five weeks in the US have shown him how much he still has to learn.
Regarding the Everest there is a Gordon Gekko "greed is good" enthusiasm about Peter V'Landys, the general who repelled the corporate hordes plus extracting blood out of a stone from the New South Government for racing.
If the lightly raced Balcazar can repeat his astonishing performance in the three-year-old final a fortnight ago, he will be an undeniable chance in Saturday's Trainers Handicap.
Marc Conners has always thought flying filly Super Too would get to stakes level but after a six-month break from racing and bone chip surgery he just wants her to show she is back on race day.
Former leading jockey Peter Mertens is proud that son Beau has become a highly successful jockey, but it brings out his protective side.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Harness Racing NSW has decided to maintain the whip in racing, rejecting a national ban.
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.
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