• Patrick Bartley

Jockey Craig Newitt has been aboard Lankan Rupee enough times during the one-time world champion sprinter's career to know that Saturday's $150,000 Bletchingly Stakes is an achievable goal.

• Adam Pengilly

Brenton Avdulla won't raise the white flag yet, but the long-time premiership leader has conceded it's "highly unlikely" he can halt Hugh Bowman's irresistible charge to a fourth Sydney jockeys' title on the final day of the season.

• Adam Pengilly

If you'd told Jason Coyle at the start of the year his own premiership position would be higher than that of his beloved Bulldogs, he might have laughed. Then maybe cried. But it's a sign of his stable on the rise and a football team in freefall how things have panned out in the past six months.

• John Holloway

Inglis' Riverside Stables at Warwick Farm – the new venue for Australia's biggest bloodstock auction – command a breathtaking location and promise to become one of the world's great thoroughbred amphitheatres.

• Adam Pengilly

Chris Waller's cavalry will help decide which way the enthralling Sydney jockeys title will go, but it will also be the final city meeting of the season in which he might unveil one of his season's brightest prospects.

• EXCLUSIVE
• Patrick Bartley

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Veteran racing journalist and trainer Neville Prendergast has died aged 88.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Patrick Bartley

Victorian racing TV channel in multimillion-dollar play for South Australian rights.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Patrick Bartley

The VRC's bid to stimulate staying races in Victoria has begun well after a high-class filly took out Saturday's Byerley Handicap.

• THE MAIL
• Chris Roots

Rachel King and Memes have enjoyed a great relationship - a winning one - as they have come through the grades together.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Chris Roots

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

Max Presnell has spent more than 60 years in racing - and he's now put it all down in a book.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Racing NSW have deferred a decision on Canberra's future in Highway Handicap for three months.

• Chris Roots

The unbeaten rise of Pelethronius this preparation has taken trainer David Pfieffer by surprise.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Max Presnell

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.

• Patrick Bartley

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.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Patrick Bartley

Former leading jockey Peter Mertens is proud that son Beau has become a highly successful jockey, but it brings out his protective side.

• 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.