• Chris Roots

Chris Waller may have the best horse in the world in Winx but the champion mare also has the best jockey in the world in Hugh Bowman.

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• Chris Roots

Happy Clapper hasn't won a group 1 yet and his win in the Tramway Stakes at Randwick on Saturday might have cost him his chance in the Epsom later in the month.

• Patrick Bartley

In accepting an invitation to train Vega Magic a smart Western Australian sprinter earlier this year, David Hayes has managed to now be in the pivotal position to win his most valuable prize money race of his life after the sprinter took out the $1million Memsie Stakes.

• Chris Roots

Kerrin McEvoy went to Randwick on Saturday wanting to make his mark – and he certainly did with a career-best five winners, and finding his Everest ride in the process.

• David Polkinghorne

While he'd like to have finished closer, Canberra trainer Nick Olive was happy with how Caulfield Cup-bound Single Gaze ran.

• Michael Lynch

The quality of the horses in the Ciaron Maher stable increases year on year, and the Caulfield handler looks to have unearthed another potential topliner in the three-year-old Merchant Navy, who took out the group 3 McNeil Stakes at Caulfield on his seasonal reappearance at his home track.

• Chris Roots

Racing NSW has banned the use of vehicles to lead horses in training at racetracks around the state leaving smaller country trainers looking for different ways to get their horses fit.

• Chris Roots

Mr Mojito was the right horse for Kerryn Manning to become the successful female horsewoman in the world when he scored his first Australian win for her at Terang.

• Chris Roots

The morning after Winx's Warwick Stakes victory two weeks ago, Chris Waller sat in front of his television at home and realised great horses don't always win.

• David Polkinghorne

But Single Gaze and Fell Swoop can showcase Canberra racing and prevent any loss of business.

• David Polkinghorne

It's the last supper for the owners of one of Canberra's best ever race horses in the lead-up to one of the world's richest races.

• Michael Lynch

Michelle Payne was all smiles on Friday as she took to the stage to front the launch of the 2017 spring racing carnival.

• Chris Roots

Triple group 1 winner Le Romain has settled into his home away from home at Caulfield and Newcastle trainer Kris Lees is more worried about an awkward draw than having his first race look at the Heath in Saturday's Memsie Stakes.

• Patrick Bartley

Former Western Australian sprinter Vega Magic looks poised to win the first running of the Memsie Stakes with prizemoney of $1 million.

• Michael Lynch

David Brideoake is a Mornington-based trainer who often flies under the radar. But if things go according to plan for the ex-international showjumper he will be a key player in all the major races throughout the spring.

• Chris Roots

There is a calmness that comes with riding a champion that gives Hugh Bowman confidence every time he gets on Winx.

• Chris Roots

Corey Brown admits that when he left Australia four years ago he was sour and frustrated with racing and looking for a freshen-up.

• Chris Roots

When the Australian Turf Club hosted a lunch for the connections of candidates for its Everest slot a fortnight ago, there was a table cheering for their filly to lay a marker for the $10 million race.

• Chris Roots

Paul Snowden knows what is at stake when Redzel meets Spieth in Saturday's Concorde Stakes at Randwick.

• John Holloway

Everest contenders English and Takedown did nothing to harm their chances of gaining runs in the $10 million sprint at Royal Randwick on October 14 with slick displays in a 1000-metre barrier trial on the Randwick course proper on Thursday.

• Chris Roots

Winx's trainer Chris Waller was touched when he heard the story of Nathan Gremmo that he wanted to be involved with Jersey Day. However there is a reason much closer to home for the champion mare on a winning streak of 18 donning a rug to promote Friday's charity event.

• Patrick Bartley

Trainer David Hayes, already assured of a slot in the $10 million Everest, is now fielding interest from other parties in a bid to have more starters in Australia's richest horse race.

• Patrick Bartley

Just minutes after announcing that some of the world's most talented racehorses from across the globe would converge on Victoria this spring, the racing industry's international recruiting scout maintains the carnival of racing in this state is now of world appeal.

• Chris Roots

John O'Shea will consider an appeal after he was fined for his role in the Godolphin strangles case.

• Chris Dutton

Canberra racing officials hope being banned from the Highway Handicap series will not affect numbers.

• Patrick Bartley

Saturday’s $1 million Memsie Stakes at Caulfield is poised to give the most meaningful insights into this year’s spring carnival so far this season, with horses from interstate and overseas contesting the 1400-metre event.

• Chris Roots

The earmuffs going on to Winx in Saturday's Chelmsford Stakes will prompt mixed reactions but one thing is clear after she made it 18 in a row in the Warwick Stakes – she is a remarkable athlete.

• Chris Roots

There is plenty of pressure to keep getting it right with Winx for trainer Chris Waller and jockey Hugh Bowman but spare a thought for man pressing the button to start the races.

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• Chris Roots

Chris Waller has decided to extend the use of earmuffs on Winx into a race for the first time when the champion mare runs in the Chelmsford Stakes (1600m) at Randwick on Saturday.