• Andrew Webster

The long-time stable foreman for Tommy Smith says you can never compare but isn't convinced the mighty mare is better than Kingston Town.

• Chris Roots

Even as the expectation and her entourage has grown, the excitement around Winx remains the same for owner Debbie Kepitis as her champion mare attempts to win a third Cox Plate on Saturday.

• Patrick Bartley

One of the most intriguing racing scandals in recent decades took another turn on Monday when former Ciaron Maher racing manager Ben Connolly was disqualified for two years by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board.

• Patrick Bartley

Champion trainer David Hayes admits that he and his father's two finest racehorses, Dulcify and Better Loosen Up, would fall short of all-conquering Winx, who on Saturday is attempting a third Cox Plate.

Champion race mare Winx is primed to give the VRC a second public relations coup this spring after trainer Chris Waller put a start in the s rich $2 million Emirates Stakes on the fourth day of the Melbourne Cup carnival back in her schedule..

• Michael Lynch

The fall out from an incident packed Caulfield Cup has not subsided, with leading owner Lloyd Williams scotching claims that his outsider Sir Isaac Newton was ridden as a pacemaker to set the race up for favourite Johannes Vermeer and champion trainer Darren Weir expressing his anger at leading riders Craig Williams and Damian Lane for their race tactics on his two well-backed contenders Amelie's Star and Humidor.

• Patrick Bartley

This year's $300,000 Geelong Cup will be without any of the imports that have arrived in Australia in the past month.

• Michael Lynch and Chris Roots

Champion mare Winx will start the shortest-priced Cox Plate favourite since Phar Lap as she attempts to emulate Kingston Town as a three-time winner of the Australasian weight-for-age championship at Moonee Valley on Saturday.

• David Polkinghorne

It'll take more than a 10-meeting suspension to knock jockey Kathy O'Hara off Single Gaze for the Melbourne Cup.

• Chris Roots

Newcastle trainer Ben Smith has learnt to live with In Her Time putting on weight between runs and heading into Friday night's Manikato Stakes clash with Vega Magic and Chautauqua it has only added to his confidence.

• Chris Roots

Cory Parish might not be the first jockey, everyone thought of when looking for a rider, but he now has a Caulfield Cup, it should change and be the boost his career needed.

• Chris Roots

David Hayes is eyeing the Melbourne Cup with Boom Time before a possible Japan Cup start where the Caulfield Cup winner would run for a $US2 million bonus.

• Patrick Bartley

Invitations to this year's $6 million Japan Cup have been extended to world champion Australian race mare, Winx, as well as Saturday's shock Caulfield Cup winner, Boom Time.

• Chris Roots

Champion mare Winx will start the shortest-priced Cox Plate favourite since Phar Lap.

• Max Presnell

The twinkle was well and truly back in the eye of Gai Waterhouse and the staying power of Nick Moraitis continued on Saturday.

• Michael Lynch

Johannes Vermeer couldn't quite do it for Aidan O'Brien on Saturday, when the son of Galileo could only manage third in the Caulfield Cup.

• Peter Ryan

Global Glamour heading overseas while Snitty Kitty surprises the trainer with speedy improvement and victory at Caulfield

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• Chris Roots, Adam Pengilly and Michael Lynch

​Snitty Kitty's trainer Henry Dwyer was so concerned the $180,000 horse was a dud he took her to the trials at Wangaratta so the owners would not watch her.

• David Polkinghorne

She carried the field to the line in the Caulfield Cup, now Single Gaze will carry Canberra's hopes in the Melbourne Cup.

• David Polkinghorne

Initially, no one wanted the little filly Single Gaze at the Magic Millions sales and now she's off to the Melbourne Cup.

• Chris Roots

English stayer Marmelo is the new Melbourne Cup favourite but Hugh Bowman is yet to commit to riding the five-year-old at Flemington after he roared home behind Boom Time in the Caulfield Cup on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

It was an unlikely Caulfield Cup victory for Boom Time but they are often the best.

• Adam Pengilly

Jason Coyle is already plotting a path to next year's Tattersalls Tiara after striking grey mare White Moss ran her rivals ragged for a first group success in the Nivison at Randwick on Saturday.

• Michael Lynch

Outsider Boom Time has won the $3 million Caulfield Cup with jockey Cory Parish in the saddle.

• Melissa Singer

Karl Stefanovic was a late scratching from Saturday's Caulfield Cup amid speculation about the future of the hosting gig on Today.

• Michael Lynch and Peter Ryan

To score in four of the first six races on the 10-race card is the stuff of dreams, and not even Darren Weir, accustomed to multiple success and big race winners, dared to dream of such dominance on one of the racing year's signature days.

• Michael Lynch

Irish jockey John Allen has made a huge impression in the years since he arrived in Australia as a jumps rider looking to kickstart a career that had stalled back home.

• Chris Roots

Pinot had success at Caulfield on Saturday with the promise of more to come.

• Michael Lynch and Peter Ryan

Darren Weir has proved he can train just about any horse to win any race on any day if conditions are right, but he is particularly adept at taking a tough, hardened improving three-year-old colts and geldings through the grades during the spring.