• Adam Pengilly

A gruelling 30,000km, four-flight odyssey in the space of just five days hasn't dented Tommy Berry's Melbourne Cup ambition as he prepares for the energy-sapping task of just making Tuesday's race.

• Adam Pengilly

Charlie Appleby could potentially end the hopes of a couple of overseas-trained hopefuls after Qewy's Bendigo Cup win.

• Patrick Bartley

While apart from trying to stave off the onset of jet lag, English trainer Hughie Morrison was understandably elated at the appearance of his Melbourne Cup hopeful, Marmelo as he set foot on Werribee racecourse on Tuesday morning.

• Chris Roots

The Australian Turf Club will begin an international search for a chief executive after Darren Pearce resigned on Tuesday.

• Chris Roots

Chris Waller has still to make a decision if Winx will chase another group 1 victory at Flemington in Melbourne Cup week but for now his attention has turned to a blueblood chasing the blue ribband Victoria Derby on Saturday.

• Adam Pengilly

Frankie Dettori is convinced Almandin is his best opportunity to break a Melbourne Cup curse stretching two decades, but is perhaps just as excited about the prospect of Winx and Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe heroine Enable meeting in Europe next year.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin trainer James Cummings watched Hartnell stride down the Flemington straight on Tuesday morning, a week out from the Melbourne Cup, with a wry smile but the final decision if he will start in the race that stops Nation will come later in the week.

• Chris Roots

The reality of being on the outside looking in for Tuesday's Melbourne Cup field has trainers Michael Moroney and David Hayes taking different approaches to Saturday's Lexus Stakes.

• Chris Dutton

Leading trainers and the racing club will meet on Tuesday night to discuss their future.

• Adam Pengilly

He's almost 17,000km away, but Charlie Appleby's near instant time monitoring of Qewy has him convinced the horse can continue his golden Australian run in the Bendigo Cup.

• Adam Pengilly

Frankie Dettori has been parachuted onto favourite Almandin after Damien Oliver was forced to wait another year to rewrite Melbourne Cup history when having an appeal against a controversial improper riding ban quashed.

• Patrick Bartley

Senior VRC executives are still confident that the crowds can reach as high as 100,000 on at least one day during the four days of the spring carnival despite the absence of the club's century-old members stand.

• Chris Roots

Godolphin pulled a surprise by keeping Hartnell in next week's Melbourne Cup at the second acceptances stage and have booked Damian Lane to ride him on the first Tuesday in November.

• Adam Pengilly

He threatened to spoil Winx's Cox Plate party – now Humidor will wade into waters that are untested in almost a decade.

• Melissa Singer

On Monday, racing organisers somehow orchestrated the entire meteorological spectrum in one hour at Flemington, as the Melbourne Cup Carnival officially opened.

• Chris Roots

Former channel 9 head of NRL Matt Callander has died aged 46 after a long battle with brain cancer.

• Adam Pengilly

Up to eight overseas racing jurisdictions have registered an interest in luring Winx for her first international start.

• Eamonn Tiernan

Matt Stephens' Charlie Royale stormed home to win Queanbeyan Cup in photo-finish on Sunday.

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• Chris Roots

There have been more devastating victories in Winx's 22-race winning streak, more appealing to the eye, but Saturday's Cox Plate sealed her greatness.

• Michael Lynch

Top trainer Tony McEvoy has launched a bitter attack on champion jockey Damien Oliver.

• Chris Roots

Europe looms on the horizon for the wonder mare in 2018.

• Chris Roots

Lloyd Williams could have up to seven runners in the Melbourne Cup, but doesn't have a jockey for the majority of them, including favourite and defending champion Almandin.

• Patrick Bartley

Racing Victoria chief steward Terry Bailey has explained why champion sprinter Chautauqua was a last-minute scratching at Moonee Valley on Friday night, a decision that caused confusion and dismay at the track and on social media.

• Adam Pengilly

Up to eight overseas racing jurisdictions have registered an interest in luring the connections of Winx for her first international start as Moonee Valley Racing Club bosses pledged to go all out to induce Australia's wonder mare for a tilt at an unprecedented fourth Cox Plate.

• Max Presnell

Only the immediate future of Humidor will substantiate the merit of Saturday's Cox Plate triumph at Moonee Valley by the champion mare Winx.

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• Adam Pengilly

The ride on Melbourne Cup favourite Almandin is up for grabs with Damien Oliver's spring carnival in tatters after stewards controversially slapped him with an improper riding charge stemming from the Cox Plate.

• Andrew Webster

As Winx crossed the line to win her third Cox Plate, the Callander family sat around a hospital bed in Sydney as their son clung to life.

• Chris Roots

Her first Cox Plate was a track record, the second a record margin, but this was meant to be Winx's lap of honour.

• Michael Lynch

Chris Waller tried to keep his emotions in check, but its hard to hold it all together when you have been a central figure in one of the greatest days in Australian sport and have just mastermined your horse's third consecutive triumph in the nation's greatest weight for age race, the Cox Plate.