Newcastle trainer Ben Smith is only starting his career, so In Her Time is a very significant horse for him personally, but he is thinking of only of the achievement for the horse going into the Darley Classic at Flemington on Saturday.
Bjorn Baker has performed a clinic in placing Your Way in her career so far but as she returns for a summer preparation he admits it is time to find out "how good she is" starting at Rosehill on Saturday.
Chris Symons has one big ambition: to be the subject of a post-race interview after a group one race.
David Hayes knows from his late father, Colin, an indifferent first three days of the Flemington spring carnival makes the final day of racing a priority to achieve group 1 success.
With luck, the English import should be too good for his rivals.
The Lindsay Park team has accepted an invitation to run Caulfield Cup winner Boom Time in the Japan Cup.
Maybe Redzel climbed The Everest but it was under favourable conditions and he will be out to give the feat substance in today's Darley at Flemington, worth a measly million.
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Pinot, by excellent sprinter miler Pierro, who Waterhouse trained, has achieved an awful lot in a short time. She only saw a racetrack for the first time in August when an undistinguished ninth of 15 in a lowly Bendigo maiden over the palpably unsuitable distance of 1300 metres.
An American law graduate who has only ever bought one horse in Australia, after encouragement from Gai Waterhouse, helped the Hall of Famer to her first win in the Victoria Oaks, Pinot giving her rivals a start and a beating at Flemington.
Just minutes after trainer Gai Waterhouse achieved her first VRC Oaks victory when Pinot was successful, Australian racing's most recognisable identity admitted that she had brought more glamorous teams to Melbourne than the one that arrived here two months ago.
There were headlines galore beginning with the Breeders Cup at Del Mar in the US and then the Melbourne Cup carnival. Then came a selling frenzy in Kentucky's two major sale rings.
Dylan Caboche was observed hitting his mount She's Reneldasgirl ahead of a race.
Darren Weir takes three runners to Saturday's Emirates Stakes at Flemington without the cocky confidence of many trainers but the self-assuredness that they will get their chance.
Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott will attempt to get promising miler Stonebrook to next month's Villiers Stakes despite losing his unbeaten record last start.
It was only a year ago Redzel didn't even pocket $100,000 for connections when winning at Flemington during the Melbourne Cup carnival, yet the celebrated sprinter returns to the four-day carnival as suddenly the fastest horse in the land.
If Sydney is about two-year-old racing, Edward O'Rourke has a few runs on the board even if not any milestone in his own name.
South Australian jockey Dylan Caboche has been suspended for two weeks for punching his mount She's Reneldasgirl.
Canberra trainer Nick Olive will use what he's learnt at Caulfield to go to another level.
One-time decorated Irish equestrian rider Lisa Coffey wasn't surprised in the slightest that trainer Aidan O'Brien began cheering for his son Joseph's horse over the last 50 metres of the Melbourne Cup, despite him preparing the runner-up.
For a late bloomer, Highly Geared's doing pretty blooming good.
Despite having won his sixth Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, Lloyd Williams was looking to next year's race and urging senior racing executives and Australia's most powerful wagering arm Tabcorp to allow emergencies into next year's $6.2 million handicap.
Aaron Purcell knows racing doesn't always go to script, he wasn't expecting to be there on VRC Oaks day at Flemington with star filly Aloisia a couple of months ago.
Senior Victorian racing investigators are refusing to be drawn on the breadth and scope of an investigation into the race day treatment of the Robert Smerdon-trained Lovani.
Aidan O'Brien has never won a Melbourne Cup, but he admitted he was hoping his runner in the 2017 edition, Johannes Vermeer, would be run down in the final stages of Tuesday's race.
Singapore was suffocating Corey Brown. His family had been there, then they hadn't. Skype can do only so much. The phone bills were piling up. The rides drying up. Then they told him it was time to come home.
Joseph O'Brien is used to making headlines and he did so again at Flemington on Tuesday when he became one of the youngest trainers to win the Melbourne Cup when his first runner in Australia, Rekindling, became the first northern hemisphere three year old to win Australia's greatest race.
A TAB customer has finished the day $1 million richer after winning a Melbourne Cup account-holder promotion.
A horse which broke down while racing on Melbourne Cup day forcing superstar jockey Joao Moreira to be stood down from the $6 million race has died.
Apprentice Ben Allen expected to be home to watch the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, instead the apprentice was front and centre in Cup day dramas at Flemington, pre and post race.
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