• Chris Roots

It is a partnership as strong off the track as on it, but Clare Cunningham and Jason Collett are ready to make their mark together in the next couple of months out of the Warwick Farm stable.

• Chris Roots

Michael Hawkes would rather the spotlight not be on Glenall as he starts a summer preparation but understands why there is expectation heading to Rosehill on Saturday.

• John Holloway

New Zealand breeders take the Ready To Run spotlight with a cracking selection of two-year-olds for the two-day sale next Tuesday and Wednesday at Karaka.

• Chris Roots

A careful approach to the summer from Godolphin head trainer James Cummings will "allow the horses to reach their level before putting any pressure on them".

• Peter Ryan

Gingernuts is on the road to recovery after an operation, with connections giving him a 50-50 chance of returning to racing.

• Max Presnell

With the Melbourne Cup taking on an Irish brogue this year at least the statue of Bart Cummings had an Aussie accent.

• Adam Pengilly

Their training union is not even 18 months old yet, but Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott left Flemington as king and queen of the Melbourne Cup carnival after outpointing the country's superpower stables in the biggest week of Australian racing.

• Adam Pengilly
• Adam Pengilly

Why do we only give our local stayers two chances to shore up a spot in the race?

• Patrick Bartley

The mounting yard at Flemington late Saturday afternoon was a place of mixed emotions.

• Nick Toscano

Wagering data reveals a new record was reached in the immediate lead-up to the 2017 Melbourne Cup.

• Adam Pengilly

Gai Waterhouse racked up a winner on every day of the Flemington carnival as the Victoria Racing Club ambassador capped a huge week in Melbourne when Savapinski ran her rivals into the ground in the Matriarch Stakes.

• Peter Ryan

Redzel leads all the way to add the Darley Classic to his Everest win

• Adam Pengilly

Darren Weir weaved his magic to turn Tosen Stardom around within the space of a week as the Japanese import chalked up a second group 1 for the carnival in a drama-charged Emirates Stakes - on and off the track - at Flemington.

• Patrick Bartley

While the four days of racing at Flemington this week managed to unearth some outstanding staying talent, on Saturday however Sydney sprinter Redzel may have raced himself into one of the finest short course gallopers in the world following his win in the Darley Classic.

• Chris Roots

There will be the option of some headgear for Dynamited when he returns for a Golden Slipper campaign in the autumn after the near-perfect debut at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Adam Pengilly

He's been the Melbourne Cup's hard-luck tale for the last two years and Vengeur Masque's connections hailed a piece of "retribution" after the Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner was controversially denied a spot in Tuesday's great race by a jockey which flouted the whip rule.

• Peter Ryan and Adam Pengilly

Trainer hopes Vengeur Masque gets Cup start next year after horse leads all the way to win Queen Elizabeth Stakes

• Chris Roots

Kody Nestor went out a winner as a jockey where it all started for him at a Dubbo non-TAB meeting on Melbourne Cup day as he got Noel's Gift in his final ride.

• Chris Roots

Superstar Lazarus is a $1.30 favourite to make it back-to-back New Zealand Trotting Cup at Addington in Christchurch on Tuesday.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Chris Roots

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.

• Michael Lynch

Chris Symons has one big ambition: to be the subject of a post-race interview after a group one race.

• Patrick Bartley

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.

• Patrick Bartley

With luck, the English import should be too good for his rivals.

• Patrick Bartley

The Lindsay Park team has accepted an invitation to run Caulfield Cup winner Boom Time in the Japan Cup.

• Max Presnell

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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• Michael Lynch

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.

• Adam Pengilly

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.