• Patrick Bartley

Warrnambool trainer Symon Wilde achieved a training milestone at Moonee Valley on Saturday after notching his first metropolitan double.

• Chris Barclay

Gundagai trainer David Blundell has picked another opportune moment to bring Itsa Fait Accompli to Sydney for a Highway Handicap.

• Max Presnell

S​pirit Of Boom, the bread-and-butter Queenslander, will be out to continue his blitz over the silvertail stallions today following Jonker's dynamic success in the Wyong Magic Millions Two-Year-Old Classic on Thursday.

• Patrick Bartley

The champion mare is steadily building fitness.

• Chris Roots

From the domination of the autumn to the sheer grit of a champion refusing to lose in the spring, Winx took racing back into the public domain in 2017.

• Patrick Bartley

Although upset at having his first interstate trip to the east coast being put on hold, leading Western Australian apprentice Fred Kersley has been well schooled in racing and knows the game's often quirky ways.

• Patrick Bartley

It seems that after having such a dramatic impact on this year's spring carnival, champion trainer Gai Waterhouse could be back in Melbourne to plunder some of the rich summer races.

• James Buckley

Bjorn Baker is eyeing another win with Test The World on Saturday, but he'll be watching from Hawaii.

• James Buckley

The Shadwell Stud-owned Futooh will make her debut in the two-year-old race at Rosehill on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Sydney racing will have a new $4 million race-day based at Warwick Farm from 2019.

• John Holloway

The rise to stardom of I Am Invincible continues to accelerate, with another fantastic month hot on the heels of his amazing November when he sired the winners of 38 races in 30 days.

• Patrick Bartley

Against a backdrop of falling audience numbers across almost all pay TV sporting channels, Tabcorp's Sky Racing has posted a 16 per cent gain in viewer numbers, official ratings figures show.

• Michael Lynch

Racing Victoria is backing the growth of jumps racing by staging two feature Sundays in 2018.

• David Polkinghorne

How much Samara Johnson meant was plain to see as the tears flowed during the minute's silence.

• ROOTS 'N' ALL
• Chris Roots

Winx is back in Chris Waller's Rosehill stable for Christmas and was given an inoculation booster on Saturday as planning for 2018 begins for the champion mare.

• Chris Roots

Peter Snowden has Breeders Plate runner-up Bondi where he wants him for Thursday's Wyong Magic Millions Classic.

• David Polkinghorne

NSW government investigating building straight track at Queanbeyan Race Track.

• Chris Roots

Coolmore Stud Stakes winner Merchant Navy will stand next to his father super sire Fastnet Rock at Jerry Plains after being sold to global breeding powerhouse Coolmore for more than $30 million.

• David Polkinghorne

Canberra trainer Doug Gorrel says the racing community is still shell shocked and expects to see Samara Johnson every morning.

• THE MAIL
• Chris Roots

Kerrin McEvoy is set to miss the next couple of months after breaking the middle bone his right hand when Sugar Bella bolted on him at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

All Josh Parr could say was "bugger" after daring tactics on Cabeza De Vaca just failed to deliver the Villiers Stakes victory when he swamped by Queenslander Crack Me Up in the shadows of the post at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Irish Bet repaid the faith of China Horse Club by winning the Inglis Nursery on debut at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

The Interdominion will stay in its traditional format of three nights of heats and a final as it rotates between Melbourne, New Zealand and Sydney over the next nine years.

• Chris Roots

Wagga trainers are disappointed the track's Christmas feature, Friday's Ted Ryder Cup, has been switched from the course proper to the Riverside track as the main track is still unsuitable for racing after remedial drainage work.

• David Polkinghorne

A win at Kembla Grange could see Nick Olive return for another crack at the $2 million Magic Millions Two-year-old Classic.

• Chris Roots

John O'Shea will look for his first feature win since leaving Godolphin as "nice baby" Irish Bet makes his debut as favourite in the Inglis Nursery at Randwick on Saturday.

• Chris Roots

Gerald Ryan has spent the past couple of months trying to teach Red Excitement that he doesn't have to charge in his races.

• Max Presnell

Brisbane in the early 80s was the stage for the Fine Cotton comedy of errors, but the George Brown tragedy gave the scene a sinister tone.

• Chris Roots

David Pfieffer has sent I Thought So back to school to try to find that length or two that will take him from a frustrating horse to a good one.