Just hours after announcing Lexus as the new sponsor for this year's Melbourne Cup, and the promise of more prizemoney for the race, chairman Amanda Elliott urged Victorian clubs to not be distracted by Sydney's multimillion-dollar sprint race The Everest.
The VRC is widely tipped to name Japanese luxury car maker Lexus as the new naming rights sponsor for the race that stops the nation at a press conference on Tuesday
The world's richest turf race The Everest is set to further encroach on Melbourne's spring carnival and could be run on the same day as the Caulfield Cup next year.
The biggest racing operations in the world – Coolmore, Godolphin and Japan's Northern Farm – are looking to make their mark at The Championships in 2018 with international runners expected in up to four group 1s in April.
Garry Kirkup praises Canberra racing community for help in toughest time of his life.
Stewards and Hugh Bowman will meet this week to fine-tune the technology that lets the jockey interact with the crowd during Winx's exhibition at Randwick on Saturday.
After spending the last 18 months avoiding the world's finest racehorse Winx, Saturday's Orr stakes winner Hartnell may now have another attempt at toppling the champion mare back in Sydney later in the Autumn.
"Oh geez ... bittersweet." Those three words perfectly summed up Single Gaze's electrifying start to her autumn campaign.
Godolphin's work to nurture Kementari into an exciting colt paid off when he proved worthy of that close attention by winning the Eskimo Prince Stakes at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
If Saturday's Breeders Classic is any indication Prompt Response might be ready to get a group 1 win this autumn.
The big two-year-old races are usually monopolised by the major stables, but Grahame Begg is hoping to buck that trend with Written By.
NSW teenager Ellen Rixon is looking forward take on some of her idols in Kate Gath and Kerryn Manning in the inaugural Australian Female Drivers Championships in Launceston next month.
As a protest to declining garb at the Australian Turf Club's inner-sanctum, we will be wearing budgie smugglers at Warwick Farm today.
It has been about a year since father-son Don and Andrew Ryan went into partnership together at Bathurst, and they will look to have their biggest day on Sunday.
The navy blue dominance of European racing has made Coolmore a world power and Australian boss Tom Magnier has always wanted to replicate that supremacy down under.
Canberra trainer Nick Olive is hoping Single Gaze can start with a place, but she'll be at her best in Sydney.
Siege Of Quebec is more like a Jackson Pollock than Leonardo da Vinci but beauty comes in different forms and as long as you're winning.
Some of Victoria's leading trainers are urging the Melbourne Racing Club to sufficiently water the Caulfield surface for Saturday's first group one meeting of the year.
Champion jockey Hugh Bowman will be fitted with a microphone and a camera to talk punters through a special gallop, which is being called the Winx rehearsal at Randwick on February 17.
All Chris Waller wanted to be was a reasonable trainer when he started in the tough game of preparing racehorses in his homeland of New Zealand. On Friday night, he will become a Hall of Famer.
There has always been something about smart colt Assimilate that has grabbed Paul Snowden's eye.
The emerging force of the partnership between jockey Jason Collett and trainer Bjorn Baker will attempt to own their home turf at Warwick Farm on Saturday.
I Am Invincible is the feature stallion at the first Inglis Classic Yearling Sale at the state-of-the-art Riverside Stables which starts at 6pm on Saturday after the Warwick Farm meeting.
When Brad Widdup arrived as the master of Platinum Park, he sat down with owner Damion Flower and looked at the two-year-olds and the sales-based races.
Gifted Melbourne sprinter Nature Strip has had to be withdrawn from Saturday's $250,000 Inglis Sprint after coming down with a mystery virus.
The first group one race of 2018 will be run at Caulfield on Saturday when Black Heart Bart looks to make it back to back wins in the Orr Stakes.
Chris Waller will use Winx's Chipping Norton Stakes return as a test run for the mare's possible first-up run at a mile in the United Kingdom later this year after delaying her reappearance at the track until Hugh Bowman is back in the saddle.
A tentative date has been given by the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board to hear charges against those involved in the Lovani case, described as "potentially the biggest racing inquiry" in memory.
There's no guarantee she'll even head to the UK, but British bookmakers are already braced for the prospect of Winx adding a Royal Ascot success to her glittering resume.
Hugh Bowman has failed in his bid to have a careless riding suspension reduced, all but ending the jockey's hopes of teaming up with wonder mare Winx for the Apollo Stakes at Randwick on February 17.
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