WINX WILL BE AIMING TO EXTEND HER WINNING STREAK TO 17 IN THE QUEEN ELIZABETH STAKES AT RANDWICK

 Darren Weir is hoping a much-improved Big Duke can clear another significant obstacle at Randwick and break more new ground for the leading Victorian trainer.

Trainer Robert Heathcote will pin his Weetwood Handicap hopes on the injury-prone Pinch River after starting out with three contenders.

Jockey Tommy Berry helped deliver one of the most memorable finishes at Randwick last weekend aboard Chautauqua but seven days later he will be a mere observer.
 

 Trainer Pat Carey has his eye on a traditional three-year-old staying race with Baykool and along the way hopes to pick up a stakes win at Caulfield.

Dreams APlenty will be kept three-year-old company during the Brisbane winter after failing to make the field for the Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba.

You can take the boy out of Toowoomba but it is hard to take Toowoomba out of the boy.

“There’s no doubt she knows that she’s the queen. She walks with a certain air of confidence about her,” jockey Hugh Bowman said on Thursday after her final trackwork before the race.
 

Arrowfield Stud has bought a half-share in Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up Pariah who will stand at the stud at the end of his racing career.
 

The second session of the Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney has continued where the first left off with six horses sold for $1 million or more.

As Archie Alexander counts down to one filly from his stable running in an Oaks in Sydney, another filly from his team has emerged at Sandown as a potential Classic contender.

“A powerful catalogue full of stakes-winning race mares, broodmares in foal to some of the world’s leading stallions as well as stallion shares and blueblood weanlings” boasts William Inglis & Son in introducing their inaugural The Chairman’s Sale – Session II for Elite Breeding Prospects.

Yes it’s Royal Randwick, Day 2 of The Championships with the running of the Group 1 The $4m Gr1 Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes of 2000m. Our eyes will be firmly set on the champion mare Winx to make it 17 consecutive race wins and her 12th Group 1 success.

Jeff Lloyd has wasted no time on his return from a suspension to set a record for the most winners by a jockey in the Queensland metropolitan season.

Trainer Chris Waller has dismissed any concerns about champion mare Winx racing with synthetic hoof filler in one of her feet ahead of her bid for a 17th consecutive win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Jameka has been ruled out of an International campaign as she continues her recovery from travel sickness. What will be her target race in the Spring? It isn’t the Caulfield Cup?

Ten Monday-free race days have been confirmed for Victoria next year after the release of the race schedule for the 2017/18 season.

Crownbet’s  Doncaster Day punting overview. Who were the runners who got the money, who were the big misses? Who is this weeks horse to follow?

 A morning trot-up is all that is needed for lightly raced mare Abbey Marie to take her place in a Group One race at Randwick.

All the boxes have been ticked ahead of Winx’s autumn finale but there is still an air of nervous tension about the great mare ahead of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Dual Group One winner Palentino has been retired from racing and will stand at Sun Stud in Victoria in the upcoming breeding season.
 

After spending a month acclimatising in relative obscurity at Canterbury, Godolphin’s Sydney Cup contingent is poised to emulate the stayers that made such an impression in Melbourne over spring.
 

On a day when the ATC Australian Oaks is run in Sydney, lightly raced Sequoia Lady will press her claims for a different Classic for fillies when she runs in a low-key race at Caulfield.

Trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott are at the centre of a stewards investigation for substituting horses in public gallops on the course proper at Randwick.

Victory in the Australian Oaks at Randwick can turn a good Sydney autumn carnival into a great one for Victorian trainer David Brideoake.
 

Mike Moroney rates Hurry a Group-class filly and the trainer is looking for the three-year-old to bounce back from a perplexing Australian debut when she heads to Warwick Farm.

Country trainer Paul Preusker will delay the return to city racing of in-form gelding Kapaulenko.
 

Superstar Winx will start from barrier three as the odds-on favourite in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Champion Winx will have eight rivals as she bids to extend her winning streak to 17 in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Randwick.

Champion racehorses can produce remarkable feats of athleticism and nobody who saw Chautauqua nail his third successive T J Smith Stakes at Randwick last weekend will ever forget the thrill, or dispute that “The Grey Flash” is also the real deal in the champion business.