The horses who gave trainer Danny O’Brien a recent two-state double are well supported in races at the same track this time around.

A heavy track gives Sense Of Occasion his best chance to improve on his two Sydney autumn Group One placings in the Doomben Cup.

Stewards expect Brisbane’s Doomben Cup meeting will go ahead on a heavy track on Saturday.

 Jockey Regan Bayliss has been taken to hospital for x-rays following a fall at Geelong which puts his Group One Goodwood hopes in jeopardy.

Rain has claimed the the last six races at Wagga Wagga with the meeting called off because of safety concerns.

Candika will get every chance to prove she is a potential stayer in the Group Three Doomben Roses.

Bred with a jumping career in mind, Just Junior will first chase victory in a stakes race on the flat at Flemington.

Two solid trials and race statistics have Matt Dunn believing veteran galloper Strawberry Boy can win first-up at Doomben for his new trainer.

The performance of Oak Door in a stakes race up the straight at Flemington will determine whether the three-year-old is a contender for richer races in Brisbane.

Big Richie Callander has found some very good value early plays for us at tomorrow’s Rosehill meeting.

New Zealand studmaster Rodney Schick admits he is a little anxious with two Windsor Park recruits attempting to enhance their credentials in Australian Group One features.

Godolphin gelding Demonstrate gets another chance at a stakes breakthrough in the Listed Straight Six at Flemington.
 

Eleven racing identities will be formally inducted to the Australian Racing Hall Of Fame on Friday.
 

As convincing as Divine Quality has been winning her first two starts, trainer Robbie Griffiths still considers her next assignment a tough test for the up-and-coming filly.
 

Tegan Harrison will have to reproduce a top ride on Cabin Fever to help the Gillian Heinrich-Ben Rodgers training combination get its first stakes win.

Black-type racing in Queensland is still in Bonny O’Reilly’s future plans, just not at Doomben this weekend.
 

After watching the last spring carnival unfold and only being a bit player, trainer Sam Pritchard-Gordon decided to do something about it.

The Virginian takes an important step to a second attempt to win the Group One Stradbroke Handicap when he returns to racing at Doomben.

Following her upset win over older mares at the Gold Coast, three-year-old With A Promise will take them on again at Doomben.
 

First emergency Lucky Liberty has gained a start in the $1 million Group One Goodwood in Adelaide and trainer Henry Dwyer expects the talented gelding can run a big race.

Australian Racing Hall Of Fame inductee Lloyd Williams has paid trainer Chris Waller the highest compliment for his handling of champion mare Winx.

Less than two weeks into his new job, Darren Beadman is poised to become just the second person to ride and subsequently train a winner of the Doomben Cup.
 

More than eight years after making his racetrack debut, veteran Extra Zero is preparing to step out for his 100th race.
 

More than a month after she was seriously injured in a race fall, apprentice Melanie Bolwell is to be transferred to Sydney’s Liverpool Hospital from the Gold Coast.

Robert Heathcote is one of the few trainers hoping the predicted heavy rain arrives at Doomben for the Cup meeting.
 

As the field jumped away in the first race at Warwick Farm on Wednesday Brenton Avdulla was considered a moral at the odds of $1.25 to win the Sydney jockey’s premiership

The third of trainer Darren Weir’s Doomben Cup runners has arrived safely in Brisbane from Melbourne after some tense times with travel delays.

The best bets didn’t get up for Richie yesterday but he did tip 3 of the 7 winners on yesterday’s card and is confident we can collect today.

I don’t think that there has ever been quite the number of father/son combinations riding in races in Australia as we have now. And when you add in the recently retired riders, and the sons of older retired riders.

A filly who chased home subsequent Group One winner Egg Tart at her most recent start will be out to end her campaign on a winning note when she returns to Flemington.