Smart Elissim and Futooh will represent the Lindsay Park stable in stakes races for three-year-olds at Randwick.

Trainer Angela Plumb and her jockey brother Ryan can claim a piece of Queensland history if Sugar Sizzle wins at the Gold Coast.

Robbie Griffiths would have liked a better barrier draw for Fidelia in the Quezette Stakes but expects a good showing from the filly in the Group Three race.

After beating a field full of Chris Waller-trained horses last start, the Brent Stanley-trained Red Alto will chase another victory at Randwick over 2400m.

Trainer Mick Bell will consider bypassing the P B Lawrence Stakes if the forecast rain doesn’t arrive before the Caulfield race.

Apprentice jockey Anthony Boyd has been flown to a Melbourne hospital after a trackwork fall at Ballarat.

Trainer Kevin Kemp has elected to run Sold For Song at the Gold Coast rather than Sydney.

Flying mare Darktown Strutter is set to maintain her outstanding statistics in Gold Coast races.

All is in order for the return of Winx who has had a maintenance gallop at Rosehill ahead of her attempt to set an Australian record of 26 consecutive wins.

Dual Group One winner She Will Reign has run her last race with connections ending her campaign following the detection of inflammation in an airway.

Jockey Michael Dee rode the final winner at the Sandown midweek card before stewards suspended him for 10 meetings on a careless riding charge.

Lightly raced colt Declarationofheart has remained unbeaten with a first-up win at Sandown and will be put on a path towards the Group One Caulfield Guineas.

Trainer Ciaron Maher may have missed his chance at the Mongol Derby but his replacement Adrian Corboy and Annabel Neasham have won the endurance test.

Long Leaf and Tony Nicconi will represent Lindsay Park when they line up against each in the Vain Stakes at Caulfield.

Parwan Prince has given Jade Darose her first city win as a trainer, with the midweek victory also a metropolitan first for apprentice rider Lucinda Doodt.

Trainer Matt Dunn will leave it up to owner John Haseler whether impressive former English mare Meccabah races on after her Doomben win.

Dual Group One winner Hey Doc has had a gallop between races at Sandown as he prepares for his return to racing.

Stakes-winning Perth mare Volkoff will kick off her Queensland campaign for new trainers Bryan and Dan Guy at the Gold Coast.

A horse trained in country NSW has become the latest Queensland winner to return a positive swab to arsenic.

Former trainer Robin Bastiman has been disqualified for three years after administering a horse with a substance that contained elevated levels of cobalt.

The new racing season may only be two weeks old but trainer Darren Weir is already setting the benchmark for winners and runners.

A planned barrier trial for NZ Horse of the Year Bonneval has been postponsed because of wet weather.

The Spring Stakes in Adelaide is the race of choice to kick off Steel Frost’s campaign ahead of a possible trip to Melbourne later in spring.

Invictus Prince will rightly start an outsider in the Winx Stakes with trainer Matthew Smith forced to begin somewhere as he heads to longer races.

Racing Victoria is continuing its work with manufacturers as it endeavours to find a solution for the use of altrenogest in cycling fillies and mares.

Trainer Brent Stanley is planning to kick off the spring campaigns of talented three-year-olds The August and Casadiva in separate stakes races at Caulfield.

Chris Hyland has joined his father Pat in a training partnership with the pair taking the in-form Annunciate to an 1800m-race at Sandown.

NSW trainers will still be able to use products containing altrenogest to control the cycles of fillies and mares.

Promising three-year-old Thrillster will be out to enhance her spring claims when she resumes in the Group Three Quezette Stakes for fillies at Caulfield.