Four-time Group One winner Santa Ana Lane could be Royal Ascot-bound with connections to discuss all options while he has a well-deserved break.

Bostonian has returned from a winter spell after an unbeaten Queensland campaign to be aimed at stakes races in New Zealand.

With the spring Group One season in Sydney and Melbourne over, champion trainer Chris Waller leads the tally of Group One winners.

A Cranbourne barrier trial will help blow the cobwebs out before Viddora flies to Perth for her defence of the Group One Winterbottom Stakes at Ascot.

Trap For Fools has held off Irish Derby winner Latrobe to win the $2 million Group One Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington.

Trainer Darren Weir and jockey John Allen have combined again at Flemington to claim the Group Two Matriarch Stakes.

Santa Ana Lane has won the $1 million VRC Sprint Classic, beating In Her Time and dead-heaters Jungle Cat and Pierata in the Group One race at Flemington.

Jaameh has raced to a hard-fought win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes at Flemington after missing out on making the Melbourne Cup field.

Ringerdingding could line up in the Group Two Sandown Guineas on a seven-day back-up after storming home to win the Listed Springtime Stakes at Flemington.

Co-trainer Peter Snowden is confident defending champion Redzel is the horse to beat again in a star-studded VRC Sprint Classic at Flemington.

High profile horse Kementari has been close without registering a win this spring but gets another chance to deliver a Group One win in the VRC Sprint Classic.

Cracksman and Winx share top billing in the latest release of the world rankings with the pair on 130.

Shillelagh is already a Group One winner this spring and will chase another elite level victory at Flemington in the Mackinnon Stakes.

Aristia has won the $1 million Group One VRC Oaks, beating a brave Greysful Glamour and Miner’s Miss at Flemington.

A look at the Group One VRC Sprint Classic on the final day of the Melbourne Cup carnival.

Pierata will get his chance against Redzel in the VRC Sprint after missing the chance to challenge him in The Everest.

Blair House can wind up a successful spring carnival for trainer Charlie Appleby when he saddles Blair House in the Group One Mackinnon Stakes.

After winning the Melbourne Cup, Kerrin McEvoy and Charlie Appleby will be in opposing camps when the field lines up for the VRC Sprint Classic.

Trainer Darren Weir has three chances in the VRC Oaks, having already won the Victoria Derby with colt Extra Brut during the Flemington carnival.

After deciding to bypass the Melbourne Cup with Latrobe, Irish trainer Joseph O’Brien will saddle him up in the Group One Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington.

Trainer Damien Weir is chasing his first $1 million VRC Oaks win at Flemington on Thursday during the most fashionable meet of the Spring racing calendar.

Trainer Charlie Appleby says Cross Counter has come through unscathed and in good order following his historic win in the Melbourne Cup.

Star jockey Kerrin McEvoy is savouring his third Melbourne Cup win, and first for Godolphin, after partnering Cross Counter to victory at Flemington.

When the time came for the Dubai ruler and his global racing operation Godolphin to win a Melbourne Cup, Kerrin McEvoy wanted the ride.

What the jockeys said after the Melbourne Cup.

In his second attempt to win the Melbourne Cup, English-trained stayer Marmelo has run a gallant race for second to Cross Counter at Flemington.

A Prince Of Arran has given English trainer Charlie Fellowes one of his greatest thrills with a third placing in the Melbourne Cup.

Champion Winx has headed for a well-earned rest after another stellar spring carnival, culminating in her record fourth Cox Plate win.

Owners, trainers and jockeys of horses in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup have enjoyed the annual parade.

The Melbourne Cup is the race that stops the nation on the first Tuesday in November.