Having being sent to Warrnambool trainer Matthew Williams for a change of environment, sprinter Illustrious Lad is set to make his race return at Flemington.

Top Queensland sire Spirit Of Boom is chasing his 12th stakes winner from just three crops to race at Doomben.

Live And Free has continued to thrive since his narrow last-start defeat and returns to his favourite track of Randwick for a shot at the Villiers Stakes.

The arguments about when smart gallloper Boomsara races best will be tested after he drew the rails in The Gateway at Eagle Farm.

Peter And Paul Snowden will be chasing a second Magic Millions Wyong 2YO Classic win when they saddle up debut winner Strike and the improving Remorseless.

Australian jockey Regan Bayliss will return to Melbourne after deciding not to seek an extension on his Hong Kong riding contract.

Four-year-old horse Extra Brut, winner of the 2018 Group One Victoria Derby at Flemington, has died in Hong Kong after an accident on a horse walker.

Co-trainer Troy Corstens hopes Morrissy has better luck than at his most recent start when he runs at Flemington ahead of a potential Queensland trip.

Quackerjack is ready to fulfil a long-range plan when he runs in the Group Two Villiers Stakes over the famous Randwick mile.

A Victoria Racing Club Equine Wellbeing Fund has been established to provide extra funds for Living Legends as well as post-race recovery tools at Flemington.

After winning a barrier trial at Albury, Melbourne two-year-old Stonefield is on track to make his debut in the $500,000 Inglis Nursery at Randwick.

Bullock will attempt to add to trainer Enver Jusufovic’s recent good form when she makes her racetrack return at Sandown.

Trainer Tony McEvoy believes Queensland authorities should look at chartering planes to ensure southern horses can get to carnivals each year.

Horses owned by Lloyd and Nick Williams are set to go to trainers Danny O’Brien and Anthony Freedman following the decision to sell Macedon Lodge.

Leading Magic Millions hopeful The Drinks Cart’s return to racing will be delayed a week after he had a slight setback and missed a track gallop.

Barrier trials at Randwick and Gosford have been called off because of worsening smoke haze over Sydney and surrounding areas.

With Standish Handicap plans for Superhard, trainer John Sadler will give the sprinter another look at the Flemington straight in an 1100m-sprint.

The Mark Newnham-trained Quackerjack is the early favourite for the Villiers Stakes with Strome unlikely to run.

Trainer Robbie Laing is hopeful he will get his training licence back when the Racing Victoria Board holds its next meeting.

Queensland riders Jim Byrne and Matt McGillivray are determined to break Queensland’s duck in the Jockeys State Of Origin series in Brisbane.

Not only has former Melbourne-based rider Vlad Duric landed a third straight Singapore jockeys’ premiership, he has had his most successful season.

In-form Melbourne jockey Michael Dee will mix business and pleasure when he returns home to New Zealand for Christmas.

Maximum Security, famous for being disqualified as the winner of the Kentucky Derby, has ended the season with victory in the Cigar Mile.

Japan has dominated the Hong Kong International meeting at Sha Tin with victory in three of the four Group One races.

Cellarman and Sambro are Chris Waller’s likely runners in the Group Two Villiers Stakes over the famous Randwick mile.

Larry Cassidy has again shown the toughness of jockeys by riding at Doomben after suffering from a kidney stone.

Champion racehorse and sire Lonhro is about to officially turn 21 with his former trainer and jockey remembering what made him great.

A track gallop will determine whether The Drinks Cart will have his next start in the Listed Phelan Ready Stakes at Doomben.

The VRC is preparing for the first of four experimental twilight race meetings at Flemington in the off-season.

Two Rockhampton-based trainers have been fined after traces of the drug dexamethasone was found in urine samples taken from their horses.