Trainer Trevor Miller will set Victory Eight for several prominent summer carnival 1600m races in Brisbane.

Verry Elleegant will miss the Caulfield Cup in preference for a start in the Cox Plate after galloping at The Valley under James McDonald.

Cox Plate favourite Lys Gracieux has been joined by Kluger in a familiarisation gallop at The Valley ahead of the Cox Plate.

Verry Elleegant has been given a first look at The Valley and pleased her rider James McDonald ahead of a possible start in the Cox Plate.

Owner Khalid Abdullah has taken the bold decision to keep super mare Enable in training in 2020.

Favourite Santa Ana Lane has drawn barrier two in the $14 million Everest with Nature Strip to start from the outside in the 12-horse field.

Racing Victoria stewards have charged trainer Shawn Mathrick and stable employee Kim Mathrick with stomach tubing of a horse on race day.

Ebor Handicap winner Mustajeer has familiarised himself with the Caulfield course as he prepares to try to win the Caulfield Cup in his first Australian start.

Second acceptances have been taken for this year’s Melbourne Cup with 64 horses remaining in contention.

Anthony Freedman-trained sprinter Santa Ana Lane will go in search of redemption and riches in Saturday’s $14 million Everest.

New Zealand mare Rondinella will continue her spring campaign in the Ladies Day Vase at Caulfield after a last-start second at The Valley.

Australian jockey Damian Lane has reunited with Japanese horse Mer De Glace in a gallop at Caulfield ahead of riding the horse in the $5 million Caulfield Cup.

Champion jockey Kerrin McEvoy, the only man to win both The Everest and and Melbourne Cup, has refused to play favourites as debate rages.

Jockey Michael Walker says Caulfield Cup favourite Finche had no troubles handling the track in his first look around the course ahead of the $5 million race.

Queensland three-year-old Eric The Eel will miss the rest of the Melbourne spring carnival with a leg injury.

Dubious will be out to press his claims for the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes when he runs in the Group Three Blue Sapphire Stakes at Caulfield.

Chris Waller has Cox Plate plans for Verry Elleegant but is keeping the Caulfield Cup option open until the mare gallops at The Valley.

Frenchman Christophe Lemaire, winner of the 2011 Melbourne Cup on Dunaden, has been booked to ride English horse Gold Mount in the Melbourne Cup.

Racing Victoria has recorded record wagering turnover along with a surplus in the release of its latest financial year results.

Co-trainer Calvin McEvoy says Sunlight looks to be at her peak as she prepares for her main spring target in the $14 million Everest.

Unbeaten in his two career starts, Godolphin’s Royal Meeting is set to start in the Moonga Stakes at Caulfield for trainer Saeed bin Suroor.

Glen Boss is excited to be riding the Chris Waller-trained Yes Yes Yes, the only three-year-old in the $14 million Everest.

Cross Counter is one of five Charlie Appleby-trained horses undergoing quarantine at Werribee ahead of the Melbourne spring carnival.

Popular Brisbane galloper The Candy Man is set to make his weight-for-age debut in the Craven Plate at Randwick.

Yulong Prince and Wolfe will get their last chance to gain a Caulfield Cup start via the Group Three Coongy Cup at Caulfield.

English trainer Ed Dunlop’s travelling foreman Robin Trevor-Jones has given Red Verdon the thumbs-up to take his place in the Caulfield Cup.

New Zealand stayer The Chosen One has received a half kilo Melbourne Cup penalty for his win in the Group Two Herbert Power Stakes.

The Richard Hannon-trained Raymond Tusk will miss the Caulfield Cup to be kept for the Melbourne Cup at Flemington.

Trainer Willie Mullins has claimed the English/Irish Cesarewitch double with Royal Illusion scoring at the Curragh after Stratum’s Newmarket win.

Co-trainer Paul Snowden believes Redzel can be just as lethal in The Everest as he has been in the past two editions.