Japanese horses Meiner Wunsch and Meiner Fanrong will not make the trip to Melbourne for the spring carnival.

Warwick Farm trainer Richard Litt is chasing his first Brisbane winner with former Godolphin horse Morton’s Fork at Eagle Farm.

Trainer Matt Dunn hopes either of his Eagle Farm runners La Scopa or Snitz can still get a place in the $1.3 million Kosciuszko.

Multiple Group One winner Santa Ana Lane is doubtful to run in The Shorts at Randwick because of a heavy track.

Tofane, a placegetter at Group Two level last season, steps back up to Group racing at Caulfield in the How Now Stakes after a last-start win at The Valley.

With five acceptors in the MRC Foundation Cup at Caulfield, Lindsay Park will send two of those horses to Morphettville for the Tokyo City Cup.

Rain in Sydney and a heavy rated track at Randwick has cast doubts over whether Everest-bound mare Sunlight will take her place in the Group Two Shorts.

A few days before Iconoclasm chases a Group One win in the Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes, his little sister Stay Gold has broken her maiden at Cranbourne.

Gold Coast trainer Brad Witt has been disqualified for 12 months after being found to have substituted someone else’s urine for his own in an Integrity check.

New Zealand mare Danzdanzdance will have conditions to suit at Randwick where she runs in the Group One George Main Stakes on a rain-affected track.

Home and Away’s James Stewart and Sarah Roberts have been named as the Everest Carnival’s official ambassadors.

Queensland stewards have explained on what basis they overturned a photo-finish result from a race meeting two months ago.

Political unrest in Hong Kong has spread to racing with Happy Valley called off because of the threat to public safety in the area.

Trainer Stuart Kendrick started the day with a disappointment but things brightened when he produced another smart young horse at Doomben.

Former apprentice jockey Stephen Brown Jr has been airlifted to a Melbourne hospital in an induced coma following a fall at the Wangaratta jump-outs.

Former apprentice jockey Stephen Brown Jr has been airlifted to a Melbourne hospital in an induced coma following a fall at the Wangaratta jump-outs.

Calvin McEvoy expects Group One winner Despatch’s Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes performance will give them clarity as to the sprinter’s effectiveness over 1400m.

Trainers Darren Mcauliffe and Adam Trinder have spoken of the harassment they received after their horses finished one-two in the Makybe Diva Stakes.

The clash of promising stablemates Guntantes and Profit looks like being the highlight of the Eagle Farm meeting.

Begood Toya Mother and Age Of Chivalry, two of the leading fancies for the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes at Caulfield, have drawn inside barriers.

The George Main Stakes and The Shorts at Randwick have both attracted fields of 11 for the start of the Everest carnival.

Local trainer Kris Lees will have multiple runners in his attempt to win the Newcastle Cup for the first time.

Multiple Group One-winning jockey Larry Cassidy is set to resume riding in races after recovering from a fractured leg.

Talented Eric The Eel’s comeback has been delayed and he will begin his spring campaign a week later.

Racing Australia has asked for a report on the science of cobalt following a request from the Australian Trainers Association.

The Australian Turf Club has won three awards at the NSW Restaurant and Catering Awards held at The Star in Sydney.

A gallop at Penshurst has confirmed Black Heart Bart’s place in the Rupert Clarke Stakes but his Lindsey Smith-trained stablemate Malaguerra has been retired.

The Bjorn Baker-trained Samadoubt has been the surprise packet of the Sydney spring so far and will be out for a hat-trick when he runs in the George Main.

A tougher than anticipated Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington has resulted in Scales Of Justice heading for a spell and being set for an autumn campaign.

Dual Brisbane Group One winner, New Zealand sprinter The Bostonian, is heading to Melbourne to try to upstage the locals in the Group One Moir.