The Brisbane Racing Club is confident the Eagle Farm racetrack will be rated soft for the week’s main meeting and could get to good despite torrential rain.

The promising Eric The Eel will begin his quest for the Sydney autumn Group One three-year-old triple crown when he resumes at Eagle Farm.

The washed-out meeting at Doomben means promising stayer Slow Hands will instead run at Eagle Farm.

Further rain in Brisbane has soaked the Doomben track and forced the cancellation of racing.

A Sandown double has helped ease the pain of Larimer Street’s defeat in the Inglis Millennium at Warwick Farm for Trent Busuttin and Natalie Young.

Cloudbreaker has broken through for her maiden city success at Sandown with the Lindsay Park stable now looking at autumn black-type options for the filly.

Tommy Berry will miss important carnival assignments unless he is successful in an appeal against a ban for failing to ride a horse out to the line.

Unbeaten Godolphin-owned filly Katalin has earned a step up to stakes company in the Group Three The Vanity at Flemington after two wins in NSW.

Racing Queensland stewards will make a raceday decision on the fate of the Doomben meeting.

Co-trainer Calvin McEvoy is under no illusion about the task confronting Despatch in the Lightning Stakes at Flemington.

South Australian colt Dalasan will be among the Australian Guineas contenders who clash in what shapes as an exciting C S Hayes Stakes at Flemington.

Consistent Godolphin gelding Gaulois has earned a shot at the Newcastle Newmarket, claiming the scalp of Shared Ambition at Warwick Farm.

Jockey Billy Egan has been rewarded for keeping a hectic schedule, plundering a $1 million race in Sydney just hours before he is due to ride in Melbourne.

Visiting English rider Tom Marquand has revealed plans to return to Sydney during the autumn after winning the Inglis Millennium on Prime Star.

The possibility of a heavy track is trainer Pat Webster’s only sticking point ahead of the return of Happy Clapper at Randwick.

Caulfield Guineas winner Super Seth will have his next start in the Group One Futurity Stakes against older horses at weight-for-age at Caulfield.

Trainer Robert Heathcote has been forced to look elsewhere with one stable star and will rely on two-year-old Rothfire at Eagle Farm.

Stewards will make a mid-afternoon inspection of Doomben to determine if racing on the track can go ahead.

A field of seven has been declared for the Group One Black Caviar Lightning at Flemington including Nature Strip, Redzel and Loving Gaby.

Tiger Roll is only 50-50 to bid for a third Grand National win with his owners unhappy with the weight he will have to carry.

Retires champion Black Caviar will make a rare racetrack appearance when she is paraded before the Lightning Stakes at Flemington.

Jockey Craig Williams is looking forward to re-uniting with Loving Gaby when she returns in the Group One Lightning Stakes at Flemington.

Trainer John Thompson is looking forward to the return of stable stalwart Dreamforce who has won two trials ahead of the Apollo Stakes.

Expansion of the racing week in Victoria has led to calls for an earlier finish to night meetings to lessen the burden on racing participants.

Prominent thoroughbred owner and breeder Pam Cornish has died in Sydney after a long illness.

Former Hong Kong champion Werther will spend his days in New Zealand where he was born after the recurrence of a leg injury.

The John Moloney-trained Imperial Lad will put his Australian Guineas credentials on the line when he runs in a midweek benchmark race at Sandown.

Further rain in Sydney could disrupt the Warwick Farm meeting and the rescheduled $2 million Inglis Millennium.

The Inglis Classic sale continues in Sydney with a Deep Field colt so far fetching the highest price of $380,000.

The Queensland government has accepted a number of recommendations from a review into animal cruelty at abbatoirs, including the installation of cameras.