La Bella Diosa’s challenging trans-Tasman expedition poses another question at the final hurdle, with her staying capabilities under scrutiny in the Group One Australian Oaks.

The first foal of champion mare Black Caviar is not too far away from making her racetrack reappearance.
 

Dual Group One winner Stratum Star will return to the place he was born and raised to begin the next phase of his career as a stallion.

Veteran trainer Harold Norman is hoping his luck in rare visits to Toowoomba holds with Lucky Tom in the Listed Weetwood Handicap.
 

Group One-winning colt Astern has been retired and will stand alongside his sire Medaglia D’Oro in the Hunter Valley in the spring.
 

Jeff Lloyd has put his rival jockeys on notice he won’t rest on his laurels after setting a record for the most Queensland metropolitan wins.

 Two of the three jockeys suspended on careless riding charges at Sandown have lodged appeals against the severity of their bans.

Craig Williams would like nothing more than to win a Group One race in the black and white colours of Bill Sexton.

WINX WILL BE AIMING TO EXTEND HER WINNING STREAK TO 17 IN THE QUEEN ELIZABETH STAKES AT RANDWICK

 Darren Weir is hoping a much-improved Big Duke can clear another significant obstacle at Randwick and break more new ground for the leading Victorian trainer.

Trainer Robert Heathcote will pin his Weetwood Handicap hopes on the injury-prone Pinch River after starting out with three contenders.

Jockey Tommy Berry helped deliver one of the most memorable finishes at Randwick last weekend aboard Chautauqua but seven days later he will be a mere observer.
 

 Trainer Pat Carey has his eye on a traditional three-year-old staying race with Baykool and along the way hopes to pick up a stakes win at Caulfield.

Dreams APlenty will be kept three-year-old company during the Brisbane winter after failing to make the field for the Weetwood Handicap at Toowoomba.

You can take the boy out of Toowoomba but it is hard to take Toowoomba out of the boy.

“There’s no doubt she knows that she’s the queen. She walks with a certain air of confidence about her,” jockey Hugh Bowman said on Thursday after her final trackwork before the race.
 

Arrowfield Stud has bought a half-share in Blue Diamond Stakes runner-up Pariah who will stand at the stud at the end of his racing career.
 

The second session of the Easter Yearling Sale in Sydney has continued where the first left off with six horses sold for $1 million or more.

As Archie Alexander counts down to one filly from his stable running in an Oaks in Sydney, another filly from his team has emerged at Sandown as a potential Classic contender.

“A powerful catalogue full of stakes-winning race mares, broodmares in foal to some of the world’s leading stallions as well as stallion shares and blueblood weanlings” boasts William Inglis & Son in introducing their inaugural The Chairman’s Sale – Session II for Elite Breeding Prospects.

Yes it’s Royal Randwick, Day 2 of The Championships with the running of the Group 1 The $4m Gr1 Longines Queen Elizabeth Stakes of 2000m. Our eyes will be firmly set on the champion mare Winx to make it 17 consecutive race wins and her 12th Group 1 success.

Jeff Lloyd has wasted no time on his return from a suspension to set a record for the most winners by a jockey in the Queensland metropolitan season.

Trainer Chris Waller has dismissed any concerns about champion mare Winx racing with synthetic hoof filler in one of her feet ahead of her bid for a 17th consecutive win in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Jameka has been ruled out of an International campaign as she continues her recovery from travel sickness. What will be her target race in the Spring? It isn’t the Caulfield Cup?

Ten Monday-free race days have been confirmed for Victoria next year after the release of the race schedule for the 2017/18 season.

Crownbet’s  Doncaster Day punting overview. Who were the runners who got the money, who were the big misses? Who is this weeks horse to follow?

 A morning trot-up is all that is needed for lightly raced mare Abbey Marie to take her place in a Group One race at Randwick.

All the boxes have been ticked ahead of Winx’s autumn finale but there is still an air of nervous tension about the great mare ahead of the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Dual Group One winner Palentino has been retired from racing and will stand at Sun Stud in Victoria in the upcoming breeding season.
 

After spending a month acclimatising in relative obscurity at Canterbury, Godolphin’s Sydney Cup contingent is poised to emulate the stayers that made such an impression in Melbourne over spring.