Chris Hyland has joined his father Pat in a training partnership with the pair taking the in-form Annunciate to an 1800m-race at Sandown.

James McDonald has been booked to replace the injured Blake Shinn on the Tony Gollan-trained Outback Barbie in the Silver Shadow Stakes at Randwick.

A decision whether Jameka makes a return to racing in the P B Lawrence Stakes will be made after trainer Ciaron Maher discusses options with the mare’s owners.

Dual Group One winner Alizee has been sidelined for a mandatory three months after bleeding from both nostrils at trackwork.

Golden Slipper winner Estijaab will miss the spring while last year’s winner She Will Reign is being monitored after the stable discovered blood in a nostril.

“He’s unbelievable,” said champion Irish trainer Aiden O’Brien of US Navy Flag on winning the Gr1 July Cup 6f at Newmarket, the first win of this his 3YO season.

NSW trainers will still be able to use products containing altrenogest to control the cycles of fillies and mares.

Promising three-year-old Thrillster will be out to enhance her spring claims when she resumes in the Group Three Quezette Stakes for fillies at Caulfield.

Champion Winx is spot-on for her race return at Randwick after a solid work-out at Rosehill with Hugh Bowman aboard.

The Listed Regal Roller Stakes in Melbourne and Group Three Spring Stakes in Adelaide are options for consistent sprinter Inn Keeper.

The Group Two P B Lawrence Stakes looms as the biggest test to date for Widgee Turf with trainer Patrick Payne hoping for a rain-affected track for the gelding.

Racing NSW has reversed its decision to bar Canberra horses from the Highway race series and they will again be classed as country-trained.

Jockey Blake Shinn has suffered fractures to two vertebrae in a fall at the Randwick barrier trials.

Rain has prompted officials to move a Horsham race meeting in country Victoria to Warracknabeal.

Top Queensland mare Savanna Amour will head to Perth later this year for the Group One Winterbottom Stakes after she competes in Melbourne.

Dual Group One winner Hey Doc is scheduled to gallop between races at the midweek Sandown meeting in preparation for his upcoming return to racing.

The Group Two P B Lawrence Stakes looms as a star-studded line up after 18 nominations were taken for the weight-for-age race.

Thirteen horses, including champion Winx, have been nominated for the Group One race named after the mare at Randwick.

Jockey Blake Shinn has been taken to hospital with suspected concussion and neck soreness after a fall at the Randwick barrier trials.

Alpha Centauri has continued her campaign with an impressive victory in the Group One Prix Jacques le Marois at Deauville.

Queensland trainer Darryl Gardiner has been disqualified for 12 months on a cobalt related charge.

Winx has had a trouble-free preparation leading into her return in the Group One race at Randwick named in her honour.

Boom Time and Harlem are set to have their spring season returns in the Group Two P B Lawrence Stakes at Caulfield.

Oohood will make her season return in the Silver Shadow Stakes on the same day Magic Millions winner Sunlight takes aim in the Quezette Stakes.

Tough Brisbane stayer First Crush will head to Sydney later this month to run at Rosehill before he tackles the Newcastle Cup.

Jordan Childs is looking forward to the spring campaign of Group One winner Written By after getting back aboard the colt in a gallop at Sandown.

Some of Queensland’s biggest racing names have volunteered to be auctioned as slaves for a fund-raiser to help drought victims.

Hayley Turner and the Girls team have taken the honours in the Shergar Cup at Ascot in which Corey Brown competed for the Rest of the World..

Four winners at Flemington for Darren Weir has been complimented with victories at Moe, Morphettville and Newcastle.