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The Australian Cup remains firmly on the agenda for Smokin’ Romans who will make his second autumn appearance on Saturday. The Group 2 Blamey Stakes (1600m) at Flemington is where trainers …

James Cummings is on track for his most successful Group 1 season since joining Godolphin with eight wins at the highest level and five months of the racing term still remaining. …

New Zealand trainer Ken Kelso will attempt to break a long-standing hoodoo when he saddles Legarto in the Australian Guineas at Flemington. Since the inception of the Group 1 1600m race for three-year-olds in 1986, no …

Adrian Bott has cautioned punters to forgive Cross Talk’s first-up defeat as an odds-on favourite, convinced the gelding can rebound in the Group 3 Newcastle Stakes. The five-year-old led and was …

Promising mare Sanstoc has earned her way back into stakes company after franking her first-up win with another powerful performance at Warwick Farm. Trainer Mark Newnham confirmed the four-year-old would have …

Ballarat trainer Shay Keating landed her first metropolitan success when Greenhill Prince scored at Sandown. A former jockey who started her racing career apprenticed to her father late father Daryl Brown, Keating has …

Two Japanese horses, Unicorn Lion and Ho O Amazon, are expected to enter quarantine next week before joining the record contingent of overseas raiders descending on the Sydney autumn carnival. It …

Leading trainer Chris Waller will have at least two runners in his bid for a second Randwick Guineas and while he has followed a traditional route with Osipenko, stablemate Manzoice has had …

The Fortune Teller and Holymanz will line-up for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace chasing back-to-back Australian Guineas success. Maher has been taken with the improvement both horses have made from their spring campaigns and enter Saturday’s Group 1 race …

A familiarising gallop at Randwick has globetrotting sprinter Artorius on target to tackle an intriguing Canterbury Stakes field headlined by star New Zealander Imperatriz and three-year-old Golden Mile. The 2021 …

Trainer Mike Moroney and the connections of imported galloper Alenquer have a nervous wait to see whether they make the All-Star Mile field. The Top 10 vote gathers were announced on …

Alligator Blood has fallen just short of a new record in the public vote into the All-Star Mile. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained galloper collected 18,301 votes to head the …

Owner Wally Daly has not ruled out top juvenile Brave Halo coming back to Perth and running in the Group 2 $500,000 Karrakatta Plate (1200m) at Ascot in April. Daly …

Mike Moroney hopes to have two runners in the Australian Guineas but fears Japanese Emperor may miss out on the Group 1 race at Flemington. Japanese Emperor and Elkington Road have been entered …

It’s a stable that is usually up and about when the major silverware is being dished out and this autumn is no exception for the training partnership of Gai Waterhouse …

Just days after the anniversary of his watershed win, Daumier has been retired to stud. The son of Epaulette, who won last year’s Group 1 Blue Diamond Stakes (1200m), will stand …

A rare visit to Perth is on the cards for Geraldton trainer Albert Bowtell as he aims to get Westozi into next month’s WA Derby (2400m) at Ascot. The staying …

Sterling Alexiou hopes the Bureau of Meteorology has erred on the conservative side when it comes to predicted rainfall for Sydney this week. The trainer would love for Sydney’s first …