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Mick Price and Michael Kent Jnr have taken the opening two juvenile races in Melbourne after Get In The Spirit outsped her rivals at Flemington. Get In The Spirit scored a debut win in the Listed Maribyrnong Trial Stakes (1000m) …

Jockey Ben Allen can feel the quality in Instant Celebrity and is expecting the mare to bounce back at Flemington. Allen rides Instant Celebrity for the first time on Saturday when they …

The Danehill Stakes has undergone a shake up this year to make it the perfect lead up race to a Group 1 race for three-year-old sprinters. Previously run over 1200m at the Victoria Racing Club’s …

Chris Waller is shooting for his fifth successive Turnbull Stakes at Flemington with Verry Elleegant but the champion trainer has great respect for Incentivise. Nine-time Group 1 winner Verry Elleegant and Incentivise meet for …

The Epsom Handicap meeting will usher in the latest generation of babies with the first of the new-season two-year-olds to step out in the Gimcrack Stakes and Breeders’ Plate. Ciaron …

The Victoria Racing Club is hopeful of having crowds of up to 11,500 people across the four days of the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Club advised members of their hopes on …

Echuca will now host the race meeting in Victoria on Friday after heavy rain made the Tatura course unsafe for racing. Racing Victoria made the change on Thursday following a track inspection earlier …

Andrew Adkins is finally in a good place. Having spent six months recovering from horrific injuries suffered in a race fall, he worked his way back to health, then fitness and …

When you think of Symon Wilde you think of Gold Medals and his two victories in Australia’s longest race, the Grand Annual Steeplechase. But Wilde is more than a trainer of …

Joe Pride has won the Doncaster Mile twice but so far a victory in its spring twin, the Group 1 Epsom Handicap, has eluded him. The Warwick Farm horseman figures …

Only two trainers have taken honours in the Turnbull Stakes in the past six runnings of the Group 1 race. Chris Waller is aiming for his fifth win on end when he saddles …

Brett Prebble has been a quiet achiever in the early part of the 2021-22 season and is hoping to cement his position as one of Victoria’s premier jockeys at Flemington …

She was the first filly home in the Golden Slipper and has won a leg of the prestigious Princess Series, but Four Moves Ahead still has one important goal left …

Annabel Neasham has already won two Group 1 races this spring and rates Mo’Unga a live chance to give her a trifecta of top level victories in the Epsom Handicap. The four-year-old …

Stablemates Aysar and Crosshaven are set to battle it out against each for the first time since their three-year-old days at Flemington. Lining up against each other may just be …

The normally conservative David Payne is bullish about Montefilia’s chances in the Metropolitan, batting away any doubts about her stamina and insisting she will prove she is a genuine stayer. The …

Mark Newnham has a knack for unearthing an emerging filly in the major three-year-old races and Flight Stakes contender Von Trapp might just be his latest product. The daughter of superstar Frankel heads …

Cascadian will be vying to become just the third horse in history to win Randwick’s two biggest mile races in the same calendar year when he lines up in the Epsom …