The Gai Waterhouse-trained Bonfire has won the $150,000 Grafton Cup in record time, giving the trainer back-to-back wins in the feature race. Sent out equal favourite at $5, Bonfire replicated …

Trainer Ciaron Maher played a starring role on Finals Day at Flemington last year and he is upbeat about the chances of preparing another winner of a winter feature this …

One of Bart Cummings’s great training philosophies has become David Vandyke’s mantra for European import Astronomos. And the link is fitting given Vandyke’s Melbourne Cup pipedream for the stayer. Cummings …

David Brideoake has no concerns with in-form Our Harmony handling straight racing at Flemington despite the filly failing in her only start there. Our Harmony has earned her chance in …

Orujo is a type of brandy and John O’Shea might need a stiff one if the horse of the same name wins at Randwick on Saturday. O’Shea has booked Hugh …

Victorian stewards have tested and rejected trainer Peter Moody’s theory on how Lidari might have returned an elevated level of cobalt after running second in the Turnbull Stakes. Moody was …

Blake Shinn refuses to be distracted from his quest for a second Sydney jockeys’ premiership, least of all by his two rivals. In a bottleneck at the top of the …

The decision to dodge the Ramornie Handicap with Steel Zip is one trainer Pat Duff hopes doesn’t come back to haunt him. Duff had planned to take Steel Zip to …

As a former champion jumps jockey, trainer Brett Scott knows a good rider when he sees one and is more than happy to have apprentice Michael Dee aboard Coronation Shallan …

In a touch of deja vu, Australian colt Brazen Beau will start from barrier 15 of 15 in the July Cup at Newmarket. Brazen Beau had the same barrier when …