Breaking

• Silly Billy a classy prospect

  OUR Billy Blue has the ability to become a top-class stayer – it’s just a matter of when he will realise that potential.

   
• Portelli wants Royal farewell

  GARY Portelli has designs on a farewell treble at the historic 150 years of racing meeting at Royal Randwick today.

   
• 150 years of racing at Randwick

  LET your imagination take over and you can see the great champions such as Phar Lap, Carbine, Tulloch and Kingston Town charging to the finishing post.

   
• Danish as good as Sir Dapper

  LES Bridge always thought he would never train another horse good enough to compare with his former champion Sir Dapper.

   
• Speedster to flex muscles

  THE Arnold Schwarzenegger of horse racing. That is how John McNair describes former West Australian speedster Hay List.

   
• Phelan ready to strike

  TRAINER Jason McLachlan is tapping into the famous Queensland Origin spirit as his stable star Phelan Ready attempts to emulate the legendary Manikato.

   
• AJC’s great family day out

  IT IS going to be one big day of celebration at Randwick tomorrow as the AJC marks 150 years of racing at the iconic Sydney course.

   
• Rodd’s Doomben dream

  HE HAS won a Melbourne Cup and Cox Plate, but winning the Doomben 10,000 would eclipse both for Michael Rodd.

   
• Mud mayhem hits Canterbury

  CANTERBURY proved itself the best all-weather surface in Sydney after six races were completed in horrendous conditions.

   
• Ortensia rivals reel

  WITH the preparations of some of her main Doomben 10,000 rivals in disarray, Ortensia’s trouble-free build-up continued with a brilliant track gallop.

   
• An Anniversary celebration

  ANNIVERSARY, with jockey Nash Rawiller wearing the famous Star Thoroughbred race colours of purple with white stars, made a winning debut yesterday.

   
• Con sees red over race fine

  TRAINER Con Karakatsanis – still smarting over an $8000 fine from stewards – has reunited Tye Angland and Black Piranha to try to spark the sprinter back to top form.

   
• Jetsetters eyeing the Cox Plate

  DAVID Payne’s star international recruits, Musir and Raihana, emerged from quarantine in Sydney yesterday – and the trainer liked what he saw.

   
• The bagman’s last stand

  BILL Waterhouse, the biggest bookmaker of them all, fears for the future of the profession he has devoted his life to. "We’ve lost the public from the track."

   
• Melito out to break 77-year jinx

  TRAINER Gerald Ryan is optimistic talented Melito can finally end the three-year-old fillies jinx in the Doomben 10,000 (1350m) on Saturday.

   
• Stryker likely to miss out

  TRAINER Chris Waller is resigned to in-form Stryker missing a Doomben 10,000 start but he has already made contingency plans.

   
• Can this mare be the next Sunline

  CLAIMS that Wealth Princess is the best mare to come out of New Zealand since the champion Sunline may not be that far off the mark after a dominant display at Doomben.

   
• Bender wins Doomben Cup

  TRAINER Chris Waller is no closer to a decision on a Cox Plate start for Metal Bender despite yesterday’s narrow victory in the Doomben Cup over Gold Water.

   
• After 93 days, Brown breaks duck

  CHAMPION jockey Corey Brown had a simple message for punters after ending his 93-day losing streak on De Jetcat at Rosehill yesterday: "Now I’m back."

   
• Rothesay the new Phar Lap

  IT WAS a run that had to be seen to be believed. You could have mistaken three-year-old Rothesay for Phar Lap in the Group III Lord Mayor’s Cup at Doomben.