Breaking

• No Joy on Tuesday

  TUESDAY Joy – the horse named for Australia’s most famous race, the Melbourne Cup – seems destined never to run in the event that stops a nation.

   
• Profound plan for Melbourne Cup

  THE weather will determine whether Melbourne Cup favourite Profound Beauty takes her place in Saturday’s Group One Irish Field St Leger or comes straight to Australia.

   
• Jonesy’s little girl a $3 million filly

  THIS chestnut foal with the cute white blaze could be the most valuable thoroughbred filly yet born in the southern hemisphere. She was born at Arrowfield Stud.

   
• Fair crack of the whip

  COREY Brown, who tomorrow will present a case to the Australian Racing Board to amend the new whip rules, has been hit with another fine for excessive whipping.

   
• Injury ends Black Caviar’s dream run

  BLACK Caviar, arguably the most exciting three-year-old filly in training, is under an injury cloud and may not race again this spring.

   
• Injury ends Black Caviar’s dream run

  BLACK Caviar, arguably the most exciting three-year-old filly in training, is under an injury cloud and may not race again this spring.

   
• Coyle walks out on Patinack

  IF JASON Coyle knew his days at Patinack Farm were numbered, he wasn’t letting on at Randwick on Saturday. He was bullish about his Spring Carnival plans.

   
• Hard labour for top horses

  TWO of Sydney’s leading trainers have taken aim at the Australian Jockey Club over the condition of their training and racing surfaces at Royal Randwick.

   
• Stars to collide in Stan Fox

  THE Stan Fox Stakes is shaping as one of the races of the Sydney carnival with four of the best three-year-olds set to clash before heading to Melbourne for the Group One Caulfield Guineas.

   
• Give whip rule the flick now

  SYDNEY and Melbourne should go their own way and throw out the silly new whip rule. Have any of these blokes on the ARB ever had a bet?

   
• Star scratched but Flemington fires

  GLAMOUR colt Manhattan Rain didn’t start at Flemington yesterday because his owner has decided to keep him for the Caulfield Guineas Prelude on September 19.

   
• O’Lonhro passes his first big test

  HE’S young, inexperienced and still learning what racing is all about – yet after just his fifth career start O’Lonhro is already a Group Two winner.

   
• So You Think it was a Great result?

  TRAINER David Payne had given up on More Than Great, believing his colt had lost to So You Think. Jockey Nash Rawiller had to ask stewards if he had won.

   
• Brown has a crack at whip rule

  COREY Brown, one of Sydney’s most experienced and talented jockeys, has slammed the new whip rules, saying they are virtually impossible to abide by.

   
• Fat by name, fast by nature

  ALBERT The Fat sounds like a slow coach, but he is a racehorse with speed to burn and he is good enough to win today’s Tramway Handicap at Randwick.

   
• History against Emperor, Power

  THERE’S a bit of history against AJC Australian Derby and Doncaster Mile winners Roman Emperor and Vision And Power in the  Chelmsford Stakes Randwick today.

   
• Top trainers to produce Cup hopes

  FOR trainers David Hayes and Lee Freedman, the Spring Is The Season Handicap (1700m) at Flemington is about the most important race at the meeting today.

   
• Wet Wyong lures trainer

  EXCITING stayer Mr Clangtastic is likely to contest today’s Listed $120,000 Wyong Gold Cup in preference to a 2000m handicap at Flemington tomorrow.

   
• Smith is right on track

  MATTHEW Smith, the Warwick Farm trainer whose star is rising fast, appreciates that horse racing, probably more than any other sport, is a great leveller.

   
• A big thanks from Gai

  THANK you to all the people who made their way to Randwick to celebrate my Mad Hatters birthday party. It was a tremendous day which left me taken aback.