It was to be a memorable Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe day at Chantilly for John Barnes and partner Joy Mackay, owners of the Queensland-based stud Canning Downs, who, along with their long-time bloodstock advisor Dermot Farrington, bred and raced the Group 1 Prix de la Foret hero Aclaim.

I’m not the mountain climbing type – small hills are more my go – but I reckon English will be the chosen language at the summit of racing's Everest on Saturday.

Four-year-old mare Bonneval goes into Saturday's Group I A$1 million Caulfield Stakes (2000m) in a rich vein of form.

I was keen to throw a couple of tips in from Caulfield but I haven’t been this keen on a Sydney meeting for quite a while and as the saying goes - the devil you know is better than the devil you don’t.

For jockeys like Tye Angland the $10 million Everest is a realistic alternative to climbing the bona fide pinnacle of racing – the Melbourne Cup.

Irish trainer William Mullins has locked up Hong Kong-based star Joao Moreira to ride another of his charges in the Melbourne Cup.

I’m confident I can conquer The Everest on Saturday and on what looks a terrific program will also be trying to fill my hiking boots with plenty of winners.

Magic Millions managing director Vin Cox will take the reins of Godolphin’s Australian racing and breeding arm from early next year.

Gerry and Katie Harvey have appointed Barry Bowditch as Managing Director of Magic Millions, following Vin Cox’s move to Godolphin Australia.

Godolphin’s Group Chief Executive, Joe Osborne, has announced the appointment of Vin Cox as Managing Director of Godolphin in Australia.

Golden Rose winner Trapeze Artist has been scratched from Saturday’s Randwick meeting after found to suffering from lameness.

Two star fillies stood in the way of Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra’s last Thousand Guineas placegetter but a far more even field confronts the training duo’s 2017 contender.

With GROUP I wins for his daughters Roly Poly and War Flag, War Front achieved a GROUP I turf double for a second consecutive weekend to further consolidate his standing as one of the world’s best sires.

The 2017 NZB Caulfield Spring WFA Championship is set for an exciting conclusion with the running of the fourth and final leg, the A$1m Group 1 Ladbrokes Caulfield Stakes (2000m) on Saturday.

The outside gate has been the catalyst to the Caulfield Guineas scratching of the Lance O’Sullivan and Andrew Scott-trained Summer Passage.

Wyong is a track that suits on pace runners and we have found three leaders that will take plenty of running down on Thursday.

Last weekend High Chaparral (IRE) went into battle with the highest number of stakes runners and emerged with a Group double courtesy of Ace High and Bring Me Roses, this weekend we have a sire with the most runners so far we have seen and he’s not Snitzel.

Strong domestic and international competition helped the average price rise over 20 per cent as the 2017 Magic Millions Gold Coast 2YOs in Training Sale came to a close on Wednesday.

Almost $13 million in prizemoney across a bumper 10-race card at Randwick on Saturday is testament to the fresh ambition of Racing NSW and the Australian Turf Club.

A pair of Chris Waller-trained runners sit atop an open first market on Saturday’s Group I Toorak Handicap (1600m) at Caulfield.

The first two races at Warwick Farm on Wednesday were both competitive three year-old maidens won by Godolphin runners sired by their champion sires Exceed and Excel and Street Cry (IRE).

Kiwi mare Bonneval is the favourite to maintain her unbeaten Melbourne record in Saturday’s Group I Ladbrokes Stakes (2000m) at Caulfield.

Kiwi Bred host Emily Murphy visits Rich Hill Stud to meet John Thompson and discuss new season sire Vadamos, a runner in last year’s Cox Plate for Australia owner John Camilleri, , while Greg O'Connor catches up with well known Aussie owner breeder Linda Huddy at her Peachester Lodge property in in Queensland to talk about fellow new season sire Preferment.

Auckland based breeder Tim Harrison has made an art form out of buying non-performing older mares only to have them go on and produce Stakes winners.

The $10 million TAB Everest is the most anticipated race meeting in Sydney racing for many decades and the Australian Turf Club has put together special offers to make the day great value for all racegoers.

A US trainer has been suspended for 18 months after two of his horses tested positive for Viagra at Del Mar last year.

A brilliant early season juvenile, who shot to fame when winning the Magic Millions 2YO Classic, Unencumbered will have an interesting runner in the Listed MRC Inglis Debutants Stakes at Caulfield on Saturday.

Going through a running rail probably isn’t the best possible preparation for a crack at a Group I race.

Bookmakers believe Godolphin have the $500,000 Group I Thousand Guineas (1600m) at its mercy and two of the racing and breeding superpower’s previous winners can also have an influence in two black-type events on Saturday.

Trade continued in buoyant fashion on the second day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale which saw a daughter of EXCEED AND EXCEL become the highest priced filly ever to be sold at the sale when making 500,000 guineas.

The fields and form are now available online for the full 10-race card of Saturday’s Caulfield Guineas meeting.

All American's best quality crop has just turned two and the season has started accordingly.

Breeze Ups for NZB Ready to Run Sale  will take place next week on Monday 16 and Tuesday 17 October with each day commencing at 10am.

The Everest and the Sydney Stakes fields were announced on Tuesday but the remainder of the card has now been declared for Saturday's richest Randwick meeting of the year.

Practice with winkers in an off-Broadway jumpout last Thursday has left jockey Dwayne Dunn confident in Royal Symphony bouncing back in Saturday’s Group I Caulfield Guineas (1600m).

The Gosford Race Club (The Entertainment Grounds) will conduct their second annual picnic meeting on Melbourne Cup day which they expect to be bigger and better on November 7.

French jockey had died after failing to recover from injuries he sustained in a race fall.

Stuart Ramsey’s Turangga Farm have been enjoying plenty of recent success with their top class filly Champagne Cuddles and another of their homebred fillies has caught the eye as a Daily Debutant to watch on Wednesday.

An exciting young prospect by former crack juvenile Smart Missile topped Day One of the 2017 Magic Millions Gold Coast 2Yos in Training Sale on Tuesday.

She’s won 21-straight however it doesn’t seem to matter what the champ does Winx still gets a few knockers having a sly dig and you can only wonder why. This week I’m also handing out accolades to the ATC and Racing NSW for delivering an Everest I doubted would ever reach any great heights.

The signs are good for Westbury Stud stallion Reliable Man, following a string of impressive performances from his southern hemisphere progeny in recent weeks.

REDZEL drew a plum gate of barrier 4 for the world’s richest race on turf after The Everest took to the Sydney Harbour for the barrier draw.

The number of possible Cox Plate winners is down to 36 after third acceptances closed on Tuesday.

Second favourite Amelie’s Star sits just outside the Caulfield Cup field after the latest round of acceptances for Saturday week’s showpiece event.

Saturdays have been a battle for the last few weeks but I’m expecting a change of fortune with a couple of midweek fancies at Bendigo.

Kiwi colt Summer Passage fared poorly in the barrier draw but is aiming to overcome it and add another Group I win to his record in Saturday’s Caulfield Guineas.

The aftermath of last Saturday’s Group I Spring Champion Stakes brought the controversial whip rule back into the spotlight so Racenet has sought clarification from Racing NSW chief steward Marc Van Gestel.

Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott head to Melbourne on Saturday for the Group I Caulfield Guineas (1600m) with Gold Standard and with an underlying confidence that the Sydney colts may have the wood over their southern counterparts.

Godolphin three-year-old Alizee is a short-priced favourite to be the second filly in successive years to complete the Flight Stakes and Thousand Guineas double.

Paul Perry feels sick in the stomach every time he watches the replay of the Group I Golden Rose where his colts Perast and The Mission ran each other into the ground.

Worth a staggering $10million, The Everest is set to make a big impact this weekend and while its lack of Group I status has meant an absence of three year-old colts in the line-up, it’s sheer worth will go a long way to deciding who will be the Champion Australian Sire for 2017/2018.

If Saturday’s Caulfield Guineas is indeed the stallion making race then Kementari already has a head start on most of his rivals.

Long-time favourite Royal Symphony holds favouritism after drawing the middle of the line in Saturday’s Group I Caulfield Guineas.

A favourable draw has seen the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained Redzel firm in early betting on The Everest (1200m) while one bookmaker has put up surprisingly short odds about an emergency runner.

Turn back the clock to early August and comeback trainer Richard Freedman was told “if he doesn’t finish in the first four” he’s out the door but a lot has changed in the past two months.

The long road to redemption takes another twist for Josh Cartwright when the jockey who gained worldwide notoriety earlier this year saddles up his first runners as a trainer on Sunday.

Jockey Michael Dee can take his ride in Saturday’s Caulfield Guineas after a Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board decision on Tuesday.

The ATO recently issued an amended GST assessment reducing GST claims in relation to a prominent breeding industry player.

A competitive field of eight fillies will contest Saturday’s Group I Thousand Guineas (1600m) at Caulfield.

Master two-year-old trainers Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott believe they may have an extraordinary colt on their hands which will step out in Saturday’s Victory Vein Plate at Randwick.

An old favourite, a talented prospect and a serial underachiever make up my best punting opportunities at Wednesday’s Warwick Farm meeting.

The all-important barrier draw has been conducted for the $10 million The Everest (1200m) at Randwick on Saturday.

Group I horses in action at Flemington on Tuesday ahead of feature races at the weekend and members of the Godolphin team were looking sharp.

A touch of confusion reigned at the barrier draw for Saturday's Caulfield Guineas.

One of the most important parts of any thoroughbred’s preparation for any race is the trackwork rider and the man in the hot-seat aboard The Everest contender Deploy gave the horse the seal of approval after the main lead-up gallop on Tuesday.

Waikato-based horseman Sam Beatson is currently preparing 29 two-year-olds for the New Zealand Bloodstock Ready to Run sale in November, his third under his Riversley Park banner.

Paul Snowden is more than happy the stable’s star sprinter Redzel has been out of the spotlight heading into the $10 million Everest but is confident the gelding will be featuring centre stage come the main event at Randwick on Saturday.

Our video analysts have supplied you with their number one run from the weekend's metropolitan meetings.

Britain’s all-conquering filly Enable will race on next season, setting up a potential mouth-watering clash with Winx at Royal Ascot.

Midweek racing is at Warwick Farm on Wednesday and I’m confident of turning a profit.

A $1.40 quote looks way too short for a Toowoomba three-year-old in the opening race of the day so do we leave the race alone or try to make something out of it?

The Magic Millions 2YO’s in Training Sale at the Gold Coast kicks off today with 293 horses catalogued and for those interested in what some of these youngsters were sold for as yearlings our pinhook report makes a good easy reference.

If you bought a yearling by Epaulette at the sales this year you would have to be encouraged by his growing tally of first crop European winners which rose to 19 overnight with a debut victory for Augenblick at Kempton.

Coming off a debut second in a Newcomer race at Nakayama on September 17, Mosheen’s daughter Primo Scene opened her winning account at over 1600 metres at Tokyo on Monday.

The Warwick Farm trials on Monday featured two heats won by youngsters sired by I Am Invincible and Smart Missile.

One of Australia's leading form analysts Daniel O'Sullivan believes the world's highest rated sprinter Chautauqua is up against it when he aims to become the inaugural winner of The Everest at Randwick on Saturday.

There was only one race run at Kilmore on Monday with the meeting abandoned due to slippery conditions, but that one winner was a Savabeel filly with a bright future.

AFL megastar Dustin Martin has enjoyed the perfect season.

Monday’s Kilmore meeting only lasted one race.

Injury has ended the Melbourne spring carnival campaigns of two Group I winners.

The nominations for the full Caulfield Guineas day programme are now available online.

It was a solid weekend for the team with 11 winners tipped on top by Racenet’s tipsters despite a few well-supported runners falling short for punters.

Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby will commence his assault on the Melbourne spring carnival with two runners at the weekend.

Humidor can expect a tougher training programme heading into Saturday week’s Caulfield Cup after his Turnbull Stakes effort.

The first of Perth’s Group I races is still seven weeks away so I’ve identified some fit horses that should be winning sooner rather than later.

Amelie’s Star guaranteed herself a start in the Melbourne Cup with victory in The Bart Cummings at Flemington on Saturday and has escaped a weight penalty in Australia's greatest race.

Five Inglis Graduates were named champions of the 2016-2017 Australian racing season at last night’s Australian Racehorse of the Year awards in Brisbane.

Winx was predictably named Australian Horse Of The Year for a second time at a function in Brisbane on Sunday night.

The six and a half length Group I VRC Turnbull Stakes win of the rampaging Winx was part of a group-winning treble at Flemington on Saturday for graduates of Coolmore Australia.

A good result at the Racing Appeals and Disciplinary Board has freed jockey Ben Melham to ride at Saturday’s Caulfield Guineas meeting.

The spring season produces an upswing in the amount of meetings conducted in Victoria and that means more talent emerges to follow in the coming weeks.

An astute $38,000 purchase at the 2016 Select Sale at Karaka became a Group Two winner when Hard Merchandize  (Burgundy) scored a brave all-the-way win in Saturday’s $100,000 Sacred Falls Hawke’s Bay Guineas (1400m) at Hastings.

Winx was predictably named Australian Horse Of The Year for a second time at a function in Brisbane on Sunday night.

The standout runners from the past week’s racing in New South Wales include an $81 debutant and a future stakes-class mare.

Triple Melbourne Cup-winning rider Glen Boss will be back in Melbourne to ride an international runner in Saturday’s Group I Caulfield Stakes (2000m).

All things being equal you would think a last start metropolitan second would be a good thing in a race at Leeton.

Racing Post ran a story last week highlighting the performance of the world’s most expensive thoroughbreds so we thought we should take a look at Australia’s most expensive, how have they fared?.

Fresh from siring a Group double on Saturday with Ace High and Bring Me Roses, High Chaparral (IRE) kept the winning run going in South Africa on Saturday with a maiden win for three year-old filly Lady Val.

All Too Hard has stolen a march on his second-crop rivals in Australia and now he's opened up another front in Hong Kong with brilliant debut winner Alcari.

Champion HK galloper Rich Tapestry is another horse caught up in the current quarantine saga that is preventing the travel of horses between Australia and Hong Kong.