Newcastle trainer Kris Lees will be searching for an elusive first win in the Newcastle Cup on Friday.

A Kiwi galloper claimed last Saturday’s Melbourne feature race but Murray Baker isn’t expecting a similar result with Australian Derby winner Jon Snow in Saturday’s Group I Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m).

Champion trainer Peter Snowden is renowned for not getting ahead of himself with his horses so when he labels one it makes sense to take notice and the horse in question saddles up at Randwick on Saturday.

Winning families produce winning families, and that is exactly what Counterattack provides through his prolific dam Kisma, a Snippets mare from a Vain mare.

The Spring Carnival is in full swing so we have stakes racing every weekend as well as Newcastle on Friday and for breeders and stallion owners it’s all about which sires are doing well and getting the stakes winners when it counts - to get them you need runners, so let’s take a look into the Breednet crystal ball to see which stallions can fire up this weekend.

Ciaron Maher’s unbeaten colt Jukebox has emerged as a smoky to score an Everest start with the Victorian trainer revealing he had fielded calls from slot holders.

It's the time of the year when I start to spread my punting wings and I'm keen to get involved at Flemington and Randwick on Saturday.

I’ve always had a sweet tooth and a liking for bonbons and I’ll be buying a few packs of the good stuff when So Si Bon gets the chocolates at Flemington.

Brisk commerce was the hallmark of business on the third day of Keeneland’s September Yearling Sale, where spirited bidding among the industry’s major buyers drove prices upward, led by the $1,1 million paid by Coolmore’s MV Magnier for a colt from the final crop of the globally successful sire Scat Daddy.

Champion trainer Chris Waller is adamant star mare Winx is ready to produce another blockbuster performance in Saturday’s Group I George Main Stakes at Randwick.

Group One winner Ugo Foscolo has returned to New Zealand for a period of rehabilitation.

Cox Plate entry Riven Light has continued his strong recent form with another win at Listowel on Wednesday.

Highview Stud's young High Chaparral sire Wrote (IRE) has struck a black type blow in the United States.

If a dominant display in Wednesday’s $60,000 Listed HS Dyke Wanganui Guineas (1340m) is anything to go by, the $30,000 that trainer Andrew Campbell paid to buy Waldorf (NZ) (Highly Recommended) at the 2016 Select Sale has secured him one of New Zealand’s brightest three-year-old talents.

I’m sticking at headquarters on Saturday with a good track expected and Winx highlighting a terrific day of racing.

Moonee Valley didn’t produce the profit for which I’d hoped last Saturday but a tough Flemington card represents an opportunity to bounce back this week.

As one of the owners of Yankee Rose penned a tribute to the dual Group I winner, connections were hoping the injury-plagued mare could fetch over $2million at sale.

We need to be up and running early today with our three best bets coming in the first four races on the eight-race program at Grafton.

Leading Queensland based stallions BEL ESPRIT and LOVE CONQUERS ALL have each recorded metropolitan doubles on Wednesday.

Exciting Pierro colt Levendi turned heads with his resounding debut win at Ballarat in June and reappeared at Mornington on Wednesday to post another dominant win.

The Written Tycoon gelding Balf’s Choice looked anything but a future stakes winner when he travelled far and wide to break his maiden at Mildura at his ninth start.

Gary Moore concedes it is going to be difficult for Takedown to post successive wins in The Shorts when the sprinter starts his spring campaign at Randwick.

While the fillies maiden at Canterbury produced the anticipated result with a debut win for hot favourite Woman, the colts and geldings equivalent produced an exciting winner from left field.

Andrew Campbell has no doubt that his gifted three-year-old Waldorf can excel over more ground and, to that end, he’s setting his sights on completing a notable 1600m family double with his gifted colt.

Sir Nate upset the hot-pot Beastmode in the first juvenile contest of the season at Wanganui on Wednesday.

Lisa Latta completed a smart piece of business when she parted with $26,000 at Karaka last year to secure a daughter of young Redoute's Choice stallion Burgundy.

When John Singleton’s champion mare More Joyous retired from racing in 2013, he hatched an ambitious plan to send her to the UK for a covering with the world’s best racehorse Frankel, and that daring move paid dividends on Wednesday at Canterbury when the resulting foal Woman became a winner!.

The decision to stand a Melbourne Cup winner is not one taken lightly, but a warm initial response from breeders, followed by encouraging yearling sale results and now winners on the track have made Swettenham stud’s gamble on Americain (USA) look like a good one.

What a timely victory it was by Stone Warrior at Sandown last Wednesday with Carin Park just days before announcing the arrival of the promising gelding's sire Shamoline Warrior.

Nakeeta’s Melbourne Cup weight has got the thumbs up from Scottish trainer Ian Jardine who has confirmed Flemington is the next stop for the Ebor Handicap winner.

Kerri Radcliffe Bloodstock paid $950,000 for a colt from the final crop of top sire Scat Daddy to headline a day of robust trade during Tuesday’s second session of the Keeneland September Yearling Sale.

The global nature of the Australian bloodstock industry was highlighted yesterday when the top priced offering during the first session of Keeneland September had a pedigree that would look familiar to many Australian breeders.

A week that ranks as his best in Australia has capped an outstanding few months worldwide for Darley’s Golden Slipper-winning stallion Sepoy.

Happy Clapper, Red Excitement and Foxplay are three of the octet that will be opposition for champion mare Winx’s quest for a 20th straight win in Saturday’s Group I George Main Stakes at Randwick and Racenet has the fields and form online.

Racenet has analysed where the early money has gone for Wednesday’s meetings at Canterbury, Mornington, Doomben and Balaklava.

A routine veterinary procedure went wrong for a winner at Pakenham on Tuesday.

Five-time Melbourne Cup-winning owner Lloyd Williams says there are only two obstacles standing in front of Order Of St George and a trip to Australia for the Melbourne Cup.

Doomben 10,000 winner Redzel has secured his place in the $10 million The Everest with James Harron Bloodstock choosing the Peter and Paul Snowden-trained sprinter as its representative.

Following Saturday's George Main Stakes the spring is yet to be locked down for Winx so the question looming large is, where to next for the champion mare after she more than likely makes it 20-straight.

The Newcastle Jockey Club’s biggest raceday of the year is on Friday where four stakes races will be contested and Racenet has the fields and form online.

Racenet has compiled a list for your use of horses racing on Wednesday that hold entries for feature races during the upcoming spring carnivals in Sydney and Melbourne.

Champion trainer Gai Waterhouse has never been backwards in coming forward when discussing Tulloch Lodge horses and she is expecting big things from her star sprinter English when the mare resumes at Randwick in the Group II The Shorts (1100m) on Saturday.

An intriguing midweek at Canterbury and I’ll be playing in every race – but here are my top three bets for the day.

The Aidan O’Brien-trained Highland Reel is among the withdrawals but 78 horses remain in contention for a crack at reigning champion Winx in next month’s Cox Plate.

The Daily Debutants list for Wednesday features two exceptionally bred fillies, one that did make $1million at the sales and one that would have if she had been offered.

Last season's superstar three old filly Global Glamour is on the way back and tuned up at Randwick on Tuesday morning with a hard held trial win.

Fastnet Rock’s top class son Bull Point retired to Kingstar Farm last year covering 88 mares and his first foals are the source of much delight.

Triple Crown Syndications and James Harron Bloodstock have teamed up to target the inaugural running of The Everest with Group 1 winning sprinter Redzel.

Two well-bred colts by champion sires opened their account at Pakenham on Tuesday and both have been nominated for the Group I MRC Caulfield Guineas.

Group III SAJC Sires Produce winner SILENT SURROUND made headlines on Saturday with her first foal SILENT COMMAND taking out the Listed Morphettville Guineas in South Australia.

The response by the Racenet community to our Beta Trial has been nothing short of phenomenal and the tone of the feedback from our loyal readers shows they are just as excited about the delivery of the full website experience as we are.

New Zealand colt Summer Passage is one of two Group I winners nominated for Saturday’s Group II Danehill Stakes (1200m) at Flemington where he has come seeking drier weather.

Waldorf is presented with a gilt-edged opportunity to add to his black type record on Wednesday.

The Melbourne Cup has often had its share of mystery and intrigue but this year it will have the curious case of the trainer who believes his stable has been sabotaged by crooks.

I’ve come up with a mixed bag of tips for Wednesday’s Canterbury meeting where I’m keen on a short one, pre-empting a return to form by a mare I think’s best is better than midweek grade and one at big odds I believe is a horse going places.

Levendi’s spring campaign must start this week but a race at Mornington on Wednesday is only one option for the Peter Gelagotis stable.

Racing Victoria Handicapper Greg Carpenter believes Almandin could develop into one of Australian racing's great stayers.

An international Group One winner is on his way to the Auret family’s thoroughbred operation on the outskirts of Wanganui.

In 1971 former Prime Minister, the late Malcolm Fraser, famously said ‘life wasn’t meant to be easy’ and that statement befits emerging trainer Mitchell Kearney.

Sunday’s Irish St Leger win did not impact upon Order Of St George’s weight in the 2017 Melbourne Cup.

With just over a month until October 14, The Everest jigsaw is starting to take shape but there are many horses still vying for a place in the field.

World class multiple European stakes winner, Illustrious Blue (GB), will be standing at Sonia O’Gorman’s Glen Eden farm near Kilmore for the 2017 breeding season.

Keeneland’s reformatted Week 1 of the September Yearling Sale produced eight million-dollar-plus horses and fueled significant increases in trade during Monday’s opening premier Book 1.

David Vandyke has declared Saturday is D-Day for his Group I winning mare Yankee Rose and says she could even be retired if she doesn’t perform.

Weights have been released for the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double with dual Irish St Leger winner Order Of St George allocated top weight for the Melbourne Cup while Hartnell heads Caulfield Cup weights.

Racing Victoria has announced a significant change in the weight penalty process for the Melbourne Cup.

The direction of Summer Passage’s spring campaign will become clearer after Saturday’s Group II Danehill Stakes at Flemington.

If you missed the Darley stallion parades at Kelvinside and Northwood Park this year, then now is the time to catch up and see the stallions you really want to see showcased in a user friendly way in an outstanding stallion parade video.

There was one Group I entry on the course proper Tuesday ahead of racing at Flemington on the weekend and he flew.

Melbourne Cup-winning trainer John Meagher is considering becoming Victorian again as he despairs with the lack of opportunities and decent prizemoney for his horses in Queensland.

Thoroughbred Breeders Victoria (TBV) is thrilled to announce that the Avenel Equine Hospital has come on board as its newest major sponsor.

Racing Victoria stewards have completed a review into the controversial start to a race on the Geelong Synthetic track on Friday.

Racing Victoria stewards have confirmed another positive test for an anti-inflammatory drug in samples taken from a horse that competed at Sandown in July.

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

The recent Moree Cup looks a strong form reference for two races at Tamworth on Tuesday with distance changes looking a significant factor for a couple of stablemates.

The Muswellbrook meeting on Sunday produced the first winner for new Randwick trainer Edward O’Rourke, who took over the stables of Michael Freedman.

Newhaven Park has announced the appointment of Katherine Sheridan to the management team.

Rheinwood Pastoral Company is very pleased to announce the appointment of Mark Nevin as Stud Manager.

Champion sire Fastnet Rock is having a very strong start to the season with his three year-olds and produced another impressive blueblood winner at Wodonga on Monday.

Widden Stud’s Your Song and Vinery Stud’s All Too Hard have been trading blows since August 1 and after posting a smart winner at Wodonga on Monday, Your Song has drawn level with his arch rival, the pair now on eight winners apiece.

Footage from last week’s Canterbury and Cranbourne breeze ups ahead of the 2017 Inglis Ready2Race Sale are available online.

Leading jockey Craig Williams has made a quick trip to Japan to get a feel of Australian-owned Melbourne Cup hopeful Admire Deus.

Redkirk Warrior stunned punters with his first-up win last time in but the import has opened as the favourite for Saturday’s Group II Bobbie Lewis Quality (1200m) at Flemington.

A trip away has convinced trainer Troy Corstens that Dental is ready to go to the races for the first time at Mornington on Wednesday.

Godolphin face a nervous wait to see if Golden Rose hopeful Kementari gains a start in the $1 million feature on Saturday week.

A new season delivers a new crop of stallion prospects as last season’s two year-olds step out at three and either soar like eagles or sink like the proverbial.

Winx headlines the first Group I at Randwick for the season, with 10 nominated to take on the champion mare in the Colgate Optic White George Main Stakes (1600m).

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Bookies have PB Lawrence Stakes winner Hartnell well in the red in early ‘all-in’ markets on Saturday’s Group I Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.

There is a definite taste of spring in the air at Chris & Kathie Bakker's Lauriston Park with the second crop of resident stallion Rock Hero starting to arrive.

Hartnell and Black Heart Bart head the 18 nominations for Saturday’s Group I Makybe Diva Stakes (1600m) at Flemington.

Greg Polson had an outstanding weekend for the Racenet team, selecting two at double figures at Kembla and Muswellbrook.

A brilliant three-year-old season by Karaka graduate Bonneval (NZ) (Makfi) was honoured with four awards at Sunday evening’s New Zealand Thoroughbred Horse of the Year Awards, including the coveted Horse of the Year title.

Exciting galloper Countofmontecristo (NZ) (Echoes Of Heaven) scored the sixth win in his seven-start career in Sunday’s Jumbo Jet Trophy (1400m) at Kranji, leading home a trifecta of Karaka graduates in the S$200,000 race.

There was plenty of action at Moonee Valley on Saturday but the meeting also produced a few runners to follow in the coming weeks.

Two of the three to follow from the past week’s racing in New South Wales emerge from a three-year-old maiden at midweek Warwick Farm.

Order Of St George probably put paid to a Melbourne Cup trip with a dominant performances in Sunday’s Group I Irish St Leger (1m6f) at The Curragh.