Super mare Winx produced a devastating performance to win the $3,230,00 Group One Cox Plate in wintry conditions at Moonee Valley today.

He earns more than All Blacks captain Kieran Read and his Black Caps counterpart Kane Williamson - and today he'll again take on the best in the world.

The phones of Frank and Shaune Ritchie have been running hot with transtasman calls all week.

Winx's trainer Chris Waller talks about the unique pressure of the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.

Good each-way value, rather than any good things looks the order of proceedings at Ellerslie today.

Lisa Latta will be looking for a positive response at Trentham today from Manhattan Street after the colt's failure in Melbourne.

With Bella Gioia likely to head instead to Monday's $100,000 Sarten Memorial, tomorrow's Dunstan Feeds Soliloquy Stakes at Ellerslie will change face.

For not the first time in his eventful life, Jimmy "The Pumper" Cassidy finds himself standing alone.

NSW trainer Kris Lees is happy for Queen Elizabeth Stakes winner Lucia Valentina to fly under the radar as he prepares the Kiwi-bred mare.

Cambridge galloper Sacred Elixir had his first look around Moonee Valley yesterday morning.

Champion trotter Monbet is back but not to his best.

The stage is set for an epic Cox Plate at Moonee Valley with champion mare Winx and in-form Hartnell headlining a field of 10 for Australia's best weight-for-age race.

Five three-year-old group one runners within a fortnight and all in different races.

Former leading New Zealand jockey Michael Walker will ride Kawi in Australia.

If you walked on to a Melbourne racecourse looking for an ex jumps jockey and former dirt bike rider who might have just won a Caulfield Cup you wouldn't give Ciaron Maher a second glance.

Cambridge filly Eleonora shortened from $11 to $6.50 for the Crown Oaks at Flemington on November 3 after one of the easiest wins of the day at Caulfield on Saturday.

Hairi Marzuki repaid the faith showed in him by his employer Stephen Marsh when he guided the stable runner Thee Auld Floozie to victory at Rotorua.

English trainer Charlie Appleby says he's excited, rather than nervous, ahead of his first Australian runner at Caulfield today.

Champion driver Maurice McKendry isn't sure whether Hughie Green is right back to his best.

A humble NSW Premier Mike Baird has performed an extraordinary backflip on his greyhound racing ban.

Victorian jockey Damien Oliver will have his skills tested when he partners Cambridge colt Highlad at Caulfield on Saturday.

Lightly tried five-year-old Nelson Park is expected to give a bold account of himself when he kicks off his spring campaign at Ruakaka today.

Hartnell's defection to tackle the Cox Plate has boosted trainer Ciaron Maher's Caulfield Cup hopes, leaving Jameka as the horse to beat in the A$3 million handicap.

This was a mating made for Caulfield Cup week.

Trainer Graeme Sanders will watch New Zealand Oaks winner Fanatic work in Melbourne this morning before confirming a start for the

Less than a month from the race every Cantabrian wants to win most, Chapman has been forced to pull his pride and joy Locharburn out of NZ Trotting Cup.

The huge crowd at Caulfield on Saturday - mostly there for one reason - had nothing but affection for Winx.

Trainer Tony Pike is a long way from devastated after well-fancied Sacred Elixir was beaten into eighth in Saturday's Caulfield Guineas.

So you think running three horses for a A$600,000 stake is easy. Wrong. It's just about as difficult as it gets - for the jockeys anyway.

The man who knows Lazarus best finds it remarkable the superstar pacer is so short for tonight's $40,000 Canterbury Classic at Addington.