Star stayer Nom Du Jeu (pictured) is on target for a first-up crack at further Gr I honours in the $220,000 Windsor Park Plate at Hastings next month.

Mark Hills has succeeded in his first mission for the new season and now he wants the same result as last year for his prime mount.

New Zealand-owned galloper Rios impressed his new trainer Danny O'Brien (pictured) with his effort for fifth when resuming in Saturday's Listed Aurie's Star Handicap at Flemington.

The Carriers Arms Hotel Riverton Cup is one of two races to be promoted to Listed status for the season by the NZ Graded Stakes Committee, but it's not good news for another Southland club.

Brett Scott capped a big week and a very busy weekend when he was one of the stars of the show at the Victorian Racing Awards dinner Crown Casino in Melbourne last night.

Joanne Moss wound up the Grand National meeting with a win by Petipas Delight, but it wasn't a good day for her partner, top jumps jockey Isaac Lupton (pictured).

Racing NSW stewards swept through Warwick Farm stables last Friday when conducting random doping tests for the drug EPO.