📰 Godolphin gelding Pericles will stay in Sydney to contest the Russell Balding Stakes on Saturday. He is also an acceptor for the G2 The Damien Oliver at Flemington. Dylan Gibbons rides the Group 1 winner in the 1300-metre Group 2 at Randwick.

📰 So You are scenarios, following his Bendigo Cup win: - If he is handed a 0.5kg penalty, he moves to 26th in the order of entry for Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup; - If he gets 1kg, he moves to 25th; - If he gets 1.5kg, he jumps to 21st (Soul Of Spain drops to 22, Onesmoothoperator is 23, Zahrann 24 and Hopewell Rock 25) @Racing @SENGiddyUp

Coolmore Stud Stakes - The $8️⃣ Figure Race for Colts Saturday’s race @FlemingtonVRC has much more value than the $2m in prize-money for the Colts engaged. This stallion making race attracts the attention of the biggest commercial stud farms that has produced the likes of Zoustar, Northern Meteor & Home Affairs in the last 20 years. Below is a valuation guide for all colts who have won this race in the past two decades based on: 1st year stud fee x 400 (4 year multiple to achieve 100 live foals per season) Note: most of these colts would have traded between 3-5 year multiples depending on their profile at the time including things like pedigree, other feature races won, type etc

📰 Jamie Mott gets a great to chance to win a Victoria Derby, with the heavyweight jockey picking up the ride on the Sydney visitor Cormier. The Maurice colt ran third in Saturday's G1 Spring Champion Stakes and is on the third line of betting at $8. @Racing @SENGiddyUp

Two of the most consistent horses in Australia run this Saturday… Can you name them? 👇🏼 Ratings graph courtesy of Form King 👑

If you’ve ever wondered how major Hong Kong racing syndicates generate multi-million dollar returns season after season, the answer rarely boils down to "they just pick winners better."

All 24 runners of the Melbourne Cup receive a guaranteed minimum of $100,000. Should that be the case or not? @bet365_aus | @ghall27 | @HawkesRacing | @mummify57 | @SENGiddyUp