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Saturday’s meetings include Randwick, Flemington, Doomben, Kembla Grange, Gold Coast, Moe, Townsville, Lismore, night meeting at Toowoomba, South Africa’s Turffontein and Kenilworth, France’s Clariefontaine and Dieppe, UK’s Market Rasen, Newbury, Newmarket, Ripon and Ireland’s Cartmel and Curragh.

Racing Victoria will program extra race meetings, starting next weekend, to help alleviate problems trainers are having finding suitable turf-track races this winter.

Invincible Star wins Group 1 trial at Warwick Farm on Friday

Vega Magic is likely to wear blinkers when he returns to racing on Saturday week after shining with the headgear in a crucial jump-out at Flemington on Friday.

The off season generally is a happy hunting ground for the Waller stable who use it to work their younger horses through the grades - the best example of this at Randwick tomorrow profiles as Seahampton who contests the Benchmark 80 Fillies and Mares Handicap (1400m).

We're back to Flemington for what looks a really interesting off season card this Saturday - we could hardly call the meeting a spring pointer but there is a couple of horses there that could make their way into better races at the early part of the spring

Track conditions, form and scratchings for Randwick - track Good 4 - rail in the True position for the entire circuit - no rain for the last seven days - 2.5mm of irrigation for the last seven days - 14 scratchings

Track conditions, form and scratchings for Flemington - Track Good 4 - rail out 3m for the entire circuit - 1mm of irrigation for the last seven days - 4.2mm of rain for the last 24 hours, 6.4mm for the last seven days - ten scratchings

Follow the fixed odds market movers for Randwick, Flemington and Doomben on Saturday - Randwick Race 7 - I Thought So $4.40 - $4.60; then $4.40 - $3.60 - $3.90 - $3.50 - $3.90 - $3.70 $2285 @ $3.90, $2265 @ $3.70 - Sir Plush $8; then $7.50 - $8 - Tactical Advantage $3.90 - $4; then $3.80 - $4.20

Rising four-year-old Menari has become the ninth horse selected to fill a slot in the $13 million The Everest (1200m) at Randwick on October 13 - slot holders Max Whitby and Neil Werrett have nominated the Gerald Ryan-trained Menari as their runner,

There is more on the line than $120,000 in Saturday's Byerley Handicap (1800m), with the chance to be exempt from the ballot for two of Victoria's famous races for spring three-year-olds - being the $2 million AAMI Victoria Derby, and/or the $1m Kennedy Oaks