Chasing 8000 winner's it's the "puppet" CHRIS ALFORD, who drove his first winner at 16, is the Australasian king of the sulky.

No doubt Amelia’s Jewel has plenty more to show – she and the team are the hottest ticket in spring town.

BRUCE CLARK Tyson Linke's homebred mare Encipher upstaged some of the biggest names in the sport to win the $2.1mil TAB Eureka, at Menangle

Bruce Clark has climbed into the sulky of a rejuvenated harness racing where the stars of the show are the actual four-legged athletes.

Melton on Saturday night was what the trots call their version of the Melbourne Cup, But all the talk was Emma Stewart’s Captain Ravishing.

The Inter Dominion on Saturday night, was at the new cultural home of harness racing in Melton.