A recently upgraded race, the Winter Challenge is a test for the milers (or near milers) following on from the Winter Stakes run at Rosehill a fortnight earlier. It provides the Winter horses a chance at some black type. Who takes the 2013 running?

The running of this year’s Sydney version of the Winter Final is made all the more interesting for the addition of a former very creditable international performer.

Anabaa's three-quarter brother Country Reel earned his first Australian stakes winner and sixth worldwide when Spinnawitch won the Listed Winter Challenge at Warwick Farm on Saturday.

She's Clean has continued her rise through the grades despite missing the start badly before saluting in Saturday's Fillies And Mares Nitto Benchmark 80.

Warwick Farm trainer Jarrod Austin has just a small team in work at Warwick Farm but he was able to unleash a smart rising three-year-old in Urquidez to take the $85,000 Nissan Micra Sprint on his home track on Saturday.