The $19.4million The Championships at Royal Randwick on 4 and 11 April has expanded this year to include the inaugural Country and Provincial Championship Series.

Major feature film The Cup wraps this week and producers are offering the props for auction on Sunday November 21 at Oaklands Complex beginning at 11.00 am.

If you are a movie buff, the chance to secure a bit of movie history from Director Simon Wincer’s film THE CUP is just around the corner.

IT MAY be easy for one's ego to get out of control after breeding a Melbourne Cup winner but for small NSW breeder Ian Johnson, any thoughts of self importance are well under control as his star graduate Viewed heads towards a possible second Cup victory this spring.