Picture gallery: The best pics from racing around Australia on Saturday, February 5, 2022

We’ve picked out 20 of the best photos from Saturday’s racing around Australia in what was an action-packed day.

Connections celebrate the victory of Melba Storm at Caulfield. (Pat Scala/Racing Photos via Getty Images)

It was a big day of racing across Australia on Saturday.

Here are 20 of the best photos taken on the day (in no particular order) by some of the country’s best horse racing photographers.

At Racenet, we love to celebrate the colour and emotion of horse racing, aka ‘The Great Game’.

It is an industry which contributes about $10 billion to the Australian economy and provides jobs for about 75,000 people.

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1. Chad Schofield (blue and green quartered cap) on Xtravagant Star wins the Inglis Millennium. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

2. Jye McNeil landed 5 winners on the day at Caulfield. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)

3. Jean Van Overmeire (purple checked cap) on Testator Silens wins the Tab Highway Handicap at Royal Randwick (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

4. Connections celebrate the victory of Melba Storm at Caulfield. (Pat Scala/Racing Photos via Getty Images)

5. Kerrin McEvoy (blue) on Paulele wins the Petaluma Eskimo Prince Stakes from Ranch Hand (right) and Converge (left). (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

6. Trainer Peter Gelagotis celebrates after Miss Five Hundred won at Caulfield. (Photo by Vince Caligiuri/Getty Images)

7. James McDonald got Joviality (purple, white stars) over the line at Randwick. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

8. Wayne Hawkes with Jye McNeil after Sebonack won the Chairmans Stakes at Caulfield. (Reg Ryan/Racing Photos via Getty Images)

9. Robbie Dolan on Canyonero during the running of Race 4 at Randwick. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

10. Nicolini Vito with his strapper after winning at Caulfield (Pat Scala/Racing Photos via Getty Images)

11. Tom Sherry after winning on Shadow Crush at Randwick. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

12. Generation wins the Manfred Stakes at Caulfield. (Pat Scala/Racing Photos via Getty Images)

13. The field charges down the straight in the Inglis Millennium at Randwick. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

14. Desert Icon leaves the others in his wake at Caulfield. (Pat Scala/Racing Photos via Getty Images)

15. Ef Troop wins at Doomben. Picture: Grant Peters/Trackside Photography,

16. Tiffani Brooker wins on Jemeldi at Doomben. Picture: Grant Peters/Trackside Photography

17. Prance ‘N’ Dance (stars) wins at Morphettville. Photo: Atkins Photography

18. Kerrin McEvoy on Icecrusher in the Ranvet Sprint at Randwick. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

19. Presentation to connections after Melba Storm won at Caulfield. (Reg Ryan/Racing Photos via Getty Images)

20. Tommy Berry, Jamie Kah and Chad Schofield before race 1 at Royal Randwick. (Photo by Jenny Evans/Getty Images)

Originally published as Picture gallery: The best pics from racing around Australia on Saturday, February 5, 2022