Australia is the home of the world’s best hoops. Australian racing constantly produces champions. The deepest, most talented jockey ranks on the planet. Wherever Australian riders go, they win. The results speak for themselves.

What doesn't speak for itself is the price of that success. The 4am trackwork sessions in the freezing dark. The injuries carried quietly into the next ride. The relentless discipline of making weight, making the cut, making it count, every single day, whether anyone's watching or not. This is the world jockeys live in long before they ever step into the mounting yard. It's a world built on sacrifice, grit and an obsession with the winning post that most people will never understand.

Until now. SILKS pulls back the curtain on that hidden world. This three-part documentary series goes behind the scenes with three of Victoria's finest as they prepare for the Australian Spring Carnival, one of the richest, most prestigious, and most fiercely contested racing carnivals on Earth.

Commissioned by Racing Victoria, Silks rides alongside jockeys Jett Stanley, Celine Gaudray and Ben Allen through a high-stakes week of trackwork, pressure and race-day reckoning, capturing exactly what it takes to compete, and win, at the very top of the sport.

The silks are just the surface. This is what's underneath.

Part A

Part B

Video: Racing Victoria via SKY Racing