Bulldogs coach Dean Pay has assembled a group of the once-feared NRL club’s premiership-winning captains to help return the side to glory. Past stars George Peponis, Steve Mortimer, Peter Tunks, …
It was the Melbourne Cup when Lloyd Williams had the luck of the Irish. The enduring owner was at the end of the rainbow collecting the pot of gold once …
Michael Dee’s first Melbourne Cup ride didn’t go as well as he hoped but the young jockey has still continued his fine spring carnival with a Group race win on …
As the son of the world’s most prolific trainer, Joseph O’Brien has always expected he would follow his father Aidan. On Tuesday, the 24-year-old Irishman did something his father has …
As his second Melbourne Cup win starts to sink in, Corey Brown believes he is still feeling his way in the jockey ranks since returning from four years overseas. Brown …
Construction boss Phil Mehrten watched his seven Melbourne Cup runners from the exact same spot in the centre of the Flemington mounting yard as last year. After all, it brought …
A STABLE RELATIONSHIP – AIDAN AND JOSEPH O’BRIEN * Aidan O’Brien, 48, is considered one of the world’s best trainers. He set a record this year by training 26 Group …
Jockeys Hugh Bowman and Craig Williams will appeal careless riding suspensions handed out at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day. The pair were each suspended for 11 meetings, commencing after the …
Australians have punted almost $90 million with the TAB on the Melbourne Cup, won by Irish invader Rekindling. Although the outlay was down on the $94.5 million wagered on last …
MELBOURNE CUP-WINNING JOCKEY COREY BROWN * Grew up in Wingham near Taree on the NSW mid-north coast and is 41 * Grandfather Trevor and father Jack were jockeys * Has …
Irish trainer Willie Mullins has vowed to keep returning for the Melbourne Cup after having to settle for another placing in Australia’s most famous race. Mullins had three runners in …
The champagne flowed at Randwick on Melbourne Cup day despite the race being a win for the bookmakers. A colourful crowd of 20,462 flocked to the Sydney track on Tuesday …
Sloane Stephens is back in the United States team for the Fed Cup final, and Victoria Azarenka is missing for Belarus. That alone gives the early advantage to the Americans, …
Joao Moreira is returning to Hong Kong stiff and sore after a fall involving Regal Monarch at Flemington. The champion Hong Kong-based jockey suffered severe bruising to his left calf …
MELBOURNE CUP JOCKEYS’ COMMENTS Corey Brown (Rekindling) 1st : “I’ve been back from overseas for about nine months, slowly but surely getting back to where I was, but I can’t …
South Korea’s Chung Hyeon has maintained his 100 per cent record at the Next Gen ATP Finals with a crushing victory over Russian Andrey Rublev to surge ahead in Group …
Manu Tuilagi believes he has been exorcised of an injury curse caused by three evil ghouls after visiting a witch doctor in Samoa. Tuilagi last week returned to the nation …
Godolphin trainer James Cummings has thought long and hard before deciding to give Demerara one more start this spring. A winner at her first two starts for the campaign in …
