Three-year-olds are set to make a return to a Group 1 weight-for-age on the final day of the Melbourne Cup Carnival. The Mackinnon Stakes, renamed this year as the Champion Stakes …
Ciaron Maher and David Eustace have some unfinished business to do before the Melbourne Cup Carnival winds up. The pair was still in celebratory mode the afternoon following their Melbourne Cup success …
Fresh from capturing the first edition of the Big Dance with Rustic Steel, Kris Lees will turn his attention to chasing more feature race success at Rosehill. Rustic Steel could be given …
Tom Sherry has an outstanding record aboard Kirwan’s Lane and he is hoping to enhance it even further when he reunites with the John O’Shea-trained gelding in the Listed Ladies Day Cup …
As one of the better two-year-old fillies of last season, Anthony Cummings would like to see She’s Extreme end her spring campaign with a win on the board. It is …
His trainers have long thought he would stretch beyond a mile and Ellsberg will get an opportunity to prove them right when he contests the inaugural staging of the $2 million …
The Werribee mob did not run up to expectation with the four international raiders in the Melbourne Cup failing to finish in the placings. The $4.40 Cup favourite Deauville Legend, who was easy in …
World-renowned jockey Frankie Dettori didn’t come away with a win during his brief stint in Sydney, but he did leave with some great memories and a desire to return, possibly as …
Apprentice Tyler Schiller came within centimetres of having a huge day out at Randwick, winning the Little Dance on Dream Runner after being narrowly denied in the Big Dance aboard Cisco Bay. Cisco …
Mark Zahra has been able to put the disappointment of 12 months ago behind him with a masterful ride on Gold Trip to win the Melbourne Cup. Suspension following his involvement in the infamous …
Two of the younger jockeys of the Victorian ranks have filled the minor placings behind elder statesman Mark Zahra in the Melbourne Cup at Flemington. Patrick Moloney steered Emissary into second place behind Gold …
Rustic Steel is a chance to chase two rich races in the space of a week. A plan that was six months in the making has come to fruition for …
There was some divine intervention with the win of Nautical Miss at Randwick, the mare representing the stable of Group 1-winning trainer Gwenda Markwell who lost her battle with cancer over the …
The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott stable hope to be back at Flemington in 12 months’ time with White Marlin contesting the Melbourne Cup. White Marlin stretched his unbeaten streak to five with an emphatic …
Krakarib has given his connections a Melbourne Cup Day thrill by taking out the Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate (1000m) at Flemington. The well-named colt, by Ribchester, was having his second race start …
‘Pressure is for tyres’ but UK trainer James Ferguson admits he can feel it building as the Melbourne Cup draws close. Ferguson prepares the TAB’s $3.60 Cup favourite Deauville Legend who is the only horse …
Trainer Gai Waterhouse is expecting the Werribee Mob to run well in the Melbourne Cup. Waterhouse and co-trainer Adrian Bott have Hoo Ya Mal in Tuesday’s 3200m contest at Flemington, one of four international …
Lindsay Park trainers Ben and J D Hayes are hoping to have a better Melbourne Cup experience with Camorra than they had 12 months ago with their first runner. Port Guillaume came to …
