Archive for category: Melbourne Cup

• Efficient makes Cox Plate field

  Australian Horse Racing, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup October 18, 2011 10:55 am

  Efficient has been promoted into Saturday’s Cox Plate field despite not having won a race for more than two years.

   

• Helmet has barrier 11 in Cox Plate

  Breaking News, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup October 18, 2011 10:53 am

  Cox Plate favourite HELMET will start from barrier 11 in Saturday’s Cox Plate at Moonee Valley.

   

• Cox Plate final field: MVRC committee makes right decision including Efficient

  Breaking News, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup October 18, 2011 9:57 am

  The final field for the $3m Tatts Cox Plate (2040m) was announced at a function at Moonee Valley this morning.

   

• Lamasery back on track with trial win

  Australian Horse Racing, Melbourne Cup October 17, 2011 6:34 pm

  Sydney stayer Lamasery won a barrier trial at Cranbourne on Monday to revitalise his chances of a southern campaign.

   

• Bauer to put heart and soul into Cup bid

  Australian Horse Racing, Melbourne Cup October 17, 2011 4:55 pm

  Veteran English galloper Bauer will try to defy his age and forge a path to the Melbourne Cup when he tries for an historic second Geelong Cup win.

   

• Godolphin Cup runners arrive in Melbourne

  Australian Horse Racing, Melbourne Cup October 17, 2011 4:53 pm

  The strappers arrived at the stable in a limousine having travelled from England with their horses in a private plane.

   

• Leon Macdonald’s luck runs out in Classic draw

  Australian Horse Racing, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup October 17, 2011 4:52 pm

  A wide barrier for Perfect Punch in Wednesday’s Geelong Classic has put the reality back into racing for Caulfield Cup-winning trainer Leon Macdonald.

   

• Southern Speed to bypass Cox Plate

  Breaking News, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup October 17, 2011 1:29 pm

  Caulfield Cup winner Southern Speed will not run in Saturday’s Cox Plate with connections opting to save her for the Mackinnon Stakes a week later.

   

• Imports well backed to win Melbourne Cup

  Horse Racing Betting, Melbourne Cup October 17, 2011 11:55 am

  There has been some big bets struck on two of the imported runners who impressed in last Saturday’s Caulfield Cup, with both Manighar and Unusual Suspect shortening up in betting.

   

• Internationals to continue to Melbourne Cup

  Australian Horse Racing, Melbourne Cup October 16, 2011 10:00 pm

  The highly-credentialled Hong Kong galloper Mighty High is still on track to run in the Melbourne Cup despite an inexplicably poor performance at Caulfield on Saturday.