Archive for category: Group Races

• French raider claims 2011 Geelong Cup

  Australian Horse Racing, Melbourne Cup October 19, 2011 6:14 pm

  French stayer Dunaden has emphasised the dominance of international raiders in the Geelong Cup with a decisive win which has him pressing for Melbourne Cup favouritism.

   

• Karakatsanis produces promising one

  Australian Horse Racing, Cox Plate October 19, 2011 5:42 pm

  Trainer Con Karakatsanis no longer has dual Stradbroke Handicap winner Black Piranha in his care but in the past week has produced two promising youngsters with hopes of filling that void.

   

• Helmet a Cox Plate Anchor

  Australian Horse Racing, Cox Plate October 19, 2011 5:22 pm

  Helmet will be out to end that drought at Moonee Valley on Saturday and the similarities between him and Red Anchor, the last horse to achieve the feat, are striking.

   

• Dunaden wins 2011 Geelong Cup

  Breaking News, Melbourne Cup October 19, 2011 4:53 pm

  The French have claimed the Group Three Geelong Cup for the second consecutive year with Dunaden sweeping to an emphatic victory on Wednesday.

   

• Melbourne Cup: Bauer on cusp of field following Geelong Cup

  Australian Horse Racing, Melbourne Cup October 19, 2011 4:34 pm

  Today’s Group 3 Centrebet.com Geelong Cup, in which French raider Dunaden defeated Tanby and Bauer, has seen a number of small changes to the order of entry.

   

• Cox Plate – What you need to know

  Australian Horse Racing, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup October 19, 2011 3:58 pm

  Some facts about the Group One $3 million WS Cox Plate (2040m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday:

   

• Oliver keen on Harmonium

  Australian Horse Racing, Cox Plate October 19, 2011 3:55 pm

  Damien Oliver knows what it takes to win the Cox Plate and believes his mount on Saturday, imported galloper Glass Harmonium, is the right kind of horse to give him his third success in Australasia’s weight-for-age championship.

   

• Villiers target for Somepin Anypin

  Australian Horse Racing, Cox Plate, Melbourne Cup October 19, 2011 2:10 pm

  Somepin Anypin is about to have the stakes raised in a spring campaign which could continue through to the start of summer.

   

• Alcopop out of the spring

  Breaking News, Melbourne Cup October 19, 2011 1:53 pm

  The spring carnival is over for Alcopop who has been found to have a slab fracture of the near-fore knee which may require surgery.

   

• Americain within five kilos of second Cup

  Australian Horse Racing, Melbourne Cup October 19, 2011 1:19 pm

  With two weeks remaining only five kilograms and the assessment of his jockey stands between the French stayer Americain and a second Melbourne Cup.