James Cummings is focused on becoming the first trainer to win an elusive Melbourne Cup for Dubai ruler Sheikh Mohammed, not on what it would mean for the grandson of the ‘Cups King’. The late Bart Cummings, who trained a record 12 Melbourne Cup winners, used to say don’t let… Read More »
Kerrin McEvoy and Corey Brown are already well-entrenched in the history of the Melbourne Cup as dual winners. But the star Australian jockeys could join an even more select group if either can win the famous handicap, first run in 1861, for a third time on Tuesday when they both… Read More »
Patrick Moloney was born into a racing family and grew up watching the Melbourne Cup. His grandfather Jim Moloney is a Hall Of Fame inductee while father Gerard and uncle John are trainers at Caulfield. At the age of 24, Moloney gets his first shot in a Melbourne Cup riding… Read More »
Just getting their horse Zacada into the Melbourne Cup has been cause for New Zealand dairy farmers Andrew Bryant and David Armstrong to celebrate. The two own Zacada in partnership with famous New Zealand racing identity Sir Patrick Hogan and his wife Justine. Zacada is now at $81 for the… Read More »
Flamboyant British billionaire racehorse owner Dr Marwan Koukash has an extra incentive to win this year’s Melbourne Cup: he desperately wants to accept the trophy in his G-string. The self-proclaimed “crazy owner” loves every part of the build-up to the Cup, whether it’s the annual parade in front of thousands… Read More »
For a young English trainer with an ambition to have his horses compete on the world stage, A Prince Of Arran has been a godsend. Charlie Fellowes will saddle up the international visitor A Prince Of Arran in Tuesday’s $7.3 million Melbourne Cup, with the gelding earning his way into… Read More »
As momentum builds to Australia’s most famous race, the country’s most famous horse has slipped quietly out of town headed for a rural holiday. Winx left Melbourne on Monday bound for a rural retreat on the southwest outskirts of Sydney after winning her fourth Cox Plate nine days earlier. The… Read More »
The flamboyant British billionaire who has promised to strip to his g-string if his horse wins the Melbourne Cup has enjoyed the annual parade, with his clothes on. Dr Marwan Koukash is very confident his horse Magic Circle will win the Cup and just as determined to follow through on… Read More »
The Melbourne Cup may be held at Flemington but the $7.3 million horse race is celebrated across Australia. THE RACE THAT STOPS A NATION * Melbourne Cup day has been a public holiday in Melbourne since 1877 * Lloyd Williams, the owner of six Cup winners, has called for the… Read More »
Overnight showers have saved Flemington racecourse manager Liam O’Keeffe from watering ahead of the Melbourne Cup 2018. Flemington received 3.2mm of rain on Sunday night, putting the track in the good range on Monday morning. The Bureau of Meteorology is forecasting more showers and a possible thunderstorm ahead of Tuesday’s… Read More »
It’s the race that stops a nation with the fashion to match, but you won’t be race-day ready on Tuesday without an umbrella and poncho. Melbourne Cup day is shaping up as a wet one, with moderate to heavy rain expected to fall across Melbourne overnight until 10 or 11am,… Read More »
A field of 15 has accepted for the Group One $1 million VRC Oaks at Flemington. The feature race on the third day of the Victoria Racing Club’s four-day carnival will see Darren Weir saddle three runners in the 2500m event for three-year-old fillies. Oaks Field 🏆: View the VRC… Read More »
God Given has given soon-to-retire trainer Luca Cumani one final Group One success in the Premio Lydia Tesio at Capannelle in his native Italy. Cumani announced last month he would bring his illustrious career to an end later this year, after spending 43 years at Bedford House Stables in Newmarket…. Read More »
Australia’s queen of racing Gai Waterhouse doesn’t want to hold the 2018 Melbourne Cup just yet. But come Tuesday afternoon, Waterhouse and some of the biggest names in world racing will gladly put their hands around the 18-carat gold Cup. Tens of thousands of people are expected to line Melbourne’s… Read More »
Accelerate has all but assured his place as North America’s best older horse with his win in the Breeders’ Cup Classic at Churchill Downs in Kentucky. The John Sadler-trained five-year-old took the lead at the top of the straight and held off Gunnevera to win the $6 million Classic by… Read More »
A carnival of ups and downs for Godolphin trainer Charlie Appleby’s travelling team from England could yet reap its greatest success with Cross Counter in the Melbourne Cup. While Appleby’s travelling party struck early this spring with Jungle Cat in the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes in September, there… Read More »
SOME STATISTICS ABOUT THE MELBOURNE CUP: * First run in 1861 under the banner of the Victorian Turf Club and won by the Etienne de Mestre-trained Archer who beat the favourite Mormon by six lengths. The prize was 1420 pounds and the trophy a gold watch. * Archer came back… Read More »
Trainer Mike Moroney has thrown his support behind two young jockeys as he chases a second Melbourne Cup. Patrick Moloney and Jordan Childs, who are on Vengeur Masque and Sound Check respectively, will be be riding in the Cup for the first time on Tuesday. Moroney won the Cup with… Read More »
Leviathan owner Lloyd Williams’ chances to extend his record of Melbourne Cup winners to seven have taken a hit with his Irish-trained horse drawing barrier 23, the second widest gate. That does not concern Williams’ son and part-owner Nick Williams who has played down the importance of barriers in Tuesday’s… Read More »
Ebor winner Muntahaa is set to race for champion English trainer John Gosden for the final time in the Melbourne Cup before being switched to the Lindsay Park stable in Australia. Angus Gold, racing manager for Muntahaa’s owner Sheikh Hamdan, confirmed the plan was for the gelding to remain in… Read More »
