Australian jockeys Craig Newitt and Dean Yendall will ride in Sunday’s Singapore Gold Cup for ex-pat Australian Cliff Brown. Yendall will ride Zac Influence while Newitt will be aboard his Brown-trained stablemate Tenzing. The pair fought out last season’s national jockeys’ premiership with Yendall coming out on top with 157-1/2… Read More »
After a whirlwind day and night, Melbourne Cup winning jockey Brett Prebble heads back for business as usual in Hong Kong on Thursday. The usually strict Hong Kong racing authorities allowed Prebble to miss Wednesday night’s meeting at Happy Valley to stay in town to soak in his Cup win… Read More »
James McDonald will have his appeal against a careless riding suspension arising out of the Melbourne Cup heard on Friday. McDonald rode Fiorente into second place behind Green Moon but was outed for causing interference to Sanagas near the 800m as he steered his horse out from behind a weakening… Read More »
Ethiopia will undergo extensive veterinary tests after being eased out of Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup with trainer Pat Carey hopeful he can make a full recovery. The Australian Derby winner finished around 50 lengths behind the second last horse in the Cup after Rhys McLeod eased him down, suspecting something was… Read More »
Punters have embarked on a Melbourne Cup betting spree, wagering $150 million on Australia’s greatest race. Betting agency Tabcorp took almost $100 million in bets from punters on their NSW and Victoria tote platforms. The $97.3 million that was wagered with Tabcorp on the race was up 6.5 per cent… Read More »
Damien Oliver’s tumultuous spring carnival took another twist on Melbourne Cup day when he was criticised for his ride on the favoured Americain while the threat of a long suspension hangs over him. The Victorian government has been called on to step in to give stewards more authority to ban… Read More »
Luke Nolen earned himself a return visit to the stewards room on Thursday after a fiery exchange resulting from a suspension issued to Victoria’s premier jockey for his Melbourne Cup ride on Lights Of Heaven. Nolen was one of three Cup jockeys suspended with James McDonald, who rode runner-up Fiorente… Read More »
Win or lose, the Europeans will keep coming back to Australia in spring to try to win the Melbourne Cup. Trainer Luca Cumani has been coming for five years and in 2012 he brought his new owner Marwan Koukash and his horse Mount Athos with him. Mount Athos finished a… Read More »
Chief handicapper Greg Carpenter has defended his weighting of Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup, in which heavily backed internationals Dunaden and Americain lumbered home unplaced. Carpenter has come under some pressure from trainers and owners after imposing hefty weights on the French winners of the Cup in the past two years. But… Read More »
By one reckoning the 2012 Melbourne Cup will go down as another triumph for Rest of the World over the locals. In another sense, it will be known as a local one-two with the raiders repelled and the French favourites Dunaden and Americain well out of contention. The truth is,… Read More »
What they said at the Melbourne Cup: “It’s a lifelong dream. I was very confident at the mile, then at the 1200 (metres) I thought the only thing that could get him beaten was his stamina if he didn’t stay the trip, but the feeling he was giving me at… Read More »
Brett Prebble left Australia as a self-described arrogant young jockey a decade ago to try his luck in the tough Hong Kong arena. He returned home for a fleeting visit on Tuesday to win the Melbourne Cup on Green Moon, but said it would not be enough to tempt him… Read More »
Lloyd Williams has poured his money, his heart and his soul into racing. His reward is a fourth Melbourne Cup thanks to Green Moon. Although it could be claimed as a local victory against the might of the European stayers, Williams had to go to Europe to source his latest… Read More »
Edward Sadler had good reason for not being at Flemington on Tuesday to cheer on his father’s Melbourne Cup runner Winchester. Sadler was instead at Randwick for the first time to call the picnic race meeting for the on-course patrons at the Sydney track. The 20-year-old, who is now based… Read More »
Jockey Dom Tourneur’s Melbourne Cup carnival moment arrived a few days later than he wanted at Flemington on Tuesday. Tourneur, the jockey best known for his association with Alcopop, missed the gelding’s biggest win when connections replaced him with Craig Williams in the Group One Mackinnon Stakes on Saturday. But… Read More »
Lloyd Williams must be wishing Prince Charles comes to every Melbourne Cup. The former casino owner and prolific horse owner won his fourth Cup when Green Moon gave jockey Brett Prebble the ride of his life at Flemington on Tuesday to upstage the international-laden field and keep the trophy in… Read More »
Katherine Stewart was just having a birthday punt on the Melbourne Cup when she won on Green Moon. “It’s a great gift,” she told AAP amid a hollering crowd at Randwick racecourse in Sydney. Not so for TV presenter and model Zoe Balbi, ambassador of the spring carnival, who was… Read More »
Obsessions, by definition, are curious things. Lloyd Williams has one, and it is, indeed, curious. For more than 30 years, Williams has devoted himself to winning Melbourne Cups. And while he’s not in the Bart Cummings class, he’s been good at it. Four wins since 1981, including Tuesday’s with Green… Read More »
What the jockeys said after the running of the Group One $6 million Melbourne Cup at Flemington on Tuesday. BRETT PREBBLE (Green Moon) 1st – “It’s a lifelong dream. I was very confident at the mile, then at the 1200 (metres) I thought the only thing that could get him… Read More »
It might not have been the Melbourne Cup at Flemington but some dreams were still coming true for riders at Randwick’s picnic race meeting on Tuesday. Amateur jockeys more used to competing on country tracks got the opportunity to race on the hallowed turf at Sydney racing’s headquarters, many of… Read More »
