Today is a historic day for the Moonee Valley Racing Club as the Club looks to celebrate the 100th running of the W.S. Cox Plate – ‘The Race Where Legends Are Made’. First run in 1922, the W. S. Cox Plate is Australia’s greatest race, and boasts an illustrious honour… Read More »
The short priced favourite in Moonee Valley Vase has been a late scratching after the track was downgraded. Young Werther who was the $2.10 favourite with Sportsbet in the Moonee Valley Vase on Cox Plate day has been a late scratching following a track downgrade to a Soft 7. Market… Read More »
Sometimes matters are simply taken out of your hands. That is what the high-profile ownership group of the Williams family found seemingly to their cost earlier this week when their Joseph O’Brien trained Buckhurst was relegated to emergency acceptor status for the Cox Plate … Australia’s weight-for-age classic … after… Read More »
The Tony and Calvin McEvoy trained sprinter Hey Doc has returned to his best form to win another Manikato Stakes on Friday night. Hey Doc has won his fourth Group One and his second Manikato Stakes on Friday night beating home race favourite Trekking and Dirty Work whilst breaking the… Read More »
Read what each of the jockeys had to say about the runs of their mounts in the 2020 Manikato Stakes at Moonee Valley on Friday night. Luke Currie on Hey Doc: “He’s a beauty. He puts himself on the speed and he tries heart out. He just brings it every… Read More »
Fresh from capturing Sydney’s two biggest races of the spring, jockey Kerrin McEvoy is setting his sights on winning the only leg of the sport’s grand slam to elude him. The Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate and Golden Slipper are considered the jewels in the crown of Australian… Read More »
Bryce Heys realises the enormity of the task Stylebender faces in the Bondi Stakes but the trainer thinks his improving colt can give a good sight in the $1 million race at Randwick. The lightly-raced Stylebender still carries a maiden tag and is clearly a work in progress, but after… Read More »
Magic Wand is out of the $5 million Cox Plate while her Aidan O’Brien-trained stablemate Armory has been passed fit to start. The 2019 Mackinnon Stakes winner was scratched on Friday after failing to recover from a lameness issue affecting her off fore leg. Armory had also been under an… Read More »
If the bullish attitude of James Cummings is anything to go by, Namazu could be poised to produce a Bondi Stakes upset. The colt, a son of Godolphin’s 2014 Blue Diamond Stakes winner Earthquake, broke his maiden in stylish fashion last start when he came from last on the turn… Read More »
The lure of extra prize money has swayed trainer Annabel Neasham to kick-start Ghostwriter’s Magic Millions campaign at Doomben. TAB fixed odds has installed Ghostwriter on the second line of betting at $4.20 for the Spring Plate (1110m), challenging Alert And Ready ($4) for favouritism. The son of I Am… Read More »
The Aidan O’Brien trained Magic Wand has been withdrawn from Saturday’s $5m Cox Plate at Moonee Valley after failing a second veterinary examination. Aidan O’Brien’s Cox Plate pair Magic Wand and Armory were required to have a re-examination after being found to be lame on Thursday when all horses were… Read More »
The WS Cox Plate will lack its usual amphitheatre-like atmosphere when the race is run at an empty Moonee Valley. Cox Plate day usually has about 30,000 racegoers with the countdown to the $5 million Cox Plate producing scenes that are unique in world racing. Crowds get closer to the… Read More »
Kris Lees can remember exactly where he was when Bonecrusher and Our Waverley Star elevated the Cox Plate into racing folklore with their tooth-and-nail battle down the Moonee Valley straight. It was 1986 and almost 20 years before Lees would begin training his own stable of horses at Newcastle. Market… Read More »
Tabcorp is pleased to have secured an exclusive wagering vision partnership with the Victoria Racing Club (VRC) for the four days of the Melbourne Cup Carnival. Whether watching at home on Foxtel, at your local TAB venue or on your TAB app, Sky Racing will bring punters the live action,… Read More »
Steven O’Dea and Matthew Hoysted will be looking for their first winner as a training partnership on Saturday when they send out four runners, three at Doomben and one at the Gold Coast. “Forming a partnership was always going to be a possibility from the day Matty first came to… Read More »
Champion trainer Aidan O’Brien faces an anxious wait after his two Cox Plate horses, Magic Wand and Armory, showed signs of lameness just two days out from the race. All 14 Cox Plate runners were inspected by Racing Victoria veterinarians on Thursday and passed fit to start with the exception… Read More »
Chris Waller believes both of his gallopers in the Cox Plate, Kolding and Humidor, will have to produce peak performances to be winning chances in the Moonee Valley showpiece. Waller is aiming for his fifth victory in the Cox Plate having trained the incomparable Winx to win four in a… Read More »
For the second year in a row, Steel Prince has won himself a start in the Melbourne Cup. Racing Victoria’s chief handicapper Greg Carpenter elected to penalise Steel Prince a kilogram for his win in Wednesday’s Geelong Cup, which has taken his weight to 53.5kg. This has catapulted the Anthony… Read More »
First-up specialist Jami Lady has a wide barrier to contend with at Doomben but her co-trainer Matt Hoysted is not conceding defeat. Jami Lady resumes from a spell in the Austrans Handicap, drawing awkwardly in barrier 10 of 15 from the tricky 1050 metre start. With only a short run… Read More »
Racing Victoria veterinarians inspected all horses in Saturday’s Cox Plate (2040m) at The Valley with two leading contenders needing to be re-examined after showing signs of lameness. Aidan O’Brien’s two Cox Plate horses Magic Wand and Armory will be re-examined by veterinarians tomorrow. Magic Wand presented with lameness in her… Read More »
