A video posted by Vow And Declare’s trainer and now a Melbourne Cup winner Danny O’Brien after the Caulfield Cup has showed Craig Williams basically give use the Melbourne Cup winner weeks ago. The video shared by Danny O’Brien recorded Melbourne Cup winning jockey Craig Williams discuss Vow And Declare’s… Read More »
Trainer Danny O’Brien has vowed to bring Vow And Declare back to defend the Melbourne Cup title next year. The Australian-bred, owned, trained and ridden Vow And Declare repelled the international invasion to deliver an all-Australian Melbourne Cup victory and a slice of history for jockey Craig Williams. O’Brien and… Read More »
The travelling foreman for champion trainer Aidan O’Brien says the stable will be back for another attempt to win the Melbourne Cup. O’Brien had his first runners in the Melbourne Cup in 2008 but it has only been in recent years he has made a concerted effort to win Australia’s… Read More »
Former NSW MP Geoff Corrigan compares winning a Melbourne Cup to waiting for a knife-edge election result. “It’s just like waiting for a vote to come in on election day,” the remarkably calm part-owner said shortly after winning the $8 million Melbourne Cup. “I was in a very close margin… Read More »
Jockey William Buick believes a slow start has played against Cross Counter who has finished eighth in his defence of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington. Only four horses in the Melbourne Cup’s history have won back-to-back, with champion Makybe Diva the most recent with her three-straight successes from 2003 to… Read More »
Family members have watched on with pride as Craig Williams claimed the Melbourne Cup to complete a career ‘grand slam’ in Australian racing. Williams famously missed the winning Melbourne Cup ride on Dunaden in 2011 because of suspension, having already ridden the winners of the Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate… Read More »
The Melbourne Cup favourite has won 34 times in the race’s 159-year history. But the Chris Waller-trained Finche finished seventh this year, leaving punters who backed the Melbourne Cup favourite without a winner since Fiorente in 2013. HOW THE MELBOURNE CUP FAVOURITES HAVE FARED THIS CENTURY 2019 – Finche ($8)… Read More »
Winx part-owner Peter Tighe could not add a Melbourne Cup to his trophy cabinet but he was proud of the effort by Finche and already making plans to try again next year. Tighe shares in the ownership of Finche with a number of long-time stable clients of trainer Chris Waller,… Read More »
Jockey Michael Walker admitted he was devastated he couldn’t win the Melbourne Cup for his family. Third across the line, Prince Of Arran was elevated to second behind Vow And Declare after a stewards’ protest. As Walker was leaving home for Tuesday’s meeting, he promised his daughter Layla that he… Read More »
The number of people attending the Melbourne Cup has dipped again, for the fourth year in a row. There were 81,408 racegoers at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday to watch the Australian-bred, trained, ridden and owned Vow And Declare win the Melbourne Cup. That was down slightly from last year’s rain-affected… Read More »
Globe trotting jockey Frankie Dettori has returned to scale with his head bowed after crossing the line for another second placing in the Melbourne Cup. Dettori partnered the Lloyd and Nick Williams-owned, Joseph O’Brien-trained Master Of Reality who was beaten a head by Vow And And Declare in Tuesday’s race…. Read More »
Vow And Declare has repelled the international invasion to deliver an all-Australian Melbourne Cup victory and a slice of history for jockey Craig Williams. In his 16th Cup ride and eight years after missing the winning mount on Dunaden through suspension, Williams became just the eighth jockey to claim Australian… Read More »
Plans are already in place for popular English stayer Prince Of Arran to return for what trainer Charlie Fellowes hopes will be third-time lucky in the 2020 Melbourne Cup. Prince Of Arran was third across the line in a tight finish to Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup at Flemington with the margins… Read More »
Trainer Danny O’Brien’s path to winning the Melbourne Cup involved many sliding doors moments. One being a three-year, $1 million legal battle to clear his name over doping allegations. If the ban had stood, O’Brien would still be sitting on the sidelines serving out the final months of a four-year… Read More »
Melbourne Cup runner Rostropovich has been taken to a veterinary clinic with a cracked pelvis after finishing at the tail of the field in the $8 million race. Rostropovich finished more than 30 lengths behind the second-last placed Mustajeer. Senior Lindsay Park trainer David Hayes said the gelding had been… Read More »
CRAIG WILLIAMS’ PATH TO ELUSIVE MELBOURNE CUP WIN * Started his career as an apprentice rider for father Alan in 1993 * First of more than 50 Group One wins on Grand Echezeaux in the 2000 Australasian Oaks * Stints riding in the United Kingdom, Dubai and Hong Kong, where… Read More »
Vow And Declare wrote his name into Melbourne Cup history when jockey Craig Williams steered the four-year-old to victory in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup at Flemington. Vow And Declare AGE: 4YO COLOUR/SEX: Chestnut gelding SIRE: Declaration Of War DAM: Gleblitzt TRAINER: Danny O’Brien STARTS: 13 WINS: 4 PLACINGS: 5 PRIZE MONEY:… Read More »
Protesters outside the Melbourne Cup held anti-cruelty placards but organisers also put on live music, costumes, and a “human race” because they know people want to party. The Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses organised the protest outside Flemington racecourse amid the bustle of the “race that stops the nation”…. Read More »
Damian Lane’s bid to win for an unprecedented feat has fallen short, with the star jockey left to ponder what might have been in the $8 million Melbourne Cup. Lane had already ridden the winner’s of the Golden Slipper, Caulfield Cup and Cox Plate during 2019 and was aiming to… Read More »
Hear what they jockeys had to say following the running of the 2019 Melbourne Cup at Flemington. Craig Williams (Vow And Declare) 1st : “It was a privilege to ride him today. Look at him, he knows he’s won. I’m so grateful to be given the opportunity. He just gave… Read More »
