Top horses may miss out
SOME leading Melbourne Cup contenders are not certain to run in the famous Flemington “two-miler” as the squeeze to secure a start intensifies.
SOME leading Melbourne Cup contenders are not certain to run in the famous Flemington “two-miler” as the squeeze to secure a start intensifies.
OWNER Lloyd Williams allayed punters’ fears something might be amiss with Efficient by declaring the grey “ready to go” for the Melbourne Cup.
COX Plate hero So You Think, already rated without peer among spring three-year-olds in the modern era, could be a surprise starter in the Group One $750,000 Mackinnon Stakes.
THE Melbourne Cup bids of highly rated imported stayers Speed Gifted and Changingoftheguard hang in the balance as the attrition rate climbs for the nation’s most famous race.
TRAINER Chris Waller’s bid to win the Melbourne Cup with his first runner moved a step closer to fruition when he secured champion jockey Damien Oliver to ride Warringah.
SO you think Bart Cummings is a legend? You better believe it. The master trainer just continues to astound, guiding three-year-old colt So You Think to a win in the $3 million Cox Plate.
CHAMPION sprinter Apache Cat became a Cox Plate scene stealer with a memorable win at Moonee Valley, with the crown giving him a standing ovation.
VETERAN trainer Jack Denham was at a loss to explain the dramatic antics of Hurrara before the opening race at Rosehill yesterday.
RANGIRANGDOO had just smashed the Moonee Valley track record, but trainer Chris Waller had no regrets about not starting the galloper in yesterday’s Cox Plate.
BART Cummings continued his domination of the Melbourne spring carnival with So You Think’s memorable Cox Plate, then declared: “I’m not finished yet!”
WHOBEGOTYOU’s trainer has baited rival jockeys to ensure the $3million Cox Plate becomes a genuine staying test at Moonee Valley today.
WHOBEGOTYOU and Heart of Dreams will fight out the Cox Plate in another epic showdown, according to one of the nation’s leading form experts.
EVERYONE seems to have forgotten that the last time Luke Nolen rode El Segundo in the Cox Plate, he stormed home to a brilliant victory.
BART Cummings was only 16 when, troubled by asthma, allergies and attacks of breathlessness, he visited a specialist hoping to find answers.
HALL of Fame trainer Lee Freedman is banking on Speed Gifted following the trail blazed so successfully by Efficient, Makybe Diva and Saintly.
GAI Waterhouse has provided a ringing endorsement for besieged Whobegotyou and declared the Melbourne champ the horse to beat in the Cox Plate.
BART Cummings’ young charger So You Think faces an uphill battle to win the Cox Plate considering the maestro’s disturbing three-year-old curse.
BART Cummings was once asked to comment on Lee Freedman’s record. It prompted the maestro to produce another of his memorable one-liners.
THE last time Vision And Power’s trainer Joe Pride had a runner on Cox Plate day at Moonee Valley it nearly created an international incident.
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