Nine races have been set down for Rosehill this Saturday where it is Golden Gift Day, with the winner assured a start in the Golden Slipper. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is out three metres for the entire circuit.
We take a look at the big bets the online bookmakers have taken on Saturday’s horse racing around the country where the Mackinnon Stake headlines the day with most of the big money being placed at Flemington, Rosehill and Doomben. Mackinnon Stakes 💰: View the odds for the Mackinnon Stakes
Star jockey Kerrin McEvoy only needs to cast his mind back to April to gain confidence about Japanese horse Kluger’s ability to run well in the Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington. McEvoy rides Kluger in a race for the first time in Saturday’s weight-for-age Group One $2 million Mackinnon Stakes (2000m)… Read More »
As retirement looms for Stephen Baster his final rides have a personal connection. Baster has two rides to finish the Melbourne Cup carnival on Saturday while his final meeting comes the following week at Sandown. He rides Boxachocolates for Stephen Brown in Saturday’s Melbourne Cup Week Radio Trophy while his… Read More »
Danny O’Brien has emerged as Australia’s latest master trainer of stayers after scoring a second feature race win during Melbourne Cup week at Flemington. Two days after Vow And Declare put O’Brien on the international racing stage with a maiden Melbourne Cup success, Miami Bound gave the trainer his first… Read More »
A campaign in Victoria early in his career has been the foundation for Pancho’s success in a stakes race at Flemington. Pancho won the Listed TCL TV Stakes (1800m) on Thursday for Chris Waller and Hugh Bowman who had earlier in the day teamed with Nudge to win the Bumble… Read More »
Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Craig Williams has added the $500,000 Country Final to his carnival tally, pleasing hundreds of owners in the process. In his third win on VRC Oaks day, Williams guided the $6 third favourite Star Missile to victory over $2.40 favourite Harbour Views in the Melbourne Cup Carnival… Read More »
Still riding high after his first Melbourne Cup success, jockey Craig Williams scored another big thrill by winning the Subzero Handicap for good friends. Williams guided favourite Bumper Blast to victory in the annual VRC Oaks day race named after Cup winner Subzero for the grey’s owners, Hong Kong-based David… Read More »
Lindsay Park co-trainer David Hayes tipped the Maribyrnong Plate result in the correct order but the race did not pan out the way he expected. Hard Landing held off stablemate, filly Baaqyah, to win the Group Three race for two-year-olds on the Flemington straight 1000m course on Thursday. Hayes thought… Read More »
The Melbourne Cup Carnival continues this Thursday at Flemington where it is Oaks Day. The weather forecast is for showers, the track is good (4) and the rail is out six metres for the entire circuit. Oaks Field 🏆: View the Field for the VRC Oaks
A breathtaking performance by Melody Belle on Derby Day at Flemington has given the star New Zealand mare’s connections confidence to chase another Group One win in the Mackinnon Stakes. Melody Belle scored an arrogant victory in the Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) for fillies and mares last Saturday, sitting back… Read More »
After a memorable Melbourne Cup win with Vow And Declare, Danny O’Brien feels greedy even hoping to add the VRC Oaks with Miami Bound. But the trainer is convinced Miami Bound has a great chance in Thursday’s $1 million VRC Oaks for three-year-old fillies after taking out one of the… 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
Australian-bred and trained Vow And Declare has held off the international challenge to win the Melbourne Cup, giving jockey Craig Williams his first success in Australia’s greatest race. The win was also a first for trainer Danny O’Brien with Vow And Declare crossing the line ahead of Master Of Reality,… Read More »
A year after her most recent victory, Teleplay has landed a second stakes success on the Melbourne Cup day program at Flemington. Teleplay won over 1200m at Listed level in 2018 and stepped up to 1400m on Tuesday to take out the Group Three Jim Beam Stakes. Ridden by Nash… Read More »
Garner has capped his first preparation with victory at Flemington on Melbourne Cup day, adding to an impressive recent strike rate in Melbourne for Adelaide trainer Gordon Richards. Three-year-old Garner’s one-length success in Tuesday’s Schweppervescence Plate (1000m) against his own age as the $3.80 favourite was the fourth win for… Read More »
