After Nick Williams drew barrier 23 last night, Yucatan has drifted as favourite with TAB from $4.50 to $5 for Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup at Flemington. Since the barrier draw took place, the most popular runner has been Magic Circle, who shares the second line of betting with Cross Counter at… Read More »
Outgoing racehorse owner and businessman Marwan Koukash is hoping to get his kit off in the winners circle on Tuesday following the running of the Melbourne Cup. Marwan Koukash who is the owner of well supported runner Magic Circle has stated he will strip down to a g-string, tie and shoes… Read More »
A Prince Of Arran has pulled up from his win in the Lexus Stakes at Flemington in far better shape than his trainer Charlie Fellowes. Victory in Saturday’s race earned A Prince Of Arran a berth in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup and his trainer a first Group win which he admitted… Read More »
A Group One win to import Best Of Days in the Kennedy Mile has capped a memorable day for trainer James Cummings and the Godolphin operation on the big stage at Flemington. Best Of Days surged late to win Saturday’s 1600m race, bringing up a winning treble for Godolphin on… Read More »
Darren Weir’s first Victoria Derby runner has come up trumps with Extra Brut winning the blue riband in a superior display of stamina with favourite Thinkin’ Big unplaced and out of the Melbourne Cup. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained Thinkin’ Big captured punters attention at $2.90 but never looked… Read More »
Shillelagh has added to her Flemington Group One record over the mile course after taking an inside run to win the Empire Rose Stakes. A winner of the 2017 Kennedy Mile, Shillelagh was kept for the weight-for-age race for fillies and mares this year and she delivered in spectacular style… Read More »
English stayer A Prince Of Arran has won his way into the 2018 Melbourne Cup with a stirring victory in the Lexus Stakes at Flemington. His trainer Charlie Fellowes would have preferred not to run A Prince Of Arran on Saturday but with the six-year-old just outside the 24-horse limit… Read More »
The Tony McEvoy-trained Sunlight has upstaged her male rivals to win the Group One Coolmore Stud Stakes. Sunlight was the only filly in the race and she made her own luck to claim the Group One sprint run run over the famous Flemington straight course. She defeated the Chris Waller-trained… Read More »
James Cummings has become a third generation-winning trainer of the Linlithgow Stakes after Osborne Bulls won the Group Two race on the opening day of the Melbourne Cup carnival at Flemington. Now run as the TAB Stakes on Saturday, the race was won by Cummings’ grandfather Bart in 2007 with… Read More »
Aristia has broken through for her first win in the Wakeful Stakes at Flemington to stamp herself as a leading VRC Oaks contender. The Mathew Ellerton and Simon Zahra-trained filly had been winless in her first nine starts but connections had not lost faith and were convinced she could come… Read More »
James Cummings has Group One aspirations for Ranier after the Godolphin-owned colt landed a second stakes victory at Flemington. After breaking his maiden status at Caulfield, Ranier returned to Flemington to claim the Group Three Carbine Club Stakes on Saturday. Ridden by Hugh Bowman, Ranier was sent off the $5… Read More »
We take a look at the biggest bets taken by all bookmakers on Victoria Derby Day which includes Four Group Ones as well as the Lexus Stakes on a quality days racing. It looks a cracking weekend of racing at Flemington with nine races for punters to sink their teeth… Read More »
One of the great Carnivals on the world racing calendar, Cup Week at Flemington, begins this Saturday with arguably the best day on the Australian racing calendar, Derby Day. The weather is fine, the track is good (4) and the rail is in the true position for the entire circuit…. Read More »
A Darren Weir trained stayer is the roughie attracting big interest with TAB to win in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup. Of the top ten biggest potential collects on the race that stops the nation, six are on six-year-old gelding Sixties Groove, highlighted by a $1,000 wager at $201 for a collect of… Read More »
Winx has come through her historic Cox Plate win with flying colours and will now get the chance to enjoy a break in the paddock before any decision is made on her racing future. The champion won a record fourth Cox Plate on Saturday at Moonee Valley, stretching her unbeaten… Read More »
One-time Melbourne Cup favourite Kings Will Dream is expected to survive after suffering from a pelvic fracture during the 2018 Cox Plate. Kings Will Dream was taken to a Ballarat Veterinary Clinic after suffering from a pelvic fracture and a ruptured a blood vessel during the Cox Plate. Managing owner Brad Spicer said on… Read More »
View the final field for the 2018 Melbourne Cup. The Melbourne Cup will be run on Tuesday 6th November at Flemington racecourse. Time: 3:00pm Distance: 3200m Class: Group 1 Market 💰: View the Melbourne Cup odds Have Your Say: Who do you think will win the Melbourne Cup? – Comment… Read More »
English stayer Duretto has been ruled out of the Melbourne Cup with a stress fracture to his left foreleg. The Andrew Balding-trained Duretto was lame after trackwork on Saturday and has undergone a wide range of veterinary tests. The fracture was detected on Wednesday after a bone scan a day… Read More »
Being an expensive yearling brings with it racetrack expectation. And high-priced colt Diplomatico has earned his opportunity on the big stage to deliver a Group One win in the Coolmore Stud Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. The Coolmore for three-year-olds on the Victoria Derby program has developed into an important… Read More »
Four three-year-old fillies are set to line up against the older mares in a capacity field for the Group One Empire Rose Stakes at Flemington. Group One-winning fillies Oohood, Seabrook and Amphitrite and Thousand Guineas runner-up Fundamentalist are all acceptors in the field of 16 plus one emergency for Saturday’s… Read More »
