Dual Melbourne Cup winning trainer Sheila Laxon believes Knight’s Choice is capable of being a performer on the world stage.
Dual Melbourne Cup winning trainer Sheila Laxon believes Knight’s Choice is capable of being a performer on the world stage.
Former champion Winx is progressing well in the later stages of her pregnancy with a Snitzel foal expected to arrive in the next few weeks.
It was a mixed response from renowned Irish trainer Willie Mullins following the performance of his two fancied runners in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup.
A confident ride by Tommy Berry has helped pull off a long-range plan with promising miler Gringotts, who has overcome an outside draw to post a resounding win in the $3 million Big Dance at Randwick.
But there was Knight's Choice in all his unlikely glory, shrugging off the stern challenge from the gifted Japanese stayer Warp Speed to score in the biggest race there is.
Hayes, who co-trains with brothers JD and Will, said Here To Shock has already been a great horse for his owners with just under $2 million in prizemoney and there’s no reason to think he can’t add to it.
Irish stayer Vauban shapes as William Buick’s best chance of winning the Melbourne Cup, the globetrotting jockey believes.
From the moment Estadio Mestalla finished second in the South Grafton Cup back in July his trainer Joe Pride has been single minded about targeting Tuesday’s $750,000 Little Dance (1600m) at Randwick.
That long-standing association continues this Friday with Akubra Hats Kempsey Cup Day.
Winner from the editor for the 2024 Melbourne Cup at Flemington (Tue, 5th Nov).
Snitzel has now posted 9 winners of 11 Australian Group & Listed Races so far this season, and holds a clear lead by those measures on the current Australian General Sires’ Premiership.
The final field for the 2024 Melbourne Cup has been declared.
Lake Forest has become the first European-trained horse to win the Golden Eagle.
South Australian breeder Harry Perks has bred his third Group 1 Victoria Derby winner after the heavily supported Goldrush Guru ran clear for Jamie Kah in the distance classic at Flemington on Saturday.
Cruz first claimed the Ladies’ Purse in 1976 as a jockey on Crossfire and has since added five other victories as a trainer with Russian Pearl (2004), Willie Detroy (2005), Hello Pretty (2006), Time Warp (2018) and Furore (2020).