Mitch Leek is used to ride horses on the morning of his fights and was prepared to follow in his ancestors racing footsteps, but he’s now all in on his rising professional boxing career.
Racing Victoria has made a big change to the Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup that will ensure our best jockeys can be involved in the two spring majors.
Nikau Spur’s part-owner Grant Goodrum is dreaming big as he targets the famous Melbourne Cup race for his “genuine stayer”.
The Melbourne Cup is an easy sell, but the Victoria Racing Club has also relied on the annual carnival for too long as its primary source of annual income. Under new CEO Kylie Rogers, that’s about to change.
Melbourne Cup champion Knight’s Choice will miss this week’s $2.5 million Group 1 All-Star Mile after suffering bruising to his fetlock.
The horse racing industry is in mourning after a popular trainer who won the 2000 Melbourne Cup sadly passed away.
The majority owner of Melbourne Cup champion Knight’s Choice is willing to offer the cult horse’s “stressed out” trainers a loan to help them get through a messy legal dispute with Racing Victoria.
The fairtyale 2024 Melbourne Cup winner is headed to the courts with the trainers lodging legal action over prize money that went up in smoke.
The 2024 Melbourne Cup fairytale of $91 roughie Knight’s Choice is headed to the courts with the trainers lodging legal action against Racing Victoria to demand their prizemoney from winning the famous race.
The fairytale Melbourne Cup win by Knight’s Choice has taken yet another turn, with trainers John Symons and Shiela Laxon still chasing their near half-a-million dollar share of the winnings in an incredible administrative bungle.
A grand campaigner who raced in two Melbourne Cups for Lloyd Williams has run his last race, the high profile owner has confirmed.
The completion of the perfect plan has led to Melbourne Cup thoughts after Wednesday’s Bagot Handicap at Flemington.
The managing owner of Vow And Declare has addressed speculation around the Melbourne Cup champion in the wake of his last-placing in Saturday’s Pakenham Cup.
Big race jockey Mark Zahra has declared comeback Cups champion Without A Fight “back to where he was” ahead of the Group 1 Hong Kong Vase (2400m) on Sunday at Sha Tin.
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