‘Better than us winning’, says beaten owner
AS IRISH trainer Willie Mullins and Italian jockey Frankie Dettori digested Max Dynamite’s half-length second in the Melbourne Cup, English owner Rich Ricci exulted in the result.
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Prince fights back to claim crowning glory
PRINCE Of Penzance, the bolter who created racing history at Flemington on Tuesday, is lucky to be alive, let alone winning the Melbourne Cup.
Prince of Penzance gallops to win
JOCKEY Michelle Payne created one of the biggest upsets in Australian sport to win the Melbourne Cup with Prince of Penzance.
What you need to know about Payne
RIDING has taken her around the world and to almost every track in Australia. This is how the first female winner of the Melbourne Cup beat 100-1 odds.
The six mates who lived a Cup dream
THESE mates kept their decision to buy a racehorse secret from their partners, thinking it might just win one country meet. Now they’re the proud owners of a Melbourne Cup winner.
Have Sam and Snez signed on for their own show?
THE hottest couple at the Melbourne Cup, The Bachelor’s Sam and Snezana, have addressed the rumours that they are returning to TV for a spin-off.
Melbourne Cup finishing order
DID you lose your horse in the mad dash for the finishing line? This is the final order, from first place to last.
Favourite stands out from the pack
JAPANESE star Fame Game only needs to avoid ‘traffic problems’ to win the Melbourne Cup, says Timeform expert Gary Crispe.
Is the Melbourne Cup track stuffed?
MELBOURNE Cup day could be about to turn into a giant farce with fears the Flemington track is not giving every horse its fair chance to win.
Hold your horses: Tragedy we shouldn’t forget
WARNING: Graphic. IT was the horrifying moment the race that stops the nation became the race that shocked the nation. A year on, what’s changed?
Melbourne Cup’s worst cheapskate
THIS stingy cheapskate wouldn’t share a cent of his huge winnings after someone else bought him a ticket. Right or wrong?
Who the bookies are tipping in the Cup
THE bookmakers reveal their Melbourne Cup tips plus all the big bets for Tuesday’s race at Flemington.
Bart’s blueprint to Cup success
BART Cummings will be remembered for many training achievements but most notably his 12 Melbourne Cup wins — and the blueprint he developed to win the nation’s greatest race.
Boo Bailey’s A to Z of the Melbourne Cup
THE Daily Telegraph cartoonist Boo Bailey puts his spin on this year’s Melbourne Cup.
Cup may head to Rocklea markets
THE Melbourne Cup has visited exotic ports from Ireland to Uluru but there is one place it has never been: the Rocklea fruit markets.
‘This is a miserable plodding donkey’
FORGET the official Melbourne Cup form guides. Here’s what you really need to know about the horses in this year’s race.
Prebble worked hard for Beach ride
HONG KONG-based jockey Brett Prebble was contacted by Nick Williams two months ago and told to get his weight down to 52.5kg — he accepted and he’s riding Bondi Beach in the Cup.
Fame Game drifts as punters chase value
ASTUTE owner Lloyd Williams on Monday joined the list of those questioning Fame Game’s right to be a short-priced Melbourne Cup favourite.
Punters splash on Cadeaux, Trip to Paris
BIG BETS: BIG punters are backing perennial bridesmaid Ed Dunlop to finally win the Melbourne Cup with either Trip To Paris or Red Cadeaux.
Japanese hoping for Fame and fortune
SHOULD Fame Game justify his Phar Lap-esque odds and win the Melbourne Cup it will put an end to a frustrating decade for the Japanese blighted by ill-fortune and tragedy.
Ray and Duff’s great Cup debate
PODCAST: THE Daily Telegraph’s Ray Thomas and Sky Thoroughbred Central’s Ron Dufficy analyse every runner and give their tips for the Cup.
The Melbourne Cup’s unlikeliest fortune
THE odds were 4680-1, but one Aussie punter is just one win away from securing an obscene sum of money at the Melbourne Cup.
Slow lane to mayhem looms in Cup
A SLOW lane up the Flemington straight could cause mayhem in today’s $6.2 million Melbourne Cup.
How to sound like a Cup day expert
BAFFLED by all the Cup terminology? Confused as the office experts talk racing? Here’s our beginner’s guide to some key racing phrases that could come in handy in the lead-up to the great race.
Preferment has the Cup X-factor: Waller
ON Sunday Chris Waller was cheering for the All Blacks, but he is Australia’s best chance of upsetting the international field at this year’s Melbourne Cup.
Racing royalty a big Cup chance
RACING royalty Gai Waterhouse and Damien Oliver will today combine forces hoping Melbourne Cup favourite Fiorente can deliver Australian sport’s richest prize.
Vintage year that took race to world
MELBOURNE Cup winners gain a degree of immortality when they pass the winning post, but Vintage Crop took the race to the world.
Singo and Tom still at it
AT THE TRACK ON TOUR: CLEARLY there’s still bad blood between larrikin owner John Singleton and bookie Tom Waterhouse.
Demi’s date with destiny
JOHN Singleton, critical of the number of international runners in the Melbourne Cup, has declared his Dear Demi the omen tip.
Lloyd: French mare is the danger
IF Lloyd Williams’s mail is right, then rival French mare Verema is the horse to beat in the Melbourne Cup at Flemington today.
Munce just glad to be here
ELEVEN months after he feared he may never ride again, Chris Munce could enrich Melbourne Cup folklore by becoming racing’s $5 million man.
Tom jumps aboard Gai’s Fiorente
TOM Waterhouse has backed his mum’s horse, Fiorente, to win $100,000 in the Melbourne Cup, but wants to get set to win $1 million.
Owners might be walking tightrope
ONE of England’s most respected racing voices claims the Melbourne Cup horse market has gone “haywire” and owners are paying too much.
Lloyd versus the world’s best
SWEEP GENERATOR: FOR this Melbourne Cup, and perhaps from this time forward, Lloyd Williams is not just representing himself.
Ignore these two at your peril
BOTH have big weights and aren’t getting much love from the punters, but ignore the champions at your peril.
Mikel: Dunaden’s fight is weight
WEIGHT, not history or age, is Dunaden’s greatest Melbourne Cup enemy today, according to trainer Mikel Delzangles.
Carey banks on Ethiopia to utopia
TRAINER Pat Carey was certain Ethiopia was progressing well towards the Melbourne Cup but his form wasn’t backing those thoughts up.
Good things come in small packages
WHEN Ed Walker’s Ruscello crossed the line in the Lexus Stakes to clinch a win a Melbourne Cup berth Chad Schofield made a beeline for him.
Create your Melbourne Cup sweep
IT’S the easy online way to set up your 2013 Melbourne Cup office sweep. Check out our sweep generator and create your own today.
The 10 moments that shaped the Cup
FOR more than 50 years, the Melbourne Cup has been a staple in fashion and racing calendars across the nation. We look back at the most iconic moments.
Punters come for Irish stayer
AN Irish gelding who was racing over hurdles less than 12 months ago has emerged as the “best bolter” in the Melbourne Cup tomorrow.
Bookies take on Waterhouse
GUIDE TO WINNING: BOOKMAKERS are at odds over Melbourne Cup favourite Fiorente’s place at the top of markets.
Racing’s royal rumble erupts
HOW did a polite gathering of the Cup’s well-to-do connections descend to the trash-talking depths of professional wrestling?
Schofield’s Cup dream comes true
CHAD Schofield stood in the Flemington enclosure and made a beeline for the owners of Ruscello after the horse qualified for the Melbourne Cup.
Here’s a tip, don’t ask me for one
AS a racing person, this is my favourite time of year but there’s one thing that I dread… and that’s people asking for tips.
My guy is really a Super chance
MARK Kavanagh says he can understand why the punters are a fraction cool on him but the trainer says he’s a Super chance.
Moroney’s Couers for optimism
IF Irish mare Voleuse De Couers can give Mike Moroney his second Melbourne Cup, he will happily thank dual winner Dermot Weld.
Bart’s $100,000 Cup consolation
IT WON’T make up for Precedence missing out on the Melbourne Cup, but James and Bart Cummings can watch the same colours try and clean up at tomorrow’s Randwick meeting.
Cup winners, trifectas and roughies
THERE are more formlines going into the Melbourne Cup than train lines in the London Underground, but our experts have found their Cup selections.
Sydney’s Derby day demolition
STOP. THE. FIGHT. Sydney jockeys won seven of the nine races at Flemington on Derby Day to give their interstate rivals a lesson in riding.
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