Racing rocked as Melbourne Cup winner dies
The horse racing industry is in mourning after a popular trainer who won the 2000 Melbourne Cup sadly passed away.
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‘We won’t let them struggle’: Owners back Cup-winning trainers ahead of legal fight
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.
Cup bombshell as payout goes missing
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.
Explosive Melbourne Cup court action: Trainers to sue Racing Victoria
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.
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Scan clears Cup scratching to run in Zipping Classic
A scan using new hi-tech equipment has enabled vets to clear Melbourne Cup scratching Muramasa to run at Caulfield on Saturday week.
Vauban’s new owners: ‘You can win it back in one hit’
Vauban’s new owners Australian Bloodstock say they are ‘genuinely excited’ about what this year’s Melbourne Cup favourite can achieve under the guidance of Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott.
Maher, Waller again poised to rewrite record books
Chris Waller has set a new benchmark for Group 1s won in the first four months of a season, while Ciaron Maher’s prizemoney tally has already soared to stratospheric levels.
Spring’s huge success … and it’s not over yet
Racing Victoria has backed strong competition and quality entertainment to drive momentum into the final month of the Melbourne Spring Carnival.
Melbourne Cup Carnival: Gilbert Gardiner’s yays and ‘neighs’
Australia’s star jockey was J-Macnificent, the Flemington track played superbly and Knight’s Choice delivered a wonderful Melbourne Cup story. But we need to talk about Pride Of Jenni and Joao Moreira.
‘Ticked all the boxes’: 2023 Cup champ ready to Fight
Melbourne Cup winner and reigning Victorian Racehorse of the Year Without A Fight is back where he belongs – in the Group 1 arena at Flemington.
‘He is similar to Soulcombe’: Waller’s high hopes for import
Master trainer Chris Waller hopes his new import Kinesiology can ‘do a Soulcombe’ by winning the Group 3 Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) before becoming a Melbourne Cup contender next year.
EXCLUSIVE: Melbourne Cup winner was given three months to live
The remarkable story of Melbourne Cup winner Knight’s Choice has taken another astonishing twist with one of the co-trainers revealing that, no so long ago, he was given just three months to live.
How a $1000 mare from Walcha produced a Cup miracle
A pair of small time breeders from the tiny town of Walcha in New South Wales bred Knight’s Choice on a shoestring budget and defied the odds as he grew up in the midst of a crippling drought.
How lucky mum of two landed $3.2m Melbourne Cup windfall
A Victorian mother of two has revealed how she picked the first four in the Melbourne Cup, which delivered a life-changing $3.2m payout.
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