Caulfield Cup

Mount Popa gains Caulfield Cup start at Mornington

Posted on March 20, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

The pressure of gaining a Caulfield Cup start for Mount Popa has been relieved for Hawkes Racing with the Irish-bred import leading throughout to claim the Mornington Cup. Victory in Saturday’s Listed race over 2400m provides the winner a ballot exemption into the Group 1 Caulfield Cup in October. Providing leading Perth jockey, and birthday[...]

Posted on March 19, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

The attraction of a ticket into the Caulfield Cup is the furthest thing from the mind of trainer Patrick Payne who will start Defibrillate in the Listed Mornington Cup (2400m) on Saturday. Success in the Mornington Cup gains the winner a ballot exemption for this year’s Caulfield Cup (2400m) in October, but Payne is looking[...]

Posted on March 18, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Tasmanian trainer John Blacker wants to test the water on the mainland with his Launceston Cup winner Glass Warrior and believes the Mornington Cup is the right option to see where the stayer sits. Saturday’s Listed Mornington Cup (2400m) affords the winner a ballot exemption into the Caulfield Cup in the spring, and while Blacker[...]

Posted on March 17, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

Now a fully furnished five-year-old, trainer Mike Moroney says it is time for Chapada to be competitive in the bigger spring races at years end. In a bid to short-circuit the rush of qualifying for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups, Chapada will attempt to win a ballot exemption for those races in upcoming starts. First-up[...]

Posted on March 15, 2021
in Australian Horse Racing News

When your luck is out, it is right out, as trainer Grahame Begg can attest. Begg was forced to scratch his Group 1 Blue Diamond hope Dosh on race eve with a bruised heel and then watched Nonconformist have a horror run in the Group 1 Australian Cup (2000m) at Flemington that turned into a[...]

Posted on November 13, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Racing Victoria has confirmed the death of decorated jockey W A 'Billy' Smith at the age of 92.

Posted on November 2, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Chris Munce won a Melbourne Cup as a jockey aboard Jezabeel and he is tipping English Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck to capture Australia's famous two-miler.

Posted on November 2, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

One of the forgotten runners in Tuesday’s Group 1 Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) has had his chances of springing an upset greatly enhanced after drawing barrier five for the famous Flemington two-miler. The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained The Chosen One provided one of the best Cup lead-up performances when a fighting third in the[...]

Posted on November 2, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

As Verry Elleegant prepares to fly the New Zealand flag in Tuesday’s Group 1 Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m), the star mare’s Kiwi co-owners are on the ride of their lives. Among the owners, albeit now unofficially, is 16-year-old Connor Harrison, a stablehand smitten with the daughter of Zed from the moment she entered the Ardmore[...]

Posted on October 31, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

It’s the race that stops a nation, the Melbourne Cup is almost upon us. As always, the first Tuesday in November means one thing to racing fans in Australia; it’s the race like no other, $8m in prize money to be won, 24 horses from across the globe racing over 3200m in the 160th iteration[...]

Posted on October 23, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Kerrin McEvoy will join elite company if he can become just the eighth jockey to win racing's grand slam by claiming the Cox Plate on Probabeel.

Posted on October 20, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Chris Waller has confirmed Mark Zahra as the rider for star mare Verry Elleegant in the Melbourne Cup, a race the premier trainer is yet to win.

Posted on October 20, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The performance of dainty New Zealand-bred mare Verry Elleegant fending off Epsom Derby-winning blueblood Anthony Van Dyck in Saturday’s Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) is a triumph for all who dare to dream in the sport of thoroughbred racing and breeding. From humble beginnings, the daughter of unheralded Grangewilliam Stud sire Zed has amassed the[...]

Posted on October 17, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Chris Waller has finally landed his first Caulfield Cup with star staying mare Verry Elleegant defying English Derby winner Anthony Van Dyck.

Posted on October 16, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Southern Speed finished fourth in the Turnbull Stakes before she won the Caulfield Cup and trainer Leon MacDonald is hoping stablemate Dalasan can follow suit.

Posted on October 16, 2020
in Australian Horse Racing News

Danny O'Brien says Vow And Declare is going as well as he was last year when runner-up in the Caulfield Cup but admits his weight rise is a challenge.

Posted on October 16, 2020
in New Zealand Horse Racing News

The Murray Baker and Andrew Forsman-trained The Chosen One has snuck into the Group 1 Caulfield Cup (2400m) for the second year in a row. The Group 2-winning stayer finished ninth in last year’s Caulfield Cup after drawing barrier 18, but this year will start from a much more favourable barrier two. The son of[...]

Mount Popa gains Caulfield Cup start at Mornington

Mornington Cup the next step for Defibrillate

Tasmanian mare chasing Mornington Cup success

Chapada aims for Caulfield Cup start at Mornington

Begg after a change of fortune with Nonconformist

Racing Mourns Death Of Cup-Winning Jockey

Munce Tipping Anthony Van Dyck To Win Cup

Barrier enhances The Chosen One’s Cup prospects

Teenager on life-changing Melbourne Cup ride

Overseas Raiders Hold Strong Hand In 2020 Melbourne Cup

Mare Can Complete Mcevoy’s Grand Slam Set

Waller Confirms Melbourne Cup Jockeys

Zed’s Verry Elleegant a testament to breeder’s faith

Waller Wins First Caulfield Cup In Style

Leon Macdonald Hoping History Can Repeat

Weight Rise Sets Cup Winner A Tough Task

Inside draw a boost for The Chosen One

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