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30 Oct 09 | Racing Victoria stewards will depend on the goodwill of owner Lloyd Williams after it was confirmed Melbourne Cup favourite Efficient is facing an uphill battle to be fit for next Tuesday.
29 Oct 09 | Part-Canberra-owned Vigor's prospects of gaining a Melbourne Cup start increased two-fold yesterday following the Bendigo Cup (2200m).
28 Oct 09 | Bookmakers received a windfall yesterday when one-time favourite Speed Gifted was withdrawn from Tuesday's Melbourne Cup.
27 Oct 09 | Bart Cummings has six of the 42 horses remaining in the Melbourne Cup after third declarations with the master trainer assured of three runners.
25 Oct 09 | IN WHAT has become the continuing tale of the spring, yet another big day belongs to Bart Cummings who has claimed his fourth Cox Plate.
24 Oct 09 | Whenever injured jockey Paul Goode starts to feel sorry for himself, he hops in his wheelchair and embarks on a short ride.
Laying a few metres from him in Sydney's Prince of Wales ho
23 Oct 09 | Whobegotyou could be challenged for Cox Plate favouritism for the first time since markets were released in January after the support for fellow four-year-old Heart Of Dreams gained further momentum yesterday.
21 Oct 09 | Bart Cummings will try to win his fourth Cox Plate and his second with a three-year-old when the inexperienced So You Think runs in Australasia's weight-for-age championship at Moonee Valley.
20 Oct 09 | Last year's Melbourne Cup winner Viewed is now equal topweight with 2007 winner Efficient for this year's race after being penalised a kilogram to 58kg for his Caulfield Cup win.
19 Oct 09 | Black Piranha has astounded trainer Con Karakatsanis with the improvement he's made at his Melbourne base ahead of Saturday's Cox Plate.
18 Oct 09 | THE thrill of having his horse look a winning Caulfield Cup chance at the top of the home straight yesterday was ''out of this world'' for Jason Mathie, the Canberra-based part-owner of Vi
17 Oct 09 | The stakes were never high when Jason Mathie and Paul Murray played touch football together while growing up on the South Coast.
16 Oct 09 | REJUVENATED jockey Danny Nikolic is planning an assault on winning his second feature race of the Caulfield carnival with the ride on New Zealand five-year-old Red Ruler awaiting in
15 Oct 09 | The Canberra connections of Caulfield Cup hopefuls Vigor and Predatory Pricer are still confident of claiming Saturday's $2.5 million Group1 feature despite poor barrier draws.
Godolphin star Kirklees firmed into favouritism for the race yesterday after drawing barrier seven.
Vigor and Predatory Pricer drew barriers 22 and 16 respectively.
15 Oct 09 | Canberra apprentice jockey Taylor Lovelock-Wiggins understands he's one heck of a lucky guy.
A race fall at Gundagai on Friday left the 16-year-old with three fractures in his skull, a broken eye socket, a broken cheekbone, two fractures to his jaw, a fractured finger and a small blood clot near his brain.
14 Oct 09 | In-form trainer Anthony Cummings is looking for a big improvement from talented mare Prima Nova at Caulfield today after she was beaten by nearly 12 lengths at Flemington last start.
10 Oct 09 | Some people spend a lifetime racing horses that struggle to get out of first gear.
Then there are people like Canberra's Ron Foster who find themselves with the Midas touch.
Foster
09 Oct 09 | Con Karakatsanis is a young man with the world at his feet.
Aged just 24, the former jockey turned trainer already has a Group1 win in the bag courtesy of Black Piranha's Stradbroke Handicap triumph.
19 Sep 09 | A change of riding tactics ensured Queanbeyan galloper Fast Bullet returned to his best when he won an Open Handicap (1200m) at Canberra yesterday.
Canberra trainer Barbara Joseph thoug
22 Aug 09 | The Caulfield Cup, the Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup all coming to Canberra.
It sounds more fairytale-like than realistic but in 10 weeks time, all three trophies could have a Canberra link.
Melbourne's festival of racing is fast approaching and the capital region will be well represented.