Greg Baum

Greg Baum

Greg Baum is chief sports columnist and associate editor with The Age

Horse Racing

The back of Black

Black Caviar

Greg Baum As on the first day of her career, so on the last, and every day between: Black Caviar was ahead of them all.

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Romance of Cup pulls worlds apart together

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Greg Baum Nothing or nobody was excised from the migration zone that is the Werribee international horse centre at the break of a brilliant dawn on Sunday.

Lunar eclipse blots out rest of the field

Brett Prebble

Greg Baum FOR all the mystique, hubbub and breathless speculation - and this year the abiding whiff of skulduggery - sometimes it seems that winning the Melbourne Cup is simply a matter of putting yourself in...

Right time and right place to shoot the moon

Brett Prebble celebrates his Cup-winning ride on Green Moon.

Greg Baum What is too easily overlooked in the ever more hyperbolical prelude is that the Cup is first and last a horse race.