Horse Racing

Live coverage: Sydney Cup Day at Royal Randwick

Daniel Sankey Live coverage of Sydney Cup Day at Royal Randwick, where there's four Group 1s on the card — the Sydney Cup, the All Aged Stakes, the Champagne Stakes and the Queen Elizabeth Stakes.

Guelph overwhelms Overreach

Michael Lynch Gai Waterhouse's brilliant Golden Slipper winner Overreach looked unbeatable as she went for the second leg of the two-year-olds' triple crown in the group 1 Sires' Produce Stakes, and punters who...

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Prebble v Nolen for Diamond ride

Patrick Bartley Leading Hong Kong-based jockey wants to ride Thermal Current in Blue Diamond Stakes.

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Barrier key to Diamond pick

Michael Sharkie Peter Snowden believes Kerrin McEvoy faces the very best kind of dilemma on Tuesday.

Wide draws no barrier

Michael Sharkie Trainer Peter Snowden retains his stranglehold on the Blue Diamond Stakes.

Filly to take on guns in rich plate

Patrick Bartley LIGHTLY raced sprinter Shamal Wind will attempt to become only the third three-year-old filly in the past 30 years to win the $400,000 group 1 Oakleigh Plate at Caulfield on Saturday.

Blue Diamond fancy scratched after leg injury

Patrick Bartley High class two-year-old Thermal Current, third favourite for Saturday's $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes, has been scratched after being found to be lame.

Racing

The big guns are back

Kyle Mackey-Laws The weather's cooling down but the racing's heating up. Three good group 1s on Saturday signal the start of the autumn features.

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Praying for Miracles in Diamond

Patrick Bartley Clare Lindop is hoping good friend Lauren Stojakovic can take the Blue Diamond.

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Miracles Of Life wins the Blue Diamond

Inexperienced jockey Lauren Stojakovic has been rewarded for a copybook ride with victory on Miracles Of Life in the $1 million Blue Diamond Stakes at Caulfield.

Miracles and fairytales

Patrick Bartley Little-known apprentice and nuggety tough filly combine to win Blue Diamond Stakes.

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Diamond day for Lauren

Patrick Bartley EMOTIONAL scenes rarely seen on a racecourse broke out on Saturday minutes after a little-known apprentice and a nuggety filly combined to win Victoria's most important two-year-olds' race, the $1...

A trainer's faith, a jockey's courage, and a dream fulfilled

Michael Lynch A small interstate trainer, an unheralded young jockey and a pony-sized filly see off the blue bloods.

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Rich and powerful make way for a small miracle

Patrick Bartley It proved to be a day of contrasts at Caulfield on Saturday.

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Hayes targets fourth Blue Diamond

Michael Sharkie David Hayes hopes to qualify a swag of smart two-year-olds for the $1m Blue Diamond Stakes.

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Black Caviar challenge falls on deaf ears

Patrick Bartley It seems few are prepared to challenge champion filly's undefeated record.

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Trainer set to double up at Mornington

Michael Sharkie Stephen Theodore will have two good runners in action on Wednesday.

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Trainer's sales pitch off to flyer

Michael Sharkie Brilliant debut by Donna Madeira at Sandown spoils plunge on another Blue Diamond aspirant.

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Red-letter day for Ray

Michael Lynch Red Inca survives a vet's inspection at the start to win the Seascay Handicap.