Efficient

Efficient earns a start in Cox Plate

A capacity field will start in the $3 million Cox Plate at Melbourne's Moonee Valley racecourse on Saturday.

Horse Racing

Derby types hoping to go the distance

Michael Lynch For years the critics have argued that the 2500 metres of the Victoria Derby is too far.

Andrew Harding

Stipes are not public servants

Andrew Harding Racing integrity commissioner Sal Perna last week released the report into race fixing.

Green Moon wins Melbourne Cup

Andrew Eddy Owner Lloyd Williams has won his fourth Melbourne Cup and jet-setting jockey Brett Prebble his first after the Hong Kong-based rider gave Green Moon "the ride of my life" to score in the $6.

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Rodd and Cadeaux ready to turn the tables

Andrew Eddy Michael Rodd hopes the pixels will be in his favour this Cup day.

Dunlop expects the Cup to head to Europe

Chris Roots Red Cadeaux's trainer Ed Dunlop hopes his ''slow horse'' might do the trick.

Road-weary Dunlop keen to go one better

Chris Roots RED CADEAUX'S trainer Ed Dunlop believes Europe will add the Melbourne Cup to its sporting haul for the year and hopes his ''slow horse'' might do the trick.

Cup winner Just A Dash dead at 35

Chris Roots Winner buried, standing up and facing the sun after being put down at Willow Dene Stud.

Cup champion bows out after long retirement

Chris Roots MELBOURNE CUP winner Just A Dash was buried standing up and facing the sun after dying at Willow Dene Stud near Wollongong on Friday night.

Racing

Punters jump on to ride with Weld and Cumani

Andrew Eddy IT IS the usual suspects who are commanding the attention from punters on the eve of the Melbourne Cup with increasing interest in the horses prepared by champion trainers Luca Cumani and two-time...

'Someone has to win it and it may as well be me' - Bart

Chris Roots, Aidan Rodley THE bookmakers say the Cups King is making up the numbers in the Melbourne Cup, but Bart Cummings is "as confident as ever'' with Sanagas and Precedence heading towards Tuesday.

Horse Racing

Lucky for some

Chris Roots and Andrew Eddy The bookies may say otherwise but Cups King Bart Cummings believes he has the ammunition to win a 13th Melbourne Cup.

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Racing

After a long year of second guessing, the time for redemption is now

Who would have thought one measly millimetre could attract so much attention - not to mention emotional torment. That tiny margin has haunted my last 12 months, and the day for redemption has arrived.

Horse Racing

Raiders return for round two

Chris Roots IT IS said you have to have the heartbreak of losing a grand final to win one. If true, that bodes well for the team around Red Cadeaux, which has lived for the past 12 months with the knowledge that...

Racing

Raiders return for round two

Chris Roots IT IS said you have to have the heartbreak of losing a grand final to win one. If true, that bodes well for the team around Red Cadeaux, which has lived for the past 12 months with the knowledge that...

Racing

Green Moon rises at Flemington

Andrew Eddy, Patrick Bartley After more than half a century in racing, Lloyd Williams became the most successful owner in Melbourne Cup history with Green Moon's victory in Tuesday's $6 million nation-stopper.

Racing

Magical moment from a magnificent obsession

Michael Lynch To describe the focus on the Melbourne Cup by the Williams family as a magnificent obsession is to merely commit a magnificent understatement.