2024 Melbourne Cup: James Cummings backs up Zardozi
James Cummings is confident his star staying mare Zardozi is ready to run the race of her life in Tuesday's $8m Melbourne Cup (3200m). Zardozi was the only Melbourne Cup runner this year to run on the opening day to the Flemington carnival, and the way the four-year-old mare hit the line in the Group 1 Empire Rose Stakes (1600m) left Cummings beaming. ...
Melbourne Cup trailblazer Sheila Laxon becomes a legend
Sheila Laxon went from Melbourne Cup trailblazer to legend in just under 200 seconds at Flemington on Tuesday. Laxon was the first female trainer to officially train a winner of the race that stops a nation when her wonder mare Ethereal won the Caulfield-Melbourne Cup double in 2001. On Tuesday she and her training and life partner John Symons pulled off one of the great training performances ...
2024 Melbourne Cup tips: Top four picks from 24 experts
Nov 4, 2024 · Buckaroo was picked by six experts, with Geelong Cup winner Onesmoothoperator and Vauban's stablemate Absurde both getting four nods. Zardozi (2) and Okita Soushi (1) were the other horses to feature. Here are all our experts' top four selections. However, Athabascan has now been scratched from the race on Monday …
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Champions Stakes runner-by-runner form analysis and tips
The $3 million Champions Stakes has drawn together an excellent field of middle-distance gallopers, with a field of 12 runners declared for the 2000m contest. Here is Clinton Payne's form assessment for each of the runners, plus his tips. MORE: Champions Stakes 2024 Full Coverage
Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes runner-by-runner preview and tips
1 - SOUTHPORT TYCOON Dual Group 1 winner and the top weight for Saturday's renewal of this race. Still don't know how he ran down Growing Empire to win the Manikato Stakes and two runs since have been solid. Made good ground late in the Golden Eagle, finishing three lengths off the winner, a strong formline to follow into this. Verdict: Fairly treated at the weights but has class.
KWT chasing Easy payday in The Hunter - Punters.com.au
Kyle Wilson-Taylor watched on from Eagle Farm as Craig Williams scooted away with The Kosciuszko aboard Far Too Easy last month. On Saturday, Wilson-Taylor gets the chance to collect his first winner's cheque aboard the popular sprinter when he rides him in The Hunter at Newcastle. Wilson-Taylor has done most of the legwork aboard Far Too Easy, but remarkably has never won on the horse, who ...
Peter Moody hoping to reach Derby peak in 2025 with Grunt gelding
Dec 18, 2024 · Champion trainer Peter Moody potentially unearthed a South Australian or Queensland Derby-type galloper at Caulfield Heath on Wednesday with Reach The Peak a green but impressive winner. Yulong Investments-owned Reach The Peak travelled sweetly behind the speed under jockey Linda Meech and shouldered out around the bend to find the front and fend off multiple challengers.
2024 Melbourne Cup: Robbie Dolan, Sheila Laxon met on cruise
A Melbourne Cup P&O cruise a few years ago provided the extraordinary backdrop for a meeting that will now go down in the race's long and storied history. Jockey-turned-singer Robbie Dolan reckons there should be a movie script out of it. Dolan, who appeared on The Voice in 2022, was employed to do some crooning on the Cup-theme cruise. Sheila Laxon, who famously trained Ethereal to win the ...
Ascot R2 - Schweppes (Bm72+) - Punters.com.au
Nov 30, 2024 · Australia's best horse racing form guide featuring free ratings, speed maps, sectional times, race predictor & form filtering.