The daughter of Home Affairs got her career off to the perfect start when she dominated her rivals in the $240,000 Group 3 Maribyrnong Plate (1000m).

Melbourne Cup runner Asterix has been scratched by stewards on the morning of the race over potential race day treatment.

A dramatic finish to the $3 million Big Dance had an even more extraordinary instalment in the stewards room when a protest by Nash Rawiller on fourth past-the-post Gringotts against Chad Schofield on ...

Ciaron Maher’s trifecta was not the only historic element to this year’s Melbourne Cup with the horse who provided him with his second win in the great race also breaking new ground. Point Of Law ...

Ethan Brown won his first Melbourne Cup, with a scintilating ride on Point Of Law. Hear from the beaten jockeys: ...

The Ciaron Maher-trained Point Of Law has won the Melbourne Cup at just his sixth career start. Ridden by Ethan ...

There was a time when newly crowned Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Ethan Brown never wanted to ride again. Brown was lucky to survive a horrific fall at Flemington in the Australian Guineas in 2023, ...

‘I don’t think I’m going home now’: Taige Weir celebrates first city winner on Melbourne Cup Day “I was going home, but I don’t think I’m going home now!” Taige Weir celebrates her first metropolitan ...

Sabaj reaffirmed his love affair with Melbourne Cup Week with a popular win in Tuesday’s $200,000 Listed Asahi Super Dry Plate at Flemington. The Mick Price and Michael Kent Jr-trained gelding logged ...

She may carry the name of her famous father, but if there was any doubt that Taige Weir deserves her place as trainer in her own right, they were dispelled on Melbourne Cup Day. Taige, whose father is ...

Trainer Ciaron Maher has made history becoming the first trainer to provide the trifecta in the Melbourne Cup. Maher saddled seven runners in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington on Tuesday ...

Matt Welsh . Matt Welsh is the founder of Betsy and one of Australia’s most respected form analysts. A former executive at ...