The Sydney Spring Racing Carnival will continue at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse this weekend with a quality day of racing, including the Group Two Furious Stakes (1400m).
Despite the wide barrier draw, Parables is a hot favourite for the win.
The 2010 Furious Stakes has seen 10 three-year-old fillies form the line up, which is due to jump at 2.20pm…
Warwick Farm Racecourse’s highlight of the year – the Group Two Warwick Stakes (1400m) – didn’t disappoint as the stunning Metal Bender led home a Chris Waller trifecta.
The multiple Group One winner backed up a stunning effort at the Brisbane Winter Racing Carnival in his first up jump on Saturday at the 2010 Warwick Stakes.
Tim Clark took the…
The Sydney Spring Racing Carnival will continue at Sydney’s Royal Randwick Racecourse this weekend with a quality day of racing, including the Group Two Furious Stakes (1400m).
Despite the wide barrier draw, Parables is a hot favourite for the win.
The 2010 Furious Stakes has seen 10 three-year-old fillies form the line up, which is due to jump at 2.20pm…
Nine 2010 Melbourne Cup nominees will jump over two races tonight in York, England, and will provide a pivotal guide into the lead up for this year’s Melbourne Cup final field.
Six races are taking place in York today, with the Group Two Lonsdale Cup (3299m) jumping second with three 2010 Melbourne Cup nominations making the final field.
Five-year-old King…
With just under two months to go until the 2010 Melbourne Cup final field jumps at the Flemington Racecourse, Racing Victoria has announced the weights allocated to the Melbourne Cup entrants.
Earlier this morning Greg Carpenter – Racing Victoria’s Chief handicapper – revealed the weights, which are topped by the Robert Hickmott-trained duo Alandi and Efficient at 58 kg each.…
Reactions to the weights laid out by Racing Victoria’s Greg Carpenter for the 2010 Melbourne Cup yesterday have been thick and fast, with international Melbourne Cup entrants pleased with the outcome.
The European brood is topweighted by the Saeed Bin Suroor-trained duo of Cavalryman and Mastery at 57.5kg each, just half-a-kilo off the topweighted Alandi and Efficient.
Mastery, the 2009…
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The Spring Racing Carnival is the biggest horse racing event in Australia. The Carnival runs for 50 days during September, October and November annually and always provides sensational wins and unexpected upsets. The races that are part of the annual Spring Carnival include the Caulfield Guineas, Caulfield Thousand Guineas, Caulfield Cup, Cox Plate, Victoria Derby, Crown Oaks, Emirates Stakes and of course the illustrious Melbourne Cup.
Held on the first Tuesday of November each year, the Melbourne Cup is inarguably the most important and famous race on the Australian horse racing calendar and the highlight of the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival. The Melbourne Cup is the biggest single betting, and best known, horse racing event in Australia and the richest handicap race in the world.
A win in the Melbourne Cup secures the horse, jockey, trainer and owner in the history books as it is known as “the race that stops a nation”. The maximum number of runners to leave the stalls is 24, and they do so every year in front of the 100,000 plus crowd that gathers to watch Australia’s favourite race. The race attracts a large number of international horses as well, all competing for the large prize money.
The Melbourne Cup combines with the Caulfield Cup to make up the major Cup’s double of the Spring Carnival; betting markets for both cups open months in advance.
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