It is one of the hottest topics every year leading up to the first Tuesday of November, will the ‘Cups King’ Bart Cummings do it again? Can Bart secure his bakers’ dozen of Loving Trophies by preparing another Melbourne Cup winner. You can talk about…
Shamrocker has already well-rewarded her connections with the “bargain buy” mare amassing close to $2 million in career prize money, but can she win the richest race in Australia and take out the $3.6 million first prize by becoming the 2011 Melbourne Cup winner?
The…
Consistent Sydney stayer Tullamore is considered the best of Ms Gai Waterhouse’s two Melbourne Cup 2011 chances. They certainly have the right form to take out the $6 million showdown and snare the $3.6 million Melbourne Cup first prize on Tuesday, but have they been…
After concerns earlier in the year that quarantine issues would force an international no-show in Flemington’s showcase race, the 2011 Melbourne Cup field now features a record 11 overseas raiders including two from the stables of high-profile European horseman Luca Cumani.
Originally hailing from Italy…
Maestro trainer Bart Cummings nominated just five stayers from his Flemington stables for the 2011 Melbourne Cup when entries for the iconic spring showdown closed on Thursday, German import Illo adding interest to the Cups King’s attempt at collecting an unprecedented 13th Loving Trophy this…
Defending Melbourne Cup winner Americain has, as expected, been installed as the 2011 Caulfield Cup top-weight with 58 kilograms when handicaps for the $2.5 million Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival feature were released by Racing Victoria today.
Racing Victoria’s chief handicapper Greg Carpenter earlier this week…
Danny O’Brien is confident that his former Group One placegetter Vigor can make a successful return to the track when he resumes his racing career in the Group Two Memsie Stakes over 1400m at Caulfield next month.
O’Brien had hoped to bring the gelding back…
Veteran stayer Bauer has returned to track work in Europe, the ever-gallant grey from the stables of Luca Cumani again heading towards the world’s richest two-mile handicap, the 2011 Melbourne Cup.
Now a rising nine-year-old, Halling gelding Bauer was a devastatingly close Melbourne Cup runner-up…
One of Europe’s leading trainers, Dermot Weld is considering another trip down under this spring carnival with his promising mare Sense Of Purpose a definite 2011 Melbourne Cup entry.
Curragh-based Weld has previously trained two Melbourne Cup winners with Vintage Crop (1993) and Media Puzzle…
Two-time trainer of a Melbourne Cup runner-up, Luca Cumani concedes that if current quarantine issues aren’t resulted then European raiders, including a handful from his successful Newmarket stables, will be unable to feature in this spring’s Melbourne Cup Carnival.
Qualms over the suitability of a…
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