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Racing: Mongolian Khan has 55kg in Melbourne Cup
Jockey Opie Bosson's fridge door will open slightly with yesterday's announcement New Zealand's Horse Of The Year Mongolian Khan has been given 55kg in the Melbourne Cup on November 3.
Jockey Opie Bosson's fridge door will open slightly with yesterday's announcement New Zealand's Horse Of The Year Mongolian Khan has been given 55kg in the Melbourne Cup on November 3.
Order Of St George completed a St Leger double for Aidan O'Brien with a runaway win under jockey Joseph O'Brien at the Curragh yesterday.
The Christen Me camp may not be panicking after his shock weekend defeat but his real Cup rivals are about to launch their campaigns to dethrone him.
West Melton horseman Cran Dalgety left slightly confused after winning a group race.
New Zealand's Horse Of The Year finished seventh just 1.55 lengths from the winner, Fawkner, and Volstok'n'barrell.
Saturday's A$400,000 Makybe Diva Stakes at Flemington left one of the two New Zealand camps ecstatic, the other mystified.
Donna Logan is prepared to make Australia wait for their first glimpse of her undefeated four-year-old Hasselhoof.
Rudy Liefting got his reward when Danza Lad added to his Awapuni record with an upset victory in the feature event on yesterday's card.
Craig Williams jumped off Volkstok'n'barrell after a Caulfield gallop on Tuesday morning and declared the New Zealand whiz "90 to 95 per cent".
The group one race which announced Tommy Berry's arrival on racing's biggest stage is set to play another pivotal role in the young jockey's career on Saturday.
Champion racemare Adore Me will try to buck a 100-year curse in her first breeding engagement.
Spring Champion Stakes winner Complacent returned to the winning list after a lengthy layoff.
Like all jumps jockeys, Richard Cully had from day one wanted to win the Great Northern race day at Ellerslie - and so he did.
There has already been drama leading up to the Golden Rose and it appears there will be less than a capacity field for Sydney's first group one race.
Alcaldesa floored punters yesterday when she shed her maiden tag with a boilover win in the Listed HS Dyke Wanganui Guineas.
Jack Romanov gave the Brooks family their day of glory at Ellerslie when he triumphed in a dramatic edition of the Great Northern Steeplechase.
Bart did not race a horse at Ellerslie, but he bought the majority of his 12 Melbourne Cup winners from these shores and was a huge fan of the New Zealand bloodlines.
Mongolian Khan is our best chance of winning the Melbourne Cup since Ethereal took the famous race for New Zealand in 2001.
Trainer Steven Reid says he would have no hesitation in sacking himself as a driver.
Sydney horseman James Cummings has honoured his late grandfather's association with the Melbourne Cup with five nominations in the race.
Yesterday's storm got rid of today's Waipa races, put a heavy hand on Friday's Tauranga raceday and made sure the Great Northern Steeplechase candidates will seriously earn their money at Ellerslie on Saturday.
Sydney trainer Sam Kavanagh faces a lengthy ban after being found guilty of 23 charges relating to the use of cobalt and raceday treatments.
Rosehill trainer Chris Waller will have 11 entries for the Chelmsford Stakes at Randwick as Sydney's premier stable steps up its assault on the spring carnival.
Volkstok'n'barrell's seventh in Saturday's A$400,000 Memsie Stakes more than pleased co-trainer Chris Gibbs.
The most amazing training year in the history of New Zealand harness racing has ended as it should, with an exclamation mark from our greatest stable ever.
If Allan Sharrock is right - and he almost certainly is - then how can they stop Kawi creating history by winning the last two legs of the Hastings spring treble?
James Bartholomew Cummings died in Sydney in the early hours of yesterday morning and he is a hard act to follow.
Australia's greatest ever racehorse trainer Bart Cummings has died at the age of 87 in Sydney.