1. Snow Sky: English-trained stayers have hardly been the flavour of the Melbourne Cup but neither were jockeys until Ryan Moore scored last year, albeit on a German-based stayer. Moore is a plus. An ...

Do you start with Michelle Payne, the first woman to ride a Melbourne Cup winner? The youngest child in a family of 11 raised by their horse trainer father Paddy after his wife Mary’s death. And as ...

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THEY won the Ashes back earlier this year and now the English are about to take home the Melbourne Cup, according to former BBC racecaller Jim McGrath. After nearly two decades of fruitless endeavour ...

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As Irish trainer Willie Mullins and Italian jockey Frankie Dettori digested Max Dynamite’s half-length second to Prince Of Penzance, Ricci exulted in the result. More particularly, Prince Of ...

Michelle Payne, the only female jockey to have won Australia's most important race, the Melbourne Cup (G1), has announced her retirement from the saddle. Payne created history in the 2015 Flemington ...

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Jamie Melham became the second woman ever to win the Lexus Melbourne Cup, riding the 8-1 shot Half Yours to victory and beating her husband Ben in the process. Racing has moved on in the ten years ...