Makybe Diva Wins Second Straight Melbourne Cup Race
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Makybe Diva won the 144th running of the Melbourne Cup, becoming the first mare to win Australia&#39;s richest horse race in successive years.
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PHILLIP ISLAND (Melbourne): Italian Valentino Rossi is within a top-two podium finish of claiming his fourth consecutive premier class world title in the Australian MotoGP championship race here on Sunday.
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The Prince of Wales's Stakes is the highlight on the second day at Ascot.
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Serena Williams won her second Australian Open title and seventh Grand Slam singles title with a 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 win over Lindsay Davenport.
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When he won last year&#39;s Melbourne Cup on Makybe Diva, Glen Boss couldn&#39;t wipe the smile off his face. When he repeated the dose yesterday, he was in tears.
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Rebounding from an unsuccessful trip to Japan and a four-month layoff, Island Fashion won her second major stakes of the year in Sunday&#39;s $235,000 Lady&#39;s Secret Breeders&#39; Cup Handicap.
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A clash between the world&#39;s two best equine females is on the cards after Makybe Diva outgunned the gallant Irish stayer Vinnie Roe to win yesterday&#39;s Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington.
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Second seed Amelie Mauresmo of France  overcame a sluggish start to defeat Russian teen-ager Dinara  Safina 2-6, 6-1, 6-0 in the second round of the Australian Open  Wednesday.
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Marlies Schild won for the second time in as many days Wednesday, posting the fastest time in both runs to capture a night slalom to go along with her World Cup giant slalom victory on Tuesday.
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Karrie Webb shot a 4-under-par 68 Sunday for a two-stroke victory at the ANZ Australian Ladies Masters and her second straight tournament win.
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Amelie Mauresmo thrashed Elena Bovina 6-2, 6-0 to claim her fourth tennis title of the year at the Linz Open in Vienna. Top seed Mauresmo, who had previously won the German Open and events in Rome and Montreal
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Meredith Vieira, from pressured start to first anniversary, has succeeded in extending the weekly winning streak of the âTodayâ show into a second decade.
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ALICIA Molik has become the first Australian woman in 17 years to win consecutive WTA Tour titles, beating Dinara Safina in the final of the Luxembourg Open.
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TRIUMPHANT trainer Lee Freedman is convinced Makybe Diva can win the Prix de l&#39;Arc de Triomphe. Freedman says the dual Melbourne Cup winner has all the ingredients to beat the world&#39;s best horses
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Frankie Dettori wins his second Derby in two days as Lawman wins the Prix du Jockey Club in France.
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FILDERSTADT, Germany : Amelie Mauresmo underlined her world number one credentials by surging into the quarter-finals of the 650,000-dollar WTA event with a 7-5, 6-4 win over Patty Schynder.
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MELBOURNE (Dow Jones)--Makybe Diva is the winner of the 2004 Melbourne Cup horse race, gaining first place in the 3,200-meter race held at Flemington course.