Makybe Diva: first mare to win Australia&#39;s biggest race twice? ...
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Last year&#39;s winner and 5-2 favorite Makybe Diva on Tuesday became the first mare in the 144-year history of the Melbourne Cup to win Australia&#39;s most famous horse race twice.
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FOUR seasons in one race meeting, meteorologically and emotionally speaking. It was an epic day when Makybe Diva claimed her place in Australian racing history by winning her second successive Melbourne Cup.
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Dermot Weld, the only trainer from the northern hemisphere to win the Melbourne Cup, said his chances of registering a third victory in Australia&#39;s richest horserace depend on rain.
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Makybe Diva won the 144th running of the A$4.6 million (1.9 million pounds) Melbourne Cup to become only the fourth horse and the first mare to capture Australia&#39;s richest and most famous race two years in a row.
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Australia&#39;s dreams of an historic fourth successive three-day eventing gold medal ended in disappointment but there was still joy for the team when Andrew Hoy&#39;s wife won dual gold medals.
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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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Trainer D. Wayne Lukas announced yesterday he will enter champion mare Azeri against the males in Saturday's Breeders' Cup Classic at Lone Star Park, but she'll have to be better than good to defeat defending champion Pleasantly Perfect. A son of Pleasant Colony, Pleasantly Perfect overcame a serious illness to develop into a monster, and he ...
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas Oct 31, 2004 - Azeri&#39;s racing career isn&#39;t over yet. The champion mare who took on the boys and finished fifth in the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic on Saturday could race in Kentucky or California early next year.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Leave it to D. Wayne Lukas to add intrigue to an appealing Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. By entering Azeri in today&#39;s $4 million Classic, the Hall of Fame trainer is taking a huge gamble that
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The Melbourne Cup is known as &#39;the race that stops a nation&#39;, owing to its standing as Australia&#39;s most popular horse race.
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Australia&#39;s Grant Hackett has won the 1500 metres freestyle at the Athens Olympics to become just the fourth man to win the race twice at the Olympics.
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English and Irish classic winner Ouija Board (GB) more than justified the hype surrounding her presence in the $1-million Breedersâ Cup Filly and Mare Turf (G1), surging past Grade 1 winner Film Maker in the lane to capture the 1 3/8-mile contest at
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Makybe Diva became the first mare to win the Melbourne Cup twice, successfully defending her title Tuesday in Australia&#39;s most famous race.
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Ashado for 3-year-old filly champion. No doubt about it, after her winning the Breeders&#39; Cup Distaff here yesterday. The Kentucky Oaks heroine had gone through a summer
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Rain and strong winds in the Australian city of Melbourne is expected to bring a swag of international horses back into contention for the nation&#39;s best known horse race, the Melbourne Cup.
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Trainer Lee Freedman says Makybe Diva deserves the title as the world&#39;s best stayer after winning a second consecutive Melbourne Cup yesterday.
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GRAND PRAIRIE, Texas - Azeri will try to beat the boys again, this time in the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic. Trainer D. Wayne Lukas made the surprise announcement Tuesday, declaring 2002 Horse of the Year