Makybe Diva becomes first mare to win Australia&#39;s biggest horse ...
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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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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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The favourite for today&#39;s race at Flemington is attempting to become the first mare to win two Melbourne Cups and just the fifth horse in the race&#39;s 143-year history to win it
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Jerry Bailey greeted the shift of the champion mare Azeri to the $4 million Breeders&#39; Cup Classic as a double shot of good news.
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Sport: Horse racing: Kauto Star takes the plaudits with a stunning victory at Kempton
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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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A competition has already been held to find a name for the first foal from the champion New Zealand racemare Sunline. The filly foal, by outstanding Irish galloper Rock Of Gibraltar, was born
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Lord Derby&#39;s V05 Breeders&#39; Cup Filly &amp; Mare Turf (gr. IT) winner Ouija Board was named Horse Of The Year at the 2004 Cartier Racing Awards during a ceremony Wednesday night at the Four Seasons Hotel in London, England.
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MELBOURNE - Melbourne Cup second favourite Vinnie Roe is a definite runner in today&#39;s A$4.6 million ($5.07 million) race. Despite almost no rain falling at Flemington overnight, trainer Dermot Weld said the horse would &quot;take his chance&quot;.
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MELBOURNE: If Australian confidence counts for anything, Makybe Diva will be in the record books after today&#39;s Melbourne Cup. The six-year-old mare was heavily backed yesterday to win the
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OCEANPORT, N.J. - Curlin captured the $5 million Breeders' Cup Classic and probably the Horse of the Year title Saturday, and Jess Jackson barely had time to enjoy it. He knows business as the founder of Kendall-Jackson Winery; he knows the joys of seeing a horse run past the best of his generation.
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Former pre-Melbourne Cup favourite She&#39;s Archie&#39;s chances of running in Tuesday&#39;s big race brightened considerably yesterday when she passed a veterinary inspection.
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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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The $4 million Classic, the feature event on Saturday's Breeders' Cup card at Lone Star Park, just got tougher. Already loaded with talent, the Classic picked up another star attraction when owner Michael Paulson and trainer D. Wayne Lukas entered Azeri, the 2002 Horse of the Year, against powerful males in the Classic instead of fellow ...
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It's a go for Rags to Riches. The fabulous filly will run Saturday in the Belmont Stakes, where she will attempt to become the first of her sex to win the final jewel of the Triple Crown in 102 years.
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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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Russell Baze became racing's winningest jockey Friday when he broke Laffit Pincay Jr.'s record with a victory aboard Butterfly Belle at Bay Meadows.