IT TAKES something special for a crowd estimated at 105,000 to collectively hush. But hush they did for as long as three minutes at Flemington yesterday as judge Bill Quin pored over the photo finish between Dunaden and Red Cadeaux following the 151st Melbourne Cup.
Max Hinton had success with his mare Sophie Princess at the 2002 Melbourne Cup Carnival, nearly a decade later he snagged a Group 3 race with her daughter Sophie's Spirit which won the Herald Sun Stakes.
On arguably Australia’s best day of racing, Hurtle Myrtle defeated the country’s best fillies and mares over a mile to claim her first Group One victory in the VRC Myer Classic.
Wouldn't it be great to own a horse? Imagine if you didn't just bet on that good thing, but took home the trophies, framed pictures and prizemoney when it won?
GLOBAL traveller Craig Williams combined with a former Australian Olympic equestrian rider in Greg Eurell to claim a deflating Cox Plate with Pinker Pinker at Moonee Valley yesterday.
Warwick Farm trainer Ron Leemon has already started looking forward to next Saturday's Group I Victoria Derby (2500m) after Manawanui's comfortable Group II Mitchelton Wines Vase (2040m) at Moonee Valley.
Coolmore's long serving sire Spinning World produced hgis 43rd stakeswinner when promising filly Torah put her first Listed win on the board at Moonee Valley on Saturday.
Cox Plate day 2011 couldn’t have started worse for bookies with the well-fancied Diamond Earth prevailing in an exciting start to the day in the $250,000 Microflite Helicopters Inglis Banner.
The decision by Hawkesbury trainer Joan Pracey to chase the great prizemoney on offer in the Inglis Race Series paid big dividends 1,000 kms away today, with Upstacker winning the $100,000 Inglis Trophy (1400m) at Sale in Victoria.
The tremendous run of Group 1 victories for graduates of Inglis’ Melbourne Premier Yearling Sale continued at Moonee Valley today, as Pinker Pinker strode away with Australia’s weight-for-age championship, the $3million G1 MVRC Tatts WS Cox Plate.
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