Emirates Melbourne Cup News

The health of Melbourne Cup winner Subzero is improving with the rising 31-year-old a chance to return home soon to his Heathcote paddock.

New Zealand stayer Sir Charles Road has arrived in Sydney to be prepared for a campaign aimed at the Melbourne Cup.

Roger Charlton has brought off a training feat with one-time Melbourne Cup favourite Withhold winning the Marsh Cup at Newbury after a nine-month absence.

The Victoria Racing Club has announced a boost of $7.52 million in prizemoney and bonuses for the 2019 Melbourne Cup Carnival and Turnbull Stakes Day.

.Auckland Cup-placed Blue Breeze will race in the Cambridge Stud colours this spring as the stayer attempts to qualify for this year's $8 million Melbourne Cup.

Twilight Payment has dug deep to beat Latrobe in the Curragh Cup to come into Melbourne Cup calculations.

Owner Nick Williams talks to Gary Crispe after Master Of Reality runs third in the Ascot Gold Cup and a possible tilt at the 2019 Melbourne Cup.

Gold Mount, a Royal Ascot winner when called Primitivo, has made a winning return in England after racing in Hong Kong and will be aimed at the Melbourne cup.

The Melbourne Cup will be worth a record $8 million with the winner to earn connections $4.4 million.

Subzero, winner of the 1992 Melbourne Cup, has made some improvement over the weekend as he battles illness at Bendigo Equine Hospital.

Long-term ambitions for the Melbourne Cup have moved a step closer for English horse Just Hubert, a winner at Sandown.

The Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour National Sweep officially kicked off over the weekend as the coveted trophy toured Deniliquin and Wakool in regional NSW and Koondrook on the Murray River in Victoria.

Network 10, the home of the Melbourne Cup Carnival, is expanding its horse racing coverage to include key international events and major races in Great Britain and France.

Melbourne Cup runner-up Marmelo has finished unplaced in the Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud won by the John Gosden-trained Coronet.

The benchmark weight for a northern hemisphere three-year-old in the Melbourne Cup has been lifted by 1kg after a review.

Even some Melbourne Cup form has come from past Tattersall’s Cups run at Eagle Farm on Saturday.

York winner is a former Royal Ascot victor – when called Primitivo

Class stayer (Sir) Charles Road flew to Sydney over the weekend as he prepares to kick off a spring campaign that will hopefully culminate in a tilt at the Gr.1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) in November.

The countdown is on to the 2019 Melbourne Cup Carnival, with just 100 days to go until AAMI Victoria Derby Day on Saturday 2 November.

The Victoria Racing Club (VRC) is delighted to announce a boost of $7.52 million dollars in prizemoney and bonuses for Australia’s most celebrated week of racing, the 2019 Melbourne Cup Carnival and Turnbull Stakes Day.

The Lexus Melbourne Cup has officially begun its four-month tour, travelling across Bass Strait to Tasmania for the first leg of the 17th annual Lexus Melbourne Cup Tour.

Azuro has lived up to his favouritism and shown his endurance to win the Stayer's Cup at Rosehill over the Melbourne Cup distance.

Melbourne Cup-winning trainers Charlie Appleby and Joseph O'Brien have declared their intention to return to Australia this spring.

The Andrew Ramsden runner-up Surprise Baby is about to return to work with The Bart Cummings a first target on the way to the Melbourne Cup.

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