Spring Carnival Racing

After an impressive stint at Newmarket’s July Festival last week, coming away with a win in the Group 2 Princess of Wales’s Stakes (2,414m), Sans Frontieres is on target for an explosive run in the 2010 Melbourne Cup field. The four-year-old saw Redwood to second spot in the Stakes, and…

With the countdown to Australia’s greatest annual period of thoroughbred horse racing underway, Doubtful Jack is being tipped as the contender to set the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival alight as he dominated in the Listed Winter Championship Final (1600m) at Flemington on Saturday. Doubtful Jack is being tipped as the…

Every year the Ballarat Cup closes the esteemed Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, and while it is an honourable event, has generally flown under the radar in terms of prestige – but that will all change this year. The Ballarat Cup will be moved to Sunday the 21st of November this…

With preparations underway for the upcoming Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, it looks as though the Graeme Rogerson-trained Shootoff will be tried for the prestigious 2010 Victoria Derby at the Flemington racecourse. It looks as though the Graeme Rogerson-trained Shootoff will be tried for the prestigious 2010 Victoria Derby. Due to…

Gai Waterhouse is looking to bombard the Caulfield Cup and Melbourne Cup with one of her strongest campaigns yet. The Caulfield Cup is scheduled to take place on the 16th of October, with the Melbourne Cup on the 2nd of November. It currently seems Waterhouse is teeing up Once Were…

In Victoria, AFL and horse racing have always been fought over as the most popular sport in the state, and so the Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival was strategically placed to go ahead after the Aussie Rules season and before the cricket started for its own piece of glory. The AFL…

The Caulfield Spring Racing Carnival – a major part of spring carnival racing in Australia is due to jump on the 31st of July with the Bletchingly Stakes Day. This year the official charity partner of the Caulfield Spring Racing Carnival is the Epilepsy Foundation of Victoria. Hosting some of…

With less than three months to go until the highly anticipated running of the 150th Melbourne Cup in November, Bauer looks on target to take part in this year’s edition of Australia’s richest race. The British-based seven-year-old lost by a nose in the 2008 Melbourne Cup to Viewed, and is…

The 150th running of Australia’s greatest race – the $6 million Group 1 Melbourne Cup (3200m) will draw at least two more international horses to the capital of Victoria when Melbourne’s Spring Racing Carnival jumps. Singapore-based Jolie’s Shinju will join Tony Noonan’s camp in the mare’s lead up to the…

As the countdown begins to one of the Australian thoroughbred horse racing’s most elite event, all eyes turn to the capital of Victoria for the highly anticipated 2010 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival, and the events which fill it. Masquerader, trained by David Payne is one colt who is being trained…