Spring Carnival Racing

Nominations have been released for the 2012 Melbourne Cup, which is due to run at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday November 6, 2012. A total of 151 horses have been nominated for the 151st running of the race, including nine form trainer Bart Cummings alone. Cummings will be looking to extend…

Nominations have been released for the 2012 Cox Plate, with the race set to take place at Moonee Valley Racecourse on October 27, 2012. 155 horses have been nominated to run in the 2,040 metre Cox Plate, which has a field limit of 14 starters plus four emergencies. Included in…

The 2012 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival is just around the corner, with nomination dates now realeased for all the major races. Listed below are the key dates for nominations and acceptances for seven of the main spring races, which as always, promises to be a bumper carnival. Heading the carnival…

Dunaden won the 2011 Melbourne Cup by the very narrowest of margins at Flemington Racecourse yesterday November 1, 2011. The French stayer won the race by millimetres ahead of the fast finishing Red Cadeaux. Lucas Cranach rounded out the placings in third, while Americain ran on well for fourth. Dunaden’s…

Bart Cummings is hoping to win his 13th Melbourne Cup title with German stayer Illo come the $6.2 million race at Flemington on November 1, 2011. Illo arrived at the Cummings stable two weeks ago from Europe and the trainer feels the horse is in with a big Melbourne Cup…

December Draw has drawn perfectly in the barriers for the 2011 Caulfield Cup that will take place at Caulfield Racecourse this Saturday October 15, 2011. The five-year-old gelding has drawn barrier 11 for the $2.5 million race, but will jump from gate 9 should the emergencies not gain a start….

Grahame Begg has confirmed that Secret Admirer will target the $3 million Cox Plate on Saturday October 22, 2011, at Moonee Valley Racecourse. Secret Admirer won her last start in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap at Randwick last Saturday and her trainer feels she has pulled up well enough for…

Chase The Rainbow is due to run in the 2011 Stutt Stakes at Moonee Valley this Friday night September 30, 2011, after being scratched from the Caulfield Guineas Prelude at Caulfield last weekend due to the firm track. Trainer Rick Hore-Lacy is hopeful Chase The Rainbow can produce a win…

Crowd favourite Alcopop will have his first Melbourne start of the sprint in the 2011 Dato Tan Chin Tam Stakes at Moonee Valley Racecourse this Saturday September 10, 2011. The Jeune gelding won his last start at Morphettville, and trainer Jake Stephens believes he has the form to win the…

Peter Snowden has announced that Sepoy looks better than ever ahead of his second-up run in the Group 2 Danehill Stakes at Flemington Racecourse this Saturday September 3, 2011. The three-year-old colt performed brilliantly in his spring debut in the Listed Vain Stakes three weeks ago and his trainer believes…