‘Swallow your pride’:Victoria urged to copy V’landys with $20 million revamp

‘Swallow your pride’:Victoria urged to copy V’landys with $20 million revamp

The All-Star Mile has lost public appeal this year and failed to pull the best horses away from Sydney’s autumn carnival. As a result,there is a call to turn the race into a $20 million Melbourne version of The Everest.

  • byDanny Russell

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Verry Elleegant’s journey from triumph to tragedy:How a one in 1000 chance caused champion mare’s death

Verry Elleegant’s journey from triumph to tragedy:How a one in 1000 chance caused champion mare’s death

The racing world is still coming to terms with the shock death of the former Melbourne Cup winner while giving birth to her first foal. The reason was an extremely rare complication.

  • byAdam Pengilly
Racing members and trainers push for late scratching of Rosehill development plan

Racing members and trainers push for late scratching of Rosehill development plan

A new Metro station and 25,000 homes at Rosehill could be scuttled by opposition from within the Australian Turf Club,which must agree to sell the land.

  • byMichael Koziol
From Todman to ‘meet Chris Waller’:The champions and chancers of Rosehill Gardens

From Todman to ‘meet Chris Waller’:The champions and chancers of Rosehill Gardens

The Golden Slipper shines bright among memories of the western Sydney racecourse. But it was the people as much as the horses who wrote the Rosehill story.

  • byMax Presnell
Pick your winner:Every horse running in the Melbourne Cup
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Pick your winner:Every horse running in the Melbourne Cup

We take you through every horse and their chances in the chase for history in the race that stops the nation.

  • byDamien Ractliffe
Margin call:The incredible close finishes that have made the Golden Eagle an instant hit

Margin call:The incredible close finishes that have made the Golden Eagle an instant hit

Four years,four thrilling finishes. Is the Golden Eagle quickly elevating itself as a super race because it is such an even contest?

  • byAdam Pengilly andChris Roots
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Why Jamie Kah is riding for Waller in the Melbourne Cup
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Why Jamie Kah is riding for Waller in the Melbourne Cup

Star jockey Jamie Kah has picked up a ride for champion trainer Chris Waller in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup.

  • byDamien Ractliffe
The Everest winner will earn $100,000 per second - and this is how a jockey can win it

The Everest winner will earn $100,000 per second - and this is how a jockey can win it

Bart Cummings used to tell his jockeys to wait until the Flemington clock tower in the Melbourne Cup. But how much do tactics come into play over the speed trip at Royal Randwick?

  • byAdam Pengilly
Its only winning stallion is earning a fortune. So,does The Everest even need group 1 status?

Its only winning stallion is earning a fortune. So,does The Everest even need group 1 status?

Yes Yes Yes is commanding huge dollars at stud as a stallion on the rise,which means the race might not need the official elite status it craves.

  • byAdam Pengilly
Getting back to Nature:World’s best sprinter faces make-or-break TJ Smith Stakes

Getting back to Nature:World’s best sprinter faces make-or-break TJ Smith Stakes

The nine-time group 1 winner produced one of his worst runs last start,and a similar performance on Saturday could spell the end of the road for Chris Waller’s eight-year-old.

  • byChristian Nicolussi
James McDonald cleared to ride in $5 million Golden Slipper

James McDonald cleared to ride in $5 million Golden Slipper

Australia’s best jockey had a win on appeal,allowing him to ride Cylinder in the world’s richest two-year-old race and Anamoe in his second-last Australian start.

  • byAdam Pengilly