Toryboy, Catalogue and Twilight Payment are the oldest winning horses in Melbourne Cup history. There have been 11 seven-year-old winners, but the race is normally dominated by horses aged four to six ...

Bernadette, a former jockey herself, died last week at the ... Michelle – who shot to superstardom in 2015 when she won the Melbourne Cup – said her family are deeply appreciative of all ...

With a look at the history books Daily Mail Australia ... are the most successful Melbourne Cup jockeys of the past 40 years. Mark Zahra has won the last two consecutive Melbourne Cups aboard ...

Races continue throughout the day at roughly 40-minute intervals, with a longer break before the Melbourne Cup to allow for the introduction of the 24 jockeys and horses who will compete for the Cup.

while 17 days later in the Melbourne Cup, the topweight Vauban carried just 55.5kg. These low topweights meant there was not only a small spreading of the weights and also that many of the industry's ...

Racing Victoria has made a big change to the Melbourne Cup and Caulfield Cup that will ensure our best jockeys can be involved in the two spring majors. In consultation with the Melbourne Racing ...

Two-time Melbourne Cup flop Vauban blew like a gale in his return to racing, drifting from $4 out to $10, but that counted for little as he powered home to take out the G3 Sky High Stakes (2000m) at ...

Andrea Atzeni hopes a famous family formula can help him etch his name into Group One Melbourne Cup (3,200m) history when he hops ... Seven-time Hong Kong champion jockey, Zac Purton, rides ...

Three-time Melbourne Cup jockey Kerrin McEvoy has been accused of blowing up a chance at history with a bizarre ride. Some of the best known jockeys in this year’s Melbourne Cup failed to fire.