#Spring Carnival

The idea of moving the Cox Plate to the end of November - a radical change to the structure of the spring racing carnival - was always going to spark fierce debate among industry participants and fans. It is the biggest switch among a raft being considered by Racing Victoria, which includes the Thousand Guineas going back a month, new dates for the…

Berry was given another four-week suspension after he pleaded guilty to having, and using, his phone in jockeys' rooms on more than 70 occasions, which were found not to be related to racing integrity. Berry immediately appealed the finding and asked for a stay of proceedings to allow him to continue to ride. Miller was given a 15-month…

FORMER champion jockey and 15-times Group 1 winner Simon Marshall gives us his insights into all the runners in the 2018 Melbourne Cup. 1. BEST SOLUTION (Barrier 6) Approx win/place odds: $15 / $4. Gutsy Caulfield Cup winner who's drawn perfectly in gate six. It was a terrific win at Caulfield, and came after back-to-back of Group 1 wins in…

A race created on a platform of fan engagement and backed by a $5 million purse is set to deliver everything turf administrators want from the All-Star Mile. Now in its third year, the All-Star Mile field is shaped by a mixture of public voting and wildcard entries in a concept not too dissimilar to how players are picked for the NBA All-Star…

Betting in Australia has never been more popular thanks to Covid and lockdowns, with racing not stopping during that time and with that, the betting websites were quite popular with the public as new punters were engaged. The question now is which betting sites are the best for punters to use heading into 2023? Down below are five of the best…

Australian racing is in rude health. It is almost in spite of itself. People are betting like never before, be that either lockdown driven or without a care for the use of the whip. Owners from one percenters to moguls are getting more in return for their fun or investment because of it, and breeders are riding a bloodstock boom that defies…

The year's biggest races are here again and as usual it's a tantalising puzzle, as the best horses from Australia and some of the best stayers from Europe descend on Melbourne. To hopefully help you find your way through the puzzle, here's five horses to follow this spring. Kayo is your ticket to the best sport streaming Live & On-Demand. New to…

Verry Elleegant and Nature Strip, the nation's best racehorses, are defying time - but for how much longer? Since the retirement of all-time great Winx three years ago, the Chris Waller-trained duo have reigned supreme. Nature Strip inherited the Horse of the Year title from his former stablemate in 2019-20 before Verry Elleegant claimed the honour…

The Caulfield Racecourse is set to close for six months from December. Picture: Getty Images The 2023 Blue Diamond Stakes will be run at Sandown while Caulfield closes for six months as part the Melbourne Racing Club's plan to build a second track at the venue. Caulfield Racecourse is set to be out of action from December this year for the rest of…

The moment that Gold Trip etched its name into racing folklore: Well the Melbourne Cup has been run and won for another year and there was no shortage of drama, emotion and, of course, fashion. Gold Trip won the 162nd edition of the great race, as co-trainers Ciaron Maher and David Eustace combined with jockey Mark Zahra to deliver the goods. It…

Trainers, jockeys, owners and punters think that whipping racehorses is an essential tool of trade. I'm yet to hear a convincing argument. These opinions are certainly not science based, and they are certainly not putting the horse first in their considerations. If nothing else, Blake Shinn's egregious breach of the whip rule a few days…

FORMER champion jockey and 15-times Group 1 winner Simon Marshall gives us his insights into all the runners in the 2018 Melbourne Cup. 1. BEST SOLUTION (Barrier 6) Approx win/place odds: $15 / $4. Gutsy Caulfield Cup winner who's drawn perfectly in gate six. It was a terrific win at Caulfield, and came after back-to-back of Group 1 wins in…

FORMER champion jockey and 15-times Group 1 winner Simon Marshall gives us his insights into all the runners in the 2018 Melbourne Cup. 1. BEST SOLUTION (Barrier 6) Approx win/place odds: $15 / $4. Gutsy Caulfield Cup winner who has drawn perfectly in gate six. It was a fantastic win at Caulfield, and came after back-to-back of Group One wins in…

SHE'S a living treasure, a sporting legend, the best thing since sliced bread and Black Caviar, and up there with our national pastime of "Flick the Prime Minister" as the most famous thing about Australia just now. The beauty part is, she's still racing in our lifetimes. And the even beauter part is, this Saturday could be the biggest celebration…

Sydney's star apprentice jockeys Tyler Schiller, Zac Lloyd, Dylan Gibbons and Reece Jones have more in common than just their riding skills. On the racetrack, the four young men are fierce rivals and each has premiership ambitions but away from it they often team up to take on the world … in video games. "We like to get on our Xbox or PlayStation…

So too, some one-eyed Sydney racing bugles. The Everest is better than this, or more talked about than that. Only thing missing is a swing set, slide and monkey bars. Ever heard a Victorian compare the Caulfield Cup to another race? What about the Cox Plate? Let alone the Melbourne Cup? The short answer is no. Why? Because Victorians, in racing…

The big corporate bookies have been huffing and puffing about Queensland's Point Of Consumption tax hike, but there is a fascinating spin-off which could change the face of racecourses in the Sunshine State. As part of the increased tax, the on-course exclusivity of Tabcorp is being released. It means the corporate bookies are free to negotiate…

Huetor has overcome a mystery eye ailment that nearly ended his race career and will make an extraordinary, emotional comeback in the Group 2 $2m The Ingham (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. This is a story of equine courage, the persistence of trainers Peter and Paul Snowden, the wonders of modern veterinary science, and the love and devotion…

The Australian Cup, won by Duais this year, has doubled to $3m. Racing Photos via Getty Images Victoria will be the place to race in 2023 with $49m prizemoney to be won across supercharged summer and autumn carnivals. Fresh off a record spring carnival, in both wagering and prizemoney, Racing Victoria on Wednesday will confirm its latest round of…

Huetor will make his comeback in the Group 2 $2m The Ingham while connections of Nugget and Dajraan are sweating on a start in the rich Royal Randwick mile next Saturday. The Ingham, formerly known as the Villiers Stakes, is likely to attract a very strong field requiring a rating close to 100 at least to be guaranteed a start. This leaves boom…

Five horses who could star in the Sydney Autumn The Autumn Carnival is Sydney is almost upon us with the Golden Slipper, Doncaster Handicap and Queen Elizabeth Stakes among the features in store over the coming months. Who are the horses to follow and what are the horse racing tips predicting? Which unknown quantities could emerge as stars of the…

Unbeaten thoroughbred Baaeed and two of the best sprinters in the world open the show at Royal Ascot 2022. Crowds return to the huge sporting event to see Australia's Nature Strip and American hope Golden Pal race for top honours in the King's Stand Stakes. Up against the star pair is the Queen's first runner of the week, King's Lynn, who tries to…

Racing Victoria believes it is winning the war against the'Nup to the Cup' movement, and that back-to-back Melbourne Cups without a fatality will help strengthen racing's social licence. The Victorian Greens are campaigning for a ban on jumps racing, a ban on whips and the removal of public funding for the horse racing industry ahead of Saturday's…

Melbourne Cup Week and the Spring Carnival are highlights when it comes to the Victorian thoroughbred racing media industry. But it's a thriving sector that operates every week and most days of the year. Looking after much of the media surrounding thoroughbred racing in Victoria and South Australia is Peter Campbell, chief executive for VTRIMB.…

Trainer Mark Newnham (left) believes Sunshine Rising still has some good racing in front of him. Picture: Vince Caligiuri-Getty Images One look at the formguide will tell you why ex-Hong Kong galloper Sunshine Rising is attracting plenty of attention ahead of his first run in 671 days in Saturday's Group 3 Festival Stakes (1500m) at Rosehill. The…

Two of Australia's biggest racing websites - Racenet and Punters - have recorded their best spring carnival in history. During the 11-week carnival, which ran from late August until Champions Day on November 5, both websites had a combined audience of 5.1 million for a total of 73 million page views. On Melbourne Cup day, both websites topped 1…

Alligator Blood has been banned from racing in the Victorian spring carnival. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography Headline horse Alligator Blood has been sensationally banned from racing in the Victorian spring carnival. In a bombshell development, News Corp can exclusively reveal the two-time Group 1 winner has been barred by Victorian…

Queensland's Group 1 Stradbroke Handicap could be the big 2022 goal for slashing Gold Coast Magic Millions 3YO Guineas runner-up Me Me Legarde which will also have some big fish to fry in the Sydney autumn carnival. Me Me Legarde will trial on her home Gold Coast track on Monday in her first public outing since storming home from the back to finish…

More than a decade ago, Kiwi trainer Roger James famously had an Aussie Group 1 win stripped in controversial circumstances but there is no taking away the 2022 Queensland Derby from him. Well-backed late ($8.50 into $6.50) despite jumping from a carpark barrier, James' progressive three-year-old stayer Pinarello was simply too good for his Derby…

Crystal Ocean (left) wins the Hardwicke Stakes with any amount in hand Sir Michael Stoute believes it is time to be brave with Crystal Ocean and pitch him back into the highest company in the King George with a return to Ascot next month. The evidence of a textbook success at odds of 4-7, the shortest-priced winner of this year's Royal Ascot,…

John Singleton's Strawberry Hill Stud is providing significant financial backing and sponsorship to the inaugural Thoroughbred Sport Horse Association Nationals Championships at Stonewall Equestrian in the Central Coast hinterland this weekend. Leading racing industry figures and over 200 thoroughbreds are competing for over $160000 prizemoney at…

Trainer Peter Snowden is buoyed by jockey Tommy Berry's optimism that Old Flame can overcome a horror draw in the $1m The Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange on Saturday. Old Flame has retained TAB fixed odds favouritism at $6 despite being drawn to start out of barrier 15 in the feature race. "It's not pretty, I've got to say," Snowden said. "But it is…

Caulfield Cup 2021 - Odds, betting, tips, and more This article is in partnership with Neds. The Caulfield Cup is one of the major horse racing events held in Melbourne each year as part of the racing spring carnival. Taking place at Caulfield racecourse in October, the prize money of this lucrative 2400-metre handicap race is a whopping $5…

There was never any likelihood Promise Of Success, Kirwan's Lane and Berdibek would meet with the same fate as their boom stablemate Waihaha Falls. The John O'Shea-trained trio are rated 101 or higher and safely made the field for the $1m The Gong (1600m) at Kembla Grange on Saturday. This wasn't the case with Waihaha Falls last week when he was…

Anamoe could resume in the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes at Randwick in March. Picture: Grant Guy Godolphin superstar Anamoe will resume in a Sydney weight-for-age sprint before a final decision is made on whether he campaigns overseas next year. Trainer James Cummings indicated the Group 1 Canterbury Stakes (1300m) in March is the likely comeback race…

Trainers Peter and Paul Snowden have decided to spell two of their spring stable stars, Sheeza Belter and Mazu, but they are bringing in some handy replacements in Old Flame and Huetor to target some of the big money races going into the Sydney summer carnival. Sheeza Belter scored a deserved win in the Group 2 Hot Danish Stakes at Rosehill last…

Tommy Berry had a big few days with a two-state feature double taking out the VRC Oaks and the Five Diamonds. Picture: Daniel Pockett-Getty Images Star jockey Tommy Berry's VRC Oaks-Five Diamonds feature race two-state double last week is a sign of the changing times in Australian racing. Sydney's extended spring carnival has encroached on…

Jamie Kah triumphs aboard Zaaki in the Champions Stakes at Flemington on Saturday. Picture: Darrian Traynor-Getty Images Champions just find a way, the will, to win. A lesson learned the hard way for punters as Zaaki clinched the inaugural $3m Group 1 Champions Stakes at Flemington. What a way to win, too. Trainer Annabel Neasham gave jockey Jamie…

From a $21 winner to now being favourite for the Caulfield Cup, that's the rise of Turnbull Stakes winner Smokin' Romans but can he repeat the effort in a fortnight? FIVE TO FOLLOW SMOKIN' ROMANS (Race 7) How could you not? History says Group 1 Turnbull Stakes winners usually go on with it in the spring and Smokin' Romans, apart from being in the…

Trainer Brad Widdup has Fire Lane in the Max Lees Classic at Newcastle on Saturday. Picture: Mark Evans-Getty Images As his maiden Group 1 winner Icebath enjoys some well-earned time in the paddock, trainer Brad Widdup is weighing up kicking off his latest big-money raid with Magic Millions eligible Fire Lane this Saturday. Widdup has the unraced…

Blake Shinn as been booked for the Melbourne Cup ride on Vow And Declare. Picture: Racing Photos via Getty Images. Blake Shinn has been booked to partner former winner Vow And Declare in the Melbourne Cup but the champion jockey could yet could be lost to Victorian racing. Vow And Declare, the 2019 Melbourne Cup champion, now has a golden chance to…

Champion sprinter Nature Strip can edge closer to Winx's world prizemoney record if he wins the Group 1 $3 million Darley Champions Sprint (1200m) at Flemington on Saturday. Nature Strip, the world's number one-ranked sprinter, took his career earnings to just over $20 million when he ran fourth to Giga Kick in The Everest last start. In latest TAB…

Despite a strong push from Peter V'Landys and Racing NSW to try and encroach, with some levels of success, there is no denying that the Melbourne Spring Carnival is the place to be for the end of the year. The best horses, the best trainers and best jockeys want to be seen in Melbourne and want to win the big races in Melbourne. There is no denying…

Looking to watch the 2022 Melbourne Cup? You have a number of options to be able to stream the race live place at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday, November 1. Our guide below shows you how you can stream the action, listen to the race and cheer your runner home. The 2022 Melbourne Cup, also known as the Race The Stops A Nation, will feature some…

With the new racing season underway we've put it to our stable of experts to lay their reputations on the line and hand out some predictions for the next 12 months, including their early selections for The Everest and Melbourne Cup plus what's the next'big thing' we've got to look forward to. THE NEXT BIG THING RAY THOMAS - Dylan Gibbons: The son…

There's a touch of spring in the air with some of the big guns set to resume in the Group 2 Missile Stakes (1200m) at Randwick while Flemington hosts Aurie's Star Handicap day. The first Group 1 of the season - the Winx Stakes at Royal Randwick - is only two weeks away while the Memsie Stakes is Victoria's first Group 1 of the season on August…

Trainers Gerald Ryan and Sterling Alexiou can continue their successful Sydney spring carnival with stable star Ellsberg in the $2m Five Diamonds (1800m) at Rosehill Gardens on Saturday. Ellsberg is racing for a hat-trick of wins after his dead-heat (with Top Ranked) in the Group 1 Epsom Handicap and his last start romp in the Five Diamonds…

Numerian and Tommy Berry didn't look back to claim The Q22 at Eagle Farm on Saturday. Picture: Grant Peters-Trackside Photography If you had been told Annabel Neasham would win both the Hollindale Stakes and rich Q22 at the start of the winter carnival, just about anyone would have assumed freak horse Zaaki had stayed on for an extended Sunshine…

Whether you find yourself in the Birdcage, a backyard, or rooftop bar this Spring Carnival - 'BossBook' has you covered with weekly previews, racing tips, style guides, and more. Use Code: BOSSBOOK when you signup and make your first deposit at BossBet. Australia's newest championship race day, Champions Stakes Day at Flemington looks like an…