Top Ranked out of Cox Plate

Annabel Neasham has declared Zaaki "better than last year", in a third attempt to win Australia's best race. Neasham, still haunted by Zaaki's Cox Plate morning scratching two years ago, insists the veteran weight-for-age star still has the zip and zest to prove doubters wrong in Saturday's $5m Group 1. Four-time Group 1 winner Zaaki has been…

The field of 12 is confirmed and the all-important barrier draw conducted for Saturday's Group 1 $5 million Ladbrokes Cox Plate (2040m). The Valley will come alight this weekend for the coveted Cox Plate Carnival headlined by a dozen of the world's premiere weight-for-age gallopers facing off in the Cox Plate field on Saturday. Heading Cox Plate…

Romantic Warrior is popular with punters to win the Cox Plate. Picture: Vince Caligiuri - Getty Images A swag of Cox Plate contenders are slated to gallop at The Valley on Tuesday morning, rounding out their preparations for the $5m race. The traditional Breakfast With The Best gallops, which kick off at 6.30am, will feature key Cox…

A swag of Cox Plate contenders have galloped at The Valley on Tuesday morning, rounding out their preparations for the $5m race. The traditional Breakfast With The Best gallops, which kicked off at 6.30am, featured key Cox Plate contenders, Alligator Blood (last 400m in 24.17 seconds) and Fangirl (25.24). Chris Waller's star…

The 2023 edition of the Group 1 Cox Plate will be held on Saturday 28th October at Moonee Valley. The race will headline a blockbuster weekend at the track, with the Group 1 Manikato Stakes headlining Friday night's meeting. Last year saw retired superstar Anamoe take out the race as a short-priced favourite. Here's everything you need to know…

Champion jockey Oisin Murphy has been offered the ride aboard the Anabel Neasham-trained Laws of Indices for the $5 million All Star Mile at Moonee Valley next Saturday. Murphy is awaiting clearance of his Visa to make his return Down Under after three years. Neasham expressed her excitement about having Murphy ride Laws of Indices and is currently…

Barring some last-minute tweaking, the All-Star Mile field has been assembled. There are nine horses in the $5 million race at Moonee Valley over 1600m on March 18 that were voted in by the public, five'wildcard' nominations voted on by Racing Victoria and the Moonee Valley Racing Club and one emergency replacement. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Ethan…

Australian Bloodstock is best known for its success with imported stayers the ilk of Melbourne Cup winners Gold Trip and Protectionist, but the syndication company is keen to expand its presence in the two-year-old market. While they will continue doing what they do best by finding horses like All-Star Mile winner Mugatoo and Epsom Handicap…

Military Expert heads the Ladbrokes.com.au market for one of the key races at Moonee Valley this afternoon, the Crystal Mile (1600m). The Annabel Neasham trained galloper was far from disgraced in the Toorak at Group l l level last time and appears hard to beat this afternoon. He is favourite at $4.20. Gentleman Roy is hot on his heels on the…

Trainer Annabel Neasham is adamant Cox Plate second favourite Zaaki is in better form than last year when he was scratched as an odds-on favourite on the morning of the $5 million race. Rated the biggest threat to superstar Anamoe at Moonee Valley on Saturday, Zaaki was a shock withdrawal from last year's Cox Plate (2040m) with an elevated…

Group 1 winner Top Ranked won't race again this season but trainer Annabel Neasham remains hopeful it isn't the end of his racing career. The Australian Bloodstock import suffered a leg injury during a track gallop at Moonee Valley on Tuesday, ruling him out of the 2022 Cox Plate and placing a cloud over his future. Neasham provided an update on…

Leading Victorian jockey Jamie Kah has declared the Cox Plate as the one race she wants to win above all others. Kah, the 2020-21 Victorian premiership jockey, has already ridden 21 metro winners since August 1 earlier this year to be leading the championship once again. She's well placed for a strong assault on Melbourne's Spring Carnival with…

State Of Rest (yellow) and Anamoe fought out the 2021 Cox Plate. Picture: Vince Caligiuri-Getty Images An Annabel Neasham armada stands as the biggest challenge to Godolphin weapon Anamoe in this year's Cox Plate after the latest round of acceptances revealed just 25 remain in contention for The Valley test. Thirteen horses have dropped out of…

Zaaki had the better of stablemate Mo'unga in a track gallop at Caulfield on Tuesday Annabel Neasham doubted she would be back at Caulfield with Zaaki, but a gallop at the course has likely changed her mind. Zaaki and stablemate Mo'Unga galloped on Tuesday at Caulfield in preparation for the Group 1 Might And Power Stakes (2000m) on Saturday with…

Top Ranked and Ellsberg fought out a historic dead-heat in the Group 1 $1.5m The TAB Epsom (1600m) at Royal Randwick on Saturday. The finish had everyone guessing and took judges Sean Farrar and Nick Chalmers nearly 10 minutes to try and determine if there was a margin between the grey Top Ranked and Ellsberg on his inside. After an agonising wait…

The first shipment of international horses for the Melbourne Spring Carnival are due to arrive on Tuesday night. El Bodegon and My Oberon are joining the Chris Waller and Annabel Neasham stables respectively to prepare for the Cox Plate at Moonee Valley on October 22 while Rodrigo Diaz, trained by David Simcock, is set to run in the Melbourne Cup…

First declarations for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cup along with the Cox Plate have been taken Lindsay Park trainers Ben and JD Hayes are yet to commit to a start in a spring feature for Mr Brightside after first declarations closed for Melbourne's three biggest races of the carnival. Mr Brightside, winner of the Group 2 Feehan Stakes (1600m) at…

Cox Plate winner Anamoe dominates the Ladbrokes.com.au market for the final Group l of the Spring, the Champions Stakes (2000m) this Saturday at Flemington. The four year old is 4/4 this time in, all at Group l level, and looks primed to end the prep on a high this weekend. He opened $2.15 and is rock solid at $2.20. A couple of other runners from…

Mo'unga at Altona Beach this week. Picture: Getty Images Annabel Neasham believes bookmakers got it wrong this week with her Cox Plate second seed Mo'unga and she says it wouldn't shock her if he toppled stablemate and favourite Zaaki. Neasham told News Corp Australia she believes Mo'unga is a "massive chance" of storming to his third Group 1 win…

Jack Fitzpatrick, punters.com.au from News.com.au The final field has been declared and barriers drawn for the $5m Cox Plate, with star import Zaaki set to jump from barrier six in the field of 10. Punters.com.au reports the two-time Group One winner was an odds-on chance in some futures markets before suffering a shock defeat as a $1.28F in the…

It will be a different scene this year at the Cox Plate, with champion mare Winx now retired after an illustrious career that saw her win the race four consecutive times. The 2019 edition of the Group 1 Cox Plate will be held on the final weekend of October at Moonee Valley on a fantastic weekend of racing, that also includes the Manikato Stakes on…

Having won the Group 1 Doomben Cup as if he was Winx, Zaaki is the new $4.20 favourite with online bookmakers for the 2021 Cox Plate. Prior to his win on Saturday, the Annabel Neasham-trained six-year-old was a $17 chance to take out the best weight-for-age race in the country. Zaaki had put the writing on the wall with a dominant win in the Group…

When the first All-Star Mile was run, Annabel Neasham did not have a trainers' licence and was working for Ciaron Maher and David Eustace stable. That was 2019 and a second All-Star Mile was run before Neasham began training in her own right, producing her first runner in the August of 2020. Less than two years after registering her first winner at…

Annabel Neasham has swung former French galloper Bois D'Argent south to Melbourne for his first-up run to escape the Sydney heat. But Bois D'argent will meet some unseasonably hot weather when he runs in The Mugatoo (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday. A top temperature of 37 degrees is expected on Saturday afternoon. Arriving in Australia for the…

Two of the country's current leading racehorses … Zaaki and Alligator Blood … will head towards a Grand Final clash in the $5 million All-Star Mile at Moonee Valley on March 18. While a secured entry into the final field follows one of three routes … prevailing in the popular public vote, saluting in a'win and you are in race' and, lastly, by being…