Watch 📺 Mike Moroney secures exciting International stayer

In the world of horse racing the first Tuesday of November means only one thing - Melbourne Cup Day. Flemington Racecourse will be bursting at the seams for one of Australia's sporting institutions, with the "race that stops a nation" due off at 4am UK time on Tuesday morning. There's lots of British and Irish interest in a two-mile contest that…

Damien Oliver will not learn whether he will race in a 32nd and final Melbourne Cup until the morning of the $8.4 million classic. The three-time winner is sweating on the fitness of his ride Alenquer after a stone bruise was discovered following trackwork on Sunday. The Mike Moroney-trained horse underwent another veterinary inspection on Monday…

Keen to back the 2023 Melbourne Cup winner and claim bragging rights over your friends, workmates, and family? Racenet has compiled some critical form indicators for this year's big race. Melbourne Cup Carnival Breakfast With The Best Melbourne Cup favourite Vauban has on Sunday been a marked drifter in betting for the race that stops a nation -…

Three-time Melbourne Cup winner Damien Oliver is facing last-minute heartbreak for his farewell to the 3200m classic on Tuesday. Alenquer's trainer Mike Moroney is in a race against time to have the $61 chance ready after a veterinary's discovery following trackwork on Sunday morning. The stable advised Racing Victoria stewards that the gelding…

It's Australia's greatest race and at 3pm local time on Tuesday, the nation will come to a halt to watch the Melbourne Cup. Whether you're a diehard racing fan or a once-a-year punter, Cup Day is the day where the people across the nation take an interest in racing and try to back a winner or get involved in a Melbourne Cup sweep. While all eyes…

The scramble to find a jockey who can ride at 50kg is on, after Kalapour won his way into the Melbourne Cup in the Archer Stakes. Damien Oliver gave the Kris Lees-trained galloper a peach of a ride in front and race favourite Athabascan couldn't chase him down. The seven-year-old gelding is lightly raced, and ran third in the group 1 Metropolitan…

Damien Oliver says he is getting a bit'Damien Oliver worn out' with all the media attention as his stellar riding career draws to a close. The most winningest jockey over the Melbourne Cup Carnival with 85 victories over a career spanning 35 years, Oliver rides at this year's Carnival for the last time with potentially the Thousand Guineas meeting…

Australia's greatest jockey of all-time Damien Oliver may have been unlucky in the Cox Plate, but he has scored a farewell Melbourne Cup ride. Oliver, who saw little clear air late in the Cox Plate when finishing fourth on Duais, will partner Alenquer for Mike Moroney in Tuesday week's Melbourne Cup. It will give the retiring Oliver a final chance…

Things are heating up in the spring racing carnival, with all roads leading towards the $8 million Melbourne Cup on the first Tuesday of November. Some of the best stayers from Australia and abroad will compete in the 3200m event at Flemington, but there's still plenty of action to unfold before we get there. Last year's winner Gold Trip is…

Ben Thompson will ride in his second Melbourne Cup on Tuesday where he will get the leg-up on the Matthew Smith trained True Marvel. The lightly-weighted eight-year-old son of Masked Marvel, who will be receiving 8.5kg from the top weight Gold Trip, will be third up on Tuesday, coming into the race on the back of four unplaced runs since he resumed…

Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Mike Moroney faces a race against time to have longshot Alenquer ready for Tuesday's Group 13200-metre feature with the stable advising Racing Victoria stewards that the gelding suffered a stone bruise after trackwork on Sunday morning. Rated a $61 chance with online bookmakers, Alenquer is set to be Damien Oliver's…

Zeyrek or Alenquer could provide high-profile owner Rupert Legh with another Queen Elizabeth Stakes boilover at Royal Randwick on Saturday. Legh won the race previously with Sarerra who scored the biggest upset in the feature race this century when he scored as a $51 outsider in 2008. With all the focus on the so-called "race in two" between $2.50…

Champion Anamoe won't need to go anywhere to be tested on racing's international stage because the world is coming to take him on at Royal Randwick. Japan's classy Unicorn Lion is the latest overseas raider confirmed for the $5m Queen Elizabeth Stakes during The Championships on April 8 - and his flamboyant trainer Yoshito Yahagi plans to be at…

English maestro William Haggas has confirmed he will send four horses to Sydney for the autumn carnival - and the trainer will be here to watch them race during The Championships at Royal Randwick. Haggas said his talented equine quartet of Dubai Honour, Purplepay, Earl Of Tyrone and Protagonist will go into quarantine next week before leaving for…

Bookmakers are having a tough time deciding the pecking order in betting on Saturday's Group 3 Standish Handicap at Flemington. A field of 12 runners will tackle the $250000 feature with three of those sharing top billing at $6.50 in TAB's open market on the sprint. Perth speedster Indian Pacific is the equal favourite along with the Grahame…

Trainer Mike Moroney has entered high-class import Alenquer for the $5m All Star Mile at The Valley. Picture: Getty Images. Melbourne Cup-winning trainer Mike Moroney plans on maintaining the winning run of imports in the All-Star Mile at The Valley. Former European gallopers Zaaki and Mugatoo have won the last two editions of the $5m event at…

Trainer Mike Moroney and the connections of imported galloper Alenquer have a nervous wait to see whether they make the All-Star Mile field. The Top 10 vote gathers were announced on Tuesday evening with Alenquer not among them and now connections are banking on gaining a wildcard to run in the $5 million All Star Mile over 1600m at Moonee…

Backed into favouritism late, the punters were keen on Bankers Choice who looked well placed after running sixth, beaten 3.4 lengths by Zaaki in the Group 1 Champions Stakes (2000m) at Flemington last start. A Group 3 winner in New Zealand, Bankers Choice had run eight times in Australia and seven of those had been at either Group 1 or Group 2…

Following his outstanding run in the Hong Kong Mile last year, Annabel Neasham's Laws Of Indices is set to return to Sha Tin for the prestigious Champions Day event next month. The international meeting features three Group 1 races: the QEII Cup (2000m), Champions Mile (1600m), and Chairman's Sprint Prize (1200m). Neasham's stable also includes…