Posts Tagged "Melbourne Cup"
The five best races on the Australian calendar
By Alfred Chan, 2 Apr 2013
Each year of the racing calendar features certain days we anticipate. Whether it is as a form race, a historic race or just a day to celebrate, here are my favourite races on the Australian calendar.
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On Wednesday the Victoria Racing Club announced three changes to the Melbourne Cup balloting rules that will enhance the quality of the great handicap in coming seasons.
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Why the 2013 Melbourne Cup already has its favourite
By Alfred Chan, 27 Mar 2013 We’re eight months out from the Melbourne Cup, but there has never been so much buzz about one horse this far out.
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It’s a New Moon rising
By Swooping Falcon, 17 Nov 2012 In the aftermath of Green Moon’s dominant eclipsing of arguably the best Melbourne Cup field ever assembled, another equine ‘lunar’ force has emerged in the form of French-named Puissance de Lune, who clinically dismantled a quality field in the Queen Elizabeth Stakes (2600m) on the final day of the 2012 Flemington Carnival.
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Horses being slaughtered, just like pigs, chickens, cows
By Joe Frost, 17 Nov 2012 In a time when the Australian racing industry is being scrutinized for myriad reasons, the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR) have managed to grab prominent media exposure, claiming “the racing industry’s biggest, darkest secret” is horses being put down.
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Green Moon’s 2012 Melbourne Cup victory was one that slipped under the guard of many form students including myself. So where did it go wrong?
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Ethiopia the brave Australian horse
By The Crowd, 7 Nov 2012On Melbourne Cup race day Australia’s best home bred hope was Ethiopia named after the Ethiopian long distance runners. He is a four year old brown gelding by Helenus-Shona(by Spectrum (IR) ).
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Melbourne Cup 2012: What the jockeys said
By The Roar, 6 Nov 2012What the jockeys said after the running of the 2012 Melbourne Cup at Flemington on Tuesday.
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There was a perversely delicious irony when Green Moon passed the winning post to win the 2012 Melbourne Cup.
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Melbourne Cup 2012: Key moments of the race
By The Roar, 6 Nov 2012 Green Moon’s 2012 Melbourne Cup victory will be remembered for the great ride of winning jockey Brett Prebble and the failure of French favourites Dunaden and Americain.
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Melbourne Cup 2012: Winners and losers
By The Roar, 6 Nov 2012 The 2012 Melbourne Cup threw in a number of surprising finishes – take a look at who finished unexpectedly well, and unexpectedly badly as we review the big winners and losers.
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Melbourne Cup 2012: Green Moon gives understated trainer Hickmott first Cup
By Alfred Chan, 6 Nov 2012 Winning 2012 Melbourne Cup trainer Robert Hickmott is one of Australia’s most soft spoken trainers. Avoiding all media attention around the horses he trains, media attention is rather centred on his boss, Lloyd Williams.
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Melbourne Cup 2012: VIDEO replay
By The Roar, 6 Nov 2012 Watch the running of the 2012 Melbourne Cup with video replay.
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In a big boost for Australian horse ownership, Green Moon has won the 2012 Melbourne Cup for Australian Lloyd Williams.
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Melbourne Cup 2012 Results: Who won, who came last
By The Roar, 6 Nov 2012 The 2012 Melbourne Cup has been won by Green Moon, who beat Fiorente, and Jakkalberry, in third in a surprise result for all three placings.
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Melbourne Cup 2012: Live updates, results and blog
By The Roar, 6 Nov 2012 The 2012 Melbourne Cup will be run and won at 3pm AEDT and we’ll bring you live updates, results – including who came last – and all the news of the race as we build to Australia’s richest race.
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Melbourne Cup Day 2012: Raceday live updates, blog
By Justin Cinque, 6 Nov 2012 Melbourne Cup Day is one of the special race meetings of the year. We’ll be live blogging all day from the Flemington Media Room as we build to the great race at 3pm.
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Melbourne Cup 2012: Experts offer their tips
By Justin Cinque, 6 Nov 2012 The 2012 Melbourne Cup will be run at 3pm and to help you find a winner we’ve compiled tips from experts on The Roar and racing gurus around Australia.
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Melbourne Cup isn’t Australia’s greatest crowd-puller
By David Lord, 6 Nov 2012 Melbourne Cup, the race that stops the nation. But the classic 3200m for thoroughbreds isn’t the greatest crowd puller. That honour goes to the 1995 Formula One Grand Prix in Adelaide with 205,000.
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Avoiding the real gambling Tsunami
By Tom_Cummings, 6 Nov 2012 Today is Melbourne Cup day. The day of “the race that stops a nation”. The day every man, woman and their dog has a punt on the horses.
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