One of the highlights on the final day of the VRC’s Melbourne Cup Carnival was the Darley Classic (registered as VRC Stakes) (Gr 1, 1200m) – an event that jockey Kerrin McEvoy probably won in the first 200 metres of the race. With a field of high class sprinters, a quick pace throughout was expected... Read More

In a season when Aidan O’Brien surpassed Bobby Frankel’s record of 25 Group / Grade One winners in a calendar year, it was perhaps not the greatest surprise that the Irish champion trainer proved the dominant force on the European two-year-old scene. O’Brien saddled the winner in four of the five British Group One races... Read More

The margin was only a long neck but British-bred three-year-old Rekindling (High Chaparral) proved superior to older stayers in taking out last week’s Melbourne Cup (Gr 1, 3200m) at Flemington after a perfectly judged ride by jockey Corey Brown. Raced by members of the Melbourne–based Williams family and a group of Australian friends, Rekindling gave... Read More

So there they were. OK, they weren’t all there but I was. The owners of the first five winners on the final day of the VRC Cup carnival. Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa al Maktoum and Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al Maktoum who runs a small horse operation called Godolphin. Terry Henderson’s OTI Racing was among... Read More

3 g Denman – Nerrin Twister by Elvstroem O: Mr A W Bruhn, Mr S W Bruhn, Escaka, Mr P L Cooper, Scar Racing, Mr P J Daenell, Mr J C Crawford, Mr R A Wilson, Mr P J Campbell, Maverick Racing, Mr C Sarantakos, Mr M J Chaston, Mr M J Mccraw, Mr M... Read More