Road To The Melbourne Cup

Great House returns to scale after winning the Lexus Hotham Stakes, cementing his berth in the Melbourne Cup.

ANDREW HAWKINS: We’re in the Melbourne Cup! Now the excitement – and nerves – are building…

Former ANZ Bloodstock News editor Andrew Hawkins is renowned as one of Australia’s leading Melbourne Cup analysts and experts, but this year, he will be experiencing the race from a different perspective as the racing manager for Highclere Australia, owners of Cup runner Great House I have been fortunate enough to travel the world to... Read More

We need to do right by the horse

ANZ Bloodstock News will be following the fortunes of the Jamie Lovett and Luke Murrell-owned Australian Bloodstock, who are no strangers to Melbourne Cup success, having won the great race with Protectionist in 2014. Each week we will speak to Lovett on the progress of their horses, as we charter the journey from Europe to... Read More

“We are relishing taking on Stradivarius”

Road to the Melbourne Cup This year will be a year like no other for the Melbourne Cup. With the backdrop of a pandemic and the introduction of additional vetting procedures in the face of a series of fatalities in the race, the Road to the Cup is a chequered one for many international aspirants... Read More

“I think it’s just earmarked him as the right horse”

This year will be a year like no other for the Melbourne Cup. With the backdrop of a pandemic and the introduction of additional vetting procedures in the face of a series of fatalities in the race, the Road to the Cup is a chequered one for many international aspirants dreaming of winning the Race... Read More

Road To The Melbourne Cup

The race was billed as a promising spectacle and I’d like to open by saying what a sensational Cox Plate we had on Saturday at Moonee Valley. The interesting thing was that there were only three Australian bred horses in the race, and the first three home were by Camelot or Galileo, with the fourth... Read More

Between now and Melbourne Cup day is always a long time! 

Following the Caulfield Cup on Saturday, True Self has come out of it really well and she’ll now go straight to the Melbourne Cup. We’ve had a chance to have a good look at the race and the horses around her, and it seemed that towards the end of the meeting the rail was certainly... Read More