The final preparations are complete, the barriers have been drawn and the stage is set for the 2026 Melbourne Cup at Flemington. From international raiders to local hopes, trainers and connections ...

Get ready for Melbourne Cup Day with a printable sweepstakes template from Racing.com. Organise a sweep with friends, family ...

Seventeen years after his Melbourne Cup triumph, Shocking has Laurence Eales dreaming again through daughter Shockletz ...

Trainer Nick Ryan has been suspended for 28 days and his upcoming Flemington runners withdrawn at an adjourned inquiry on Monday ...

JP McManus backed Hopewell Rock for a potential $10 million return as huge wagers from Wolfden, Tony G and others lit up the Melbourne Cup Call Of The Card ...

Dylan Browne-McMonagle takes the ride, replacing Ryan Moore, following the withdrawal of Defiantly. Won a rich race in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia in February before finishing fourth in the Dubai Gold Cup ...

Aiden O’Brien equaled his own 2017 world record for Group 1 wins in a calendar year in the US over the weekend, but, astonishingly, the Irish star may be immediately challenged for the honour by none ...

Kingsley Bartholomew landed the biggest single-race result of his punting career when Shocking won the 2009 Melbourne Cup. There was just one problem. He still lost money on the day. Bartholomew ...

What's in a name? Most of Cup week is spent pulling apart the form, the weights and the barriers. This article isn't that. These are the trends hiding in the names of 165 Melbourne Cup winners, the ...

CAN AI PICK THE MELBOURNE CUP? The bots are back, and this time we’ve handed them the big one. Five of the leading AI models, Claude, ChatGPT, Grok, Perplexity and Gemini, were each given the same ...

A life-threatening fall, a long road back and now the ride of a lifetime. Ethan Brown’s journey to the Melbourne Cup favourite is the sort of story that belongs on the big screen, but for the ...

When it came to preparing a Melbourne Cup horse, no one did it better than Bart Cummings. With 12 Cups to his name, it’s fair to say that he knew how to get his horses right and it’s a blueprint that ...