Jye McNeil like any Australian jockey past, present and future dreamed of winning a Melbourne Cup and being welcomed back to ...

Star jockey Jamie Melham and her mount Half Yours will carry the weight of a nation as one of the Melbourne Cup favourites at ...

The Cup is still Australia’s biggest one-day race gambling event. But there are signs it’s no longer stopping the nation like ...

Ben Melham, who is on the Ciaron Maher-trained Smokin' Romans in the Cup, was also involved in early drama when he launched a ...

Jamie Melham will bid to become the first female jockey to claim a coveted double in Australian horse racing when she rides Caulfield Cup winner Half Yours in today's Melbourne Cup.

Our betting guru Mark Solonsch has seen 49 Melbourne Cups in a row live. But he had to take drastic action to get to the 2020 one as Victoria came out of lockdown during the Covid 19 pandemic, with ...

Liberal MP Tim Wilson has slammed the Prime Minister as a “Philistine” who is cosying up to “neo-wowsers and puritans” for making MPs work on the most sacred day in the racing calendar: the Melbourne ...

The Melbourne Cup will have a full field of 24 horses for the first time in six years after Racing Victoria announced on ...

The full field for the 2025 Melbourne Cup has been set with 24 horses competing for the greatest prize in Australian horse ...

Since the year 2000, the most successful Melbourne Cup winning weights have been 51 to 51.5kg with five winners while 52 to 52.5kg and 54 to 54.5kg have each have won four Melbourne Cups since 2000.