Champion Australian jockey Damien Oliver was yesterday banned from racing for 10 months after blaming his marriage breakdown for a decision to put money on a rival horse that won a race in which...
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7 Nov 2012
Hong Kong-based Brett Prebble cemented his place among the world's best jockeys and repaid millionaire owner Lloyd Williams for two decades of faith with Green Moon's victory in the Melbourne Cup...
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7 Nov 2012
A betting scandal overshadowed the build-up to the Melbourne Cup after top jockey Damien Oliver reportedly admitted putting money on a rival horse in 2010.
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6 Nov 2012
Green Moon gave owner Lloyd Williams his fourth Melbourne Cup with a one-length win in Australia’s richest and most prestigious horse race at Flemington on Tuesday.
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5 Nov 2012
American-bred, French-trained galloper Americain will carry favouritism into Tuesday’s US$6.2 million (HK$48 million) Melbourne Cup as he attempts to win Australia’s richest and most prestigious...
4:06PM
2 Nov 2012
Hong Kong-based jockeys Brett Prebble and Olivier Doleuze have both picked up rides in the Melbourne Cup next Tuesday, with Doleuze hoping to add his own story to the burgeoning phenomenon of...
4:14AM
Reigning champion trainer John Moore is hopeful he will have live chances in both the WS Cox Plate and the Melbourne Cup at Australia's spring carnival later this year, but stressed the owners of...
6:56PM
Another international week behind us and the event has taken on an inertia of its own, typical of great events everywhere, which seems to override unfortunate absences and which is immune to the...
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Australian Craig Williams has ridden the highs and lows of racing in the past few months, but capped a memorable year with victory on Dunaden in the Hong Kong Vase, making sure the internationals...
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Dunaden left France considered a handicapper, but arrived for his tilt at the HK$14 million Cathay Pacific Hong Kong Vase via Australia as a genuine international Group One...
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Hong Kong's leading big-race trainer, John Moore, has had his share of disappointments at recent Cathay Pacific Hong Kong International Race days but has declared his team for the showpiece as his...
3:04AM
Ever since 23/4 lengths separated the top five horses in last month's Jockey Club Sprint, the consensus has been that the parity of the sprinting stocks meant barrier draws would make the...
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