Horse Racing

EMMA FREEDMAN: The warring spring carnivals have brought out the best on the track this year, putting an end to the debate about the future of racing.

Champion hoop James McDonald has no qualms around Via Sistina’s wide alley for the Group 1 Champions Stakes (2000m) at Flemington on Saturday as the pair bid to back up their Cox Plate conquest.

Racing protestors were up in arms when they saw blood coming from the horse as it was paraded around Flemington.

Jamie Melham has revealed how she processed the ‘insane feeling’ of a historic victory at the Melbourne Cup, being only the second woman to do so.

Tony McEvoy recalls a young Jamie Melham ‘knocking off’ his horses before joining forces with the woman who would ultimately deliver him a Melbourne Cup.

The veteran rider has suffered a serious injury but still showed ‘typical class’ from his bed.

‘It just looks like they pressed play on the song and jumped around.’

The huge crowd at Flemington have watched on in horror as a star jockey crashed to the turf in a bad race fall.

‘The last thing he watched was the Caulfield Cup, he was such a big supporter of mine.’

Of the frocks we’ve seen, many are in need of a good press.

The race that stops the nation has been run and won. Here is where every horse finished in the Melbourne Cup.

Jamie Melham has become just the second woman to win the Melbourne Cup, saluting on Half Yours a decade after Michelle Payne’s breakthrough win.

Favourite Gringotts has gone back-to-back in Randwick’s Listed $3 million Big Dance (1600m), again beating Vivvy Air for the second year running and giving his trainer Ciaron Maher the race trifecta.

TV stars, sports personalities, and flamboyantly dressed punters rushed through the gates at Flemington to enjoy a day out at the races.