| |  | | Shocking Cup Win Turns Kav's Spring Around
 After a tough Spring, Trainer Mark Kavanagh finally has something to smile about after his horse Shocking made him a Melbourne Cup winner. The four year old horse, coming off a win in the Lexus Stakes on Saturday, continued his sizzling form to take the 2009 Emirates Melbourne Cup...
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| | | | Master Bart Rules As 3yo's Dominate Cox
 Bart Cummings has reaffirmed himself as the genius of Australian horse racing after an amazing training performance which saw three year old So You Think take out the Cox Plate on Saturday at Moonee Valley. It was Bart's third Group 1 victory in as many weeks, after scoring...
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| | | | Crowd Favourite Apache Cat Wins Schweppes
 Jockey Damian Oliver has steered popular Australian sprinter Apache Cat to an exciting victory on Cox Plate Day, winning the Group 2 Schweppes Stakes at Moonee Valley. The vocal crowd cheered on the star, who snuck through on the rails to just beat stablemate Mic Mac by a short neck....
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| | | | Cup King Claims Caulfield Quinella
 Only weeks from his 82nd birthday, the king of Australian racehorse training, Bart Cummings, has done it again, finishing 1-2 in the $250,000 Caulfield Cup on Saturday. Reigning Melbourne Cup champ Viewed pulled off an impressive 2 1/4 length victory over stablemate Roman Emperor, giving Cummings his second...
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| | | | Starspangledwinner
 In one of the hottest Caulfield Guineas fields in recent times, Starspangled banner has smashed the opposition, leading from start to finish to take out the $1 million Group 1 feature at Caulfield on Saturday. It was a huge victory for Team Corstens, who put to rest speculation that the 3 year old would...
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| | | | Turn of Events for Efficient
 2007 Melbourne Cup winner Efficient has stormed back into favouritism for this years Cup with an impressive victory in the Group 1 Turnball Stakes at Flemington yesterday. Owner Lloyd Williams watched from his apartment as his godson, jockey Nick Hall, stormed down the outside aboard.....
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| | | | Rock Solid
 Rock Kingdom has defied his alleged "unfair weighting" in the Espom Handicap by taking out the Group 1 $350,000 event at Randwick yesterday. During the week, trainer Gai Waterhouse was a little disappointed her gelding received.....
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| | | | Danleigh Delivers Surprise Win
 Six year old gelding Danleigh surprised everyone at Moonee Valley on Friday night, taking out the Group 1 Manikato Stakes in explosive fashion. Trainer Chris Waller gave him little chance to win the major sprint event, especially since he'd never raced on the Valley track before.....
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| | | | All Heart in the Underwood
 This year's Underwood Stakes at Caulfield was meant to be all about Whobegotyou, the boom 4 year old expected to win every race he contests this Spring. However Heart of Dreams had other ideas, bursting through the middle in the straight and holding off the short priced favourite by a head, showing that he is a genuine weight-for-age runner....
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| | | | Whos Got His Eye on the Cox
 Whobegotyou has proven he will be almost impossible to beat in next month's Cox Plate, with a resounding victory in the Dato Tan Chin Nam Stakes at Moonee Valley on the weekend. The Mark Kavanagh-trained star broke an 11 month winning drought, claiming his first race since the Aami Vase last October...
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| | | | Kav's Nightmares Replaced By Cox Dream
 Over the past 12 months, Melbourne trainer Mark Kavanagh has had many restless nights, regularly reliving the experiences that occured on Caulfield Cup day last year. It was on that day his boom galloper, Maldivian, was scratched in the barriers only minutes before the Group 1 race...
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| | | | Who Be Stopping Him?
 Whobegotyou continued to live up to his 'hottest 3 year old of the Victorian Spring' tag with a dominating win in the AAMI Vase At Moonee Valley on Saturday. The Mark Kavanagh trained rising star was an impressive winner of the 2040m race, easing down in the last 100m to win by 1.3 lengths...
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| | | | European Invader Too Good For Locals
 The world's biggest racing stable has taken out the $2.5 million Caulfield Cup, with Godolphin-trained All The Good surprising punters to the win the Group 1 event on Saturday. The 50,000 strong crowd at Caulfield Racecourse went silent after the main race, disappointed that one of their heroes...
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| | | | Gallica Wins By A Whisker
 Seven weeks ago, she was winning a maiden race at Bairnsdale, but on Wednesday, 3 year old filly Gallica was the Queen of Caulfield, taking out the $503,000 Group 1 Thousand Guineas...
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| | | | Who Be Gets The Guineas
 Whobegotyou has become the hottest 3 year old of the Melbourne Spring, taking out the $1 million Caulfield Guineas on Saturday in dominating fashion. The Mark Kavanagh-trained gelding was a worthy $3 pre-race favourite, storming home to win by over 3 lengths...
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| | | | Guillotine Slices Through Stars
 Guillotine surprised trainer David Hayes when he stepped up to defeat a class field in the Group 2 Dato Chin Nam Stakes (1600m) at Moonee Valley on Saturday. With Craig Williams in the saddle, the four-year-old settled off the pace and then stormed home to win by a long neck in what was an honestly run race.
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