Corey Brown on Shocking edges Kerrin McEvoy on Crime Scene to win the 2009 Melbourne Cup.
And they’re off! Owners and trainers from eight countries nominated a bumper crop of 253 runners in the hopes of winning the 150th edition of the Melbourne Cup on Nov. 2.
12-time winner Bart Cummings nominated an even dozen, including the highly rated four-year-olds So You Think (Cox Plate winner), Faint Perfume (VRC Oaks winner), Dariana (Queensland Derby winner), and Rock Classic (Australian Guineas winner).
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Some racing fans follow a horse – think Zenyatta, Makybe Diva, or Sea the Stars. For others, the trainers is what matters – a Bob Baffert, Bart Cummings, or Dermot Weld. Here in America, however, an increasing number of Kentucky Derby fans, the fastest two minutes in sports is a wholly-owned subsidiary of one Calvin Borel, who won the 136th running of the mile-and-a-quarter Classic this afternoon for the third time in four years.
The Cajun sensation won the 2007 Run for the Roses on board Street Sense, the 2009 edition on Mine That Bird, and added the 2010 trophy with Super Saver in 2:04.45 to give trainer Todd Pletcher and owners Bill Casner and Kenny Trout their first Kentucky Derby victory.
The great Doriemus, a champion stayer who won the Caulfield Cup-Melbourne Cup double in 1995 with Damien Oliver up, was rushed into surgery last week and narrowly survived a life-threatening bout of colic. The emergency surgery was performed at the Werribee veterinarian clinic.
Now a resident of Living Legends at Woodlands Historic Park immediately adjacent to the Melbourne Airport, Doriemus has been spending retirement lounging around with the likes of Saintly, Rogan Josh, Brew, Fields of Omagh, and his old rival Might And Power, who denied Doriemus a second Melbourne Cup in 1997 by the slimmest of margins.
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March 16, 2010 – 12:00 am
Photo © Trish Dunell
Damien Oliver guided New Zealand-bred Zavite to victory in New Zealand’s most prestigious Thoroughbred race, the $1M Auckland Cup. Trained by Anthony Cummings, the seven-year-old gelding upped his career earnings to $1.9M.
“I rode him back further than I expected, but I just wanted him to relax, and when we got to the 700m the other horses weren’t going nearly as well as him, so I just popped him in there,” Damien told the Waikato Times. ”He’s really hit form at the right time. He really put it together last run and the stable has held him in great form.”
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February 2, 2010 – 5:46 pm
Rumor has it that one of the world’s best known Thoroughbred owners might possibly attend the 150th running of the Melbourne Cup this November. Today at Flemington Racecourse, Victorian Racing Minister Rob Hulls refused to say whether or not the Queen had been invited to attend Australia’s most prestigious Thoroughbred contest.
“I know that the Queen is a great racing fan, and I honestly don’t know whether or not she has any plans to come here,” Hulls told reporters. Nor would he confirm if Premier John Brumby had extended an invitation to Her Majesty during their meeting at Balmoral last year.
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January 19, 2010 – 7:29 pm
Brian O’Connor of The Irish Times pours on the praise for the new book by the Master of Rosewell House, two-time Melbourne Cup winner Dermot Weld:
“Vintage Crop told the story of his famous 1993 success in the Melbourne Cup, a victory that quite literally changed the face of the racing world, and which cemented Weld’s place in the sport’s history.”
As with any Weld enterprise, the book was no fluke. Instead, as O’ Connor points out, it was a long-held dream. “His interest in literature was famously illustrated just minutes after that famous Melbourne Cup when he quoted long passages of the legendary bush poet Banjo Patterson to a startled Australian press corps.”
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January 13, 2010 – 11:41 am
At Government House in Melbourne with John in November 2009.
With the New Year comes a changing of the guard at the venerable Irish Turf Club as former Curragh chairman John McStay has succeeded Nick Wachman as Senior Steward.
Thoroughbred fans worldwide know the Turf Club as the be-all and end-all of Irish racing. It dates back to the dawn of time – 1790 to be precise – and in addition to serving as the regulatory body for horseracing in Ireland, it is responsible for flat, national hunt racing, and point to point racing in all Ireland.
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January 8, 2010 – 11:20 am
Zenyatta took to the track on Wednesday for her third workout at Hollywood Park since her decisive victory in the Breeders’ Cup Classic and subsequent “retirement” by owners Jerry and Ann Moss. The 6-year-old worked a half-mile in 48 seconds.
Naturally, this level of activity coupled with her undisputed appeal has spurred talk of a return to racing for the great mare, but trainer John Shirreffs insists that is not the case.
“That decision is Mr. Moss’s and he hasn’t said anything other than what he said after the Breeders’ Cup,” Shirreffs says.
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December 11, 2009 – 12:10 pm
The New York Racing Association has taken a zero-tolerance stance on horse slaughter. NYRA CEO Charles Hayward announced the decision on Thursday.
“We are fully committed to protecting our sport’s equine athletes,” said Hayward. “This policy sends the message that horse slaughter will not be tolerated and that those participating in this practice, either knowingly or for lack of due diligence, will not be welcome at Aqueduct, Belmont Park, or Saratoga.”
The new policy language is quite specific, and the punishment severe:
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