It's Tuesday, 3 November, 2020, and the Melbourne Cup is being held in eerie silence - the COVID-19 pandemic keeping the crowds at home, glued to screens. Jockey Hugh Bowman, his pastel pink silks ...
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‘He saves his best singing performances for Maisie’: Robbie Dolan on Melbourne Cups, fame and family
The highlights keep rolling for Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Robbie Dolan who switched tracks today joining music superstar Ronan Keating on stage for an impromptu singalong. There's little downtime ...
Jim Cassidy was revered as a master in the saddle, a champion jockey who won 103 Group 1s including two Melbourne Cups - on the barnstorming Kiwi in 1983 and the great front-running Might And Power in ...
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Horse racing replays edited to remove falls and deaths as industry grapples with social licence
For years, the racing industry has been quietly removing falls and deaths from its replays. Now, industry insiders are ...
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Reigning Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Robbie Dolan wrestling with superstition ahead of race defence
Melbourne Cup -winning jockey Robbie Dolan is wrestling with superstition as he plots another boilover in the race that stops a nation. Twelve months on from his remarkable win aboard 80-1 shot Knight ...
The story of the Cup is well known - first run in 1861 when won by the mighty Archer, and a grand stage for some of all-time greats such as Phar Lap (1930), Carbine (1890), Rising Fast (1954) and ...
Melbourne is set for a home qualifying final after a 14-point win over Geelong, but could be forced to do so without captain Kate Hore.
Geothermal-pool paradise, off-grid glamping, a pet-friendly coastal nirvana … Victoria’s latest weekend whirls are all within ...
Melbourne has always been known as Australia's classiest city. But now it's sick, and it's decline is looking very much ...
The Melbourne Cup is much like the concept of life – a staying test with straights and turns. A couple of wrong decisions or bad luck can be the difference between finishing strongly and being ...
In 1985, as a young consultant, I travelled to Canberra from Melbourne on a two-day work trip. It was my first experience with work travel. I had been on a plane a few times before, but not for my job ...
Nightclubs are out and dessert bar Yo-Chi is in for a generation happy to enjoy a glass of wine or two and be in bed by 11.
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