All news on the topic: Melbourne Cup

Echo Zulu, who won the Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies in 2021, had to be humanely euthanised after suffering a leg injury while recovering from major fracture

King Charles and Queen Camilla enjoyed their first success at the royal meeting in 2023 when Desert Hero won the King George V Stakes

The 21-year-old faces Shelby Rogers in the opening round of the Australian Open and is looking to make 2024 the year where she proves both to herself and her doubters that she can physically handle the rigours of top level tennis

Vauban faded to finish 14th, as ex-British runner Without A Fight gave jockey Mark Zahra back-to-back success in Australia’s historic staying race.

In winning the £3.2m Breeders’ Cup Turf on Derby winner Auguste Rodin, stewards found Ryan Moore had breached the whip strike limit

There's plenty of action for punters to get stuck into on Melbourne Cup day. We will be providing you the best tips and odds from bet365’s racing expert, Pat Cooney, focusing on the big meeting at Flemington.

Willie Mullins has won a huge amount of top prizes in horse racing, but the Melbourne Cup is not one of them. Vauban and Absurde represent him in "the race that stops a nation," 4am at Flemington in UK time

Adam West is planning a return to America next year for his star sprinter but was unhappy with the veterinary protocols at the two-day meeting

Dettori’s hopes of riding in one of the few major international races he has yet to win were ended on Tuesday when he received two bans totalling 16 days

Frankie Dettori was found to have breached the rules on Trawlerman and Kinross at Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot on Saturday, his last day of riding in Britain

The Italian's victory on Trawlerman at Ascot on Saturday will come under the microscope of the British Horseracing Authority on Tuesday amid fears he may have exceeded the number of whip strikes

Mark Zahra admitted striking Without A Fight a total of 13 times on his way to victory in the world’s richest mile-and-a-half race, the Caulfield Cup

Hollie Doyle was due to team up with Royal Ascot winner Bradsell at Santa Anita next month but will not be able to ride the sprinter unless she wins an appeal

Britain’s most successful female jockey Hollie Doyle will ride 20-1 chance Future History in the ‘race that stops a nation’ at Flemington on November 7

The superstar jockey plans to make California his new home after riding for the final time in Britain on Qipco British Champions Day at Ascot this month

Zac Purton, the Aussie jockey who dominates Hong Kong racing, will partner Absurde, who won the Ebor under Frankie Dettori, at Flemington on November 7

Desert Hero, trained by William Haggas, will not run in the Lexus Melbourne Cup on November 7. He will be given a break after his third place behind Aidan O'Brien's Continuous in the final Classic of the season

Middle Earth won the three-year-olds' Ebor, the Melrose Stakes at York, and will be added to the field for the Doncaster Classic for £50,000

Riding at York's Ebor meeting for the final time, Frankie Dettori celebrated a double on Kinross and Absurde. The latter, trained by Willie Mullins, won the day's feature contest with a first prize of £300,000

There will 180 members of the RaceShare syndicate are due at York on Saturday to see their horse Scampi challenge for the richest handicap in Europe

Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Jye McNeil was walking the track at Bendigo when he was dive bombed by a member of a flock of plovers

Andrew Jones, boss of Racing Victoria, believes that radical new ideas need to be considered to attract a younger fanbase to the sport

After success at Royal Ascot, last year's Triumph Hurdle winner Vauban ensured he qualified for Australia’s most famous horse race with victory at Naas

Frankie Dettori was due to retire in November after riding in Australia but has now extended his farewell tour into December so he can partner Goodwood winner Kinross in Hong Kong

In what is being billed as the Flat race of the season, Derby winner Auguste Rodin heads an all-star line-up for the £1.25 million King George VI and Queen Elizabeth QIPCO Stakes at Ascot