The Melbourne Cup field is made up of the world’s best staying types with both local Australian gallopers and international raiders fighting it out for the richest handicap prize every November. Held ...
Each October at Caulfield Racecourse another top stayer adds its name to the glowing list of famous Caulfield Cup winners when the Group 1 handicap staying showdown runs as part of the wider Melbourne ...
The Moonee Valley Vase is a staying race run over 2040m by three-year-olds at set weights and is currently worth $400,000 in total prize. Runners may have previously contested some of the other set ...
This 2500m staying race, run on a left-handed turf course, takes place on the first day of the first of the four Melbourne Cup Carnival meetings each year on the Saturday before the famous Melbourne ...
The now Group 3 event held towards the end of October or early November on the Wednesday before the Victoria Derby Day meeting at Flemington on the first Saturday in November kicks off the Melbourne ...
In 2022 the race formerly known as the Mackinnon Stakes was renamed the VRC Champions Stakes and the prize money boosted to $3 million. Held on the new-look VRC Champions Stakes Day or ‘Family Day’ ...
Melbourne Cup odds are some of the most sought after racing markets in the world with the ‘race that stops’ a nation running at Flemington Racecourse of the first Tuesday of November each year. The ...
A key addition to the lucrative Sydney Spring Racing Carnival, the mile showdown takes place over 1600m on the first Tuesday of November, the same date as Flemington’s famous Melbourne Cup. Further ...
The meeting features a total of five Group 1 races with the Rosehill Guineas joined by the Group 1 $4.96 million Golden Slipper Stakes (1200m), the Group 1 George Ryder Stakes (1500m), the Group 1 ...
It is that time of year when everyone in Australia stops for around 3 minutes at 3 o’clock on the first Tuesday of November to watch as the best stayers from around the world battle it out on the ...
A Group 3 event, the VRC Queen Elizabeth Stakes – not to be confused with the Group 1 ATC Queen Elizabeth Stakes held at Randwick in the autumn – pays $300,000 total prize money. It is one of the more ...
Raced over 1400m, the Thousand Guineas Prelude pays $300,000 in total prize money. Open only to fillies aged three years old, the Thousand Guineas Prelude presents punters and race fans with a great ...