All the talk has been around the favourites, but one key overseas raider looks primed to make it third time lucky.

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 ...

The full field for the 2025 Melbourne Cup has been set with 24 horses competing for the greatest prize in Australian horse ...

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 ...