Wandering Eyes

JOSEPH O’Brien has beaten his famous father to Melbourne Cup glory, training Rekindling to win Australia’s greatest race. View the full article

WHO won, who came last and how every horse placed in between. See the full finishing order of the Melbourne Cup: View the full article

JOSPEH O’Brien has beaten his famous father to Melbourne Cup glory, training Rekindling to win Australia’s greatest race. View the full article

THE Melbourne Cup has been run and won — so which racing experts and celebrities tipped it? View the full article

REKINDLING emerged victorious in a close run finish to claim the 2017 Melbourne Cup. Here are the studs and duds from the big race. View the full article

THE Melbourne Cup has not failed to live up to its reputation for drunken debauchery, with revellers flashing their undies, falling over and brawling on the grass. View the full article

APPRENTICE jockey Dylan Caboche has apologised for punching a horse at Port Lincoln on Wednesday, saying his actions ‘weren’t the greatest’. View the full article

JOCKEY Dylan Carbouche has been suspended for two weeks for striking his horse before a race at Port Lincoln on Wednesday. View the full article

THE jockey who punched his horse before a race at Port Lincoln on Wednesday has spoken out, saying he had a “brain fade”. View the full article

I ONCE interviewed English horse trainer James Fanshawe about his first try at taking a horse to the Melbourne Cup. View the full article

CAULFIELD Cup winner Boom Time will fly the Australian flag in the Japan Cup (2400m) on November 26 after trainer David Hayes accepted an invitation to run in the $7 million race. View the full article

CHARLIE Appleby will seek more spring carnival silverware at Sandown on Saturday, eager to add to an already impressive haul. View the full article

NEW Racing Victoria chairman Brian Kruger said it would consider running a race along the lines of Sydney’s The Everest in the future. View the full article

‘TDN Rising Star‘ Justify (Scat Daddy), almost certainly the most highly regarded horse in the world to have not yet taken on stakes company, will get his class test on Saturday when he faces the likes of MGISW Bolt d’Oro (Medaglia d’Oro) in the GI Santa Anita Derby. A 9 1/2-length jaw-dropping debut winner going seven panels here Feb. 18, the $500,000 KEESEP yearling made short work of optional claimers in the slop over an additional furlong Mar. 11. Originally slated to ship to Oaklawn for next week’s GI Arkansas Derby, Hall of Famer Bob Baffert opted to keep the colt at home after Grade I-winning stablemate McKinzie (Street Sense) was ruled out of this race and taken off the GI Kentucky Derby trail. Already favored in last month’s third Derby future wager pool at 6-1, Justify could go even shorter in the final pool that closes Sunday if he’s to reproduce anything close to his first two efforts against the tougher company. The aforementioned Bolt d’Oro is certainly no slouch, and had a very good case for the juvenile Eclipse Award last year after taking the GI Del Mar Futurity and GI FrontRunner S. The $630,000 Fasig-Tipton Saratoga grad settled for third after blowing the break in the GI Breeders’ Cup Juvenile, but returned to battle McKinzie to within a head in the GII San Felipe S. Mar. 10. Bolt d’Oro and McKinzie made contact repeatedly in the stretch that day, and after a long deliberation the stewards put up Bolt d’Oro in what was a much-talked-about decision. Larry Best’s $1.05-million OBSMAR acquisition Instilled Regard (Arch) was a close third behind BC Juvenile runner-up Solomini (Curlin) and McKinzie when the stewards reversed the order of finish between those two stablemates in the GI Los Alamitos Futurity in December. He made a strong case for the strength of this year’s California contingent when an easy winner of the GIII Lecomte S. at Fair Grounds Jan. 13, but was a somewhat puzzling fourth in the GII Risen Star S. back there Feb. 17. Finishing one spot ahead of him that day was ‘Rising Star’ Noble Indy (Take Charge Indy), who came back a game winner of the GII Louisiana Derby. View the full article

DARREN Weir’s star Black Heart Bart will bypass Sandown Hillside on Saturday as he will instead be heading to Perth to tackle Saturday week’s $1 million Railway Stakes (1600m) at Ascot. View the full article

TONY McEvoy has abandoned a raid on the rich Perth Summer Carnival with his Kildalton Park stable. View the full article

IT COULD be the greatest long-term bet in the history of racing should it come through, and British jumper Splash of Ginge is a step closer to realising a £1 million ($1.75 million) payoff for his owner should he win next year’s Grand National at Aintree. View the full article

JAPANESE import Admire Deus’ fight for life has ended. View the full article

A DECISION to bypass most of the Melbourne spring could reward Santa Ana Lane with a second successive Group 1 win. View the full article

CHAMPION Australian jockey Hugh Bowman, best known as Winx’s rider, added another chapter to his illustrious career when he won one of the world’s most prestigious races, the $7.6 million Japan Cup (2400m), on Grand Cheval at Fuchu, Tokyo. View the full article

THE wait is almost over for William Pike. View the full article

ZAC Purton has deposed Hugh Bowman as king of the Longines International Jockeys Championship but, in a representative twist, the title has been lost to Australia. View the full article

JOCKEY Jack Kennedy produced one of the greatest rides ever by taking victory after falling off his horse earlier in the race. View the full article

HUGH Bowman has deflected credit to Winx after being acclaimed Longines world’s best jockey, topping Joao Moreira, Ryan Moore and Frankie Dettori. View the full article

A forecast of anywhere from a dusting to six or more inches of snow is possible for the Lexington area April 6 into April 7, with Keeneland officials planning for various contingencies concerning a big Saturday race card. View the full article