Triple Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva dead at 27 after sudden health battle

Three-time Melbourne Cup winner Makybe Diva has died at 27 after a sudden health battle…

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Angela Jones’s history-making ride from country upbringing to top of Queensland’s jockey ranks

Angela Jones can still remember being bucked off her pony onto a prickle bush as…

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Trailblazing US female jockey Diane Crump dies aged 77

Diane Crump, who in 1969 became the first woman to ride professionally in a horse…

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Former football manager Harry Redknapp wins King George VI Chase with The Jukebox Man

Former Premier League manager Harry Redknapp was celebrating a special present on Boxing Day after…

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Breeding stallion St Jean, sire of Melbourne Cup winner Half Yours, dies after collision with fence post

Breeding stallion St Jean — the sire of 2025 Melbourne Cup winner Half Yours —…

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Jamie Melham joins Michelle Payne in rare club after overcoming challenges to reach pinnacle of career

Call it the handing over of the baton, call it two friends celebrating a huge…

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Melbourne Cup five quick hits: Melham magic, Blake Shinn falls, and concern over blood from Half Yours’s mouth

The Melbourne Cup has been run and won on a — surprise, surprise — soggy…

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Champion trainer Chris Waller compares Buckaroo to 2021 Melbourne Cup champ Verry Elleegant

Buckaroo and Valiant King are primed to lead Chris Waller's remarkable five-horse assault on what…

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Female jockey Jamie Melham discusses riding Melbourne Cup favourite Half Yours

Jockey Jamie Melham says she will be doing a "rain dance" on Monday, ahead of…

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Jockey Ethan Brown makes rise from from near-fatal fall to Melbourne Cup

Twenty-five-year-old jockey Ethan Brown from Alice Springs is riding the Melbourne Cup. It is famously the…

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