When the stars align, magic happens and which is what happened after, and maybe even before, the running of the Melbourne Cup at Flemington. This was when Half Yours, trained to perfection by Tony and Calvin McEvoy, and so confidently cuddled and ridden by Jamie Melham said Yup to the Cup and took out The Race That Stops A Nation. After exactly a decade since Michelle Payne became the first female jockey to win the Melbourne Cup, Jamie Melham became the first female rider to

Writing in Idol Horse, Adam Pengelly wrote a piece on Tom Prebble and how he’s doing today after his life-changing fall and how he’s working himself back to life going on around him .  Mentioned was the support group around him- his parents Maree and former champion jockey and Melbourne Cup winning jockey Brett, former jockeys Tye Angland, and Chris Symonds and the World’s Best Jockey James McDonald rushing over to see Tom right after winning the Cox Plate. Adam painted a pic

From being something of a non-believer whether the horse race known as the Everest would be a success, mainly because of the politics of horse racing going on at the time, these days I have switched sides. I have nothing but respect for the ways in which the head of Racing New South Wales Peter V’Landys fine tuned the Pegasus slot race from America into an event marketed as something for a younger demographic in Australia- and is today a global success and very probably the m