MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Australia-trained gelding Knight's Choice has won the 164th running of Australia's premier ...

Australian racing fans and casual punters are gearing up for 'the race that stops the nation' - the Melbourne Cup.

Knight's Choice has claimed this year's Melbourne Cup, beating home Warp Speed on the line to claim the coveted $8 million ...

If the Melbourne Cup is looking to expand its appeal beyond thoroughbred diehards, organisers could not have asked for a ...

Willie Mullins has not given up on his Lexus Melbourne Cup ambitions after watching Absurde finish best of his two runners in ...

Ronan Keating performed at Flemington before the Melbourne Cup – and then backed the big-race winnerCredit: Vince Caligiuri ( ...

Knight’s Choice made a (very small) number of punters very wealthy, taking home the Melbourne Cup on slim expectations.

Melbourne Cup Day, celebrated annually on the first Tuesday of November, is one of Australia’s most iconic public holidays ...

The Kildare jockey partnered the five-year-old to victory in Flemington as Absurde finished the best of Willie Mullins' two ...

Previously, the closest Queensland may have come to claiming a Melbourne Cup winner was in 1943 when Dark Felt was born and ...

Prime Minister Christopher Luxon says he personally backs a ban, but ultimately it is a decision for Racing Minister Winston ...