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Zahra picks Without A Fight for Melbourne Cup

Mark Zahra will not ride last year's winner Gold Trip in the Melbourne Cup at Flemington next month, instead opting to partner Without A Fight.

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Melbourne Cup champion Gold Trip set for Cox Plate

Co-trainer Ciaron Maher says Melbourne Cup champion Gold Trip has pulled up well after a third at Caulfield and is set to run in the $5 million Cox Plate.

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Without A Fight up for Melbourne Cup battle: Zahra

Without A Fight disappointed at last year's Melbourne Cup but shapes as a genuine contender for next month's race after a scintillating Caulfield Cup win.

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Racing heavyweights, AFL stars set for spring carnival

Soulcombe, part-owned by six Richmond players, appears set for a big spring, but Gold Trip trainer Ciaron Maher is backing his 2022 Melbourne Cup winner.

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No rate hike yet, but will it rise on Melbourne Cup Day? It all depends on petrol prices

If the Reserve Bank does push up interest rates again, the most likely next date is its next board meeting, on Melbourne Cup Tuesday.

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Frankie Dettori delays retirement date to seek first Melbourne Cup success

Frankie Dettori, who retires at the end of the season, had already committed to riding at the Breeders' Cup in the US but will now fly to Australia afterwards to ride at the Melbourne Cup Carnival

Daily Mirror

Royal Ascot 2023 tips: Day two best bets including Joseph O’Brien hat-trick

Coming into this year's meeting, the two-time Melbourne Cup winning handler - who won five times here as a jockey - had just one Royal Ascot training success, last year's Prince of Wales’s Stakes winner State of Rest

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2023 Melbourne Cup tour is headed for the Hunter

The Melbourne Cup is on November 7.

Newcastle Herald

Public drunkenness laws lifted on Melbourne Cup day

Victoria will move to decriminalise public intoxication from November, with services to provide a health-based response instead of a criminal justice one.

The New Daily

Public drunkenness decriminalised on Melbourne Cup day

Victoria will move to decriminalise public intoxication from November, with services to provide a health-based response instead of a criminal justice one.

AAP

Betting company fined after emailing Melbourne Cup promotion to hundreds of people experiencing gambling harm

Watchdog calls emails sent to 772 self-excluded people a serious breach and issues financial penalty as a warning to other firms

The Guardian - AU

News Corp-backed Betr fined after targeting self-excluded gambler ahead of Melbourne Cup

The Northern Territory Racing Commission fines Betr for breaching the NT's online gambling code of conduct by directly marketing to a self-excluded person with an offer to open a betting account.

ABC News

Melbourne Cup winner admits animal cruelty

Melbourne Cup-winning horse trainer Darren Weir and his assistant Jarrod McLean have pleaded guilty to animal cruelty in the lead-up to the 2018 Melbourne Cup.

AAP

The Cup comes to town as Hunter connections party on

"The amount of people who've come out of the woodwork now and want to buy a horse. It's an experience. It's got nothing to do with the money side of if, it's more around being involved."

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Wallace Bishop, Brisbane jeweller and former manufacturer of Melbourne Cup, passes away

Wallace Bishop, leader of one of Australia's oldest and most successful family jewellery businesses and manufacturer of the Melbourne Cup for 17 years, passes away.

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Stare In Abject Horror At This Foul TikTok Of A Girl Licking A Handrail At The Melbourne Cup

I detest the Melbourne Cup and everything it stands for. From the glorification of binge drinking and gambling to the animal cruelty and ill-fitting Tarocash suits blokes insist on wearing, quite literally everything about the event makes me gag. Well folks, there’s now another foul byproduct of the Melbourne Cup…

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Recovering gambling addict 'sent Melbourne Cup deals from betting site'

A recovering gambling addict slams "predatory" online betting companies for sending him promotional material even though he has registered for self-exclusion.

Newcastle Herald

What a ride: Knockabout local league player, to boss of global wagering company and Melbourne Cup winner

"Just raw emotion. You cheer them home when you are at the pub. This was unbelievable."

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The Canberra Times

Punters wade through floodwaters to watch Melbourne Cup at country pub

Inundated roads weren't enough to stop some residents from watching the famous race with a beer in hand.

Newcastle Herald

Gold Trip win in Melbourne Cup another success for Australian Bloodstock talent scout

Growing up, Luke Murrell thought being a rugby league talent scout - just like his neighbour, foundation Knights coaching director Allan Bell - would be "awesome".

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We Ranked A Heap Of Rancid Melbourne Cup Punter Pics From Bad To Horseshit

The Melbourne Cup is an absolutely abhorrent display of everything awful in this country, but the pics of people falling over sure are funny.

AAP

Maher team has taste for more Cup success

Trainer Ciaron Maher has already turned his attention to the 2023 Melbourne Cup with this year's winner Gold Trip.

The Guardian - AU

Victorian election: with Melbourne Cup over, now comes real race for Daniel Andrews and Matthew Guy

Polls and pundits have Labor winning in a canter, but strategists from both sides expect the margin to narrow as 26 November approaches

Daily Mirror

Lucky punter turns 50p bet into £84,000 with four-fold at Australia's Melbourne Cup

A big winner in Australia has turned his bet that was the equivalent of 50p into a huge five figure sum after an incredible run of fortune at the Melbourne Gold Cup

The New Daily

Melbourne Cup 2022: From Gold Trip win to jaw-dropping fashion, there’s much to celebrate

From making history on Gold Trip to all the fashion, celebrities, TV and sports stars, to the punters who made the 2022 Melbourne Cup.

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