Aussies lash out at Channel Seven after stunning mistake saw them miss the Melbourne Cup
Some racing fanatics lashed out at the broadcaster last year after the television channel aired live horse racing from other venues around Australia.
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Rebel Red Can Notch First Graded Stakes Win in Red Smith Stakes
The Grade 2, $300,000 Red Smith Stakes at Aqueduct drew a field of nine, including two millionaires and two horses which would break through the million-dollar career earnings threshold should they win.
Here’s how The Melbourne Cup became the destination for fairytale endings after 90/1 outsider Knight’s Choice’s magical victory at Flemington
DOMINIC KING: The first Tuesday of November means only one thing and that is the Melbourne Cup, a jewel in Australia's sporting crown and an event that can proudly boast that it is world class.
Sexually assaulted, groped and told to starve herself: the harrowing treatment of a female jockey who fought it all to break new ground, writes IAN HERBERT
IAN HERBERT: So casually was it accepted in the 1970s, that the stable 'lads' who had groped her one day would display no embarrassment the next. 'I had been told, "You have to fit in here,"' she says.
