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.
Category: Horse Racing News
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.
New NTRA Poll Suggests Thorpedo Anna a Strong Favorite to be Named Horse of the Year
After winning the $2 million Longines Breeders' Cup Distaff Nov. 2 at Del Mar, Thorpedo Anna comfortably topped the final National Thoroughbred Racing Association poll of top Thoroughbreds of 2024.
