The full field for the 2025 Melbourne Cup has been set with 24 horses competing for the greatest prize in Australian horse racing.

Not that it wasn't already very serious, but the implications foot and mouth disease could have on the Thoroughbred industry became scary business Wednesday when the Australian government placed an ...

The four Cup contenders will need to be re-examined by Racing Victoria vets, after Absurde, Flatten The Curve and Goodie Two ...

Our racing expert previews, and provides two tips for, Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup – the biggest horse race in Australia ...

Australian racing queen Gai Waterhouse is hoping to win the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday for the second time with former Irish runner Vauban.

Around the world, the age-old sport of horse racing is facing existential threats from multiple sides. In the United States, ...

Australian Bloodstock already have two Melbourne Cup trophies on the mantelpiece and their famous colours will be out in force at Flemington on Tuesday.

All track work halted Aug. 26 at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia after three Thoroughbreds showed symptoms of equine influenza. The equine influenza crisis took a dark turn in Australia the ...

Searing summer heat in Australia continues to break records with the highest temperature ever recorded by a major city on Thursday as the conditions are also being blamed for the deaths of dozens of ...

A member of a small herd of Brumbies, affectionally named 'the welcoming committee' by local horse watchers, rests in deep snow in Australia's Kosciuszko National Park.Brook Mitchell/Getty Images The ...