Trainer Eddie Lynam plans to send Slade Power to Australia for the 2014 Melbourne Spring Racing Carnival.

Dunaden and Green Moon, winners of the last two Emirates Melbourne Cups, head the weights for this year’s renewal at Flemington Park on November 5.

Top Australian jockey Damien Oliver has been disqualified for eight months and suspended for a further two months following a hearing in Flemington.

Australian jockey Damien Oliver has described allegations that he backed a rival horse in a race in which he was riding as “hurtful”.

Luca Cumani has confirmed Ryan Moore will partner ante-post favourite Mount Athos in the Emirates Melbourne Cup at Flemington on November 6.

Black Caviar finally boarded a plane heading towards Britain yesterday for her hugely-anticipated appearance in the Diamond Jubilee Stakes at Royal Ascot.

The ISEQ index rebounded from Wednesday’s losses, climbing 56.50 points to 3195.8 in line with European bourses as the ECB took steps to calm markets amid concern regarding Spain’s increased cost of borrowing.

Australian superstar Black Caviar could be tested by the outstanding Singapore sprinter Rocket Man in November’s Patinack Farm Classic.

Irish St Leger winner Sans Frontieres has been confirmed as an intended runner in the Melbourne Cup.

Godolphin’s Kirklees is one of two high-profile scratchings from Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup.

AUSTRALIAN horse racing officials have been slammed for holding a dwarf racing competition called the Midget Cup at a meeting in Melbourne to promote Victoria state’s annual carnival.

Godolphin have been dealt a hammer blow with the news that their Melbourne Cup hope All The Good will miss the race.

CASUAL Conquest, placed in both the Epsom Derby and its Irish equivalent this summer, has been put away for the season.

The Australian Quarantine and Inspection Service (AQIS) has granted quarantine approval at the Ballydoyle stables of Aidan O'Brien, according to Racing Victoria's website.

Aidan O’Brien has been given more reason to aim Septimus at the Melbourne Cup after hearing that the five-year-old will not pick up a penalty for his runaway success in the Irish St Leger.

Aidan O’Brien has given both Henrythenavigator and Duke Of Marmalade a potentially fascinating extra option by entering the pair in the Tatts Cox Plate in Australia on October 25.

Officials at Racing Victoria are confident the outbreak of Equine Influenza will not prevent European horses travelling to Australia for the AUS$5m (€3m) Emirates Melbourne Cup.

Alan Swinbank has ruled out a crack at the Emirates Melbourne Cup with progressive filly Turbo Linn.

Aidan O’Brien’s Yeats has been given top weight for November’s Emirates Melbourne Cup with the dual Ascot Gold Cup winner allotted 59kg, the same as carried when running seventh in Australia’s richest race last year.

Malton trainer Brian Ellison has been able to breathe a sigh of relief regarding his two horses stabled in Australia, despite the outbreak of Equine Influenza.

Sydney’s spring racing carnival will not go ahead after eight racehorses in the state tested positive for equine influenza.

Officials at Racing Victoria have appealed to connections of prospective runners in the Melbourne Cup not to worry about the current outbreak of equine influenza in Australia.

Racing authorities in Australia are adamant the Melbourne Cup will not be affected by what is believed to be an equine influenza outbreak in Sydney.

Emirates Melbourne Cup favourites Tawqeet and Yeats have had their prospects of winning the Group One at Flemington on Tuesday enhanced by drawing favourably at Saturday’s ceremony.

The Melbourne Cup has been rocked by tragedy with the news that David Elsworth’s Wunderwood has been put down after a training mishap at Mornington racecourse in Melbourne.

English trainer David Elsworth’s Melbourne Cup hopeful Wunderwood has been put down after a training accident at Mornington racecourse in the Australian city.

Kieren Fallon voiced concerns as to whether the Emirates Melbourne Cup on November 7 will be run to suit Yeats.

A RULING on whether Kieren Fallon will be allowed to ride Yeats in the Emirates Melbourne Cup hinges on a successful application to the racing authorities in Australia.

A ruling on whether Kieren Fallon will be allowed to ride Yeats in the Emirates Melbourne Cup hinges on a successful application to the racing authorities in Australia.

Carte Diamond’s bid for the Melbourne Cup is once again in doubt after Brian Ellison’s five-year-old suffered another injury.

Frankie Dettori, who will be crowned champion jockey at Doncaster on Saturday, picked up a one-month ban after pleading guilty to careless riding in the Melbourne Cup.

Australian jockey Danny Nikolic will be free to ride Mummify in the Tooheys New Melbourne Cup despite being charged with failing to give the horse every chance to win in his prep-race last Saturday.

Dermot Weld’s Royal Ascot winner In Time’s Eye is the new top weight for the Carlton Draught Caulfield Cup after the second declaration stage for the AUS$2.5m (€1.4m) Group One feature on October 18, it was reported on the Racing Victoria website.

A host of British and Irish trainers including Aidan O’Brien have set their sights on Melbourne’s Carlton Draught Cox Plate on October 27 according to the initial entry list which was revealed today.