Graded action continues at the re-arranged Down Royal Festival of Racing, with the Grade 3 Bottlegreen Hurdle and the Grade 3 Feathard Lady Mares Novices Hurdle.

Graded action continues at the re-arranged Down Royal Festival of Racing, with the Grade 3 Bottlegreen Hurdle and the Grade 3 Feathard Lady Mares Novices Hurdle.

Jockey Ryan Moore will be bidding for a second victory in the Melbourne Cup on Tuesday at Flemington.

bet365 are putting $100,000 up for grabs for any member who correctly selects the winners of six designated races this Cup day.

The 163rd running of the Melbourne Cup takes place on Tuesday at Flemington.

The two Willie Mullins-trained Melbourne Cup contenders Vauban and Absurde have fared positively in the Lexus Melbourne Cup draw, with the former drawn in stall three and the latter in stall eight.

Irish contenders Vauban and Absurde have had a look at Flemington ahead of the Melbourne Cup.

Four-time Group 1 winner Paddington has been retired to stud and will stand at Coolmore. He will not take up his anticipated engagement at the Breeders' Cup due to an elevated temperature and a respiratory infection.

Whilst preparations are being made ahead of the 2023/23 National Hunt season, trainer Willie Mullins still has an opportunity to claim big-race flat success in this year’s Melbourne Cup on 7 November.

Paddington will be bidding to put his York defeat behind him and go out all guns blazing, with trainer Aidan O’Brien admitting Saturday’s Queen Elizabeth II Stakes could be the colts last racecourse appearance.

The Emmet Mullins-trained The Shunter battled on strongly to land the staying feature at Newmarket on Saturday, making it six National Hunt-based winners of the Cesarewitch in succession.