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Autumn Glow shines on Champions Day as Birdman reverses Plate fortunes and Point Barrow delivers in Group 1 sprint
Champions Day produced the expected dominance of Autumn Glow, but an unexpected result in both the Champions Stakes and the Champions Sprint, where Tempted’s winning streak came unstuck.
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🔒 🔒 Where NSW is losing trainers: the numbers behind a 15 per cent fall in country stables in two years
Country stables accounted for 38 of the 46 trainer licences lost in NSW in 2025/26, according to Racing NSW’s annual report, which links the fall to tougher business conditions and increased welfare expectations.
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🔒 🔒 Tempted’s Champions Sprint assignment comes with global ambitions
Tempted has already beaten the world’s best sprinter, but her performance in the Champions Sprint at Flemington will help determine whether the mare, rated among the best Godolphin has produced in Australia, is destined for overseas challenges.
Straight Talk – A review of an historic Melbourne Cup feat. Will Bourne, plus off-track drama and stallions minted
This week, we dissect a history-making Melbourne Cup. chat to bloodstock agent Will Bourne about sourcing the future Cup winner from King Charles, examine the fallout from Cup week in the stewards’ room, and discuss Frankel’s growing Cup influence and the wagering headlines.
Point Of Law gives Frankel the Melbourne Cup sire honour that eluded Galileo
Point Of Law’s Melbourne Cup win gives Frankel his first winner of the race from 11 starts by his progeny, an honour his sire Galileo never achieved from 39 starts, and makes him Frankel’s fifth individual Australian Group 1 winner.
The workforce behind Flemington’s biggest Melbourne Cup crowd in a decade
Flemington drew nearly 100,000 racegoers to Melbourne Cup Day, its largest crowd since 2016. The VRC’s most recent workforce figure, more than 14,000 accredited staff across the 2024 carnival, gives the scale of the caterers, builders, security, cleaners, turf staff and broadcast crews behind the event.
