It’s been 40 years since Mark Read led a successful Melbourne Cup plunge on Black Knight. One of racing’s great thinkers, Read says there has been no other race like it for wagering.

After Switzerland became the first of Snitzel’s progeny to win the Coolmore Stud Stakes, we take a look at the Arrowfield champion’s overall record as he closes in, statistically at least, on becoming Australia’s most successful producer of three-year-olds.

The intensity of campaigning in the US election has been matched by expectations of mind-boggling global wagering figures despite some Australian agencies experiencing a downturn in interest.

In this week’s Rowe On Monday, Tim Rowe catches up with some of the Australian contingent in the US for Kentucky's breeding stock sales, examines the Atishu gamble and reflects on Denise Martin's New Zealand purchases.

Zoustar has become just the fifth Australian-bred sire to produce a winner of a Breeders’ Cup race, after the victory of Starlust in the Breeders’ Cup Turf Sprint at Del Mar.

Ozzie Kheir has tasted Melbourne Cup success before as an owner, but never in his own colours. On Tuesday, he has four chances to do just that but shuns comparisons to leviathan Cup owner Lloyd Williams.

Galileo’s progeny have won nearly all the world’s best races, but despite 34 attempts, never a Melbourne Cup. On Tuesday, the late Coolmore legend has three more chances. But he is not the sire with the strongest numerical hand.