SPORT
Cup works its magic on Clarke, Ponting
Andrew Webster Has the magic of the Melbourne Cup and the birdcage and champagne patched up the fractured and delicate state of Australian cricket?
Horse Racing
More joy for Gai as past is soon forgotten
Andrew Webster There is no doubt that Gai Waterhouse's breakthrough win is a victory for racing.
Horseracing
Joyous scenes as Gai Waterhouse joins legends of great race
Andrew Webster Standing here, right next to Team Waterhouse in the mounting yard at Flemington, as Fiorente wins the Melbourne Cup, it's impossible not to think about the past.
Horse Racing
Enigmatic Williams rides his own race
Andrew Webster Lloyd Williams is very much in control, even without a licence.
Racing
Waterhouse and Waller lead the great Australian charge
Andrew Webster Since its first running in 1861, the same year Burke and Wills withered in the desert, the Melbourne Cup has conjured many images.
Racing
Melbourne Cup 2013: Lloyd Williams, the enigma holding the reins
Andrew Webster If you think it's difficult to lay eyes on Lloyd Williams, to see if the man is more than just a voice, it's even harder to pigeonhole him.
Horse Racing
Forty years on, another race is celebrated
Andrew Webster Indigenous rider Frank Reys will finally be honoured on Tuesday.
Horseracing
Man of his people finally gets his due
Andrew Webster History squares the ledger with itself eventually. It might have taken exactly four decades, but it will finally be squared for Frank Reys on Tuesday.
Horseracing
Jim Cassidy star of Derby Day with 100th group 1 win
Andrew Webster Jim Cassidy put two fingers in the air and let the line rip that he's been dying to say for weeks.
Racing
Feminine touch inspires Singo's Cup dream
Andrew Webster Women have come and gone so many times in John Singleton's life, but now two special ones might land him something that's eluded him for decades.
Waterhouse has her best chance yet in race she has never won
Andrew Webster For most of this year, it has been Gai Waterhouse versus the world.
Bart Cummings: Spry glasses
Andrew Webster ONE of Bart Cummings' favourite proverbs - and there are several - is that training horses is like being a detective.
Sport
Damien Oliver's holiday at mug punters' expense
Andrew Webster At a charity function held in Melbourne a week ago, Richard Callander was cracking jokes, as the big fella often does.
League
Mount Athos owner wants to lure Sonny Bill Williams to Super League
Andrew Webster The billionaire owner of Melbourne Cup prospect Mount Athos has revealed an ambitious bid to raid the NRL of its superstars for his Super League club Salford -starting with Sonny Bill Williams.
Horseracing
To Flemington via Cyprus, Saab Hasan likes his chance
Andrew Webster In a sport dictated by dynasties, in which some consider success in million-dollar races an entitlement instead of something earned, the reminder of horse racing's beauty comes in the unlikely form...
Horseracing
Gai Waterhouse's Melbourne Cup dream comes at a price
Andrew Webster As you drive from Melbourne Airport towards the city, there's an enormous billboard stretching across the Tullamarine Freeway that cannot be missed.
Horse Racing
Kid and a maiden upset the Cox Plate stars
Andrew Webster Apprentice hoop produces a peach of a ride in a stunning race of firsts at Moonee Valley
Racing
Unlikely lad steps up to Plate
Andrew Webster You are a 19-year-old apprentice. You only started riding professionally three years ago. You didn't know until Wednesday you will be riding in the hardest race in the country to win, when the horse...
Racing
Gai Waterhouse: Fight and power
Andrew Webster Annus horribilis? Anything but as Gai tries to break her Cox Plate duck.
Sport
Ricky Ponting's tell-all tome has bingles galore
Andrew Webster Ricky Ponting's forthcoming autobiography is already causing a stir. It would want to, given how much he received for it.
