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Melbourne Cup Steward’s Report offers eye-opening account of what really happens on race day
Thursday, 8th November 2018
Even as millions watched, the industry’s notoriously troubled whips rules were flouted across the Melbourne Cup day racing program, including a trifecta of whip breaches in the main event.<
RSPCA statement on death of The Cliffsofmoher in the 2018 Melbourne Cup
Tuesday, 6th November 2018
RSPCA Australia joins Australians across the nation in being deeply saddened by the death of The Cliffsofmoher following his injury during the first 600 metres of today’s Melbourne Cup race
Tragedy at Melbourne Cup
Tuesday, 4th November 2014
We understand that in today’s Melbourne Cup, the favourite, Admire Rakti, collapsed and died and that Araldo was also seriously injured soon after the race.
