Pat Eddery dead at 63
Pat Eddery, one Europe's greatest jockeys, passed away Tuesday at the age of 63. He had been in ill health recently.
Irwin CohenNov 10, 2015
Pat Eddery, one Europe's greatest jockeys, passed away Tuesday at the age of 63. He had been in ill health recently.
Jockey Michelle Payne made Australian racing history on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to ride the winner of the Melbourne Cup. Payne won the $4.2 million race at Flemington Racecourse aboard 100-1 Prince of Penzance.
Fame Game will attempt to become the first Japanese-trained winner of Australia’s most famous race, the Group 1 Melbourne Cup at Flemington Racecourse on Tuesday.
Lovely Day will be favored to win the Japan Cup on Nov. 29 after winning his second Grade 1 race of 2015 Sunday in the $2,593,850 Tenno Sho at Tokyo Racecourse.
Spielberg is part of a field of 18 in the $2,593,850 Tenno Sho at 1 1/4 miles on turf Sunday at Tokyo Racecourse.
A maiden race winner in July, Vazirabad won his Group 1 debut and fifth consecutive stakes in Sunday’s $385,000 Prix Royal-Oak at 1 5/16 miles on turf at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in Paris.
Winx, a Street Cry filly, won her fifth consecutive stakes and third Group 1 in that span Saturday in the $2.16 million Cox Plate at Moonee Valley Racecourse in Australia.
Marcel won his Group 1 debut in Saturday’s $302,800 Racing Post Trophy for 2-year-olds at Doncaster Racecourse in England, rallying wide in the final three furlongs of the race at a straightaway mile on turf and avoiding the troubled that plagued odds-on favorite Foundation.
The remarkable 9-year-old Cirrus des Aigles starts in the longest race of his career in Sunday’s $385,000 Prix Royal-Oak at about 1 7/8 miles on turf at Saint-Cloud Racecourse in Paris.
The 2-year-olds Foundation and Deauville might be stuck racing against each other for a while.