Category: Australian Gallops

Trainer Harry Eustace with Declan Bates. (Photo by Brett Holburt/Racing Photos) Harry Eustace is set to saddle up Bendigo Cup winner Sea King in the 2024 Melbourne Cup, but has he actually won the great race? As of 2024, Harry Eustace is yet to win the Melbourne Cup, but will be looking to follow in the footsteps of his brother David Eustace who has managed to do so. Let’s have a look at who is set to represent Harry Eustace in the 2024 Melbourne Cup. Recommended! The Better Bettors! Australian-owned…

Having formed as a training partnership at the beginning of the 2024/25 racing season, Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald have obviously not had a Melbourne Cup winner. In fact, the pair are yet to taste Group 1 success, so they will be hoping to break their Group 1 duck in the race that stops the nation at Flemington. How many Melbourne Cups have Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald won? Having only formed as a training partnership in August, Annabel Neasham & Rob Archibald will have their first Melbourne Cup starter…

Graeme & Deborah Rogerson. Photo: Bradleyphotos.com.au Graeme & Deborah Rogerson are a husband/wife training partnership that has plied their trade in New Zealand since 2013, training 14 Group 1 winners on either side of the Tasman. Although Graeme Rogerson has won the Melbourne Cup once before in 2007 with Efficient, his wife Deborah is yet to train a winner in the great race. With stable star Sharp ‘N’ Smart taking his place in the 2024 Melbourne Cup, could this year be the first that the duo trains a winner of…

Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young. Trent Busuttin & Natalie Young are no stranger to Group 1 success in Australia, but have they actually won the Melbourne Cup? The duo are yet to taste success in the great race, but will saddle up their second Melbourne Cup runner on Tuesday, November 5. After Mirage Dancer represented the stable in 2019, Mostly Cloudy is set to line up in the 2024 Melbourne Cup. Recommended! The Better Bettors! Australian-owned and operated bookmaker! Join MarantelliBet 18+ Gamble Responsibly. THINK. IS THIS A BET YOU…

Andrew Forsman. Photo: Trish Dunell Andrew Forsman, the New Zealand-based trainer is yet to taste success in the Melbourne Cup, but is set to have his first starter in the great race on Tuesday, November 5, 2024. Forsman, who use to train in partnership with hall-of-fame trainer Murray Baker is no stranger to the Melbourne Cup, having saddled up multiple runners in the time-honoured classic with Baker. His classy mare Positivity will be his first runner as a solo trainer. Andrew Forsman is yet to taste Group 1 success in…

South Australian trainers Dan Clarken & Oopy MacGillivray will be looking to etch their name into Melbourne Cup folklore on the first Tuesday in November. Having had their first starter as a training partnership in August 2017, the stable are yet to taste Group 1 success, so what better way to do so than in the Melbourne Cup? Dan Clarken & Oopy MacGillivray will saddle up Andrew Ramsden Stakes winner, The Map. Recommended! The Better Bettors! Australian-owned and operated bookmaker! Join MarantelliBet 18+ Gamble Responsibly. THINK. IS THIS A BET…

Japanese horse trainer Noboru Takagi. Noboru Takagi is a six-time Group 1-winning trainer from Japan who will train his first runner in the 2024 Melbourne Cup when Warp Speed takes his place in the 3200m classic. In 2007, Takagi was represented by his first runner at Nakayama and since then he has raced his horses in several countries, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and the United States of America. Takagi is yet to train a Group winner in 2024, but will he train his first one on Aussie soil in…

Bruce Wallace & Grant Cooksley will have their first Melbourne Cup runner when Trust In You takes his spot in the 2024 Melbourne Cup on Tuesday, November 5. With less than 500 races under their belt as a training duo, Wallace & Cooksley will look to etch their name into equine immortality on the first Tuesday in November. Recommended! The Better Bettors! Australian-owned and operated bookmaker! Join MarantelliBet 18+ Gamble Responsibly. THINK. IS THIS A BET YOU REALLY WANT TO PLACE? How many Melbourne Cups has Bruce Wallace & Grant…

Ciaron Maher. (Photo by Reg Ryan/Racing Photos) Ciaron Maher is one of Australia’s premier horse trainers and he will be represented by four runners in the 2024 Melbourne Cup. Training in partnership with David Eustace, Maher tasted Melbourne Cup glory in 2022 when Gold Trip produced a devastating turn of foot to claim victory in the race that stops the nation. Now that Maher has returned to sole-training duties of his stable in 2024, he will be seeking to claim victory in the great race again this year. Maher has…