He described it as “we didn’t bring her back to….” well I can't use the exact quote, but it had something to with spiders.

"she’s a racehorse, she loves to race, I wouldn’t be doing it if we weren’t 100 percent convinced, she was ready to do it”

It was hardly weather for a Pinot Noir. Or was it? We are talking Mike Moroney here. Sure, it was mid 30’s in the Flemington mounting...

“100 percent, I’ve got a few spare spots!" (for a Tom Kitten tattoo)

looking like a candidate from central casting for a West Point naval character, with that buzz-cut and always preened presentation

Surely this would have to be coming from some crackpot, nutbag, wacko group, operating from a back-yard garage wearing tin-foil hats

"Double the pleasure, Divide the pain!"

Why the once-a-year meeting at Burrumbeet is the perfect way to start your every new racing year.

“It’s like my heart has been shot out of a cannon.”

McDonald is horse racing’s biggest and most accessible human star. Rarely a request for a minute here or there goes to message bank.

After everything, who could deny Brian Ellison some luck in the Lexus Melbourne Cup?

“I think I mainly attribute it to the fact I gave up drinking at the end of 2022"

"Nothing that we do, is done in vain. I believe, with all my soul, that we shall see triumph.”

“I just don’t know, that’s the trouble. I haven’t had a holiday but that’s never been me, I just need to get away.”

“People might think I’m silly, but I’m serious about it,"

A weary timeline of the long running case involving fallen idol Darren Weir - a fall from a great height to the wilderness - again.

“It is all on me, I’m a different cat, its why we get so emotional and involved, this is our horse"

"Our biggest threat is not from outside, but within. Or if you like, from itself."

Seems sadly ironic doesn’t it, that in the end, what finally beat Black Caviar was her feet. Those feet, well ok, hooves, that had...

How the Court of Appeal ruled "unauthorized gambling" over a simple clerical matter wiped a $150k debt.