MELBOURNE - Australia batter Travis Head has been released from the T20I squad against India to get some red-ball practice in the Sheffield Shield before the Ashes. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.

Rain in Melbourne is set to play a factor in Australia's most famous horse race, with Flemington Racecourse predicted to be rated a Soft 7 or Heavy 8 for Tuesday's Melbourne Cup.

Racing.com’s Edward Sadler gives his insight into Australia’s most famous race, the Lexus Melbourne Cup.

While the band played “Champagne Supernova,” video footage shows two flares being launched into the floor area of the venue

Given she’s considered the first lady of Australian racing, trainer Gai Waterhouse is no stranger to winning big feature races. Waterhouse has won every race imaginable in Australia with her Group 1 tally at 163 and counting.

France-based Italian Alessandro Botti will attempt to succeed where his cousin Marco could not with Presage Nocturne in Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup.

It is the first Tuesday in November, which means it is time to run the Melbourne Cup and we have all the details you need to pick a winner in the big one.

A 17-year-old cricketer has died after training accident at his club in Melbourne, Australia. Local cricket officials said Ben Austin was rushed to a hospital in critical condition after being struck by a ball on the neck during practice in Ferntree Gully on Tuesday.

Sussan Ley recently declared Melbourne the ‘crime capital of Australia’. But a closer analysis of the data shows a much more nuanced picture.

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