Vintage Crop, the Melbourne Cup winner of 1993 who helped to turn the race into one of the most celebrated international staying races, has died in Ireland aged 27.

In the lead up to Tuesday’s Melbourne Cup we take a look at the history of overseas jockeys in ‘the race that stops the nation’. No longer was it only the domain of Australasia, it established a new ...

On the 25th anniversary of Irish stayer Vintage Crop’s historic Melbourne Cup win, there is criticism the internationalisation of the race has gone too far. The northern hemisphere-trained stayers are ...