Here’s Everything You Need For Your Melbourne Cup Sweep

If you've been put in charge of getting your Melbourne Cup Office Sweep organised, don’t fret: The Carousel has you covered. Simply decide on the cost you’d like to allocate per horse ($1, $2 etc), and the way you want to split the total prize pool – winner takes all, or percentage share for first,…

ByThe Carousel31/10/20220Comments

Donny Galella’s Secret Tips For Race Day Fashion

Donny Galella has dressed some of Australia's brightest stars including Jennifer Hawkins, Dannii Minogue and Jessica Mauboy, plus huge international A-listers like Sophia Loren and Kelly Rowland. As a Fashion Stylist, Makeover Expert & Style Blogger, he appears weekly on Channel 7’s The Morning Show and performed the makeovers on the hit show Beauty and the Geek (2013 & 2014). We were lucky enough…

ByChrisanthi Kaliviotis02/11/20212Comments

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Teenage Jockey Wins The 2018 Birdsville Cup

The 2018 Birdsville Races boasted the biggest race field in the event’s iconic 136-year history, with a record 170 entries accepted across 13 races. The headline 1600m UBET Birdsville Cup narrowly taken out by 17-year-old apprentice jockey Adin Thompson on the Johnson-trained Blue Jest. The final day of Western Queensland’s richest two-day race-meet saw close to 5,000…

ByThe Carousel04/09/20180Comments

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Race Day Fashion Tips with Jodi Anasta & Steph Claire Smith

Whilst it's meant to be about the horses, fashion often becomes the feature come race day. We spoke to Myer Ambassador's Jodi Anasta, Kris Smith and Steph Claire Smith about their sartorial racing tips. And they're off... Jodi Anasta The actress and Myer Ambassador was racing perfection in a rose-adorned lace Asilio dress with theatrical bell sleeves and…

ByChrisanthi Kaliviotis11/04/20160Comments

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Touching Tribute To Melbourne Cup King Bart Cummings

For the first time in decades, the world’s most iconic race is being run without Bart Cummings, the man who won it more times than anyone. The 12-time Cup winner died aged 87 on August 30 after leaving an indelible mark on Australian and world racing. While his stable hasn’t qualified a runner in…

ByRobyn Foyster02/11/20150Comments