For days before the great annual horse race that crowds marquees, backyards and pubs around Australia, the form and fortunes of one bay mare fueled a national conversation. Makybe Diva, the two-time ...

Trainer Adam Trinder wants to see how star mare Mystic Journey handles her first Group 1 weight-for-age test in the Makybe Diva Stakes before he fully commits to the Cox Plate. Trinder said it was 90 ...

Matt Smith knows what it takes to train a son of Deep Impact to group 1 success, and he's hoping he might be able to repeat the feats he achieved with Fierce Impact with his latest Japanese-bred and ...

Reigning Australian Horse of the Year Via Sistina has had a change to her spring campaign and will contest the Makybe Diva Stakes (G1) at Flemington Racecourse Sept. 13. The mare was meant to trial ...

This was trainer Lee Freedman’s famous quote after Makybe Diva’s historic third successive Melbourne Cup in 2005. The chances of this feat ever being repeated is remote because Makybe Diva is the ...

THE race was the launching pad for the great Makybe Diva and now her youngster sister is trying to do the same. La Amistad, a three-quarter sister to Makybe Diva, faces an examination of her emerging ...

A BIG future has been predicted for Makybe Diva’s three-quarter sister La Amistad, who broke her maiden status in impressive fashion yesterday. Despite racing greenly La Amistad showed she carried ...