2009 Melbourne Cup
 

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Spring is here, as the excitement builds up once again for the great race.

What are our early thoughts?

Cest Le Guerre will take some beating. Also anything Bart Cummings has in the race

I got on Zapurple early although she failed to finish her trail at cranbourne on Monday so not looking good.

Just cant understand why hes been given such a better chance than Master O this whole time.. Master O was the unlucky one, with a clear run he would have beaten C'est home, and he carried 1kg more, this year C'est has half a kg more to carry, and 1.5 more than last year...

Cest le Guerre was always a year off his best and lloyd williams said he will be a much better chance next year (said this before cup last year), and he still ran a good 3rd. 1 more year under his belt and he has come back in better form. With luck in running he will be the one to beat

Master Oreilly is a very good chance too but i personally prefer CLG

Scratching - Irish mare withdrawn from Cup
 

Courtesy of racenet.com.au

Wednesday, 7 October 2009


The Dermot Weld-trained Profound Beauty is out of the Melbourne Cup.

The Irish mare was due to go into quarantine on Thursday night but the mare’s owners have made a last-minute decision to keep the five-year-old in Europe to race.

“Moyglare Stud [owner] made the decision not to send Profound Beauty to Melbourne so she’ll be staying at home,” Mark Weld, son of trainer Dermot, told the Irish Times.

“The plan is to keep her in training next year."

The decision means Weld, the two time Melbourne Cup winning trainer won’t have a runner in this year’s Cup.

Last year Profound Beauty finished fifth in the race behind Viewed and she was the early pre-post favourite for this year’s race.

definately daffodil

Righto ppl lets get this thread fired up..

For Coops - Viewed/ Efficient - ya know what your getting. Theyre outstanding 2 milers, and remember, the champs carry the weight.

However; Alcopop is a freakishly talented stayer with an irresistable swing at the weights. Although I said the champs carry it, the weight matters more over more distance, at the moment hes gotta be my pick.

Of the other two, I'm very confident Efficient has Viewed covered over 2 miles at the same weight.

I do like Efficiant Hussler. I was only looking at him the other day and I really think he's a good chance. Yes he is a great 2 miler. Thanks mate. he's the one I'm going to stick with.

coops

Tue 03 Nov 09 Flemington
 

Race 7 CLEAR 3:00 PM EST Emirates Melbourne Cup (GROUP 1) 3200m $5,500,000
No Last 10 Horse Jockey Wg Trainer Career Rtg
1 01-4423-4071 VIEWED(9) Brad Rawiller 58.0 Bart Cummings 32-9-4-2 119
2 9463-55-4000 C'EST LA GUERRE(7) Nicholas Hall 55.5 John Sadler 20-5-2-1 111
3 077716-0035 FIUMICINO(24) Steven King 55.5 Michael, Wayne & John Hawkes 26-5-0-4 112
4 4-04848-3746 MASTER O'REILLY(16) Vlad Duric 55.0 Danny O'Brien 35-8-3-5 110
5 8-360327-241 MOURILYAN(14) Glyn Schofield 54.5 Herman Brown 18-5-3-4 112
6 20510-05392 ROMAN EMPEROR(15) Hugh Bowman 54.0 Bart Cummings 14-2-2-1 114
7 32141-00040 ISTA KAREEM(23) Luke Nolen 53.5 Colin Little 66-12-4-8 106
8 04-5102-6196 CRIME SCENE(11) Kerrin McEvoy 53.0 Saeed Bin Suroor 28-8-3-2 109
9 27-088-12112 MUNSEF(5) Zac Purton 53.0 Ian Williams 32-7-10-5 108
10 21100-08849 ZAVITE(3) Mark Zahra 53.0 Anthony Cummings 43-8-5-2 107
11 171215-1111 ALCOPOP(12) Dom Tourneur 52.5 Jake Stephens 10-7-1-0 108
12 211412-9300 HARRIS TWEED(20) Craig Newitt 52.5 Murray & Bjorn Baker 15-3-2-3 107
13 998-78-00604 KIBBUTZ(8) Chris Symons 52.5 Jarrod McLean 17-3-1-2 104
14 010640-0778 NEWPORT(18) Peter Wells 52.5 Paul Perry 48-9-4-3 104
15 4120-012252 WARRINGAH(17) Damien Oliver 52.5 Chris Waller 12-2-5-0 105
16 21588-07005 GALLIONS REACH(6) Dwayne Dunn 52.0 Richard Yuill 49-9-10-3 102
17 60-521880-00 SPIN AROUND(4) Mark Du Plessis 52.0 Steven Cooper 57-10-6-6 102
18 15073-68427 BASALTICO(10) Danny Nikolic 51.5 Luca Cumani 22-6-2-4 102
19 6219-668477 CAPECOVER(19) Noel Harris 51.5 Alexander R Fieldes 37-10-5-3 102
20 12441-24144 DAFFODIL(21) Chris Munce 51.5 Kevin Gray 21-7-4-1 110
21 1211269322 SHOCKING(22) Corey Brown 51.0 Mark Kavanagh 13-3-5-2 105
22 3-00100-0118 ALLEZ WONDER(13) Michelle Payne 50.5 Bart Cummings 16-3-0-1 111
23 5-231126 CHANGINGOFTHEGUARD(1) Glen Boss 50.5 David Hayes 7-2-2-1 108
24 114-0346321 LEICA DING(2) Craig Williams 50.5 Darren Weir 17-6-2-3 105

Hussler mate, Efficiant did not get a run. Quick mate give me another one. I'm going to Potts Park greyhounds on Tuesday with the dog coz they are having a Melbourne cup meeting there. So mate I really need a winner. Even a placed orse will be ok. I don't want to look like a dickhead not backing at least a place getter in front of all my friends that think I'm cool.

cool

ROMAN EMPEROR.

Theres your winner :)

Shocking to win and my roughie is Zavite

Going to be an interesting racing I'm liking master o Reilly although i have some coin on viewed after centre bet offered $6.50 saturday night.

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And also throw this up for disccusion or opinions

1st viewed
2nd mourilyan
3rd Allez wonder
4th zavite

Box trifector and flexi 1st four will be my bets on the cup

Hussler, Hurry up mate, it's getting late. I wish you blokes would stop tipping, your confusing me. ROMAN EMPEROR and FATHER O'RIELLY looks appealling though. But I'll wait for Hussler. But then again I really like those other
two. Nope I'll wait.

coops

VIEWED. Back him e/w.. hard to see him not placing.

Thing is, ya know what ya gettin with him, hes in much better form in the lead up than last year, and hes a much better horse this time around. Not saying Alco cant win, but I reckon hes the sort ya back him to win, simply because if hes as good as he seems he'll win with this weight, but if one of the many factors (like an odd prep, or the huge crowd he wont be used to) gets to him, because if so he wont be running a place.

Viewed from C'est La Guerre and Daffodil.

Thanks mate, I knew you would come through for me.

coops

Didnt come through at all, sorry mate.

Shit ride though its gotta be said, was clipping heels the whole way, and was in a terrible position on straightening. He was near last at the point he dashed away last year.. Should have chalenged for a place, he comes home as good as anything but Shocking.

Don't you worry about that mate, you'll come good on another occassion for me. I only had the one bet and lost $50 bucks. No big deal. But I'll tell ya what though Hussler Murray's bought tips ran last and second last.

I bet he come back and says his bought tips made him a squillion. I'll say this in advance Murray."BULLSHIT"

coops

GO SHOCKING !!!!!! I won a few bucks yesterday and backed crime scene also but didn't take the quinella.

Dougie, did you buy the tip?

coops

No way coops. I thought it was the winner after Saturday's run. cheers Dougie :)