Official result – 2009 Melbourne Cup Horse Placing Margin S.P Jockey Wgt 21. Shocking 1st $10 Corey Brown 51 08. Crime Scene(IRE) 2nd 3/4 Length $41 Kerrin McEvoy 53 05. Mourilyan(IRE) 3rd 1 1/2 Length $21 Glyn Schofield 54.5 04. Master O’Reilly(NZ) 4th 1 1/2 Length $12 Vlad Duric 55 12. Harris Tweed(NZ) 5th Neck $101 Craig Newitt 52.5 11. Alcopop 6th Long Head $4.80F Dom Tourneur 52.5 01. Viewed 7th Short Head $6.50 Brad Rawiller 58 02. C’est La Guerre(NZ) 8th Long Neck $26 Nicholas Hall 55.5 13. Kibbutz(NZ) 9th Long Neck $71 Chris Symons 52.5 14. Newport 10th Head $41 Peter Wells 52.5 20. Daffodil(NZ) 11th 3/4 Length $15 Chris Munce 51.5 09. Munsef(GB) 12th 1/2 Neck $51 Zac Purton 53 16. Gallions Reach(NZ) 13th 1/2 Length $201 Dwayne Dunn 52 24. Leica Ding 14th Short Neck $26 Craig Williams 50.5 07. [...]
Well here we are Melbourne Cup eve, we’ve studied the form and looked at the best and worst, one of these 24 horses will win the 2009 Melbourne Cup. But who will it be? The nation seems divided between the Cups King and 2008 Melbourne Cup winner Viewed and the fairytale story of Alcopop, both [...]
Ensureing you have the right resources is a key to ensuring you select a winner. Below are two key links, the Melbourne Cup form at racenet.com.au and also a very useful tool at Racing and Sports that allows you to search each runner (and any other horse) to review their complete history. A very cool [...]
Added on 20 October 2009
24 October 2009
Here it is, the big one, the $3M WS Cox Plate, the best weight for age race going round. In what is one of the most open Cox Plates nothing will surprise come 4:30pm at Moonee Valley as you cannot put a line through to many of these runners, perhaps only Sir Slick would be [...]
22 October 2009
Who do you think will win the 2009 WS Cox Plate? Whobegotyou has dominated the betting market for the last few months and in our opinon is well over the odds at one point touching $2.40 and now drifting out to $2.80 and may continue to do so as punters look elsewhere for value and [...]
20 October 2009
Whobegotyou remains the Cox Plate favouriate after the barrier draw this morning despite being alloted the wide gate of 10 in the 14 horse field. Heart of Dreams who worked well over 1600m this morning has firmed from $8.50 to $7 after drawing gate 3. The only other horse under double figure odds, Speed Gifted [...]
17 October 2009
Well, not really a preview but our selections and a few notes. The only thing we are 100% certain of is that after the running of the race, the Melbourne Cup markets will be completely changed and more then likely have a new favourite. The Caulfield Cup more then any other race has the greatest [...]
15 October 2009
Yeseterday’s Barrier Draw for the $2.5M 2009 Caulfield Cup has thrown the betting wide open. On top of the recent withdrawals of Maldivian and Speed Gifted this is perhaps one of the most open Cup in recent memory. It also has elevated the Godolphin runner, Kirkless into favouriatism wtih a good draw of gate 11 [...]
13 October 2009
Perhaps one of the most exciting horses to watch last spring carnival, Profound Beauty is out of the 2009 Melbourne Cup. Two-time Melbourne Cup winning training Dermot Weld will not have a runner in this years Melbourne Cup after the 2008 5th placed runner was ruled out. Profound Beauty was all set to [...]
16 June 2009
Bart Cummings has begun his quest for a 13th Melbourne Cup confirming last years winner Viewed and AJC Derby winner Roman Emperor in Sydney undertaking light trackwork after the post Autumn carnival spells. The last AJC Derby winner to kick on and win the Melbourne Cup as a four year old was Phar Lap [...]
09 April 2009
Phelan Ready taking out the 2009 $3.5M Golden Slipper.
