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  • Viewed wins Melbourne Cup
    THE Bart Cummings-trained Viewed produced a stunning run to win today's $5.5 million Melbourne Cup.

  • Profound Beauty continues to firm
    IRISH mare Profound Beauty has shortened further for today's Melbourne Cup and is challenging English raider Mad Rush for favouritism.

  • Smart money on Profound Beauty
    IRISH mare Profound Beauty has been heavily backed to give trailblazing international trainer Dermot Weld his third Melbourne Cup.

  • Raider on war footing
    SOPHISTICATED trainer Luca Cumani is ready to go to war and win today's $5.5 million Melbourne Cup (3200m) at Flemington.

  • Spring carnival faces economic tempest
    THE hype surrounding the spring carnival has inoculated bookmakers from the immediate effects of the global financial crisis, two leading players said yesterday.

  • Munce no closer to riding again
    DISGRACED former Melbourne Cup-winning jockey Chris Munce is no nearer to knowing when he can ride again after a Hong Kong Jockey Club stewards inquiry was adjourned indefinitely yesterday.

  • No value in Europeans, says punter
    SEAN Bartholomew, one of Australia's biggest punters, has given an emphatic thumbs down to a European horse winning today's Melbourne Cup.

  • Gallopin on track for historic double
    GALLOPIN will today attempt to become the fifth stayer to win the $5.5million Melbourne Cup in the same year as taking out the Moonee Valley Cup.

  • Hitler costs jockey $8000
    BRANDED reprehensible and unreliable yesterday for his controversial "Hitler" slur, Irish jockey John Egan's hopes of improving a holiday from hell ended when Yellowstone was scratched last night.

  • Not in it for the money
    IT is Australia's richest race, and now the Melbourne Cup has become the race for the rich.


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