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International Trainers target the Melbourne Cup

Posted on 25/08 by T J Dilfer

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Trainers from overseas have accepted the challenge with top class entries to try to find a winner in the 150th Melbourne Cup, a race which is now worth $6 million.

Cups legend Bart Cummings has 12 nominations as he bids to win the race for the 13th time but with 45 European, Japanese and Hong Kong entrants, it will be as difficult as it’s ever been this year. Cummings' runners include his Cox Plate winner So You Think, VRC Oaks winner Faint Perfume and Queensland Derby winner Dariana

Key overseas nominations include Rite Of Passage, this year's Ascot Gold Cup winner, Goodwood Cup winner Illustrious Blue and Japanese top leaguers Jaguar Mail and Meiner Kitz who were first and second in Japan's top staying race, the Tenno Sho.

RVL racing operations manager Leigh Jordon said the quality of international entries was unequalled. "It is definitely the best set of nominations we have received from overseas," Jordon said. Dale Monteith, the Chief Executive of Victoria Racing Club was even more enthusiastic about the 253 Cup nominations, 22 more than last year. "The entries are spectacular and the Melbourne Cup is truly the international staying championship of the world," Monteith said.

Whilst the Global stable Godolphin doesn’t have its largest entry this year, there are nine outstanding nominations which include last year's English St Leger and Italian Derby winner Mastery, 2009 Arc De Triomphe placegetter Cavalryman and Group One winner Campanologist. All three are also entered for the Caulfield Cup. Whilst All The Good won the 2008 Caulfield Cup for Godolphin, the stable has only managed a second place in the Melbourne Cup with Central Park (1999), Give The Slip (2001) and Crime Scene (2009).

Luca Cumani has experienced similar frustrating encounters with second placegetters Purple Moon (2007) and Bauer (2008) who are both entered this year again. Cumani's other contenders are Drunken Sailor and Australian-owned duo Manighar and Becqu Adoree, the latter also being a contender for the Cox Plate.

Dual Cup-winning Irish trainer Dermot Weld trains Rite of Passage who, like his 1993 Melbourne Cup winner Vintage Crop, has managed successfully to mix jumps and flat racing.

Weld, who also won the Cup with Media Puzzle (2002), is planning to return this year with Profound Beauty [fifth in 2008].
The respected English trainer Sir Mark Prescott has lodged his first Cup entry with Fortuni while French gallopers Americain and Laristan are both nominated for the Caulfield and Melbourne Cups.

Last year's Melbourne Cup winner Shocking and stablemate Shamoline Warrior are Mark Kavanagh's foremost Cup hopes.
Lloyd Williams has undertaken an international search for Melbourne Cup contenders and has nominated 20 stayers for the big race including 2009 Irish St Leger winner Alandi and 2009 Irish Derby placegetter Mourayan. Old stager Zipping and emerging star Linton are among Williams' other entries.

South Australian Alcopop, who hoped for a fairytale win in last year’s Melbourne Cup, is again nominated for the Cups and the Cox Plate.
This year the Caulfield Cup has attracted 235 nominations including 36 internationals, which is double last year's tally of 18, while the Cox Plate entry of 186 is 10 less than last year and includes 10 overseas hopefuls.

Leigh Jordon said it was particularly pleasing to see Hong Kong's best stayer, Mr Medici, targeting the Caulfield Cup and he has also been entered for the Melbourne Cup. Another Hong Kong star,

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