Breeding: by SHAMUS AWARD from MEERLUSTĭuais is drawn well in barrier 10 for jockey Hugh Bowman in Tuesday’s 2022 Melbourne Cup field.Would become the heaviest-weighted Melbourne Cup winner since Makybe Diva (58kg in 2005) for her third if successful. That was an interesting move and one that suggests he might be quite up for this year’s Melbourne Cup? Connections are pressing on however and Mark Zahra is booked to ride. The stable dropped him back in distance on the quick back-up into the Cox Plate field over 2040m where he ran ninth, three lengths beaten when caught in traffic. The French expat has had quite a few runs in Australia including his eye-catching Caulfield Cup second when narrowly denied carrying the 57.5kg top-weight in a brave effort. The Australian Bloodstock-raced Gold Trip has been racing well down under for the Maher/Eustace stable since joining them midway through the year. Current Melbourne Cup 2022 Odds*: $21 (at time of publish) – BET NOW.Owners: Australian Bloodstock, Mr J W Woodbridge, Whitegate Pastoral, Roth Brogan, Gold Trip, Surf Coast Racing, Mr S J Pellegrino, Mr B G Taylor, Mr M J Belford, Mr J Garvey, Mr N A Greenhalgh, Mrs M T Greenhalgh, Mr C H Madden, Mystery Downs, Mrs C M Cook, Mr B J Nally, Werrett Bloodstock Pty Ltd, Mr L Caminiti, Mr J M Simmons.Breeding: by OUTSTRIP (GB) from SARVANA (FR).When you’ve found the Melbourne Cup winner, head over to to lock in the top odds on this year’s race. With plenty of stories and form lines to follow into Australia’s best race, we’ve got a full rundown on every horse in this year’s Melbourne Cup field for the punters below! Gold Trip contests his third of the ‘Big 3’ spring majors carrying the 57.5kg top-weight, while the 2019 winner Vow And Declare chases a second Melbourne Cup trophy for the cabinet. The mares are in force with the likes of Duais, Montefilia and Bendigo Cup winner High Emocean all out to emulate the 2021 victory of Verry Elleegant. The time-honoured Group 1 $7.75 million Lexus Melbourne Cup (3200m) field has attracted a top-class line-up of stayers including international raiders Deauville Legend and Without A Fight who head the markets at. The 162nd edition of the ‘race that stops a nation’ will be run and won when Flemington Race 7 kicks off at 3:00pm (AEDT) on Tuesday and there are a host of Melbourne Cup 2022 horses to analyse. 2022 MELBOURNE CUP UPDATE: LUNAR FLARE SCRATCHED, 22 LEFT 2022 MELBOURNE CUP UPDATE: POINT NEPEAN SCRATCHED, 23 LEFT

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