2010 Melbourne Cup

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2010 Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup
Location Flemington Racecourse
Melbourne, Australia
Date2 November 2010
Winning horse Americain
Jockey Gerald Mosse
Trainer Alain de Royer Dupre
SurfaceGrass
Attendance110,223 [1]
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With 250 meters to go, So You Think has raced up, Americain is a danger then Harris Tweed, Tokai Trick the rail. So You Think in front, Americain is coming at him hard. Americain raced past So You Think and then Maluckyday. Americain for France coming right away Americain. Americain is coming away, Americain Tres Bien!

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Commentator Greg Miles describes the climax of the race

The 2010 Melbourne Cup , the 150th running of Australia's most prestigious Thoroughbred horse race, was held on Tuesday, 2 November 2010 at 3:00 PM. local time (0400 UTC). [2]

It was won by Americain, a French-trained horse who had won the Geelong Cup at his only other Australian start. Second placing went to the lightly raced Lexus Stakes winner Maluckyday, while third placing went to dual Cox Plate winner and short-priced favourite So You Think.

The official winning time was 3:26.87 with the margins of 2.8 lengths and 0.5 lengths back to third. The race was run on a slow (6) track with persistent rain falling causing flooding and closure of the Cup Day car park.[ citation needed ]

Field

Horses are bred and trained in Australia, unless otherwise indicated. All columns in this table can be sorted by clicking the icons in the top row.

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HorseTrainerJockeyWeightBarrierPlacing
1 Shocking Mark Kavanagh Michael Rodd 572418th
2Campanologist (USA) Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) Kerrin McEvoy 561916th
3 So You Think (NZ) Bart Cummings Steven Arnold5633rd
4 Zipping Robert Hickmott Nicholas Hall 55.5164th
5Illustrious Blue (GB)William J Knight (GB) Glen Boss 5599th
6Mr Medici (IRE)Peter Ho (HK) Darren Beadman 55510th
7Shoot OutJohn Wallace Corey Brown 551713th
8 Americain (USA) Alain de Royer-Dupré (FR) Gérald Mossé 54.5121st
9Tokai Trick (JPN)Kenji Nonaka (JPN)Shinji Fujita54.5412th
10Buccellati (GB)Tony Noonan Steven King 542120th
11Descarado (NZ) Gai Waterhouse Nash Rawiller 541did not finish
12Harris Tweed (NZ) Murray & Bjorn Baker Brad Rawiller 54135th
13Manighar (FR) Luca Cumani (GB) Damien Oliver 54207th
14 Master O'Reilly (NZ)Danny O'BrienVlad Duric541815th
15Monaco Consul (NZ) Michael Moroney Craig Williams 541414th
16Profound Beauty (IRE) Dermot K Weld (IRE)Pat Smullen542217th
17Zavite (NZ)Anthony Cummings Michael Walker 54722nd
18Bauer (IRE) Luca Cumani (GB) Chris Munce 53.52scratched
19Holberg (UAE) Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) Frankie Dettori 53.5106th
20Precedence (NZ) Bart Cummings J M Winks53.5158th
21Red Ruler (NZ)John Sargent (NZ) Mark Du Plessis 53.5819th
22Linton Robert Hickmott Brett Prebble 522321st
23Once Were Wild Gai Waterhouse Jim Cassidy 51.51111th
24Maluckyday (NZ)Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes Luke Nolen 5162nd

References

  1. "Track records and Attendances". Flemington.com.au. Archived from the original on 20 March 2021. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  2. 2010 result