Melbourne Cup

Hopefully Tellytrack will be taking the race that stops a nation on Tuesday 3rd of Nov. Mouralyn (hope spelling ok) will be lining up for Herman Brown and will be ridden by Glyn Scholfield.

Bankable is also in OZ and he will be running on Sat week in a $750k Group 1 and will also be ridden by Glyn.

Great race, sure the race goes of at around 6am?

Schofield gives Cup mount a tick of approval
Clinton Payne
Thursday, 22 October 2009


Top Sydney jockey Glyn Schofield was impressed with his Melbourne Cup ride Mourilyan during a special workout at Sandown on Thursday.

The Herman Brown-trained gelding worked with his stablemate Bankable over 1600 metres and the trainer described the gallop as “good solid work”.

“I thought they worked very nicely,” Schofield said. “It was a good hit out, he impressed me.

“He’s a stayer with a bit of speed, he’s travelled well, he looks well, he just has to race well now.”

The pair set off from the Sandown back straight with Bankable setting the tempo before Mourilyan strode up along side his workmate inside the final 400 metres and the two horses went to the line strongly, side by side.

The stablemate Bankable will run in the Mackinnon Stakes on Saturday week after Brown elected to bypass the Cox Plate due to the unique make up of the Moonee Valley track.

“It was too much of a gamble going to a track like that because I think it would take a couple of runs there to get used too,” Brown said.

Brown said both horses would work again on Saturday and Tuesday with Mourilyan having another gallop within the seven days leading into the Melbourne Cup.

Yeah Hib I think last year it was around that time, but I think TellyTrack could start to do some advertising seeing that SA have commingled pools with Victoria. So there will be massive value on all markets.

But hey thats just my opion

2009 Melbourne Cup (All in Betting)
6 EFFICIENT
6.5 ALCOPOP
7 VIEWED
7 SPEED GIFTED
13 VIGOR
14 ROMAN EMPEROR
15 DAFFODIL
17 MASTER OREILLY
19 MOURILYAN
21 SHOCKING
21 KIRKLEES
21 CEST LA GUERRE
26 CHANGINGOFTHEGUARD
26 WARRINGAH
31 WHOBEGOTYOU
31 ZIPPING
31 ALLEZ WONDER
35 LEICA DING
41 VISION AND POWER

Sure they showed it last year ryan,but not 100%,

so did the furore surrounding Browns horses pass then?

hahahaha yeah it seems to have. yeah they did show it last year when Bart Cummings won yet another CUP. Last years winners Viewed actually won the feature last Sat and will be looking for back to back CUPS.

I am sure we will be "watching" it, not sure if the tote was open last year?

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> hahahaha yeah it seems to have. yeah they did show
> it last year when Bart Cummings won yet another
> CUP. Last years winners Viewed actually won the
> feature last Sat and will be looking for back to
> back CUPS.


Replay is on the site of saturdays race..

Yeah sure hope so. Will try keep the site up to date with some news for the big one as we get closer.

Geelong star Leica up to 31st in Melbourne field


Australia: Leica Ding has been penalised half a kilogram in the A$5.65m (£3.15m) Melbourne Cup following her win in Wednesday's Group 3 Geelong Cup, Racing Victoria Ltd chief handicapper Greg Carpenter has announced.

The penalty takes the Darren Weir-trained mare to 50.5kg in the Melbourne Cup and lifts her from 67th to31st in the order of entry for the 3200m feature at Flemington on November 3.

"The Geelong Cup was a genuinely run race on quick ground and Leica Ding gave a strong staying performance to beat a very competitive field," Carpenter said.

In recent years, the Geelong Cup has proven a strong form race with last year's winner Bauer going on to finish a nose second to Viewed in the Melbourne Cup.

Bauer was penalised a kilogram for his win atGeelong and moved to 32nd in the elimination order following the win.

Media Puzzle easily won the 2002 Geelong Cup before being penalised 1.5kg for the Melbourne Cup which he also won.

The Bart Cummings-trained Dandaad passed the ballot requirement for the Melbourne Cup and moved from 66th to 54th in the entry order with his Geelong Cup second.

Guyno, the 2009 Perth Cup (2400m) winner, bled during the running of the Geelong Cup and has been officially withdrawn from the Melbourne Cup.

Changingoftheguard on hold for Melbourne Cup


TRAINER David Hayes has been forced to put the Melbourne Cup preparation of former Ballydoyle runner Changingoftheguard on hold after he developed an abscess in his near-hind hoof.

Changingoftheguard was noticeably lame when he came out of his box on Thursday morning, which forced Hayesto cancel his planned gallop with the Herman Brown-trained pair Bankable and Mourilyan, both formerly trained in Britain by Gary Moore.

Hayes said the abscess in itself was nothing serious but the Totesport.com Ebor runner-up would not be able to gallop until it burst, which he hopes will be before Monday.


"Changingoftheguard walked for an hour this morning and it was okay when he warmed up but he was very sore when he cooled down," Hayes said.

Hayes has had a poultice placed on the hoof and said it was now a matter of waiting.

"It came on quickly so let's hope it goes away just as quickly. If it burst this afternoon he could be back on the track tomorrow," he said.

"We've got a few days up our sleeve [as far as the Melbourne Cup is concerned], but if he's not back on the track byMonday he will have missed too much work to start in it."

With Changingoftheguard unable to gallop, Bankable (Matt Pumpa) and Mourilyan (Glyn Schofield) worked together over 1600 metres, sprinting home strongly over the final 600m.

"He's a lovely, big horse and he wanted to go faster," Pumpa said of his mount.

Bankable led in the gallop, which is not his usual style according to Brown, and they finished on equal terms with neither horse being extended.

Schofield, who will ride Bankable in the Group 1 Mackinnon Stakes at Flemington on Derby Day on October 31, was also happy with Mourilyan who he will ride in the Melbourne Cup on November 3.

"He impressed me when I rode him for the first time last Saturday morning. He feels like a horse who can relax and he has a turn of foot," Schofield said.

Brown said Bankable and Mourilyan would gallop again on Saturday morning although he hadn't decided if they would work together.

Godolphin's Kirklees is also likely to have his first serious workout on Saturday morning since finishing seventh to last year's Melbourne Cup winner Viewed in the Caulfield Cup.

Sydney-based trainer Chris Waller will be at Sandown on Saturday morning to see his Melbourne Cup contender, the former Sir Michael Stoute-trained Warringah, in a solid gallop and he may work with another international visitor, Munsef, a three-time winner in Britain this year for Ian Williams.