Remember Phar Lap

Well they tell me that So You Think is BETTER!!!

4am it starts and a few minutes later a new superstar will be crossing the line. A horse that has raced and won twice in the last 2 weeks runs over 3200m for the 2st time and WILL bring a nation to tears when he ROMPS home.

Go SO YOU THINK

ps: thanks stanley james for the 6/1 last week.

Might well be a superstar easy,but the trip?

We have crossed over..............................

It will have to be Phar Lap

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Even some 70 years after his death, Phar Lap remains an enduring symbol of the Australian turf. A winner of 37 of his 51 starts, he started favorite in three successive Melbourne Cups, the only horse in the long history of Australia’s most famous race accorded that distinction.

In a unique feat in 1930, he won a race on each of the four days of the 1930 Flemington spring carnival, including the Melbourne Cup with 15 lb. (6.8 kg.) more than weight-for-age.

I was also highlighting 12/1 for So You Think just a few weeks ago its now 5/2, however I also think it might battle to stay?
Will just be watching, plenty rain.
100,000 at the track

well lets see

may the best horse win

after 400m cant settle down fighting for its head i am in trouble

great run unlucky i think, possibly never stayed but fighting for its head could not have helped

A great race it did look the winner when hitting the front, thats racing!

Just caught some of the broadcast on TT now - fantastic camerawork and overall professional presentation - TT can learn something from these guys

Racing Post:

French raider Americain wins Melbourne Cup

Report: Australia, Tuesday

Flemington: Emirates Melbourne Cup (Group 1) 2m, turf, 3yo+

AMERICAIN denied So You Think his place in Australian racing history with a win in the 150th running of the Melbourne Cup at a rain soaked Flemington.

So You Think look set to add Australia's most famous race to his recent wins in the Cox Plate and Mackinnon Stakes when he hit the front a furlong from home under Steven Arnold however Gerald Mosse timed his run perfectly on the Alain de Royer-Dupre-trained runner who pulled clear after taking it up a half a furlong from home to win by two and three quarter lengths.

Maluckyday just edged So You Think out for second place in the final few yards with Zipping having to settle for fourth place for the third time.

Sent off the 2-1 favourite with the local bookmakers, the shortest since 1971, So You Think pulled hard through the early stages of a race that was run a a very steady pace but he found himself bang in contention moving up to challenge as they straightened up for home.

Mosse however was tracking his every move on board the five-year-old and switched widest of the field, powering down the middle of the straight as So You Think failed to stay out the2m trip.

The winner was just a third in the Melbourne Cup for European-trained runners following the successes of theDermot Weld-trained pair Vintage Crop in 1993 and Media Puzzle in 2002.

Mosse, who has ridden in and won some of the biggest races all around the world, was clearly moved by the atmosphere generatedby the huge 120,000 strong crowd.


“Every Group 1 is a big moment,” he said. “but with a crowd like that my throat was getting a bit tight. I never drink champagne but tonight I might.

" I won the Arc on Saumarez in 1990 but I'm 43 now and winning today feels even better than my Arc win."

Holberg finished best of the other Europeans back in sixth under Frankie Dettori in ground he felt was too soft for his mount.

Manighar, Luca Cumani's sole runner after Bauer was ruled out was a place further back with Illustrious Blue in ninth on his final start for William Knight.

Godolphin's other runner Campanologist finished in 17th, one place in front of Profound Beauty who never looked like giving Weld another win in the race.

Mosse added of the winner, who was completing a five-timer and had warmed up for this by lumping top-weight to victory in the Geelong Cup: "The job is so easy when we have the best horse. I took my time and up the straight I could see the favourite going through and he hadbeen travelling a bit too keenly all the way and I knew when I pressed he would answer. I knew I was going to catch him so I took my time in getting to the winning post."

De Royer-Dupre added: "Before it looked a difficult challenge to come from France and be competitive in the race but I was very confident as he is a very good horse. Gerald gave him a very good ride. He is a marvellous horse and the owners are very sporting."

Although trained in France, Americain, a son of Dynaformer, is owned by Melbourne-based Gerry Ryan and Kevin Bamford. Ryan said: "It has been our dream. Five years ago we planned this and here we are. We said let's try and find a Melbourne Cup runner, let alone a winner. This is what you dream of ever since you are a kid.

"The plan now is to go for the Hong Kong Vase next month. He will then go back to Alain in France and he will come back here for another crack at the Cup next year."

TrainerBart Cummings, who was going for an incredible 13th win in the race felt his jockey could have ridden a more patient race on So You Think.

He said: "The winner is a good horse. Our horse would have liked the ground a bit better but I'm not making excuses. The better horse won.

" I told the jockey to wait until the clocktower (about one furlong from the finish) but I think his clock stopped. I'm not saying So You Think didn't run the distance - the winner just stayed the distance better."

After racing prominently, Holberg was not in the mix at the business end of the race, and Godolphin's quest for a first Melbourne Cup continues. Dettori said: "It was soft out there and it wasn't his ground. If it had been good or faster then I think he would have run in the first four. But he started spinning early in the straight and just stayed on slowly."

Cumani is another who will have to come back another year if he is to get his name on the roll of honour. He said: "He ran a good race. Damien(Oliver) said the ground was very loose and that didn't help, but I have no real complaints."

Pat Smullen was disappointed with the poor show from Profound Beauty. He said: "She was very disappointing and just ran flat. She didn't perform like the mare we know."

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