2010 Melbourne Cup

2010 Melbourne Cup
Melbourne Cup
LocationFlemington Racecourse
Melbourne, Australia
Date2 November 2010
Winning horseAmericain
JockeyGerald Mosse
TrainerAlain 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!

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.

Saddle
cloth		 Horse Trainer Jockey Weight Barrier Placing
1 Shocking Mark Kavanagh Michael Rodd 57 24 18th
2 Campanologist (USA) Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) Kerrin McEvoy 56 19 16th
3 So You Think (NZ) Bart Cummings Steven Arnold 56 3 3rd
4 Zipping Robert Hickmott Nicholas Hall 55.5 16 4th
5 Illustrious Blue (GB) William J Knight (GB) Glen Boss 55 9 9th
6 Mr Medici (IRE) Peter Ho (HK) Darren Beadman 55 5 10th
7 Shoot Out John Wallace Corey Brown 55 17 13th
8 Americain (USA) Alain de Royer-Dupré (FR) Gérald Mossé 54.5 12 1st
9 Tokai Trick (JPN) Kenji Nonaka (JPN) Shinji Fujita 54.5 4 12th
10 Buccellati (GB) Tony Noonan Steven King 54 21 20th
11 Descarado (NZ) Gai Waterhouse Nash Rawiller 54 1 9998did not finish
12 Harris Tweed (NZ) Murray & Bjorn Baker Brad Rawiller 54 13 5th
13 Manighar (FR) Luca Cumani (GB) Damien Oliver 54 20 7th
14 Master O'Reilly (NZ) Danny O'Brien Vlad Duric 54 18 15th
15 Monaco Consul (NZ) Michael Moroney Craig Williams 54 14 14th
16 Profound Beauty (IRE) Dermot K Weld (IRE) Pat Smullen 54 22 17th
17 Zavite (NZ) Anthony Cummings Michael Walker 54 7 22nd
18 Bauer (IRE) Luca Cumani (GB) Chris Munce 53.5 2 9999scratched
19 Holberg (UAE) Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) Frankie Dettori 53.5 10 6th
20 Precedence (NZ) Bart Cummings J M Winks 53.5 15 8th
21 Red Ruler (NZ) John Sargent (NZ) Mark Du Plessis 53.5 8 19th
22 Linton Robert Hickmott Brett Prebble 52 23 21st
23 Once Were Wild Gai Waterhouse Jim Cassidy 51.5 11 11th
24 Maluckyday (NZ) Michael, Wayne and John Hawkes Luke Nolen 51 6 2nd

References

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