2010 Melbourne Cup Explained

2010 Melbourne Cup
Horse Race:Melbourne Cup
Location:Flemington Racecourse
Melbourne, Australia
Date:2 November 2010
Winning Horse:Americain
Winning Jockey:Gerald Mosse
Winning Trainer:Alain de Royer Dupre
Surface:Grass
Attendance:110,223[1]
Previous:2009
Next:2011

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.

Field

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Horse Trainer Jockey Weight Barrier Placing
1 Mark Kavanagh 57 24 18
2 Campanologist (USA) Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) 56 19 16
3 So You Think (NZ) Steven Arnold 56 3 3
4 55.5 16 4
5 Illustrious Blue (GB) William J Knight (GB) 55 9 9
6 Mr Medici (IRE) Peter Ho (HK) Darren Beadman55 5 10
7 Shoot Out John Wallace 55 17 13
8 Americain (USA) Alain de Royer-Dupré (FR) 54.5 12 1
9 Tokai Trick (JPN) Kenji Nonaka (JPN) Shinji Fujita 54.5 4 12
10 Buccellati (GB) Tony Noonan Steven King54 21 20
11 Descarado (NZ) 54 1 9998did not finish
12 Harris Tweed (NZ) Murray & Bjorn Baker Brad Rawiller 54 135
13 Manighar (FR) Luca Cumani (GB) Damien Oliver54 20 7
14 Master O'Reilly (NZ) Danny O'Brien Vlad Duric 54 18 15
15 Monaco Consul (NZ) Craig Williams54 14 14
16 Profound Beauty (IRE) Dermot K Weld (IRE) Pat Smullen 5422 17
17 Zavite (NZ) Anthony Cummings 54 7 22
18 Bauer (IRE) Luca Cumani (GB) 53.5 2 9999scratched
19 Holberg (UAE) Saeed bin Suroor (UAE) 53.5 10 6
20 Precedence (NZ) J M Winks 53.5 15 8
21 Red Ruler (NZ) John Sargent (NZ) 53.5 8 19
22 Linton 52 23 21
23 Once Were Wild 51.5 11 11
24 Maluckyday (NZ) Michael, Wayne and John HawkesLuke Nolen51 6 2

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Track records and Attendances. Flemington.com.au. 3 November 2019. 20 March 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210320224301/https://www.flemington.com.au/racing/track-records-and-attendances. dead.
  2. http://www.breednet.com.au/Stakes-Race-IndResults.asp?racename=Emirates+Melbourne+Cup&md=2/11/2010 2010 result