| 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.
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 | 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 Beadman | 55 | 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 King | 54 | 21 | 20 | |
| 11 | Descarado (NZ) | 54 | 1 | did not finish | |||
| 12 | Harris Tweed (NZ) | Murray & Bjorn Baker | Brad Rawiller | 54 | 13 | 5 | |
| 13 | Manighar (FR) | Luca Cumani (GB) | Damien Oliver | 54 | 20 | 7 | |
| 14 | Master O'Reilly (NZ) | Danny O'Brien | Vlad Duric | 54 | 18 | 15 | |
| 15 | Monaco Consul (NZ) | Craig Williams | 54 | 14 | 14 | ||
| 16 | Profound Beauty (IRE) | Dermot K Weld (IRE) | Pat Smullen | 54 | 22 | 17 | |
| 17 | Zavite (NZ) | Anthony Cummings | 54 | 7 | 22 | ||
| 18 | Bauer (IRE) | Luca Cumani (GB) | 53.5 | 2 | scratched | ||
| 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 Hawkes | Luke Nolen | 51 | 6 | 2 |